A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

As this chronology shows, in the 7th century A.D. Muhammad’s Bedouins defeated the Persian and
eastern Roman empires, and conquered the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. This period, referred to
as Islam’s ‘golden years’, is what many Muslims aspire to be restored. The invaders eventually were
stopped in the east in 718 at the city walls of Constantinople, and in the west in 732 some 200 miles from
Paris. There followed another thousand years of seesaw wars on sea and land before the last Middle
Eastern attack on a major European city, Vienna, which was repulsed in 1683. Those who expect
Muslims to drop their belligerence toward the West, which has existed since Islam’s founding in the 7th
century, expect them to jettison core values of their faith - something for which there is no precedent in
Islamic history. Although nowadays nothing seems less tolerated than pessimism, yet in relation to Islam
this attitude is in fact simply just realism. While Muslims in the West live in peace, prosperity and
religious liberty, Christians and other Infidels in Muslim lands have been, are now, and will continue to
be persecuted, driven out, killed, or forced to convert and call themselves Muslims.
Non-Muslim Christian Violence
Undeniably, Christians have in the past also committed despicable acts in the name of their religion,
and in recent history the Serbia conflicts and the Protestant-Catholic Northern-Ireland clashes stand out as
examples. Detractors will continue to try to deflect criticism by pointing out such hatred and violence
conducted in the name of Christianity. Though it is true that there has been many atrocities committed by
misguided Christians (Spanish Inquisition, the Salem witch-hunts, and others), do not lose focus on the
problem at hand today. Remember all those atrocities are diametrically opposed with Christian scripture
and philosophy where the greatest commandment was affirmed by Christ to be:
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the
first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these
two commandments hang all the law and the prophets" [Matt. 22:37-40].
So the basic tenet of the Christian faith is that people are the children of God, created in His image,
and are all of value to Him. The basic tenet of Islam is that some people are chosen by God to be Muslim,
but the rest are -not- the people of God, and that a Muslims duty is to expedite Allah’s plan for nonbelievers
to be converted …or dispatched to hell! There are three major differences and distinctions that
can be drawn between Christian crimes and the acts committed in Islam’s name. The first difference is
that the unfortunate events were limited in both time and scope …they had an end. The second distinction
is that terrorists acting from Christian cultures always did their vile deeds in violation its scriptural
teaching (the words and example of Christ), not in fulfillment of it, as in Muhammad’s Islam. The third
dissimilarity is that people from Christian cultures who perform terrorist acts against others are
recognized as criminals, not worshiped as heroes.
Shortly after Mohammed's death, the warriors of Islam struck out against Christians with enormous
energy. Palestine, Syria, and Egypt -- once the most heavily Christian areas in the world -- quickly
succumbed. By the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain.
In the eleventh century, the Seljuk Turks conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), which had been
Christian since the time of St. Paul. The Byzantine Empire was reduced to little more than Greece. In
desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of Western Europe asking them to
aid their brothers and sisters in the East. The ‘Crusades’ were the response to that desperate cry.
Due to disinterest, ignorance, and the tendency of Western societies toward excessive self-criticism,
misconceptions about the Crusades remain common. Generally portrayed as a series of unprovoked holy
wars against Islam, they are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance -- a
black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western Christian civilization in
general. Since September 11, variations of this theme have been used to explain -- even justify -- Muslim
terror against the West. Former president Bill Clinton himself, in a speech at Georgetown University,
fingered Muslim anger at the Crusades as the "root cause" of the present conflict.
But the truth is that the Crusades were not religiously inspired unprovoked aggressions intended to
forcibly convert the non-Christian world. In A Concise History of the Crusades, by renowned medieval
historian Thomas F. Madden, the record is set straight. The Crusades, he shows, were not the brainchild
of an ambitious pope, nor were they inspired by opportunistic, cold-blooded plundering knights. What