[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

Available on Amazon.

[Phinneous]

It’s as if one would naturally seek a religion or world view that makes bold, unfalsifyable claims like, “G-d revealed Himself to ALL of us,” and “Ask the nations, has an event like this [mass revelation] ever happened again?”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

http://prophetofdoom.net/

[Red Badger]

...then, in 610, he wrote the Qur’an, which he said had been dictated to him by the Angel Gabriel.

You mean it wasn't handed to him on golden plates?..............

[attiladhun2]

There is no archaeological evidence that Mecca even existed in the 7th cen. Mecca is described in later Arab historical accounts as an oasis and trade center. In reality, it was a waterless, barren place in the 7th century. The well Zamzam is a feeble source of water that could not have possibly supplied the needs of caravans and today is a dry hole that must be continually and artificially re-filled during the hajj.

[knarf]

kwanzaa

[Chewbarkah]

The Muslim establishment is furiously against both historical research of the “founding era” of Islam, and textual analysis of the Koran.

Sort of like Democrats and RINOs opposing election audits.

[Reily]

Some German historians of religion have come to the same conclusion.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591026342/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This book argues that the Arab armies were primarily eastern non-orthodox Christians with a nontrinatarian Christology. Over time the distinction between these Christianities increased due to competition in power & religion until this non-orthodox eastern version of Christianity became Islam.

[ckilmer]

I’ve read previously that muhammad was a Nabataean. That mosques first pointed to petra—which was an ancient pilgramage destination for other religions and perhaps that place that St. Paul went to briefly—that played a part in his conversion. (that is at petra—which was outside of roman control— all the political and religious conventions/meanings would have been different from roman controlled jerusalem)

I’ve read to that mosques did not go immediately to point to Mecca. After mecca, for awhile they pointed to Jerusalem. Then they went on to Mecca. During times of dispute—the mosques would split the point —either between petra and jerusalem or between jerusalem and mecca.

I think the article was posted here at free republic. a guy did a fascinating article in which he showed all the points of the ancient mosques around the middle east.

[karnage]

Islam has yet to undergo rigorous scholastic investigation as to its origins.

There are rumors that such studies are under way, but none have yet been published.

Spencer performs a great service by collecting existing scholarship in one book, but the definitive study has yet to be published.

[Cottonbay]

Bttt