Ruth Cranston ( 1887 – 1956) was an American author and lecturer on religion and other subjects. Ruth Cranston wrote in his book ‘World Faith‘:
“Mohammad never instigated fighting and bloodshed. Every battle he fought was in rebuttal.
He fought in order to survive and he fought with the weapons and in fashion of his time.
Certainly no Christian nation of 140,000,000 people [as this book was published in 1949] who today dispatch 120,000 helpless civilians with a single bomb, can look askance at a leader who had his worst killed a bare five or six hundred.
The slaying of the Prophet of Arabia in the benighted and bloodthirsty age of the seventh century look positively puerile compared with our own, in this ‘advanced’ and enlightened twentieth century.
Not to mention the mass slaughter by the Christians during the inquisition and the Crusades- when, Christian warriors proudly recorded, they ‘waded ankle-deep in the gore of the Muslim infidels’”.