The Life of Muhammad (The flight of the moonbats.)

You learn something every day, don’t you? I did, yesterday. The wife’s mother passed away not long ago and Myrtle and I finally got around to packing up her things to give to charity. She used to read a lot. I suppose that’s where I got it from, I’ve always got my nose in a book. History is what I like. That’s why I kept The Life of Muhammad , written by The Rev. C. Sell. Myrtle’s Mum must have had it for ages, the binding is a mess and no wonder, it was printed in 1913. I stayed up half the night to read it.

First of all, I think what Sell had to say, way back then, is interesting, because he quotes from ancient Arabic sources all the way through and there are so many footnotes, including in Arabic script, that he must have done an awful lot of research. I also noticed that Sell was a Fellow of the University of Madras, who wrote nine other books on the subject of Islam.

I’m no great scholar myself, but for the life of me, I can’t understand why anyone on earth would call this business of Islam a religion — not after what I just read. Right from the start, that strange fellow Muhammad was a worry. Did you know he used to have fits? It was said ‘he was destined for great things’ when he was young because, as we know, they didn’t understand mental illnesses then. When he was ‘indisposed’, for example, his nurse always placed him into a darkened room and covered him with scented, wet cloths until he felt better. And he heard voices. In his head.

His mother didn’t have much time for him either. She gave him back to his wet-nurse to care for when he was only two years old and then she died, so he never saw her again. His uncle looked after him for a while, but he died too, and left him an orphan to live in the streets.

We all know, don’t we, how important those early years are and how young people can fall under bad influences. This young fellow ended up with the beggars on the steps of a temple somewhere — I think they worshipped a moon god then — and they annoyed everyone else because they were loud and dirty, so they were often driven out by the folk of the town. But they always came back.

There were a lot of Hebrew people living in the area and he listened to them. Somehow, he must have picked up on the idea of a more powerful god than the moon god and that black stone they worshipped. And they had idols, way back then. He soaked up everything he heard and started to preach, which made the townsfolk even more angry.

Now it seems he heard about Jesus, too. And his mother, and the holy ghost. And all the prophets in the Old Testament. So he took a bit of this and a bit of that and hashed it all together and that made him a prophet, right? And prophets need followers. He had nine to start with. They hung onto every word he said. But he needed more than that, to prove how his messages were coming from a ‘divine’ source, so he would go to a cave somewhere nearby and listen to the words of some archangel. Frankly, I think he was listening to himself. But it worked. Everything was suddenly from a ‘divine source’ and he had it made.

The religion of Islam justifies almost any atrocity done in the name of advancing or defending the faith (read B. Morey's book about jihad in the Quran and Hadith from faithdefenders.com)). After 9-11 the response in the ME was not muted at all. There was open celebration with the honking of horns, hugging, dancing, and the exchange of sweets (done only when some fortuitous event occurs). Read Bernie Goldberg's account of this in his book Bias. It is chilling. At the same time, any attempt by a non-Muslim to defend himself against these atrocities is looked upon by Muslims as the highest form of injustice. After all, the non-Muslim deserves his punishment and the Muslim is protected by Allah. Hair brained, is it not? But you can now understand the dilemma the world is in when it tries to deal with the intractable adherents of this despotic system.
You are also correct in pointing out how Muslims behave themselves when they are a small minority. When they become a significant minority they begin to start trouble. When Muslims are the majority, non-Muslims can kiss their butts goodbye, because here comes Sharia, special tax assesments, employment restrictions, pogroms, seizure of property, etc., all justified by Muslim tradition and canon law, of course. Islam is the antithesis of the Judeo-Christian tradition of individual liberty and ideological tolerance. A lot of people take umbrance with me for saying this, but I've got the evidence to back it up.

Wherre on earth are you getting your info? Sounds like something you'd read in the MSM. Besides, there is hardly anyone more dogmatic than an ACLU-type secularist. And unlike Christians and other religious groups, secular dogmatists are free to spread their propaganda at taxpayer's expense.

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