When studying history, both in a professional and academic

sense, we try to make connections between civilizations and time

periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of

human nature, a bond that forms from continent to continent, human

being to human being. Is there a constant quality that all peoples

posses, and is reflected in all civilizations? Indeed, it is

extremely difficult to make generalizations about centuries of modern

history. To say that something is true of all of history is virtually

impossible, as a counter-example exists for just about anything that

can be said of any group of civilizations. To say that all religions

are spread by violence is equally unfair and untrue - because

contrasted religions has been spread in exceedingly diverse regions of

the world, by vastly different cultures. Islam, as a prime example,

has been characterized inequitably by historians and the media as a

religion of violence. To put it bluntly, as this article does, "Islam

was mainly spread through Arab territorial conquests (Sudo, 4)."

may perhaps be a startling revelation, history proves that it has had

than any other religion. In fact, not only is Islam not a

of the South Asian subcontinent lived under Islamic law for hundreds

both violence and conquest, and indeed, while often are characterized

and was another basis for the peaceful spread of Islam. The Koran,

beliefs onto the now helpless people of the Indus river, and created

Central and South America, while the British, Dutch, and French

more often gentle, kind, generous, magnanimous. He could be

skills (Class Discussion). However, despite the more violent nature

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