Can Islam co exist with non Muslims

[AhmedSyed]

Or am I wrong here ? Was Afghanistan no where near being an Islamic state ?

Afganistan isn't even close.

US muslims are probably not permitted to call for prayer over loudspeakers because of a local ordinance forbidding amplified sounds.

Your probably right, but what about church bells?

And this is what I am looking at. Islam does not seem to be a religion. It actually starts to look like a regime.

Islam is a way of life, but unfortuantly in today's world some people have been going around and using at a way to promote their own regimes (Wahhabis, Taliban, Terrorist, etc.) These people have THEIR own version of Islam, which is far from the truth.

By the way, alchol wasn't allowed in the US for a period of time in the early part of the last century. By a US amendment that banned it.:eek:. So as you can see, the banning of alchol isn't just in muslim majority countries (I use the term "muslim majority countries" since there isn't a Kalifa state anywhere and none can even come close to them.)