>demand for executions and forced conversion of non-Muslims.
The only non-muslims forcibly converted were the gulf Arab pagans. Otherwise if there is conflict between an Islamic polity and none muslims these are the options:
1.) Most preferable: sue for peace and negotiate a just settlement
2.) Fight a war
If option 2.) is undertaken and the Muslims are victorious in the land then as regards the vanquished non-Muslim people:
1.) Begom Muslim :-)
2.) Begom a taxpaying citizen :-)
3.) Vote with your feet and leave :-|
4.) Be in le vainglorious martyr mode and beg to be executed by refusing every other option. Basically pretend you never lost a war, pretend paying tax is some cruel and unusual punishment… :-/
>A doctrine of Islam states that the latter books override anything said in the earlier books, which is not only dangerous for Christians in a physical sense, but it becomes an issue due to the nature of the Qur'an being written by a single author, instead of the multiple different authors of the Bible.
Next to nothing relating to abrogation pertains to interfaith relations.
>The history of Islam is very outputting. A religion that claims to be a completion of Judaism & Christianity, which both hold God as a being of love, peace, and justice. Muhammad, the ideal example of a holy life in Islam, was a warlord who conquered peoples and forced them to convert. God and Muhammad seem to have different ideas of a perfect life.
Muhammad pbuh was a prophet like Moses and the Israelite king that we consider prophets, far removed from the moral failings erroneously ascribed to them and others such as Lot, Noah, etc who Christians and Jews dishonor.
Muhammad pbuh simply preached, eventually he was asked to become leader of Medina by its people. The first battle in Islam was not until after 14 years of Islamic preaching. It is unjust to compare the first three years of prophet Jesus pbuh to 23 years of prophet Muhammad pbuh and vice versa. Jesus will come back and fight the antichrist, no? And you ascribe tremendous violence to Jesus by saying he is Yahweh.
Again, there were not forced conversions except for the gulf pagans. This is well known fact.
>Bible: The Bible clearly tells us that if anyone, even an angel, were to preach a gospel different to what Jesus taught us, we should disregard what they said.
Jesus taught that he was a PROPHET and the MESSIAH. We concur.
>Furthermore, Jesus and all of the New testament prophets never fought anyone physically.
>prophets
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You mean just prophet John pbuh… right?
Is your qualm with all fighting or do you believe in fighting for abstract concepts like your country and just pointedly refuse to fight for God? If you're a total pacifist that's one thing but if you think that fighting is ok, just not for the sake of God but rather for money, homeland, status, glory, then you might have a priority problem.
>The OT has all of the kings of Israel fight only under strict commandment of God, and even then, God has to straighten out the kings sometimes, such as sending a prophet to David when he killed a man who's wife he'd fornicated with and wanted to avoid the guilt.
We believe prophet David never did such a thing, we seek refuge with Allah from those who create lies about the prophets and those who parrot them.
>King Solomon was given Wisdom when God appeared before him in a dream, because he asked for it instead of self-serving desires such as a long life or the death of his enemies.
>When the Prophet (S.A.W) approached the tribe of Saqeef (the inhabitants of the city of Taif), he asked to meet the chief of the town, and the chiefs of the town were in fact three brothers (Their father was once the chief of the city, but once he died, the brothers decided to share the power among each other). So the three chiefs agreed to meet the Prophet (S.A.W) as they didn't know why he (S.A.W) wanted to meet them. When the Prophet (S.A.W) introduced him as the Messenger of Allah, told them about Islam, about worshipping only one God, and leaving idol worshipping, the three brothers ridiculed and insulted him in the worst possible manner. One of them said, 'If you are a Prophet, I might as well destroy the Kaabah' (meaning what's the point), another said, 'Did Allah not found any one better than you to send? You are the one He has chosen?', the third one said, 'If you are a Prophet, then you are too Holy for me to speak to, and if you are not a prophet (i.e. if you are a liar), then you are too ignoble for me (a noble man) to speak to' (i.e. either way, you are somebody I cannot speak to.)
>But this wasn't the end of it, the three brothers then commanded their slaves and the youth to ridicule the Prophet (S.A.W) and make fun of him. Also, to physically harm him by throwing stones at him, by pelting him as he was leaving the city. So, the Prophet (S.A.W) was forced to leave the city while the people are ridiculing him, insulting him, and throwing stones at him, so much so that the blood began to pour from his body and that his shoes became soaked with his own blood. As he ran outside the city, he himself narrates to Aishaa, 'that I could not remember where I was going'. He was in such a state of shock that he did not know where he was until he reached a garden a few kilometers outside of Taif. The people of Taif had stopped chasing him, and he sat down, tired and bleeding, being tortured and humiliated by the people of Taif, all alone under a tree. There he (S.A.W) made a dua (call) to Allah (S.W.T) and said:
>O Allah! I complain to You of my weakness, my scarcity of resources and the humiliation I have been subjected to by the people. O Most Merciful of those who are merciful. O Lord of the weak and my Lord too. To whom have you entrusted me? To a distant person who receives me with hostility? Or to an enemy to whom you have granted authority over my affair? So long as You are not angry with me, I do not care. Your favor is of a more expansive relief to me. I seek refuge in the light of Your Face by which all darkness is dispelled and every affair of this world and the next is set right, lest Your anger or Your displeasure descends upon me. I desire Your pleasure and satisfaction until You are pleased. There is no power and no might except by You."
>At this point, the Prophet (S.A.W) said 'I saw a cloud hovering above me, and lo and behold, I saw Jibreel (Angel Gabriel) came down from that cloud, and besides him was an angel that I had never seen before.' And Jibreel said to the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), 'O Muhammad (S.A.W), your Lord has seen how your people have responded to you, your Lord has seen what they have said to you, so he has sent me with the angel of the mountains to place at your disposal.'
>The angel said, 'O Muhammad (S.A.W), if you want, command me and I will cause the two mountains of Taif to collapse upon them.' (For those of you who don't know, Taif is situated on some type of plateau, and the city is in between these two mountains, and the angel asked the Prophet (S.A.W) if he should just squash the people between the same mountains whose pebbles they used to stone the Prophet (S.A.W) with.)
>The Prophet (S.A.W), still bleeding and his shoes still wet with blood says, 'No! Rather, I pray that Allah (S.W.T) blesses their children to be Muslims and worship Allah (S.W.T) alone. Even if they have rejected Islam, I pray that Allah (S.W.T) blesses their progeny to be Muslim.'