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try googling these words: Joseph Smith Mahomet

You will find the information you are looking for. You see in Joseph Smith’s day the prophet of Islam was spelled ‘Mahomet’ not like we spell it now, ‘Mohammed.’

Here is a recollection from one of the followers of Joseph Smith:

” have heard the Prophet say that he should yet tread down his enemies, and walk over their dead bodies; that if he was not let alone, hew ould be a second Mahomet to this generation, and that he would make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean; that like Mahomet, whose motto, is treating for peace, was ‘Alcoran or the Sword,’ so should it be eventually with us, ‘Joseph Smith or the Sword.’ These last statments were made during the last summer. The number of armed men at Adam-on-diahmon was between three and four hundred. Thomas B. March.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day hering written.
Henry Jacobs, J. P., Ray County, Missouri
Richmond, Missouri, October 24, 1838”

And this attatched affidavit swearing to the truthfulness of Thomas Marsh’s Testimony:

Affidavit of Orson Hyde
The most of the statements in the foregoing disclosure of the Thomas B. March I know to be true; the remainder I beleive to be true. Orson Hyde.

Richmond, October 24, 1838.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day above written.
Henry Jacobs, J.P.

Source: “Document showing the Testimony Given Before the Judge of the Fifth Judicial District of the State of Missouri, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and others, for High Treason and Other Crimes Against that State” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1841), p. 147.

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