Why did it take Christianity 300 years to militarize, and Islam only 13?

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And don't deny it. Christians were tortured by Romans for hundreds of years after the birth of Christianity, which first became violent with the persecution of Greco-Roman polytheists after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire around the beginning of the fourth century.
Muhammad fought many battles in his lifetime, not just self-defense ones but wars of expansion. When he died, the Muslims controlled roughly two thirds of Arabia. His descendants created an empire larger than the Roman one in 119 years.
So why?

Vinslave...What exactly does the age of these religions have to do with how long it took them to militarize?
Christianity was 'peaceful' from 0 to 300 CE.
Islam was 'peaceful' during the 13 years Muhammad spent preaching in Mecca. War after war erupted after he resettled in Medina after his Hijrah 1,427 years ago.

Yes, Christians were 'torturers' for centuries, but again, I'm talking about how long it took for them to become so, as opposed to how long it took Muslims to become the same.

Inspector, this is what I remember from all the history I've read. It's common knowledge. Any book will tell you the same.

Safetman, Jesus's 'Disciples' were converts to Christianity. What does converting to a religion have to do with militarizing? Jesus wasn't a man of war.

"Islam was founded in a place who were hardcore polytheists they tortured many of the first believers they were persecuted so much they left Makkah at the time."

Christians were similarly persecuted and tortured by the Romans, and it was 300 years before religious wars against unbelievers were fought in the name of Christianity.

And was it only the Arab polytheists who were attacked? What about the Jews, the Byzantines, the Persians, the Indians, the Spanish, the French, the Chinese, all fought in the first 120 years of Islamic expansion? Did all of them attack too? Same as the Americans, the British, the Israelis, and the Russians nowadays, huh?

Yves, Muhammad never fought Christians because he was too busy with Jews and polytheists, and because he enjoyed the hospitality of the Abbyssinian Christians who gave early Muslims refuge. This treatment changed later on...You know perfectly well that some of his last words were that there could not be two religions in Arabia. Interfaith marriage is permitted as long as it can help Islam expand, and it's funny you say Christian wives cannot be forbidden from going to church. I have a fatwa at http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=70177&ln=eng&txt=jew saying the opposite. Christians, being Dhimmis, were forbidden to bear arms, and so could not defend themselves. The small yearly tax you refer to is the Jizya, and it is only one of a number of legal requirements of Dhimmis, many of them discriminatory. Read the Edict of Omar to get my point..

And...Your post about Islam's treatment of Christians has nothing to do with the question. The question asks about why it took Islam 13 years to militarize as compared to 300 for Christianity, nothing about Islam's treatment of Christians!

Answer 1

who cares.

Answer 2

Islam was founded in a place who were hardcore polytheists they tortured many of the first believers they were persecuted so much they left Makkah at the time.

I suggest you find this book, for the biography of Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him

Sirah Rasul Allah

Simple Answer, because God willed it be this way.

Answer 3

Christians are just too nice, I guess. People bring up the Crusades, but they don't realize that the first Crusade didn't even begin until 450 years AFTER the Muslims had captured Jerusalem and had conquered TWO-THIRDS of the old Christian world, and began because Muslims were harming Christians who just trying to make pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

Answer 4

because it is. Christians were non violent contained in the starting up, equivalent to Muslims were, however then they offered skill and began to persecute persons who believed otherwise (comprehend how both cults were very equivalent in that note of, the only replace is that Christians took truly longer to get skill). The such lots truly solid Christian atrocity BTW changed into once the Nazi Holocaust (Adolf Hitler changed into once a religious Catholic). Of direction we do not evaluate that the violence of Christianity proves it flawed, Christianity may although be flawed besides the actual incontrovertible fact that it were non violent (besides the actual incontrovertible fact that we ought to imagine an benevolent god to create a non violent faith, which Christianity isn't). Oh and bullying adult males and females going to abortion clinics continues to be terrorism and must be dealt with as such (and a foetus isn't a teenager).

Answer 5

What's to deny? Although I am neither a christian nor a muslim, I would expect the christian emphasis on non-violence had something to do with how quickly its adherents were able to bypass those teachings and become as violent as those who had no such restraints of any consequence to begin with.

And can we presume you think being warlike, and aggressively so, is a good thing for the advancement of civilized society?

Answer 6

The early Muslims were attacked by the unbelievers and had to defend themselves.

1) Islam is against aggression, permitting war only in self-defense and under well- defined conditions: "Fight in the way of God against those who attack you, but begin not hostilities, for God loveth not the transgressors." (2:186). Islam, the religion, was not propagated by the sword;

2) Muhammad never fought against the Christians; on the contrary, He treated them kindly and gave them perfect freedom. A community of Christian people lived at Najran and were under His care and protection. Muhammad said, "If anyone infringes their rights, I Myself will be his enemy, and in the presence of God I will bring a charge against him." In the edicts which He promulgated it is clearly stated that the lives, properties and honor of the Christians and Jews are under the protection of God; and that if a Muhammadan married a Christian woman, the husband must not prevent her from going to church, nor oblige her to veil herself; and that if she died, he must place her remains in the care of the Christian clergy. Should the Christians desire to build a church, Islam ought to help them. In case of war between Islam and her enemies, the Christians should be exempted from the obligation of fighting, unless they desired of their own free will to do so in defense of Islam, because they were under its protection. But as a compensation for this immunity, they should pay yearly a small sum of money. In short, there are seven detailed edicts on these subjects, some copies of which are still extant at Jerusalem. This is an established fact and is not dependent on my affirmation. The edict of the second Caliph [1] still exists in the custody of the orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, and of this there is no doubt.[2]
[1 Of Umar.]
[2 Cf. Jurji Zaydan's Umayyads and Abbasids, trans. D. S. Margoliouth.]

Answer 7

Hello =)

The Roman Church had "militarized" a mere 30 years after the death of Christ. They had Christ's own Brother, James murdered, and his Church of Jerusalem destroyed. This was done as soon as Peter had died.

So it didn't take nearly as long as you think.......

Namaste,

--Tom

Answer 8

The very first Christians walked with Jesus during His three year ministry... They were called His disciples. That seems pretty immediate to me.

Answer 9

Jesus started Christianity; Jesus didn't fight any battles. Mohammad started Islam; Mohammad did fight in battles.

Jesus advocated peace. I'm not sure about Mohammad, haven't studied him extensively, but everyone can agree he did kill people.
Seems just a different method of spread.

Answer 10

Because Christianity was built on a peaceful concept.

Answer 11

Christianity, began in Genesis