Board Thread:Fan Fiction/@comment-26295802-20160614010310/@comment-26237442-20160618194736

High Prince Imrahil wrote: Draugluin the werewolf wrote: actually the fighting started after the founding and Muhhamed's death (when the various groups started to back out and form their own nations). As for the manner in which Islam spread.... hmm... North Africa it was spread by being thought of as trustowrthy and good for a merchant's image, in Indonesia it was spread via poetry. In pretty much everywhere else it was spread by political rulers (who happened to be Muslim) setting trends. If one looks at Al-Andalus it was considerably more religously tolerant than any other area in Europe during it's heyday. I'm not talking about "any other area in Europe during its heyday", I'm making a parrellel between the founding of Islam and the founding of Christianity, and pointing out the rather strong differences. as I've already said Islam and Christianity have different focuses. Whereas the founding of Christianity is one of the most important bits Islam is more about the introduction of order and meditation (and a lot of the more profane things in life) to daily life. Christianity is somewhat vague (or extreme) about it's application and focuses more on being a good person on the inside and generally being a good socialist to everyone. Whereas Islam is about discipline, internal and external peace and economic (for instance when Christianity talks about being kind to the poor it says that we should all give up our money and distribute it among the poor whereas Islam has a somewhat more practically applicable "give 2.5% of income and/or equivalent amount of work towards the poor"