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The abrogation in the Koran doesn’t even date from after muhammad’s death. He was changing things as the situation on the ground changed in his favor. In the early days he was talking about mutual respect and living in harmony with other religions. As muslims gained power, it quickly changed to killing the infidel and dhimmitude for Christians and Jews.

The abrogation in the Koran doesn’t even date from after muhammad’s death. He was changing things as the situation on the ground changed in his favor. In the early days he was talking about mutual respect and living in harmony with other religions. As muslims gained power, it quickly changed to killing the infidel and dhimmitude for Christians and Jews.

Mohammed first started out his syncretism by incorporating large chunks of both Judaism and Christianity in order to attract inhabitants of the Christian and Jewish kingdoms of the Arabian Peninsula (the high tech society of the Arabian Peninsula and the builders of the first permanent cities). He featured Friday prayers facing Jerusalem. When the Jews and the Christians told him to pound sand, he called a peace conference and wiped out the representatives who came to dialog and then started the systematic extermination of Christians and Jews from the Arabian Peninsula where they had lived since at least the first century AD. Actually, if you were to remove from the Koran everything of Christian and Jewish origin, there would be little left. Mohammed, like later prophets of later Judeo/Christian cults, tried to appropriate to his own special blend some of the mojo of Judeo/Christian history and to insert himself in it by positing a kinship relationship to Abraham through Ishmael (like later ones did by claiming kinship through the supposedly 10 lost tribes of Israel).

I have to wonder whether at some time in the past there were certain ‘teachers’ in Islam - their Imams who didn’t add to what Mohammed had supposedly said over the hundreds of years it was apparently preserved in oral tradition. Plus many radicals put a LOT of stock in teachings that weren’t even from Mohammed.