Board Thread:Fan Fiction/@comment-26295802-20160614010310/@comment-26237442-20160618193032

High Prince Imrahil wrote: Draugluin the werewolf wrote: High Prince Imrahil wrote: Draugluin the werewolf wrote: we're discussing the beliefs not the founding And I'm saying that the founding and the beliefs are entwined. You can't have Islam without Muhammed and you can't have Christianity without Jesus. I stand to my original point, that Islam is meant to be a warlike religion but has a peaceful following, and that Christianity is meant to be a peaceful religion but is twisted by those who wish to use it for political power. whatever happened in practice, the qu'ran (which is more important in Islam then Muhhamed) is quite definetly peaceful You're deviating from my point. My point was, that Islam was founded as a religion of war. Period. And looking at the manner and which it spread, and the life of its founder, I don't think that is an incorrect conclusion. 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.