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What they said about Islam
Gibbon, a historian of world wide fame :"A pernicious tenet has been imputed to the Mohammedans the duty of extirpating all the religions by the sword "(note : the author means Muslims "Mohammedans" might imply "worshippers of the holy prophet ; but no Muslim ever worship the holy prophet as God)
Thomas Carlyle :" The lies which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Mohammed) are disgraceful to ourselves only "
Lancelot Lawton , The sphere, London, for 12th may ,1928 : "As a religion the Mohamedan religion , it must be confessed, is more suited to Africa than is the Christian religion, indeed , I would even say that it is more suited to the world as a whole.... "
Prof. Hurgronje : " The League of Nations founded by the prophet of Islam put the principle of International unity and human brotherhood on such universal foundations as to show candle to to the nations......... The fact is that no nation of world can show a parallel to what Islam has done towards the realization of the idea of league of nations"
And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We have revealed unto Our bondman (Muhammad). then produce a surah (Chapter) of like thereof, and call your witnesses beside Allah if ye are truthful (Holy Qur'an 2:23)
Encyclopedia Britannica :" Mohammed is the most successful of all prophets and religious personality"
Charles. R. Watson, What is this Moslem World London, 1937 pp 38-39 : It may be boldly asserted that no people in the world give the impression of being so religious-minded as do Muslim. all of life saturated with the consciousness o God
Lawrence .W. Browne, The prospects of Islam, London,1944,p 14 : " Incidentally these wee-established facts dispose of the idea so widely fostered in Christianity writings that the Muslims, wherever they went, forced people to accept Islam at the point of the sword "
De Lacy O'Leary, Islam at the crossroads, London, 1923, p8 : " History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing at the pint of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fanatically absurd myths that historians has over repeated "
James A.Michener, " Islam- the Misunderstood Religion' , in the Reader's Digest (American Edition for May, 1955) : No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam....The West has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the word. But no modern scholar accepts that idea, and the koran is explicit in support of the freedom of conscience. The evidence is strong that Islam welcomed the peoples of may diverse religions, so long as they behaved themselves and paid extra taxes. Muhammad constantly taught that Muslims should co-operate with the ' People of the Book' (Jews and Christians)
E. Alexander Powell, The Struggle for Power in Muslim Asia, New York 1923, p 48 : "In their wars of conquest, however , the Muslims exhibited a degree of tolerance which puts many Christian nations to shame
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