ISLAMIC JIHADA-Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery-M. A. Khan

http://decodinghinduism.blogspot.com/2014/02/blog-post_8.html

Weird as it may sound, I still believed in Islam. I thought that the terrorists, who are acting in the

name of Islam, were misguided. After 9/11, I slowly started reading about Islam: the Quran, Sunnah and
Prophet Muhammad’s biographies; I hadn’t read them in the thirty-five years of my life. I was shocked. I had
been told all my life that Prophet Muhammad was the ideal human being: most merciful and just; that Islam is
the most peaceful religion; and I believed it. But the Quran reads like a manifesto of open-ended war against
non-Muslims for converting them to Islam, or for subjugating them into horribly degraded dhimmi subjects. In
his prophetic career, especially during the critical last ten years, Prophet Muhammad was anything but what a
peace-loving, merciful and just person stands for.
My curiosity grew. Over the past years, I have done extensive research on Islamic theology as well
as on Islamic history: from Prophet Muhammad to modern times. It has been a harrowing tale of forced
conversion, brutal imperialism and devastating slavery. It’s a saga of great human tragedy—all in the name of
Islamic holy war or Jihad, the foundational creed of Islam. This tragic tale is the subject of this book.

And see these stupid islamist-

‘…one must go on Jihad at least once a year… One may use a catapult against them when
they are in a fortress, even if among them are women and children. One may set fire on
them and/or drown them.’
— Imam al-Ghazzali, the second greatest scholar of Islam after Muhammad
‘In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of
the (Muslim) mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by
persuasion or by force.’
— Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah, New York, p. 473

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