We are still today living the results of the contradiction and vast difference between Islam on the one hand and the Arab conquests and their companions on the other hand; we are still paying a heavy price for such contradiction in terms of religion and in terms of history.

1- Arab conquests that are falsely, erroneously, and wrongly carries the name or banner of Islam caused the deification of the companions who initiated and participated in these atrocities, especially the very first four pre-Umayyad so-called 'righteous' caliphs, despite the fact that Islam (i.e., the Quran only) clearly prohibits deification of things and persons, dead or alive, and that these conquests contradicts the Quranic higher values (e.g., justice, freedom, and peace) and legislations. Such crimes and atrocities caused Middle-Ages Arabs to forget the four sacred months and to create their earthly, man-made, and fabricated creeds to fight one another under different banners. These man-made creeds that have nothing to do with Islam deify Muhammad as a deity alongside with God, making Arabs as Muhammadans, NOT Muslims. Muhammad has been turned into a belligerent god of war, aggression, terrorism, and compulsion in creed, based on countless fabricated hadiths (acts, deeds, and sayings attributed falsely and forcibly to him decades after his death), to the extent that his true nature and character, found ONLY and exclusively in the Quranic text, has been long forgotten. Even today's Arabs or Muhammadans, who deem themselves as 'Muslims', tend to forget that Muhammad was sent as a mercy to humankind, NOT to terrorize them.

2- The crimes called Arab conquests have two aspects: historical and religious. Concerning the religious aspect, the criminals who participated in such conquests ascribe their atrocities forcibly to Islam, but we, Quranists, quote the Quran to refute such association. We are to judge all things in accordance to the Quran; this is an Islamic duty and obligation: ""Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?"…" (6:114). Using the Quran as a criterion or a yard stick, one has to choose either one stance or the other. Arab conquests could never be a form of Islamic jihad; jihad in Islam means self-defense and defense of one's homeland against aggressive enemies. No deification, sanctification, glorification, or worship of mortals is allowed in Islam in any sort or form. Hence, military fighting for self-defense and for stopping religious persecution is a just and fair in Islam. Hence, Arab conquests are crimes against Islam: they were committed as a form of aggression to occupy and loot other countries around Arabia; i.e., for political and economic reasons. This allows us to assert that those leaders and participators in such crimes were enemies of Islam, as they manipulated its name as a banner to cover their crimes and atrocities o massacres, looting, enslavement, destruction, rape, etc. and such criminals will be certainly punished in the Hereafter; ''believer'' as a Quranic term here means any peaceful person, regardless of this person's faith or lack of it: "Whoever kills a believer deliberately, the penalty for him is Hell, where he will remain forever. And God will be angry with him, and will curse him, and will prepare for him a terrible punishment. O you who believe! When you journey in the way of God, investigate, and do not say to him who offers you peace, "You are not a believer," aspiring for the goods of this world. With God are abundant riches. You yourselves were like this before, and God bestowed favor on you; so investigate. God is well aware of what you do." (4:93-94). In our article titled "Islam the Religion of Peace", we have quoted these two verses, and many others, to assert that Arab conquests were the worst crimes that made Arabs kill innocent peaceful hundreds of thousands of people in many countries around Arabia. This crime is punishable in Hell forever in the Hereafter. Those killed were heroes and heroines who defended their homelands against the Arab conquerors, among other peaceful non-warring civilians, women, children, and men, who got killed. Let alone the other crimes such as raping and enslaving women of conquered nations and imposing various types of heavy taxes and tributes on the conquered nations, just like any blood-sucking bunch of thieves-cum-conquerors. The worst crime ever was to attribute such horrendous cries to God, the Quran, and Islam. How come that Islam, whose values in the Quran include justice, freedom, and human dignity, would be tarnished and distorted to that extent. This was the worst type of injustice Arab conquests companions committed against God Himself. Thus, they were really disbelieving infidels and deniers of the Quran. A real Muslim, i.e., a real believer in the Quran, cannot avoid making the choice: after using the Quranic verses to judge the Arab conquests companions, especially Abou Bakr, Omar, and Othman, among others, would such a Muslim choose to take the side of such mortals or the side of God in the Quran?  There can never be a middle way in between the two opposite stances. One has to declare that such criminals were infidels and enemies of Islam in order to take God's side in the Quran. The other choice is to go on revering, honoring, worshipping, and deifying such mortals as gods! This last choice makes one not a Muslim, but a Sunnite Muhammadan who defends the mortal deities, just as done by all extremists Sunnites/Wahabis. Real Muslims revere ONLY the divine revelation of the Quran and do not deify neither Muhammad not his so-called companions and contemporaries.  A Muslim must acknowledge that such Arab conquerors were infidels and disbelievers, fearing no blame at all when it comes from the Muhammadans. There are still those who deify mortals; their hearts are sick with polytheism, and they accuse us, Quranists, of being accusing dead persons of apostasy, and our reply is as follows. We, Quranists, judge historical figures in accordance with what is written about them in historical accounts. We know nothing about them but their deeds, actions, qualities, and traits, judged by us as disbelief in Islam, and it is our duty to clear the name of Islam from their crimes and atrocities; otherwise, the persistent tarnished image of Islam will make it appear as if it were a false religion. No one can deny the occurrence of Arab conquests, Arab civil wars, and other historical events that we have good proofs and evidence of their having occurred. The deification of mortals might drive some people to deny, in vain, the occurrence of Arab conquests, Arab civil wars, and other historical events mentioned in this book. This is utter madness; we talk Egyptian variety of the Arabic language now because Egypt was conquered by Arabs in the Middle Ages: could we possibly deny the Arab conquest of Egypt?!

3- Concerning the historical aspect, any given nation that suffered, within any historical era, occupation, conquest, invasion, enslavement, injustices, etc. by a foreign force should normally feel animosity, enmity, and deep-seated hatred toward those foreign blood-sucking conquerors who humiliated, robbed, raped, enslaved, and massacred their ancestors. Such nations (e.g., Egyptians, people of the Levant, Iraq, and North Africa) should read their history objectively and they will inherit feelings of rage and hatred toward the so-called companions and the caliphs of all dynasties, especially the four pre-Umayyad caliphs. They should sympathize with their oppressed and suppressed forefathers who were raped, robbed, massacred, and enslaved. Yet, the exact opposite occurred; most Muhammadans all over the world have fallen into the trap of glorification of the history of the Arab conquests and deification of the so-called companions and their bloody heinous deeds against our ancestors!  It is noteworthy that those who retained their original religion before and after the Arabs conquest (e.g., Christians of Egypt, Iraq, and the Levant) consider such conquests as evil deed done for demographic, venal, and political aims only. Today's Shiite Iranians partially agree with such Quranists' and Christians' point of view regarding the crimes called Arab conquests; yet, they fall into the trap of deifying Ali and hating only the rest of the so-called companions: such as Abou Bakr, Omar, Othman, Talha, Zubayr, Mu'aweiya, etc. as part and parcel of the Shiite creed notions. The root of the problem is linking the Arab conquests to Islam forcibly and falsely; this has led to destruction of Islam to build on its ruins the earthly man-made creeds that deify the so-called companions wholly or partially, eventually leading to the prohibition of criticizing them and their deeds like the civil wars in Arabia, even if this criticism is based on the Quran and done by Quranists. This prohibition is a grave injustice toward God and Islam and Muhammad. This is a grave injustice toward our ancestors, Coptic Egyptians, who suffered all forms of persecution, oppression, and injustices by Arab conquerors. We are their great-grand-grand-children who must pity them, not to sing the praises of Arab conquerors who occupied Egypt! Egyptians never read the history of Egyptian Copts persecution during and after Arab conquest and during the Umayyad era away from Sunnite historians' books filled with deification of the so-called companions. Yet, such books retain some signs of severe persecution, injustices, repression, and oppression suffered by Egyptian Copts. Such traces and signs constitute a grave injustice toward God, the Quran, and Muhammad, as Islam is based on justice, freedom, and peace. Truth about the Arab conquest of Egypt is found in books written by Coptic historians witnessing that period of time; yet, most persons among the few Egyptians who read and examined closely such Coptic books of history would go on deifying the companions and glorifying their conquests! Coptic history books of the period are filled with accounts of oppression, enslavement, looting, rape, heavy taxes and tributes, massacres, etc., and yet, the Sunnite Muhammadans in Egypt have their man-made creed notions that will prevent them from acknowledging the truth about such unjust conquests that led to the establishment of the Sunnite creed to replace real Islam: the Quran. The disbelief of such Arab conquests companions in terms of aggressive behavior and demeanor has been linked by force to Islam, leading to its eclipse centuries ago. The Sunnite creed is filled with hadiths that urge the glorification of the so-called companions and prevent the criticism of their deeds, especially the civil war! This contradicts the Quran that mentions some rebukes directed by God toward some prophets, including Muhammad, and the rebuke of several bad traits and deeds of many companions and contemporaries of Muhammad. How come that the so-called companions and their conquests are above any sort of criticism and questioning?! If one does this within a sermon, a book, an article, etc. in Egypt, one would be severely punished and imprisoned, even when one quotes the Quranic verses to support this criticism! Moreover, one might get killed by any extremist Sunnite Wahabi Egyptian as a result! The Egyptian ruling regime might imprison such a critic under the law of combating ''contempt of religion'', the religion of the Sunnites, of course! While Wahabi/Sunnite/Salafist go on abusing Islam (the Quran) and defaming God and His messenger Muhammad, and go unscathed and unpunished! As for Quranists, they never fear to be blamed by others when they get vociferous and outspoken within cyberspace in telling Islamic truths and facts based on the Quran. God will judge and settle the differences between Quranists and non-Quranists in the Last Day, when the unjust will not benefit from their deeds and transient gains and will receive God's curse in eternal Hell: "Most surely We will support Our messengers and those who believe, in this life, and on the Day the witnesses arise, the Day when their excuses will not profit the wrongdoers and the curse will be upon them, and they will have the Home of Misery." (40:51-52). God says nothing but the Truth.