Islam means peace and tranquility. Islam comes from the Arabic word ‘salaam’, means peace. Submitting one’s own will to Allah/God is Islam. Every muslim should understand and follow it. Islam promotes peace. At the same time, Islam exhort it followers to fight where there is oppression. You know, Muslims once ruled Spain for about 800 years. The Muslims force in Spain never used the sword to force the people to convert. Once the Muslims were the rulers of Arabia for 1400 years. Then the British ruled, and for a few years the French ruled. There are 14 million Arabs who are Christians since generations in Arab. If the Muslims of Arab used the sword to spread Islam in Arab, there would not have been a single Arab who would have remained a Christian. Muslims also ruled the India for 1000 years. Muslims never forced the non-muslim in Insia to convert. If they wanted, they had the power of converting each and every non-Muslim of India to Islam. Today more than 80% of the population of India are non-Muslims.
So, Islam means peace and tranquility.

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You are held accountable for your beliefs and how they influence you. The claim that great philosophers, scholars, scientists and so on belong to Islam is sophomoric and unsubstantiated on your part. When people try and discern ones religious belief, they base it off how their religion and religious belief influences them. If their personality or motivations lead to more negativity than positivity, why would it not be compelling enough to see how more negative that influence is based on than positive? When I deeply try to understand with respect to epistemology and philosophy overall, I do not give my gratitude to any imaginary source, especially when it regards physical and natural sciences. I have the human intellectual effort to see things clearly, without the obscurity of religious belief and dogma clouding my perception, to realize how beautiful this world is.