What’s the Deal with the Prophet Muhammad?

American Thinker ^ | 20 Oct, 2025 | Richard C. Crandall

[MtnClimber]

Within Islam, the Prophet Muhammad is highly respected and revered. Even mentioning his name requires Muslims to follow it with an honorific like “peace be upon him.” He was also given prestigious titles, such as apostle, messenger, prophet, and warner. The popularity of the name Muhammad for baby boys also demonstrates the respect Muslims have for him. Muhammad has been a common name for boys in Muslim countries for centuries and is becoming increasingly popular in Western countries that have become infested with large Muslim populations. But then, who wouldn’t want to name their child after a serial rapist (see Juwayriyah, Mariyah, Rayhanah, and Safiyah), mass murderer, pedophile, slave owner, and wife abuser?

Why do Muslims hold Muhammad in such high regard? Is it because he was the author of the Koran? Muslims disagree on whether the Koran was created or uncreated, but they agree that Muhammad was not its author.

Is it possible that Muhammad is revered within Islam because he was the first messenger or prophet sent by the Islamic god? This isn’t the reason, since Muhammad was the last prophet. Before Muhammad, there were between 310 and 320 messengers and 124,000 prophets, meaning that Muhammad was “a prophet,” not “the prophet” of Islam. In fact, messengers and prophets have been sent to every community and nation to warn them about what will happen if they refuse to submit to Islam. When all of these hundreds of thousands of communities and nations recognized the depravity of Islam, they rejected and distorted its message to align more closely with their beliefs, which led to the need for more messengers and prophets.

Is Muhammad’s elevated status because he perfected Islam? Again, the answer is no. The Islamic god perfected Islam. The Islamic god told Muhammad that nothing was revealed

[The Great RJ]

Islam needs some brave Muslim to nail his 95 theses to the mosque door and start a Reformation.

[zeke37]

You are absolutely right. He is a composite character of several people. Most likely, he never existed. His name is actually a title: Machmad or Machmed means lovely one from Song of Solomon 5: 16.

[Wuli]

“Muslims disagree on whether the Koran was created or uncreated, but they agree that Muhammad was not its author. “

Authority for that is??????

“This isn’t the reason, since Muhammad was the last prophet. Before Muhammad, there were between 310 and 320 messengers and 124,000 prophets,”

That has ZERO to do with “Islam” other than the Koran paying lip service to personages in the Jewish Torah and paying lip service to Jesus, with zero prior lineage established anywhere in the Arab world for such recognition, PRIOR to Islam. In other words, its fiction on the part of Islam produced by borrowing from others.

[bk1000]

Why do Muslims hold Muhammad in such high regard?“

Because other Muslims will kill you if you don’t.

[USS Alaska]

They fully saw their own inferiority, and were wondering not how to rapidly incorporate those changes into their own ship construction and weaponry, but instead, were wondering about the religious aspect of using Infidel technology, and the need to get an Islamic dispensation (an official “Fatwa”) to allow them to do it!

The other MAJOR FLAW OF ISLAM, is the refusal to accept women as equal to men in terms of BRAIN POWER.

There are smart women that happen to be born into a mooselimb family, and in most cases, they are never allowed to show their brain power.

Look at the powerful, brilliant women that have come from the western culture, including Natalie Carbone Mangini, from Crabtree, PA that was instrumental in the development of our nuclear subs.

There are so many smart women in the west that never would be allowed to even participate in a mooselimb culture.

The mooselimbs bury half of their brain power because of their stupid views.

[NorthMountain]

Or maybe mahomet ... in any case, the dude (if he existed) was a rapist, a pedophile, a murderer, a thief, and a liar. As such, he was “the perfect” man, and modern-day mahometans strife to be just like him.

Plan accordingly.

[nagant]

“What are we going to do today, Brain?”

“The same thing we do every day, Pinkie, try to take over the world.”

[beethovenfan]

Or 95 feces.

[nagant]

Islam is to ....well, everything else, what Marxism is to freedom. It exists only as a temper tantrum for losers.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Thomas Aquinas said the same thing and so did John Adams.

[daniel1212]

A very substantive article. Thx.