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Only Love Can Defeat Terrorism
Muslims than the colours of
the flowers in a garden is to
the flowers themselves. 15
Professor Hamilton
Alexander Rossken Gibb is one
of the world's foremost experts
on Islam. In his book Whither
Islam? he describes the Islamic
view of other races:
No other society has such a Joel Augustus Rogers
record of success uniting in
an equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavors so
many and so various races of mankind… Islam has still the
power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of
race and tradition. If ever the opposition of the great
societies of East and West is to be replaced by cooperation,
the mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition. 16
Islamic morality aims at a society built on brotherhood
and peace, freedom and security. That is why all communities
that come into contact with Islam have given up their
oppressive, cruel and aggressive ways and have, instead,
built peaceful and civilized societies. (For further details, see
Justice and Compassion in the Qur'an by Harun Yahya.) In their
works, many Western historians have documented Islam's
deep and positive effects on communities that came into
contact with it. In The Making of Humanity, Professor Robert
Briffault discusses the relationship between Western society
and Islam:
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