If Islam is a religion of peace why did it expand through military conquests?

[Chad32]

He didn't do a good job conveying his message. If you come to my house to write something down that I think is very important, I will do everything in my power to make sure you get it just right. if you don't, it's my fault because I'm the one dictating.

Obviously we got very different ideas of what we read in the bible. My reading of the bible, and learning about things surrounding the stories of the bible led me to believe it's not any more divinely inspired than any other book out there about creator gods and men who were born of virgins and rose again three days after they got killed. And there are older religions with those stories in them.

If you want to cherry pick out the kinds of things you think Jesus wouldn't say, or interpret the new and old testaments to fit despite being made about a thousand years apart, then go ahead. If Yahweh really existed, he just comes off as very outdated and not very good at his job. Almost like he doesn't understand us any more than we understand him.

Getting back to Islam, I haven't read the book but I heard it started out peaceful, but got violent towards the end. As opposed to the bible, which starts out violent with wars and slaughter in the name of the lord, and ended up more peaceful about a guy that wants you to love your enemies and give to the poor.