Why Did They Become Muslims

ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION OF SAVAGERY
If you climb the mount of Kahlenberg, where the Ottomans
established their military headquarters during the siege of Vienna in
1095 [1683 C.E.] because it offered an ideal observation of the city
from favourable elevation, you will see a monument with a sign on it
that says, “May God protect us against the evils of plague and Turks.”
Right beneath the sign is a concocted lithograph illustrating Turks
slaughtering Christian women and children. At that time Christians
represented the Turks as the most savage, the most cruel, and the most
barbarous people of the world. They said that the Turks would not be
cruel or barbarous if they were Christian. Those who alleged that
Islam was a religion of savagery were the Christian priests, who were
the cruel and tyrannical dictators of that time. This falsification always
occupied a major part of the religious lessons given in schools, and
thereby the Christian children were brainwashed with the inculcation
that Islam was a religion of savagery. This aweful vilification was
carried on throughout centuries, preserving its vehemence till our
time. Is-haq Efendi of Harput ‘rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ’, in his book,
makes the following quotation from a booklet which a priest wrote for
the purpose of traducing Islam in 1860:
“Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ always treated people with affection, kindness,
compassion and helpfulness in communicating his religion. It is for
this reason that five hundred people became Christians within the first
few years of Christianity. In contrast, Islam, a religion of savagery,
was imposed on people with force and under threat of death.
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ tried to spread Islam by means of force,
threat, fighting and holy war. Consequently, thirteen years after his
claim to prophethood the number of people who accepted Islam as a
result of mere communication was around one hundred and eighty.
This would be enough to demonstrate the difference between
Christianity, a true and humanitarian religion, and Islam, which is a
religion of savagery. Christianity is a perfect and humanitarian
religion which penetrates the human heart, inspires mercy and
compassion, and never uses force or compulsion. One indication of
the fact that Christianity is the only true religion is that the advent of
Christianity invalidated Judaism, which was the unitarian religion
previous to it. When Allâhu ta’âlâ sends a new Prophet, the religions
previous to him must be invalidated. Because Jewry refused
Christianity, various disasters befell on them, and they suffered
humiliation and degradation. For the advent of a new Prophet
signifies the fact that the previous religions have been spoilt. On the
other hand, the advent of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ did not abrogate
Christianity, nor did various disasters befall on Christians, which had
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