When
Muhammad started out preaching his religion of Islam he was not
violent. If anything, he was more like Jesus or Gandhi. He was
persecuted for preaching his religious ideas - Islam - and denigrating
the pagan religions of the Meccans. Some of Muhammad's followers were
tortured. Things were so bad for him and his few followers that he sent
many of them to Abyssinia [Ethiopia] for refuge. Eventually, he and his
followers moved north to a city called Yathrib [Medina], where some
members of two Arab tribes wanted Muhammad to be their prophet
BEGINNING OF MUHAMMAD'S VIOLENCE
Just
prior to Muhammad's leaving for Medina, he received a "revelation"
allowing him to fight the Meccans. He knew that in Medina, he had a
group of armed men who would support him. Furthermore, in Medina, would
be more distant from the Meccans and their attempts to oppress or kill
him. The following is from "The Life of Muhammad", page 212-213, by A.
Guillaume, which is a rendering of Ibn Ishaq's "Sirat Rasulallah", a
biography of Muhammad written by an early Muslim scholar [1].
"THE APOSTLE RECEIVES THE ORDER TO FIGHT
The
apostle had not been given permission to fight or allowed to shed blood
before the second Aqaba [a place where a pledge was made between
Muhammad and his followers from Medina]. He had simply been ordered to
call men to God and to endure insult and forgive the ignorant. The
Quraysh [a leading group of Meccans] had persecuted his followers,
seducing some from their religion and exiling others from their country.
They had to choose whether to give up their religion, be maltreated at
home, or to flee the country, some to Abyssinia, others to Medina.
When
Quraysh became insolent towards God and rejected His gracious purpose,
accused His prophet of lying, and ill treated and exiled those who
served Him and proclaimed His unity, believed in His prophet and held
fast to His religion, He gave permission to His apostle to fight and to
protect himself against those who wronged them and treated them badly.
......[a]
The meaning is "I have allowed them to fight only because they have
been unjustly treated while their sole offense against men has been that
they worship God. When they are in the ascendant they will establish
prayer, pay the poor-tax, enjoin kindness, and forbid iniquity, i.e.,
the prophet and his companions all of them." The God sent down to him:
"Fight them so that there be no more seduction," [b] i.e. until no
believer is seduced from his religion. "And the religion is God's,",
i.e. Until God alone is worshipped."
[Note: two passages from the Qur'an are referenced: [a] Sura 22:39-41, which I did not quote, and [b] Sura 2:193]
Two critical points here:
1)
in Mecca, where Muhammad was weak, he attacked no one. He only preached
his religion and insulted the Meccan's religions. But it was just prior
to his leaving for Medina, where he had a limited amount of armed men
to support him, that he received this "revelation" and began to use
violence to further his desires.
Islamic history shows that as Muslims grew in power their forms of violence changed from criminal terrorism to outright warfare. 2)
At the end of the quote, it says that Muslims are to fight those that
do not worship Allah. When reading this passage from Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad
is made to appear to be long suffering and primarily fighting in self
defense, and that up until just before Muhammad's departure, the Meccan
persecution was tolerable, but that it became so bad that Muhammad was
finally given permission to fight back.
The problem with this is
that Muhammad had been severely persecuted prior to this and that
Muslims had been abused well before their departure. In other words, the
quoted passage is an apologetic work on Ibn Ishaq's part. Earlier, well
before the Treaty of Aqaba, things were so bad for Muhammad that he
went to a town called Taif to seek their help and protection
[Guillaume,
op cit, page 192]. The Taifians rejected and abused him. Things were so bad for Muhammad that in Mecca,
Muhammad had to beg three men for their protection [Guillaume,
op cit, page 194].
In
Mecca, Muhammad continued to proclaim himself as a prophet and he was
abused all the more. He never received any "revelations" to fight at
that time. Eventually, good fortune fell into Muhammad's lap and just as
in Adolph Hitler's case, his persistence paid off. A group of feuding
Arabs in Medina accepted him as their prophet. They hoped he could help
them maintain peace. They eventually made a pledge to support Muhammad
in war against the Quraysh [Guillaume,
op cit, page 205]. Now
Muhammad knew he had an able and armed following. It was only until he
had a following that could defend themselves, and his people were
migrating north to Medina, and that he knew he was going to leave town,
that suddenly "Allah" gave Muhammad his "revelation" to fight.
Muhammad's circumstances changed, and Muhammad's Allah changed with
them. Muhammad went from being only a "warner" to being an aggressor.
MUHAMMAD'S EARLY TERRORIST ACTS
After
moving to Medina, Muhammad began to have conflict with the Jews and
pagans in the area. I'll focus on several incidents, not necessarily in
chronological order, that illustrate Muhammad as a terrorist.
The first terrorist incident involves Muhammad's command to his followers to "kill any Jew that comes under your power". From Guillaume,
op cit, page 369:
"The
apostle said, "Kill any Jew that falls into your power." Thereupon
Muhayyisa b. Masud leapt upon Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish merchant with whom
they had social and business relations, and killed him. Huwayyisa was
not a Muslim at the time though he was the elder brother. When Muhayyisa
killed him Huwayyisa began to beat him, saying, 'You enemy of God, did
you kill him when much of the fat on your belly comes from his wealth?"
Muhayyisa answered, "Had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me
to kill you I would have cut your head off."
This story is also supported in the Sunan of Abu Dawud, Book 19, Number 2996:
Narrated
Muhayyisah: The Apostle of Allah said: If you gain a victory over the
men of Jews, kill them. So Muhayyisah jumped over Shubaybah, a man of
the Jewish merchants. He had close relations with them. He then killed
him. At that time Huwayyisah (brother of Muhayyisah) had not embraced
Islam. He was older than Muhayyisah. When he killed him, Huwayyisah beat
him and said: O enemy of Allah, I swear by Allah, you have a good deal
of fat in your belly from his property.
This murder
was committed upon Muhammad's command. Note that this Muslim murderer
would have killed a family member at the drop of a hat. Muhammad was no
better than a bigoted criminal boss, ordering his men to wantonly murder
Jewish people. Hitler did this. And, this is what the Serbs did to the
Kosovan Muslims. Muhammad's command to murder Jews puts him in the same
category as Milosovic, Hitler, and others who have persecuted Jews
throughout history. A quote from an Islamic scholar - Wensinck writes in
his, "Muhammad and the Jews of Medina" [2], page 113:
"It
is remarkable that tradition attributes Muhammad's most cruel acts to
divine order, namely the siege of Qaynuqa, the murder of Kab, and he
attack upon Qurayzah. Allah's conscience seems to be more elastic than
that of his creatures.".....Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidi report that the
prophet said the morning after the murder (of Kab Ashraf), "Kill any Jew
you can lay your hands on."
This incident is also
documented in Tabari's History [3], page 97 of volume 7. This shows that
Muhammad had unsuspecting people, those who even had good relations
with Muslims, murdered in cold blood because they were Jewish. There was
no justification to murder these Jews other than they were not
Muhammad's followers. These actions were the work of Muhammad's
terrorists committing murder.
The second terrorist incident
involves another one of Muhammad's requests: this one for his men to
murder an old Jewish man named Abu Afak. Abu Afak was 120 years. Afak
had urged his fellow Medinans to question Muhammad. From Guillaume, op
cit., page 675:
SALIM B. UMAYR'S EXPEDITION TO KILL ABU AFAK
Abu
Afak was one of the B. Amr b. Auf of the B. Ubayda clan. He showed his
disaffection when the apostle killed al-Harith b. Suwayd b. Samit and
said:
"Long have I lived but never have I seenAn
assembly or collection of peopleMore faithful to their undertakingAnd
their allies when called uponThan the sons of Qayla when they
assembled,Men who overthrew mountains and never submitted,A rider who
came to them split them in two (saying)"Permitted", "Forbidden", of all
sorts of things.Had you believed in glory or kingshipYou would have
followed Tubba
[NOTE: the Tubba was a ruler from Yemen who invaded that part of what is present Saudi Arabia: the Qaylites resisted him]
The
apostle said, "Who will deal with this rascal for me?" Whereupon Salim
b. Umayr, brother of B. Amr b. Auf, one of the "weepers", went forth and
killed him. Umama b. Muzayriya said concerning that:
You gave the lie to God's religion and the man Ahmad! [Muhammad]By him who was your father, evil is the son he produced!A hanif gave
you a thrust in the night saying"Take that Abu Afak in spite of your
age!"Though I knew whether it was man or jinnWho slew you in the dead of
night (I would say naught).
Additional
information is found in the Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, (Book of the
Major Classes) by Ibn Sa'd, Volume 2, [4], page 32:
Then
occurred the "sariyyah" [raid] of Salim Ibn Umayr al-Amri against Abu
Afak, the Jew, in [the month of] Shawwal in the beginning of the
twentieth month from the hijrah [immigration from Mecca to Medina in 622
AD], of the Apostle of Allah. Abu Afak, was from Banu Amr Ibn Awf, and
was an old man who had attained the age of one hundred and twenty years.
He was a Jew, and used to instigate the people against the Apostle of
Allah, and composed (satirical) verses [about Muhammad]. Salim Ibn Umayr
who was one of the great weepers and who had participated in Badr,
said, "I take a vow that I shall either kill Abu Afak or die before him.
He waited for an opportunity until a hot night came, and Abu Afak slept
in an open place. Salim Ibn Umayr knew it, so he placed the sword on
his liver and pressed it till it reached his bed. The enemy of Allah
screamed and the people who were his followers, rushed to him, took him
to his house and interred him.
From a contemporary Muslim scholar - Ali Dashti's "23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad", [5], page 100:
"Abu
Afak, a man of great age (reputedly 120 years) was killed because he
had lampooned Mohammad. The deed was done by Salem b. Omayr at the
behest of the Prophet, who had asked, "Who will deal with this rascal
for me?" The killing of such an old man moved a poetess, Asma b. Marwan,
to compose disrespectful verses about the Prophet, and she too was
assassinated."
Prior to listing all of the assassinations Muhammad had ordered, Ali Dashti writes on page 97:
"Thus
Islam was gradually transformed from a purely spiritual mission into a
militant and punitive organization whose progress depended on booty from
raids and revenue from the zakat tax."
REVIEW
Here
another man was murdered upon Muhammad's command. This man was 120
years old. He was no physical threat to Muhammad and he did not urge
people to commit violent acts against Muhammad or the Muslims. There was
no discussion with Jewish leaders, there was no dialogue with Abu Afak;
it was just an outright murder of another one of Muhammad's critics.
Afak urged the people who lived in Medina to doubt and leave Muhammad.
Afak found that Muhammad's sayings were strange and dictatorial. He
chided the Arabs that put their faith in Muhammad. Muhammad heard of
this and viewed the 120 year old man as a threat to his credibility, not
to his life. Nowhere does it say that Afak urged his fellow Arabs to
attack or harm Muhammad. Yet for speaking his mind, for the benefit of
his friends, this man was murdered by Muhammad.
The last statement in Umama b. Muzayriya's verse reveals something though:
"Though I knew whether it was man or jinn Who slew you in the dead of night (I would say naught)."
This
statement displays that the Muslims knew exactly what they were doing.
They knew it was cold-blooded murder that they were committing upon
Muhammad's request. They wanted to keep it secret, they wanted to hide
their evil deeds from the populace at large. That's why Umama said he
wouldn't reveal who murdered Afak.
When I think of what type of
people order their followers to commit murder, I only can think of
organized crime bosses or corrupt political figures. Saddam Hussein
comes to mind. How would an Iraqi be treated if he spoke out about
Saddam? Amnesty International just reported that over 1500 political
prisoners were executed in Iraq in one year. Or take the Ayatollah
Khomenni. His fundamentalist Islamic regime had other dissident Iranians
murdered all over the world. These murderous Muslims represent exactly
what Muhammad was all about. They follow Muhammad's methodology: kill
those who are a threat to your credibility and power over others.
The
third incident involves Muhammad's request for his men to murder a
women named Asma b. Marwan. Quoting from Guillaume, pages 675, 676.
UMAYR B. ADIYY'S JOURNEY TO KILL ASMA D. MARWAN
"She
was of B. Umayyya b. Zayd. When Abu Afak had been killed she displayed
disaffection. Abdullah b. al-Harith b. Al-Fudayl from his father said
that she was married to a man of B. Khatma called Yazid b. Zayd. Blaming
Islam and its followers she said:
"I despise B. Malik
and al-Nabitand Auf and B. Al-Khazraj.You obey a stranger who is none
of yours,One not of Murad or Madhhij.Do you expect good from him after
the killing of your chiefsLike a hungry man waiting for a cook's
broth?Is there no man of pride who would attack him by surpriseAnd cut
off the hopes of those who expect aught from him?"
Hassan b. Thabit answered her:
"Banu
Wa'il and B. Waqif and KhatmaAre inferior to B. Al-Khazraj.When she
called for folly woe to her in her weeping,For death is coming.She
stirred up a man of glorious origin,Noble in his going out and in his
coming in.Before midnight he dyed her in her bloodAnd incurred no guilt
thereby."
When the apostle heard what she had said he
said, "Who will rid me of Marwan's daughter?" Umayr b. Adiy al-Khatmi
who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house and
killed her. In the morning he came to the apostle and told him what he
had done and he [Muhammad] said, "You have helped God and His apostle, O
Umayr!" When he asked if he would have to bear any evil consequences
the apostle said, "Two goats won't butt their heads about her", so Umayr
went back to his people.
Now there was a great commotion among
B. Khatma that day about the affair of bint [girl] Marwan. She had five
sons, and when Umayr went to them from the apostle he said, "I have
killed bint Marwan, O sons of Khatma. Withstand me if you can; don't
keep me waiting." That was the first day Islam became powerful among B.
Khatma; before that those who were Muslims concealed the fact. The first
of them to accept Islam was Umayr b. Adiy who was called the "Reader",
and Abdullah b. Aus and Khuzayma b. Thabit. The day after Bint Marwan
was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims because they saw the
power of Islam." {1} The note reads "Two tribes of Yamani origin."
And from Ibn Sa'd's, "Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir" [
op cit] volume 2, page 31.
"SARIYYAH OF UMAYR IBN ADI"
Then
(occurred) the sariyyah of Umayr ibn adi Ibn Kharashah al-Khatmi
against Asma Bint Marwan, of Banu Umayyah Ibn Zayd, when five nights had
remained from the month of Ramadan, in the beginning of the nineteenth
month from the hijrah of the apostle of Allah. Asma was the wife of
Yazid Ibn Zayd Ibn Hisn al-Khatmi. She used to revile Islam, offend the
prophet and instigate the (people) against him. She composed verses.
Umayr Ibn Adi came to her in the night and entered her house. Her
children were sleeping around her. There was one whom she was suckling.
He searched her with his hand because he was blind, and separated the
child from her. He thrust his sword in her chest till it pierced up to
her back. Then he offered the morning prayers with the prophet at
al-Medina. The apostle of Allah said to him: "Have you slain the
daughter of Marwan?" He said: "Yes. Is there something more for me to
do?" He [Muhammad] said: "No two goats will butt together about her.
This was the word that was first heard from the apostle of Allah. The
apostle of Allah called him Umayr, "basir" (the seeing).
DISCUSSION
Let's
sum this up and put it in perspective. Muhammad had al-Harith b. Suwayd
b. Samit killed. This upset Abu Afak, so he spoke out against it. So,
likewise, Muhammad had Abu Afak murdered. This offended Asma b. Marwan
and she spoke out against that evil deed. She encouraged her fellow
tribesmen to take action against Muhammad. When Muhammad heard of what
she had said, he had her killed also. At first glance, this order to
kill Asma might seem justifiable. Asma was calling for someone to kill
Muhammad. It is understandable for Muhammad to be bothered by that.
But let's look deeper at the event and examine the context of Asma's relationship to her tribe.
1)
First of all, Asma has seen Muhammad in action. She had seen him for
what he was, a cold blooded murderer. Of course she spoke out against a
murderer. Second, her tribe was not under Muhammad's rule. Perhaps they
had a treaty with Muhammad, perhaps not. Either way, this women was free
to speak her mind. If a treaty existed, and if Muhammad thought that
she was out of line, Muhammad could have complained to her tribe's
leaders, and they could have commanded her to be silent or dealt with
the situation.
2) What's more noteworthy about this event is that
after she was murdered, Muhammad said "Two goats won't butt their head
about her", meaning no one will care about her death. (Well except her
children and her family). Also note, that there were already people from
her tribe who had become Muslims. Certainly these people were not going
to listen to her. The point is this: if no one really cared about her
being murdered, then no one really cared about what she had to say. Her
people also knew about Muhammad having Abu Afak murdered, and they
didn't care about that either. Even in that light, no one would take her
serious enough to listen to her urgings to murder Muhammad, who was the
leader of a powerful group of people. None of her people were willing
to put their lives on the line for her words. The bottom line is that
Asma b. Marwan was not a legitimate threat to Muhammad. She didn't scare
him, she was not the leader of her tribe, and she had little or no
influence. She was little more than a nuisance to him. And one wonders
why Muhammad didn't kill her himself?
It was always easier for Muhammad to have someone else do his killing.
Put
the shoe on the other foot. Throughout the Middle East, there are
Muslims who call America the Great Satan. These Muslims have called for
the violent destruction of America. Frequently great crowds have
gathered to chant "death to America, or death to one of its presidents."
At times these people have even murdered Americans. Now, if America, or
its president, were to use Muhammad's standards, they would engage in
killing multitudes Muslims, because Muslims criticized America. America
could justify its action by appealing to Muhammad’s standards of
treating those who criticized him. But we know that the chanting of a
crowd of hot-heads does not necessitate the use of violence against
them. There are better ways to deal with critics and criticisms.
Frequently, in the passion of youth, people do and say things they don't
intend to act out, or are not able to carry out. Given time, people can
change, and pursue peaceful dialog. But if one applied Muhammad's
standards, American would be justified in bombing Tehran; Israel would
be justified in wiping out hundreds of thousands of Arab Muslims.
The
only conclusion is that this lady troubled Muhammad and he wanted her
silenced. Again, like Abu Afak, she was murdered in the night while she
slept. What type of people murder those that sleep? Criminals!
ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS
1)
What alarms me the most about Islam is its disposition to violence and
use of violence as a standard of God's will. Umayr is a perfect example
of this. Here is a Muslim man, a friend of Muhammad's, acting upon
Muhammad's request and going into a woman's home under the cover of
night. He comes upon the women, sleeping in her bed with her child, and
murders her by plunging a sword through her body.
Afterwards,
Muhammad tells the man that he has "helped God and his apostle". If
Allah were really threatened by this woman, I think He could have killed
her Himself, don't you? Does God need men to sneak around in the night
and murder sleeping women?
2) What kind of religion is Islam
really? Soon after Umayr murdered Asma, he went to her family and mocked
them! He was laughing in their faces that he had murdered their mother
and that they were powerless to do anything about it! Here is the quote
again:
"She had five sons, and when Umayr went to them from the apostle he said,
"I have killed bint Marwan,O sons of Khatma.Withstand me if you can;don't keep me waiting."
3) Finally, similar to observation #1, look at the power of Islam. Here is the quote:
"That
was the first day Islam became powerful among B. Khatma..... The day
after Bint Marwan was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims because
they saw the power of Islam."
So then, the power of
Islam is to go about and murder sleeping women in the night, and get
away with it? Does "might make right" ring true in Islam?
Is it "he who has the biggest sword is from Allah? The
only people I know who respect that kind of power are criminals.
Criminals who go out in the night and murder people while they sleep. We
know that there are good and bad in all religions, but this case is
different. This event reflects upon the man who started Islam:
Islam is built upon Muhammad's words and deeds. We see here that Muhammad had a woman brutally murdered. She was killed because she spoke out against him, and she was merely a nuisance.
The fourth incident involves a Muslim man who murdered his own slave. From the Hadith of Abu Dawud [6]. Book 38, Number 4348:
Narrated
Abdullah Ibn Abbas: A blind man had a slave-mother who used to abuse
the Prophet and disparage him. He forbade her but she did not stop. He
rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to
slander the Prophet and abuse him. So he took a dagger, placed it on her
belly, pressed it, and killed her. A child who came between her legs
was smeared with the blood that was there. When the morning came, the
Prophet was informed about it.
He assembled the people and said: I
adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my
right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the
people and trembling the man stood up.
He sat before the Prophet
and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and
disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her,
but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her,
and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage
you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I
killed her. Thereupon the Prophet said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is
payable for her blood.
Here we see here that
Muhammad allowed people to murder others just for insulting him. Here a
slave women, who was used as a concubine by her Muslim master, paid for
her criticism of Muhammad with her life. Note here that one man murdered
his own slave, who was the mother of two of his children! A slave lady
made fun of Muhammad and was brutally murdered and that action received
Muhammad's sanction. Now then, was that slave a threat? Were Muslims
going to leave Islam because of a slave women’s criticisms? Of course
not! Muhammad could not long tolerate any personal criticism, he didn't
want his credibility undermined, so he allowed his followers to murder
anyone who expressed different views. Oh, by the way, before we move on,
let me continue to quote from Abu Dawud. The note #3800 states:
"This
shows that even if a Jew of any non-Muslim abuses the Prophet he will
be killed. This is held by al-Laith, al-Shafi'i, Ahmad, and Ishaq."
When
Jesus said His followers had to hate their families, even their own
lives to follow Him, everyone knew He meant it as a comparison to their
love for Jesus. In addition, Jesus commanded people to honor their
fathers and mothers and to love their enemies. But Muhammad allowed his
followers even to murder members of their own families!
The fifth
incident involves another Muslim man named Amr Umayya, who was sent out
by Muhammad to murder Muhammad's enemy Abu Sufyan, (Guillaume,
op cit,
page 673). However, his assassination attempt failed. As he returned
home, he met a one-eyed shepherd. The shepherd and the Muslim man both
identified themselves as members of the same Arab clan. Prior to going
asleep, the shepherd said that he would never become a Muslim. Umayya
waited for the shepherd to fall asleep, and thereafter:
"as soon as the badu was
asleep and snoring I got up and killed him in a more horrible way than
any man has been killed. I put the end of my bow in his sound eye, then I
bore down on it until I forced it out at the back of his neck." p. 674.
Umayya returned and spoke with Muhammad. He relates,
"He [Muhammad] asked my news and when I told him what had happened he blessed me". p. 675.
So, Muhammad blessed one of his men who murdered a one-eyed shepherd while he slept. Another person who didn't want to follow Muhammad, another murder in Islam's name. Muhammad's trail of blood continued to grow.
The
sixth incident involves the actions of Muslims who were sent out by
Muhammad on a raid against the Fazara tribe. The Fazara initially
defeated the Muslims. The wounded Muslim leader swore vengeance. After
he recovered he went out and attacked the Fazara again. One very old
woman was captured. Here is the account from Guillaume,
op cit, page 665:
"....and
Umm Qirfa Fatima was taken prisoner. She was a very old women, wife of
Malik. Her daughter and Abdullah Masada were also taken. Zayd ordered
Qays to kill Umm Qirfa and he killed her cruelly (Tabari, by putting a
rope to her two legs and to two camels and driving them until they rent
her in two.)
Here, Muhammad's companions went out and
attacked people, took some prisoners, then committed some brutal
atrocities against their captives. These men were so destitute of basic
human values, that they ripped an old woman in half by using camels!
When one reads of the horrible things the Serbs have done, one is
offended. But I wonder how many Muslims know that Muhammad's companions
did such things. Muhammad was every bit as brutal as the Nazis.
The
7th incident involves another slave woman who was murdered, upon
Muhammad's command because she had mocked Muhammad some time earlier.
From Guillaume,
op cit, page 550, 551:
"Another
[to be killed] was Abdullah Khatal of B. Taym b. Ghalib. He had become a
Muslim and the apostle sent him to collect the poor tax in company with
one of the Ansar. He had with him a freed slave who served him. (He was
Muslim). When they halted he ordered the latter to kill a goat for him
and prepare some food, and went to sleep. When he woke up the man had
done nothing, so he attacked and killed him and apostatized. He
had two singing-girls Fartana and her friend who used to sing satirical
songs about the apostle, so he ordered that they should be killed with
him."
Let's stop here and examine
this paragraph. Muhammad ordered that a man who apostatized, and his two
slave girls, be killed. Khatal was ordered to be killed not because he
killed his male slave, a Muslim, but because he apostatized. Islamic law
does not allow a Muslim man to be put to death for killing a slave.
Muhammad also ordered two slave girls to be killed for singing satirical
songs about him. They sung satirical songs about Muhammad probably at
least a year or more earlier. Now, after Muhammad conquered Mecca, it
was his time to pay those slave girls back. These slave girls were not
threats to Islam, or to the new Islamic state. They were only slave
girls. They were ordered to be executed only because they sang a silly
song about Muhammad. Page 551 finishes the story of the slave girls:
"As
for Ibn Khatal's two singing girls, one was killed and the other ran
away until the apostle, asked for immunity, gave it to her."
Needless
to say, if the second slave girl didn't ask for "immunity", Muhammad
would have had her murdered also. How do you feel when you hear of Serbs
murdering Bosnian and Kosovo women? Yet Muhammad did exactly that - he
had women murdered just for making fun of him. If a Muslim justified
Muhammad's murder of slave girls, then by their standards, they have to
justify what the Serbs did in Kosovo.
SUMMARY
We see that Muhammad had many people murdered.
By
request, by command, by implication, Muhammad had many people murdered,
many killed while they slept. There were no trials, no judgments, no
dialog, if you insulted Muhammad, if you doubted his credibility and if
you spoke out, you were murdered. Men and women, young
and old, all were killed because of Muhammad's hatred. Here is a summary
of the seven terroristic murders committed at Muhammad's requests or
efforts:
1) Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish man who was murdered
because he was simply a Jew2) Abu Afak, a 120 year old man, murdered
while he slept3) Asma Marwan, mother of 5 children, murdered while she
slept4) A slave women, mother of two children, murdered while she
slept5) A one-eyed shepherd, murdered while he slept6) A very old women,
literally ripped in half by Muslims who captured her on a raid.7) A
slave girl, who was murdered because she poked fun at Muhammad.
I
will add that there were many more people who suffered a similar fate. I
choose not to list them here because of space limitations. Make no
mistake about it: Muhammad was a terrorist. Today's Muslim terrorists
follow his actions. Like prophet, like followers; today's Mohammadan
terrorists commit their acts based upon what Muhammad did.
QUESTIONS
1)
What kind of man was Muhammad who would have peaceful Jews, a 120 year
old man, a mother of 5 children, slave girls, etc. murdered because they
disagreed or criticized him?
2) Is it right to murder others
simply because they disagree with you, or even mock you? Why couldn't
Muhammad handle some criticism? Do people who disagree with others
deserve to be murdered, in cold blood, in the night, secretly, while
they sleep? Don't corrupt politicians or organized criminals do that?
3)
Isn't this type of action similar to the actions of Muslim terrorists
today? They operate secretly, they kill unsuspecting people, they murder
without law or justice. They kill those who merely disagree or even
verbally oppose them.
4) Are these "Islamic" values compatible
with our values in America? Should Americans who criticize Muhammad
expect to have their freedom of speech threatened, or should they live
in fear of being killed for speaking their mind? Remember, Muslims in
America have already begun to murder Americans for the sake of Islam.
5)
If Muhammad put this system in place, i.e., the murdering of people who
disagree and criticize him, how does it affect Islamic society? How
does it relate to what we have seen done in Islamic societies such as
Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Sudan? The end result has
been brutal massacres, murders, tortures, etc. This is all traceable to
Muhammad's actions.
6) If Muhammad were alive today, and you knew
about the people he murdered, what would you say? Shouldn’t we want this
type of criminal to pay for his crimes, put in jail for life, or
possibly even forfeiting his life for his capital crimes? Who feels
sympathy for a white racist who is sentenced to death for dragging a
black man behind an automobile and killing him? Yet Muhammad tortured a
man then murdered him, just to get money. Muslims are called to follow
Muhammad's "lifestyle" and Islamic law. Murdering others, in Allah's
name, is part of that style and system.
7) Don't we have the right
to evaluate Muhammad’s actions according to decent standards of
morality? He claimed to be the last prophet of God. He claimed his
system was God's final revelation for all humankind. So by any common
moral standards, wasn’t what Muhammad did was terribly evil? If normal
human standards of morality are far better than his behavioral standard,
then how does the morality of this self-asserted "prophethood" rate?
Why do our moral standards eclipse those of God's alleged final prophet?
8)
Doesn't this sound exactly like what the Serbs are doing? We see the
Serbs committing some of the most brutal atrocities in history. Yet
Muhammad did the same things. The Serbs have murdered the Kosovars
simply because they were not Serbs. This is exactly what Muhammad
ordered when he urged his follower to murder the Jews. We see the Serbs
taking the possessions of the Kosovars. This is exactly what Muhammad
did to the tribes of people he attacked. We see the Serbs raping Kosovan
women. Muhammad allowed his soldiers to rape female slaves. If Muhammad
were alive today, we'd call him a Serb or a Nazi!
9) Why wouldn't
Muhammad murder her himself? Why is it that every time Muhammad wanted
someone killed, he always got someone else to do his killing?
10)
Look at this dark side of Islam. This is the Islam Muhammad practiced.
When the founder of a religion has to have powerless women murdered in
the night for opposing him, how can that religion be described?
11)
Where are "human rights" now in Islam? If Muhammad denied freedom of
speech to others, how does that reflect upon Islam and what we see
occurring in the Islamic world today?
12) Why is it that the more
fundamental a Muslim nation becomes, the more oppressive it becomes
toward all basic human rights? Take the Taliban for instance. They have
been great fighters. But once in power, they began to oppress the
populace, and especially Afghan women. Initially, they said it was only
temporary, but it has continued to get worse, not better for Afghani
women. TheRAWA organization has a website that exposes their oppression.
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Fatwa - The Muslim Brotherhood
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