Aw, man, not this again.
Clearly, OP didn't ask that question to be answered. He already knows the answer to it (his answer, anyway) and is quite satisfied with it. This alone tells you all you need to know about this thread.
You are wrong, and it is obvious you are not objective at all.
You want to frame me, to kill the topic.
You are not answering the topic but attacking me personally.
One of the persons who sent a like to your posts, also sent me some insulting private mails on this forum.
In any case, putting aside gross inaccuracies, like Muhammad being a violent man (he wasn't), and overall dubious theorizing on all parts involved (*cough* geographical determinism *cough*), the real reason was summed up in the very beginning.
The truth is not what you care for.
If he wasn't a violent man, then how come he was involved in various battles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad
It is full of battles, anyone can check this, just look at the time line to the right, battles, assassinations, you name it and Muhammad was personally involved, and no, I didn't create wikipedia.
Just a quote from Wikipedia:
Muhammad ordered a number of raids to capture Meccan caravans, but only the 8th of them, the Raid of Nakhla, resulted in
actual fighting and capture of booty and prisoners.
[111] In March 624,
Muhammad led some three hundred warriors in a raid on a Meccan merchant caravan.
The Muslims set an ambush for the caravan at Badr.
[112]
Is this your peaceful man?
Progressive ideas come about in progressive societies (duh!).
So why is islam not progressive then?
When you have war-torn societies in which the government can't even keep basic infrastructure up and running (this would be the case in Iraq just after the invasion), and people have to rely on local religious associations and clergymen to get the job done, naturally you won't be getting any progressive ideas. You'll be getting religious fundamentalism fueled by a thrist for revenge.
Good excuse, but as I have shown, Muhammad was a violent man, involved in conquering territory.
Why is this so hard to understand?
Because it isn't true.
I've said it before and I'm gonna say it again, a little history book goes a long way!
You make it sound as if there is one universal history with an absolute truth.
That is not the case.
Maybe you should watch the series "British history biggest fibs", then you would see how history keeps being twisted and turned to serve the purpose of certain people at certain times.
To represent muslims and islam as some kind of benign religion that is always the victim of others is such an attempt at distorting reality.