1.  "Gibbon, a historian of world repute says,

"A pernicious tenet has been imputed to Mohammadans, the duty of extirpating all the religions by sword." This charge based on ignorance and bigotry, says the eminent historian, is refuted by Quran, by history of Musalman conquerors and by their public and legal toleration of Christian worship.

The great success of Mohammad's life had been effected by sheer moral force, without a stroke of sword.

But in pure self-defense, after repeated efforts of conciliation had utterly failed, circumstances dragged him into the battlefield.

But the prophet of Islam changed the whole strategy of the battlefield.

The total number of casualties in all the wars that took place during his lifetime when the whole Arabian Peninsula came under his banner, does not exceed a few hundreds in all."

MOHAMMAD DID NOT LIVE BY THE SWORD, HE WAS FORCED INTO WAR FOR SELF DEFENCE, ONLY A FEW HUNDRED DIED IN THE WARS HE FOUGHT, THEN HE FORGAVE ALL HIS ENEMIES, EVEN THE MURDERER OF HIS UNCLE.

ISLAM WON OVER THE PEOPLE DUE TO ITS MESSAGE OF SUBMISSION TO GOD AND THE EXAMPLE OF THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET LIVING IN SIMPLICITY.
 

Goethe,
the greatest of German poets, speaking about the Holy Quran declared that, "This book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence."

George Bernard Shaw
says, "If any religion has a chance of ruling over England, say, Europe, within the next 100 years, it is Islam".

Mahatma Gandhi,
in his inimitable style, says "Some one has said that Europeans in South Africa dread the advent of Islam -- Islam that civilized Spain, Islam that took the torch light to Morocco and preached to the world the Gospel of brotherhood.

The Europeans of South Africa dread the Advent of Islam. They may claim equality with the white races. They may well dread it, if brotherhood is a sin. If it is equality of colored races then their dread is well founded."

2.  Muhammad Yunus

a Muslim,

wins the 2006 NOBEL Peace prize: