Should one consider the Islam a religion ?

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The life of Hazarath Muhammad that I have chanced to go through has never satisfied me. An Arab boy he was and was to become a trader. His marriage with Khadiza seemed to be an intelligently calculated plan. The concept of revelation is mysterious and I do not understand that one at all. But he suddenly took arms and went to occupy Mekka and with his band of tribal army he did succeed in his military ambition. I do not invite any discourse on his propounded tenets. Many features of Muhammad's colorful life have raised a good number of question in my mind. I like to raise only one and only one of them and this one has been prompting me not to accept him as a religious leader. It appeared to me that he was a warrior and occupation of a vast territory was his ambition and he would have run with the Arab horses and the iron swords if he could escape death. Akbar, the great Mughal emperor of the 16th century India, has initiated a religion named Din-i-Ilahi and we do not ever consider him as a religious teacher. If Napoleon Bonaparte or Hitler or Stalin would declare anything like revelation and would go on slaughtering men and women and utter some good words of ethics and of norms for the reformation of the existing society, would we call anyone of them a religious leader ? Muhammad with sword in his hand and good words in his lips does not appear to be a saint or sage or a teacher preaching a religion. Why should one accept the Islam as a religion where coercion has been accepted as a means for its expansion ?