Re: Muhammad in eyes of Non-Muslims
Prophet never preached for barbarianism. He advised his followers to get knowledge, even they had to travel to China (which was not Muslim country)
**Lets see what Chacha Nehru told common Indian for Islamic Caliphate and their conquests Often enough they won without fighting . Within twenty-five years of the death of their Prophet, the Arabs conquered the whole of Persia, Syria, Armenia and a bit of Central Asia on one side and Egypt and a bit of northern Africa from the west. Egypt had fallen to them with the greatest.
Egypt had suffered most from the exploitation of the Roman Empire and the rivalry of Christian sects. There is a story that the Arabs burnt the famous library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandarina) but this is now believed to be false. The Arabs were too fond of books to behave in this barbarous manner. It is probable, however, that the Emperor, Theodosius of Constantinople, about whom I have told you something already, was guilty of this destruction or part of it. A part of the library had been destroyed long before, during a siege at the time of Julius Caesar. Theodosius did not approve of old Greek pagan books dealing with old Greek mythologies and philosophies. He was much too devout a Christian. It is said that he used these books as fuel with which to heat his baths.
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The library at Alexandria was destroyed 4 times, the first 2 times by romans (Julius Ceaser by accident and Aurelian ), the 3rd time by the orders of the coptic pope theophilius and for the last time during the muslim conquest of Egypt. That was the end of centuries of accumulated wealth of knowledge in the largest and most significant library of the ancient world.