&gt; For each of the points you mentioned I can make a solid case supported by examples that Mohammad was a proponent of peace<p>Prior to Mohammed, his people lived in a remote, mostly peaceful backwater.<p>Afterwards, Mohammed terrorized some caravans, gained a few new converts, and conquered Mecca, and then Arabia. Then his friends, followers, and immediate successors, by 661, conquered the Persian empire and made rapid inroads into the Byzantine Empire.<p>It is very difficult to see how anyone could look at a map in 622 and then a map in 661 and come to the conclusion that Mohammed was a proponent of peace.