how did the religion of islam start? who was muhammad?

You forgot to mention that he married a 6 year old little girl.
I'm praying that the doors open to any religion but Islam for the people enslaved to this "religion of peace"...

If you really want to know what Islam is all about, then this is the best researched source that I know of.

It is quite long but easily understandable.

This link is set to the beginning of the information, and is best read that way...

http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Prophet_of_Doom_Letter_to_the_Reader.Islam

I hope this helps.

Its veary sad you know, im glad that some are converting to christianity because that is the truth. and what islam is, is not.
Ive never read the coran, ive just read what i see here. Looks pretty frightning to me..

Watch Islam: Empire of Faith narrated by Ben Kingsley.

Mohammad nabi doesnt married 6 yr old for his sake.
He actuallay helped her..
Mohammad nabi married only one for him.. But others are wives of soldiers who died in war.. He tried to help them.

Thanks for good post, I'm a Muslim, every dispute and arguments with others only helped me to increase my faith.

Why are you afraid? We have our own way, and you have yours.

Founder of Islam is God, Mohammad was a human assigned as prophet by God to complete the message of Islam, which had been being conveyed since the beginning of mankind through several prophets.

Yes, Islam is a major world's religion.

Prophet Born in 570 AD. When he was fourty he prophecised as other prophets like Jesus, Moses, Abraham etc. Allah sent the archangel Gabriel to Prophet to convey the messages. He began to preach the Message of God - Monotheism, final judgment, aim, prayer and surrender to Allah as previous prophets taught. He had to travel to Madina and it is called "Hijra", from that onwards starts the Islamic calendar.

Many people embraced Islam, because of universality and beauty of it. and Majority of mecca was Islam, then they were enough to govern the Mecca area and Mohammad was the law giver and governor.

Prophet Mohammad encouraged Jihad, and Quran entourages Jihad as well. Jihad doesn't mean killing non-Muslims. Jihad means striving against evils, In the very first scene evil lust of our mind itself, then developing mind to pray and willing to do everything as per God's teaching. It also include self protection, protecting society and relatives. If any body attack Islam or our society cuz of Islam, we have the right to fight back (Holy war) it also falls under Jihad.
And Hence his successors encouraged Jihad as well.

Many groups were sent to different countries with message of Islam, they were not fighting with swords by saying "Either Islam or death", They accepted it wholeheartedly. Most of these countries won't deny anyone to spread their message, but some countries do.

Muslims turned to Christianity as well, I agree, but there is a difference:
The people who converted from Christianity to Islam was well educated people and having more and more knowledge about Christianity and Bible. But the Muslims ( I call namely Muslims) who converted to Christianity were not much educated about Islam itself. Many African Muslims converts to Christianity, while many western Christians converts to Islam.

I pray always to show the right path to the people, I try to convey the message of truth to whoever I can, I hope people will find the right path, The one and only one God and his message - Islam.

"Who ever believe in God, and Judgment day, and do good deeds will have everlasting reward"

Peace.