by desiguy » Fri Apr 12, 2002 12:30 am
Islam spread the way it is spreading today through peacful means. It is the fastest growing religion in America and Europe, despite the mischief of some of these terrorist/extremists.
It is a misconception that Islam spread through sword. If indeed that was true, then the whole of India would have been muslim today.
And if you look at the muslim kings and rulers who rules India for the past several hundred years, they were never pious muslims. So if there were incidents of brutality against Hindus in their times that is NOT because of Islam but inspite of ISLAM.