The key point is that Islam is not inherently aggressive toward non-believers. "Mohammed certainly did not teach people to act with a sword in one hand and the Qur'an in the other, or say that those who obeyed would prosper while those who didn't would die," says Haj Ishag Ma Shiao-chi, a staff member at the CMA who spent ten years in Libya studying sociology.
「這絕不是穆聖倡導：一手拿劍，一手拿古蘭經，高喊順我者昌、逆我者亡的因素」，留學利比亞十年、主攻社會學的中國回教協會專員馬孝棋解釋。