Page 63 - Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

History offers many examples of the faithful behaving
with complete justice towards other peoples, helping Islam
grow with incredible speed over a wide area, taking in North

Africa, the whole Middle East and even the Iberian Peninsula.
By means of these conquests, the civility and compassion of
Islamic morality was spread to many races, nations,
communities and individuals, bringing together millions in a
bond of mutual understanding, the likes of which had never

been seen before. The renowned researcher Joel Augustus
Rogers has examined the various races and the relationship
between the black race and other countries. In his book Sex
and Race, he describes Islam's influence on the world in these
terms:

One reason why Islam was able to survive so brightly for
centuries is the almost complete absence in this religion of
value-judgements based on race and class, the disregarding
of the colour of an individual's skin or his social class and
the fact that promotion to the highest levels of a community
is based on ability alone… Islam established the greatest
and at the same time the freest racial melting-pot in history,

and the mixing of these races took place within the body of
the most extensive empire the world has ever seen. At the
height of its power the Islamic Empire stretched from Spain
and central France in the West to India, China and the
Pacific Ocean in the East, including Central Asia. The rulers
of these extensive territories were of various colours. The
colour of peoples' skins was even less important for

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