Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
Fine.

"[...]this seems to have marked the end of the period when Muhammad's activities had b een tolerated, and his followers now found themselves under increasing pressure. This mostly took the form of ostracism, verbal attacks, commercial santcions and, in the case of lower-class Muslims of actual physical violence. Against this background a number of Muslims left Mecca to settle in Ethiopia, probably in 615, where they enjoyed the protection of the Christian ruler." - The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, p.32

"Muhammad, with a much smaller force of 857 muhajirun, and 230 Ansar, was waiting for them [the relief force] for them by the wells at Badr" - The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, p.35
Might this be after the period when the Muslims had begun to expand militaristically. Oh, and what happened to Ethiopia?

Islam is a religion whose scriptural narrative is one of conquest, that makes it quite difficult to bit the religion into a culturally subserviant place; which is where it has been for at least 400 years.