So how did it spread?

Submitted by rick (United States), Feb 27, 2008 at 03:51

Get a history book and tell me how Islam spread faster and farther in a couple hundred years than other Empires did over a thousand. Rome didn't get as big over a thousand years as Islam in a few hundred.

You explain that and then tell me that jihad means to simply defend one's land. Ask yourself how they got that land. Ask yourself why the Crusaders had to go and fight for land that theirs first. I get your point that religious nuts have been fighting over land for some time now, but it's always just been about land and money and women. The difference is that in Islam it accepted behavior to act like a 7th century warlord in their holy books themselves, their legal system, and their cultural traditions.

Jihad is both defensive and offensive holy war, and it is an inner struggle. These things aren't mutually exclusive in Islam.

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