An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
“The lies, which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man,
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are disgraceful to ourselves only.”
“Of all the world’s greatest men none has been so much maligned
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as Muhammad.”
“Biographies of Mohammed by Christians describe the Prophet’s
sex life in a manner that reveals far more about their own sexual
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problems than about the facts of the Prophet’s life.”
“[The] West formed a more or less invariable canon of beliefs about
Islam; it decided for itself what Islam was, and formed a view
materially different from anything Muslims would recognise... The
important thing was it suited the West. It corresponded to need... it
gave Christendom self-respect in dealing with a civilisation in many
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ways its superior.”
“For centuries Christianity treated Islam as its worst enemy. And
although Europeans today look at Islam and its founder in a somewhat
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more objective light, many ancient prejudices still remain.”
“…and it was then [during the Crusades] that the name of the
Prophet Muhammad – the same Muhammad who had insisted that his
own followers respect the prophets of other religions – was
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contemptuously transformed by Europeans into ‘Mahound’.”
However, God had already decided that the Truth was to triumph over
Falsehood, and no amount of lies could stop those who sincerely
sought the truth from finding it. As He proclaimed in the Qur’an:
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Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, 8th May, 1840
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W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad At Medina, 1956
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Karen Armstrong, Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today's World, 1992
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Norman A. Daniel, Islam and the West: The Making of an Image, p. 270
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Roger DuPasquier, Unveiling Islam, p. 47
Leopold Weiss, The Road to Mecca, p. 7
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