| Due to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. and | | | | sword. Mohammed was a military commander |
| Europe during the last years, the vast | | | | during the last part of his life and only by |
| majority of the West's population has come to | | | | force did he manage to convince his fellow |
| associate terrorism with Muslims. | | | | Arabs of the superiority of his new creed. |
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| Western governments say such a view is false | | | | The terrorists of the twenty-first century |
| and have even engaged in a large propaganda | | | | are also doing what the followers of Mohammed |
| campaign to inform the masses of the correct | | | | did during the millennium after his death. |
| one. However, an analysis of history reveals | | | | The Umayyads, the Abbasids, and the |
| something different. | | | | successive dynasties launched into one of the |
| | | | most enthusiastic conquering ventures the |
| The Koran was written in the early seventh | | | | world has ever seen and forged an empire that |
| century by the followers of Mohammed, who | | | | extended from Central Asia to the southwest |
| meticulously annotated the words of the | | | | of Europe. From the founder of the religion |
| prophet. Although Mohammed saw Christianity | | | | to the Ottomans in the twentieth century, |
| and Judaism as predecessors of Islam, the | | | | violence was systemically used to convert |
| fact is that since its creation Islam has | | | | nations to Islam. |
| preached violence. According to many | | | | |
| theologians, about 5% of the Koran advocates | | | | That is precisely the reason why the |
| peace and the rest is a call to arms. | | | | overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide |
| | | | applaud the acts of the terrorists. That is |
| Islam means literally, submission. The Koran | | | | why those murderers have become martyrs and |
| is replete with calls to take up arms in its | | | | heroes for the Muslim masses. Since those |
| name: "fight and slay the Pagans wherever you | | | | masses have been taught the gospel of the |
| find them . . . those who reject our signs we | | | | Koran and that book teaches violence, they |
| shall soon cast into the fire . . . | | | | are inevitably driven to feel admiration for |
| | | | those who kill the infidels. |
| Western governments claim the terrorists are | | | | |
| un-Islamic bandits who have hijacked a great | | | | Islam resembles to a great extent communism |
| religion. That is not true. Those terrorists | | | | because the Marxists claimed from the start, |
| are doing the same thing Mohammed did to | | | | that communism was the dictatorship of the |
| impose his religion on the Arabian Peninsula | | | | proletariat. They never pretended that their |
| in the seventh century. They are wielding the | | | | beliefs would be imposed by peaceful means. |