Whoever says Islam was spread by the sword?

“I was horrible to my captors. I spat at them and was rude and refused to eat. It wasn’t until I was freed that I became interested in Islam.” This was Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist from Sunday Express who was captured by Taliban for crossing Afghan borders without visa in 2001. In 2003, she embraced Islam after studying the religion very deeply. She could not believe her eyes when she saw Taliban treating women with great respect; even the prisoners. She finds Islam to be the most feminist of all instead of ‘women oppressing’. After her conversion, BBC; the Zionist Jews’ mouthpiece declared her ”as a victim of Stockholm syndrome, in which hostages take the side of the hostage-takers.” Whereas she herself rejects this saying that nobody attempted to brainwash her.

11 days of being held by the Taliban in September 2001, changed Yvonne’s life. She found that the new faith helped her put behind her three broken marriages and a reputation as the “Patsy Stone of Fleet Street.”

Yvonne is just one of the several examples including those of some US army soldiers who converted to Islam in Afghanistan. The western media portray one picture of Islam which contrasts drastically with its reality which when faces the open-minded soldiers or jornalists or citizens, strikes their curiosity. It is us who are accused of not having the freedom of expression and religion. One look at the syndrome story fabricated by BBC speakes volumes of the West’s so-called openness. Today, Yvonne is a Muslim world’s advocate in journalist circles. She covers war news from Gaza to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Kashmir with her anti-war agenda and uncovers the dark side of imperialists.

Besides these individual examples, Islam was never spread by fighting even among nations. Muslims ruled in Spain for centuries and preserved the local culture,religion and heritage. Today under non-Muslim rule, Spain did not have even a single mosque until recently. In India, it was saints like Data sahib in Lahore and Ajmer sharif in Ajmer whose humane dealings influenced the lower caste Hindus towards Islam. No Hindu temple was ever damaged during the entire Mughal era in India but Hindus crafted their own reasons for demolishing Babri mosque. Indonesia, the largest Muslim country was never conquered by Muslim warriors, it was Muslim traders who went there and impressed the natives by their fair business dealings. Salahuddin Ayubi forgave the Christian/Jew knights after his victory over them instead of killing them. This is what true Islamic history is. This is what propagated Islam.

So sword was never Islam’s weapon for expansion but media definitely is its opponents’ weapon today. Muslims now need to pay them in the same coin. Project the true history of Islam and don't let the Zionist-led media camouflage our religion.