Kactuz
Quran is very humane when dealing with non Muslims. And promotes forgiveness, tolerance, understanding and equality.

Muslims treat other Religions very respectfully when they are the dominant. For example, look at Spain. The Muslims ruled there for 800 years, the Spanish people were never coerced into abandoning their religion
Look at Kopts in Egyt, the Orthodox church in Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. Look at the Assyrians and Kaldanis in Iraq and Syria. The list can go on for ever of Muslims coexisting very respectfully with other religions.

No respectable righter in the whole Arab world would promote violence, hate or anything like that towards non Muslims when it's mandated by the Quran and the Sunnah to be respectful and tolerant.

There are no such textbooks, broadcasts or radio stations in the Majority of the Arab world. Animals like Osama bin Laden have hijacked my religions and idiots like George Bush have generalized that to all Arabs and Muslims

Muslims are Mandated by their religion NOT TO HATE, do do no harm. But there are exceptions. When they are forced into it. They have to defend themselves.

I read my own Hadith and there are many things that are. 1) Taken out of context. 2) projected in the modern sense when you can't really draw a comparison compared to those times. And I will prove it to you that is even if what you mention below is true

The Raids in the Arabic culture at that time were a common thing. It was the culture of "Kar and Far" which is Raid and run, or raid and withdraw. That was part of the culture at that time and people completely understood it.
Most of these were provoked and had a reason for them. They weren't the acts of bandits. They also followed strict rules of engagement. But there is no "clean" war. These people you think have done raids have actually been prosecuted, and driven out of their homes by the people they raided. It was a retaliation, proving their right to exist.

Muhammad didn't kill any critics. Unless they fight him. And just like any leader, he has to do what he is forced to do. defend him self.

The Women and children were also customary to go into enslavement when their tribe loses. But that's not a tradition the Arabs or Muslims started or continued. It had roots from the Greek and Romans and it was acceptable in Christianity and Judaism. It is the way the world was in those days. The winners take all. Including women and children
Fact is, on many occasions prisoners of war were released. Sometimes in exchange for a monetary value, and others if they did community service like teach someone who can't read to read. But often, released without any demands out of the good heart of the Prophet. Try to explain that to the crusaders who burnt 70,000 Muslims, Christians and Jews and said let god sort them out.

The prophet was a model for humane treatment of women. He has given them so many rights, asked people not to beat their wives and there wasn't any documented case of him ever beating a man, woman or a child. He was the gentle person. Unlike say, Moses who actually Murdered a man in his youth before he fled Egypt

You have not read the Quran with the intention of reading it and understanding it. You have read it with 21st century thought projected over it. Thinking that. "Oh he said fight" then it must be violent. Truth is, war is only a last resort for Muslims. They never initiate it, and even when they do they are humane

Zayd is not the prophet. There were people who decided to take matters into their own hands. Muhammad was the most humane with his opponents. Much more than say, what they have done to the Muslims at times. If Um Qirfah was killed like that, thousands of Muslim women have suffered more excruciating deaths before her. I don't see you defending them!

You have to understand that slavery was allowed. (and excuse me, was STILL ALLOWED in the US 100 years ago) where similar acts or even worse were committed
You can't judge a society through your eyes now.

The Riddah war wasn't for tribute. There were false prophets that threatened to destroy the whole Islamic nation and split it into many. The unification war was sanctioned. Very similar to the civil war in America. This again, was forced down upon Muslims and not initiated by them

I hope you take this explanation with an open mind. It's easy to look into a paragraph and say. God damn, the declaration of independence promotes violence because it says. Fight! But when the battle is brought to your home. It's stupid not to fight back!

If you look at the modern day America, you can see this with you own eyes. If you don't support the military efforts then you're not a patriot and many would consider you a traitor. People calling for "Nuking Mecca" and "occupying Arabia" and I can cite a few, are calling for what? Isn't that violence? Hatred and oppression of the worst kinds?

As for Wafa, I took her just as an example to liars and ignorant people who transmit and don't receive. They only want to show their side of the argument in the ugliest of ways Instead of bothering with a discussion, or coexistence, or finding common solutions to issues.

As a Muslim, we are interested in peaceful coexistence. Just what any human is looking for safety, security, decent respectful existence. Nothing out of the ordinary

1) We didn't go all the way out there unprovoked. In fact, The Roman empire have enslaved Arab nations for centuries. This was the result. They were conquered back. Same thing about Persia
2) You took that statement out of context. There are two important things here. First the world was different. It was more accepting to these things. Slavery, torture, ...etc were everyday realities. Second, you're imposing modern day values that carry no weight back then.

The fact is, Muhammad tried his best to swim against the norms of his time. As much as he was successful in revolutionising the whole region. There were things that were beyond any one's ability to reform them. For example. Women rights. Every time he would propose something in favor of women, he would be faced with a lot of opposition by many including the closest of Sahaba. There's a limit to the amount of change that, even a prophet, can bring to a society.
At the end what he succeeded in best is to plant the seeds and point to the moral compass that people need to follow. And sure enough, few centuries later they were at the top of the world

You can't change the social norms overnight Hani. People would have left the religion and never looked back. It needed to happen gradually over time
However, Islam did institute salve rights (whaaaat!!!?) yes, Slave rights. Including there is no obedience in committing a sin. They have the right to be fed and clothed. They have are sentenced to HALF the punishment of free people (WHAAAT?) Yes, the punishment is half because they don't own their freedom.
While under Christianity and the western American slavery they had DOUBLE the punishment of the free man. The list goes on, for example. If a slave woman gives birth to a child from her master. He has the right to be called to his father. He is born free. Unlike otherwise where that child is considered a slave and belongs to no one!

Slavery is bad, Islam didn't abolish it. There was no way to do it at the time. But gradually over the years. Slavery went away. The last remaining forms of slavery was the black history of the United states!