Are some people so misinformed that they believe Muslims will come with swords & force them into Islam ?

Question

misinformed or brainwashed by fear mongers ?


"History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims
sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated." --De Lacy O'Leary, ISLAM AT THE CROSSROADS, London,
1923, p. 8.


“The greatest crimes, the greatest “sin” of Mohammed in the eyes of Christian West is that he did not allow himself to be slaughtered, to be “crucified” by his enemies. He only defended himself, his family and his followers; and finally vanquished his enemies. Mohammed’s success is the Christians’ gall of disappointment… He did not believe in any vicarious sacrifices for the sins of others.” (Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)


“The lies which we [Christians] have heaped round this man (Mohammed), are disgraceful to ourselves only.” (Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship)

Of all the world's greatest men none has been so much maligned as Muhammad. It is easy to see how this has come about. For centuries Islam was the great enemy of Christendom, for Christendom was in direct contact with no other organized states comparable in power to the Muslims. -- [William Montgomery Watt]


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Answer 1

Yes, some people think what they are told to think.
Human insecurity and immaturity are easy prey for unscrupulous con-men.

No one religious or ethnic group has a monopoly on this behaviour.

Answer 2

There are quite a few Muslims now (and have been quite a few in the past) who did spread their religion by the sword (or the AK-47 or AK-74 nowadays).

Whether they are following Islam or perverting it I don't really care but there actually are some Muslims who will use tactics like that to gain believers (as far as I'm concerned if someone calls them self a Muslim they've a Muslim).

Answer 3

I enjoy reading Carlyle.

. . I must say, it [the Koran] is as toilsome reading as I ever undertook. A wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite; endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement; most crude, incondite; — insupportable stupidity, in short! Nothing but a sense of duty could carry any European through the Koran . . . It is the confused ferment of a great rude human soul; rude, untutored, that cannot even read; but fervent, earnest, struggling vehemently to utter itself in words . . . We said "stupid:" yet natural stupidity is by no means the character of Mahomet's Book; it is natural uncultivation rather. The man has not studied speaking; in the haste and pressure of continual fighting, has not time to mature himself into fit speech . . . The man was an uncultured semi-barbarous Son of Nature, much of the Bedouin still clinging to him: we must take him for that. But for a wretched Simulacrum, a hungry Impostor without eyes or heart . . . we will not and cannot take him. Sincerity, in all senses, seems to me the merit of the Koran; what had rendered it precious to the wild Arab men . . . Curiously, through these incondite masses of tradition, vituperation, complaint, ejaculation in the Koran, a vein of true direct insight, of what we might almost call poetry, is found straggling. [Carlyle 64-67]

Answer 4

When I traveled to a particularly liberal Moslem country, I was advised to hide my Bible. Fear is an integral part of the Moslem religion.

The sword is not so much against me as it is against their own people. What would happen in Afghanistan if a Muslim were to convert to Christianity or Judaism?

Answer 5

Islam believes Jews and Christians are infidel. Which is a kind of insensible belief. why infidels? Is their Allah a true Creator God? If, then why teaches hatred instead of loving one another? Matthew 22:37-40.