“Mohammed’s armies looted and killed the men and enslaved the women.”
They enslaved boys without pubic hair as well. For sex slaves as well. Several rulings were made by Muhammed allowing this.
When Muhammed consolidated his power over Medina, by massacring the last tribe he could not count on, he took Rayhana as a slave and raped her - on the same day that he had her husband and father executed.
The Hadith report that he took part in some of the executions himself that day, wiping the blood from his sword and commenting that it had served him well that day. Several hundreds of prisoners were murdered in this incident, buried in mass grave trenches in the marketplace.
In the end, it looks like his own thugs turned on him. His rich patron Abu Bakr had married his daughter Aisha to Muhammed around age six. When she was in her teens, Muhammed kicked her out, alleging adultery on her part (he was free to have up to 14 wives and screw an unlimited number of slaves - of which he got first pick after each conquest).
Within a few months of this insult. Muhammed was dead, and Abu Bakr became Caliph, sidelining Muhammed’s desired successor Ali (his Nephew, Cousin, and Son-in-Law). Ali and Muhammed’s last living daughter also came to untimely ends shortly thereafter.
Umar (who later became the third Caliph, after Abu Bakr) took a big hand in this, by preventing Muhammed from giving any last instructions while he was dying (apparently poisened), countermanding his call for writing materials, and a few months later killing Muhammed’s last living child Fatima, by kicking in a door which hit her, and broke her ribs, causing her to miscarry and die.
It’s a dog eat dog gang of thugs, from its inception.
Now that would be an interesting movie but Hollywood would never make it.
Thanks for the history. I hadn’t read about Mohammed’s successors before.
Nephew, cousin, and SIL all at the same time?