Why Did They Become Muslims

and twenty-one disciples by shooting them. The British, again, were
the cause of that barbarous massacre. For, when Hitler, the chancellor
of Nazi Germany, defeated the Russian armies and was about to enter
Moscow in 1945, he announced to the British and American
authorities on the radio his wish to annihilate the Russians, saying, “I
admit the defeat. I shall surrender to you. But let me go on with my
war. Let me rout the Russian army and save the entire world from the
nuisance called communism.” Churchill, the British premier, refused
his request. The American and British forces continued to support the
Russians and did not enter Berlin before the Russians arrived. It was
their policy whereby the Russians continued to be a nuisance for the
world.
We do not intend to make a list of the various barbarisms
perpetrated by Christians or to enlarge on them. History teems with
innumerable acts of cruelty. The tribunals termed Inquisition, the
carnage called Saint Bartholomew and many other massacres
perpetrated in the name of religion are the blatant examples of the
inconceivable cruelties which Christians displayed against Christians
of other sects and against people of other religions. None of the
Muslim rulers or commanders or statesmen ever had recourse to the
cruelties approximating to those perpetrated by Christians or deigned
to cloak such cruelties under religious causes or provoked the Muslim
world against Christians. Islam never approves of cruelty towards any
creature. All Muslim religious authorities dissuaded Muslims from
cruelty. Here is a small example for you:
It is stated as follows in the eighth edition of Fazlaka-i-Târih-i-
’Uthmânî (A Summary of the Ottoman History), and also in the third
edition, in 1325 [1907 C.E.], of Târih-i-Dawlat-i-’Uthmâniyya (A
History of the Ottoman State), by Abd-ur-Rahmân Şeref Bey,
director of the Maktab-i-Sultânî (The Sultan’s School): “Sünbül Agha,
a retired Agha of Dâr-us-sa’âda, was sailing to Egypt, when his ship
was attacked by the Maltese pirates, who martyred the Agha during
the attack. The troops landing on Morea (Peloponnesus) from
Venetian ships slaughtered thousands of Muslims, children and
women alike. The eighteenth Ottoman Pâdishâh, Sultân Ibrâhîm, was
an extremely compassionate person. He grieved deeply over the
barbarity perpetrated by Christians. In 1056 [1646 C.E.] he issued a
firman commanding retaliation against the Christian guests living
under the Ottoman administration, [which meant slaughtering them,]
for the Muslims massacred. Abu-s-Sa’îd Efendi ‘rahima-hullâhu
ta’âlâ’, the time’s Shaikh-ul-Islâm (The Chief of Religious Affairs),
taking along the Bostanc›baş› (Commander of the Imperial Guards)
with him, entered the presence of the Pâdishâh (Ottoman Empire).
He said that the decree meant unjust homicide, which in turn was
incompatible with the Islamic religion. Being strongly adherent to the
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