Ruth Cranston about Islam
WORLD FAITH
Friday, August 28, 2009
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"But still people say, he (Muhammad) fought - and his followers fought - many fierce and terrible battles, and". Mohammedans "have been known down the ages for their cruelty and fanaticism.
Mohammed never instigated fighting and bloodshed. Every battle that he fought was in rebuttal. He fought in order to survive - and he fought with the weapons and in the fashion of his time.
Fashions in brutality change, as in everything else. It seems almost incredible now that in 1917 people were shocked at the killing of civilians in wartime. Certainly no Christian nation of 140.000.000 people who dispatch 120.000 helpless civilians with a single bomb can look askance at a leader who at his worst killed a bare five or six hundred. The slayings of the prophet of Arabia in the benighted and bloodthirsty age of the seventh century look positively puerile compared with our own in this "advanced" and enlightened twentieth. Not to mention the mass slaughter by the christians during the Inquisition and the Crusades - when, Christian warriors proudly recorded, they "waded ankle deep in the gore of the Muslim infidels." 
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