Quote from: TheCoinGrabber on May 29, 2017, 03:09:35 PM

Quote from: Sithara007 on May 26, 2017, 05:03:40 PM

Quote from: TheCoinGrabber on May 26, 2017, 04:48:23 PM

Compare this with Islam. All those conquest was definitely for religion. Unlike Christianity which mainly spread among the lower-class peacefully (heck, they were even fed to lions or impaled and burned on stakes), Islam was spread by the sword, with the army led by no other than Muhammad himself.

And oh, Catholicism came later during the Great Schism.

There is not a single country which has voluntarily accepted Islam. In all the nations, Islam was spread using force and genocide. Even now, the same is ongoing, in nations such as Sudan and Pakistan.

Well, it was brought through trade first in SE Asia but then it eventually was spread by Islamized polities gobbling up smaller ones in the region. So yeah, it did spread by war.

How many traders were there? Children born to Arab trader fathers and local women became Muslim (especially in regions such as Indonesia and Malaysia). But the population later increased only through forced conversion, abduction, genocide.etc.