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Islam tolerate other beliefs:
As the Islam is a religion of peace therefore it teaches Muslims to tolerate other beliefs and their followers with gentleness and kindness.
The Quran says: “God forbids you not, with regards to those who fight you not for [your] faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them; for God loveth those who are just”. ( 60.8)
The Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) made no distinction between a believer and non-believer, friend and enemy, kinsmen strangers. His kindness and bounties were for all. The Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) himself presented various example of tolerating other beliefs.
Once a delegation of Christians from Najran came to Medina, they enjoyed the hospitality of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him). They were lodged in the Mosque of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) even allowing them to perform their prayers there according to their own rites. When the common Muslims tried to prevent this, he (Peace be upon him) stopped them.
It is one function of Islamic law to protect the privileged status of minorities, and this is why non-Muslim places of worship have flourished all over the Islamic world. Islamic law also permits non-Muslim minorities to set up their own courts, which implement family laws drawn up by the minorities themselves.
History provides many examples of Muslim tolerance towards other faiths: when the caliph Omar took Jerusalem from the Byzantines in the year 634, he insisted on entering the city with only a small number of his companions. Proclaiming to the inhabitants that their lives and property were safe, and that their places of worship would never be taken from them. The caliph Omar granted freedom of worship to all religious communities in the city, he asked the Christian patriarch Sophronius to accompany him on a visit to all the holy places.
The Patriarch invited him to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but he preferred to pray outside its gates, saying that if he accepted, later generations of Muslims might use his action as an excuse to turn it into a mosque. Above is the mosque built on the spot where Omar did pray.
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