Re “Islamism, not Islam, is the foe,” Opinion, Sept. 27 Max Boots writes that the prophet Muhammad spread Islam by sword. This is baseless. In several hadith [a narrative], the prophet stated ...

However, in the thousands of years between Prophet Adam and Prophet Abraham, Allah sent thousands of prophets to thousands of tribes and nations on the earth, and not one of them were able to ...

The inscription also claims that the twin-bladed sword is Zulfiqar, the weapon linked to the Prophet Mohammed and his family that was used during pivotal events in early Islamic history.