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Just as most Christians try to emulate Jesus, most Muslims try to emulate Mohammed, who in Islam is considered the first, last and greatest of the Prophets. (They consider Jesus a minor prophet, and say Jesus was not really crucified. )
So bearing in mind that most Christians say, "What Would Jesus Do?" Most Muslims are saying, "What Would Mohammed Do?"
Well, here is a list of things Mohammed did. What follows is all from the Koran or Islamic books favorable to Mohammed.
In the year 627 the Jewish tribe of Qurayza was raided by Mohammed. Some 700 men were beheaded. Edward Gibbon writes in his famous book, 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire': " ... seven hundred Jews were dragged in chains to the market-place of the city; they descended alive into the grave prepared for their execution and burial; and Mohammed beheld with an inflexible eye the slaughter of his helpless enemies. Their sheep and camels were inherited by the Moslems: three hundred cuirasses, five hundred pikes, a thousand lances, composed the most useful portion of the spoil. "
All the Jews that survived the battle of Khaybar were also put to the sword in 629 A. D.
It was in 630 A. D. that Mecca was taken by Mohammed. The entire population was converted to Islam and the Kaaba established as the religious center of Islam. All non-Moslems were forbidden entry into Mecca.
The Moslem year starts from 622 A. D. This is the year of HIJRA or flight of Mohammed and his followers to Medina.
Politics in Islam cannot be dissociated from religion and Islamic politics is quite different from party politics of a parliamentary system. Islamic politics is to strive for the supremacy of the Moslems over the rest of the population and for this purpose any method is acceptable to the mullahs. To win over converts or traitors, use of bribes or any other means can be utilised. And once victory is won, the non-believers are executed. This has been the way Islam has gained ascendacy in many countries in the past and the method is still being pursued in countries where Moslems are the minority. The mullahs preach their venomous messages inside the mosque to the followers of Islam and keep them from integrating with the national main-stream.
the KORAN permits men to use women captured in war for their sexual amusement. They can also be bought. Mohammed himself received two slave girls as a present from the governor of Egypt. One he gave to a man called Hassan, and the other he kept for himself, and she subsequently had a son by him.
Mohammed had 11 wives, as well as many concubines, even though he restricted his followers to four wives. A 'special revelation' from Allah permitted him to have as many wives as he liked. Oddly enough his revelations always seemed to tell him the sort of things that he wanted to know.
A poetess called Asma who lived in Medina wrote some satirical verses, making fun of her fellow citizens' adoption of Mohammed as their religious leader. These were passed from mouth to mouth, holding him up to ridicule. Mohammed arranged for her to be assassinated. She was stabbed in her tent, surrounded by her five children.
Islam is the only religion in the world which teaches that converts are to be won at the point of a sword. The KORAN says that those who won't accept Islam are to be killed. "When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them. "
In the religious wars that took place when Mohammed proclaimed Jihad (holy war) tens of millions have been killed.
Another myth about Islam is that it promoted equality. In reality Islam permitted the ultimate inequality--slavery. "There is no obligation whatever on a Moslem to release his slaves. ' Mohammed himself had slaves--17 men and 11 women.
Mohammed said that those who decorate their churches with paintings "were the worst part of all creation. " Yet Mohammed was guilty of the worst crimes any man can commit-murder. On one occasion he had the entire male population of a Jewish tribe, the Bani Quraizah, massacred and then had the women and children sold into slavery. Every book on Mohammed mentions this incident, and the KORAN, 33. 26 refers to it.
A man called Al Nadhr, who was a teller of tales, used to say of Mohammed to his audiences: "Are not my stories as good as his?" For this Mohammed ordered that the man be beheaded. After the battle of Badr a man called Uqba was taken prisoner. When he was being taken away to be executed he said to Mohammed: "What will become of my little children. " Mohammed replied: "Hellfire. "
It might be thought that I am quoting from books which are hostile to Mohammed. This is not so. Only Muir's book is slightly hostile to him. All the others go out of their way to portray him in a favourable light. We have enough evidence in the KORAN of Mohammed's cruel nature, in the punishments he ordered, his descriptions of hell, and his incitements to his followers to kill people.
Though he ordered the horrible mutilation of the cutting off of hands for theft, he was himself one of the biggest thieves in history. A 'revelation' from Allah permitted Mohammed to keep one-fifth of the spoils captured from the towns his followers invaded, and the caravans they raided.
After ten years of preaching in Mecca he only had acquired 70 followers. When he secured a base at Medina, he used the same methods as Hitler or Al Capone to establish his religion. All the accounts that tell us of him are biased in his favour, as death or exile awaited anyone who criticised Mohammed or the KORAN when Islam became the state religion of Arabia.
So bearing in mind that most Christians say, "What Would Jesus Do?" Most Muslims are saying, "What Would Mohammed Do?"
Well, here is a list of things Mohammed did. What follows is all from the Koran or Islamic books favorable to Mohammed.
In the year 627 the Jewish tribe of Qurayza was raided by Mohammed. Some 700 men were beheaded. Edward Gibbon writes in his famous book, 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire': " ... seven hundred Jews were dragged in chains to the market-place of the city; they descended alive into the grave prepared for their execution and burial; and Mohammed beheld with an inflexible eye the slaughter of his helpless enemies. Their sheep and camels were inherited by the Moslems: three hundred cuirasses, five hundred pikes, a thousand lances, composed the most useful portion of the spoil. "
All the Jews that survived the battle of Khaybar were also put to the sword in 629 A. D.
It was in 630 A. D. that Mecca was taken by Mohammed. The entire population was converted to Islam and the Kaaba established as the religious center of Islam. All non-Moslems were forbidden entry into Mecca.
The Moslem year starts from 622 A. D. This is the year of HIJRA or flight of Mohammed and his followers to Medina.
Politics in Islam cannot be dissociated from religion and Islamic politics is quite different from party politics of a parliamentary system. Islamic politics is to strive for the supremacy of the Moslems over the rest of the population and for this purpose any method is acceptable to the mullahs. To win over converts or traitors, use of bribes or any other means can be utilised. And once victory is won, the non-believers are executed. This has been the way Islam has gained ascendacy in many countries in the past and the method is still being pursued in countries where Moslems are the minority. The mullahs preach their venomous messages inside the mosque to the followers of Islam and keep them from integrating with the national main-stream.
the KORAN permits men to use women captured in war for their sexual amusement. They can also be bought. Mohammed himself received two slave girls as a present from the governor of Egypt. One he gave to a man called Hassan, and the other he kept for himself, and she subsequently had a son by him.
Mohammed had 11 wives, as well as many concubines, even though he restricted his followers to four wives. A 'special revelation' from Allah permitted him to have as many wives as he liked. Oddly enough his revelations always seemed to tell him the sort of things that he wanted to know.
A poetess called Asma who lived in Medina wrote some satirical verses, making fun of her fellow citizens' adoption of Mohammed as their religious leader. These were passed from mouth to mouth, holding him up to ridicule. Mohammed arranged for her to be assassinated. She was stabbed in her tent, surrounded by her five children.
Islam is the only religion in the world which teaches that converts are to be won at the point of a sword. The KORAN says that those who won't accept Islam are to be killed. "When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them. "
In the religious wars that took place when Mohammed proclaimed Jihad (holy war) tens of millions have been killed.
Another myth about Islam is that it promoted equality. In reality Islam permitted the ultimate inequality--slavery. "There is no obligation whatever on a Moslem to release his slaves. ' Mohammed himself had slaves--17 men and 11 women.
Mohammed said that those who decorate their churches with paintings "were the worst part of all creation. " Yet Mohammed was guilty of the worst crimes any man can commit-murder. On one occasion he had the entire male population of a Jewish tribe, the Bani Quraizah, massacred and then had the women and children sold into slavery. Every book on Mohammed mentions this incident, and the KORAN, 33. 26 refers to it.
A man called Al Nadhr, who was a teller of tales, used to say of Mohammed to his audiences: "Are not my stories as good as his?" For this Mohammed ordered that the man be beheaded. After the battle of Badr a man called Uqba was taken prisoner. When he was being taken away to be executed he said to Mohammed: "What will become of my little children. " Mohammed replied: "Hellfire. "
It might be thought that I am quoting from books which are hostile to Mohammed. This is not so. Only Muir's book is slightly hostile to him. All the others go out of their way to portray him in a favourable light. We have enough evidence in the KORAN of Mohammed's cruel nature, in the punishments he ordered, his descriptions of hell, and his incitements to his followers to kill people.
Though he ordered the horrible mutilation of the cutting off of hands for theft, he was himself one of the biggest thieves in history. A 'revelation' from Allah permitted Mohammed to keep one-fifth of the spoils captured from the towns his followers invaded, and the caravans they raided.
After ten years of preaching in Mecca he only had acquired 70 followers. When he secured a base at Medina, he used the same methods as Hitler or Al Capone to establish his religion. All the accounts that tell us of him are biased in his favour, as death or exile awaited anyone who criticised Mohammed or the KORAN when Islam became the state religion of Arabia.
