(December 9, 2014 at 9:33 pm)Iloveporc Wrote: I did some personal researches on muhammed's life and i have to say i'm completely confused. Guys like bill warner claim muhammed became evil in Medina. But muhammed lived peacefully in mecca and he only tried to spread 'the word of god' to the meccans. And the only few followers he had, have been persecuted and even tortured and muhammed had to escape from mecca. he even created a community where jews, christians and muslims could leave peacefully togheter. And in medina he didn't start war for nothing, there was a reason..it was to protect himself from attacking people. But even then he asked for peace with his ennemies afterwards
It's good you are doing your own research, there verses in Quran that specifically says fighting has been allowed now because they are oppressed and only to fight those who fight you, and to incline to peace if the other side inclines to peace.
Also, the opinion of a lot of scholars, even ones in the past, is that disbelievers refers to those who disbelieve guidance that has become clear to them, while doesn't refer to those who don't know it's true.
Thus a believer is also one who follows guidance of God that has come to them, and that as different individually, and can include Atheists.
I go on and off faith in Islam. Today I believe more in Islam then not, so I say this sincerely...I don't think Islam teaches to disrespect people or to hate people or to fight people of other faiths.
If it taught that, I would no longer think about the religion and wouldn't be going faith one day and then disbelief for a week, then faith one day then disbelief for a week thing I been going through.
