Posted by
TomD on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:51:29 PM
While there may be hundreds of millions of peaceful Muslims in the world, the fact remains that Islam is and always has been a religion of conquest. From Muhammad's first setting out from Medina to conquer Mecca to the present day, Islam has always sought to subjugate the infidels. This passion continues to this day, and if you can't conquer or convert them, the next best thing is to kill them. The history books are full of examples of Muslim conquests, from Muhammad's conquest of the Arabian Peninsula by his death in 632, to the battle of Yarmuk in 636 that led to the conquest of Egypt and Syria. When Muhammad bin Quasim conquered Sindh in the early 8th century, the conquest of the Indian subcontinent began reaching its peak in 1526 when it ruled almost the entire region. The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 brought an end to the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Muslim Turks. They laid siege to Vienna in 1529, and attempted to conquer it again in 1683.
For people who say that the Muslims have not contributed anything to science, mathematics, art and architecture, they are simply ignorant. The issue is that Muslims have made very little contribution in the past 800 years, because their still living 800 years ago. They have the mental state of a person living in 1200, not 2006, and it is stagnating them and not allowing them to progress as a people that see the world as one that no longer lives in the 13th century and no longer lives by 13th century rules.