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From the Qur'an:
1- Let if be no compulsion in the matter of religion. The truth will be distinct from the false (2:256).


From Statements of Mohammad (PBUH):
1-        Who ever hurts a Zimmi (one of the people of the covenant, living under Muslim’s rule) will see me a lawyer against him in the Day of
Judgment.
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From Facts of Numbers:
Arabian desert, were Islam started was sparsely populated. The bedwen illiterate Arabs were bounded from the North by the Roman Empire and
from the North East by the Persian Empires. They were so divided among each other’s that when the Ethiopian emperor Abraha attacked them to
destroy their holy Kaba, they could not fight him back.

The Number of Arabs, even if all men and women were fighter, would be like a drop in a pocket compared to the highly populated areas of Syria,
Iraq, Egypt, Persia, India, or China. There has to be another method, other than war, that allowed Islam to spread beyond the military ability of
the Muslims.

From Today’s statistics
1-        Muslim Countries that were opened by the sword still have sizable non-Muslim population who kept their original religions and places of
worship. For Example, in Egypt Muslims had to fight the human tyranny imposed by the Roman empire on the Egyptian Christians (Coptics).
When the tyrants were defeated, some Egyptians reverted to Islam and some stayed as Christians. Today, after 1400 years, Egypt has a sizable
Christian Minority (between 7% and %10). Likewise, all Muslim countries that once, militarily resisted the Muslims have some minority of non-
Muslims protected and supported by the Muslim state.

2-        On the other hand, Muslim countries that converted to Islam through personal contact with Muslim traders are almost %100 Muslims like
Indonesia the most populous Muslim country in the World.

3-        Today, Muslims are not a powerful military or even scientifically advanced, however Islam continues to spread as fast as it always did
while Muslims had a sword. If Western media claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion, let us ask them where is the sword now?

Then Why Islam continues to spread:
All reverts to Islam are attracted by the logic, practicality, peacefulness, perfect human equality and ease of understanding of this profound
complete way of life called ISLAM.


Compiled by Imam Nabil Elibiary of Islamic Association of carrolltonversion 3. Send questions and comments to nabilelibiary@hotmail.com for
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