Tolerance of the Prophet (PBUH)

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Prophet Mohamed (Pbuh) spread his faith peacefully , except when he was forced to fight against the idolaters to defend his religion . There are uncountable evidence proving his tolerance , and following are merely some of which:
I- Prophet Mohamed (Pbuh) granted to the Jews of Medina the same rights given to the Muslims , provided that they would help them in defending the city . But the Jews had broken their pledged faith and joined the Meccans in their attack on Medina . Thus , he had to expel them from Medina .
II-In the sixth year of the Hegira , Mohamed (Pbuh) granted to the monks and to all Christians a charter to protect them , to guard them from all injuries , to defend their churches , to help them in the repair of their churches and monasteries and not to force any Christian to reject his religion .
III-On entering Mecca , in the eighth year of Hegira , the Prophet (Pbuh) forgave who had so cruelly ill-treated him . In the hour of triumph , every evil suffered was forgotten and a general amnesty was extended to the Meccans .
IV-He treated the prisoners with great kindness in their captivity . He released him who either paid a pawn or who taught ten of the Ansaars reading and writing .
The Effects of Islam:
I-The recklessness of heathenism was abandoned and the fundamental doctrine became the unity of God: "There is no God save Allah" .
II-It elevated their character and behaviors: drunkenness and gambling were forbidden , burying girls (a brutal custom among tribes) came to an end .
III-Islam preached brotherly love , kindness to children , widows , and orphans as well as gentleness to animals .
IV-An end was put to tribal disputes and a united nation came into existence .
V-Before the advent of Islam , people persecuted those who were different from them in religious doctrines but Islam preached complete tolerance .
VI- One-hundred years after the death of Prophet Mohamed (Pbuh) , his followers were the masters of an empire greater than that of Rome at its zenith , an empire extending from the Bay of Biscay to the Indus and the confines of China; and from the Aral Sea to the Upper cataracts of the Nile .
VII-It was not only an empire that the Muslim Arabs built , but a culture as well . Heirs of the ancient civilization that flourished on the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates , in the land of the Nile and on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean , they likewise absorbed and assimilated the main features of the Greco–Roman culture , and subsequently acted as a medium for transmitting to Medieval Europe many of those intellectual influences which awoke the Western world and set it on the road towards its modern renaissance .