Posted on 04/23/2012 4:17:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why would it matter if Muhammad never existed? Certainly the accepted story of Islam's origins is taken for granted as historically accurate; while many don't accept Muhammad's claim to have been a prophet, few doubt that there was a man named Muhammad who in the early seventh century began to claim that he was receiving messages from Allah through the angel Gabriel.
Many who hear about my new book "Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam's Obscure Origins" ask why it would matter whether or not Muhammad existed -- after all, a billion Muslims believe he did, and they are not going to stop doing so because of some historical investigations. Yet the numerous indications that the standard account of Muhammad's life is more legend than fact actually have considerable implications for the contemporary political scene.
These are just a few of the weaknesses in the traditional account of Muhammad's life and the early days of Islam:
* No record of Muhammad's reported death in 632 appears until more than a century after that date.
* The early accounts written by the people the Arabs conquered never mention Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur'an.
* They call the conquerors "Ishmaelites," "Saracens," "Muhajirun," and "Hagarians," but never "Muslims."
* The Arab conquerors, in their coins and inscriptions, don't mention Islam or the Qur'an for the first six decades of their conquests. Mentions of "Muhammad" are non-specific and on at least two occasions are accompanied by a cross. The word can be used not only as a proper name, but also as an honorific.
* The Qur'an, even by the canonical Muslim account, was not distributed in its present form until the 650s.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
From the link:
Campaign mailer angers Tarrant County Muslims by Jim Douglas WFAA May 2, 2012
TARRANT COUNTY Itamar Gelbman says he was born in New York, raised in Israel, and now wants to be the next congressman from the state's 6th District, which covers much of Tarrant County.
His mailers began arriving this week. Gelbman said he sent them to about 40,000 homes. Next to his picture, the card states: "Army lieutenant for Congress."
Gelbman served in the Israeli army, and among the issues he wants to fight for is to stop what he calls the "Islamization" of America.
Okay. Say a jihadi gets martyred in the Danish cartoon jihad. What kind of virgins does he get? Alice the Goon, Olive Oyl, Minnie Mouse? Could one be so lucky as to end up with Jessica Rabbit?
a hundred years from now, liberals were be saying nice things about Hitler because he provided vocations for the workers and got rid of those nasty people called Jews.
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One hundred years from now, liberals will never say nice things about Hitler because he betrayed them (breaking the MolotovRibbentrop Pact) when he invaded Russia (Operation Barbarossa) ... this is the origion of present day liberal hatred of all things Nazi, and why they are always calling conservatives “Nazis”.
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Also because free thought is to contradict allah, who has predetermined everything down to the subatomic level. Islam is the antithesis of Christianity and Judaism.
Actually existing and having to exist are two different things.
Mo ascended to Heaven at the Far Temple said to be Dome of the Rock — which did not exist at the time but was created much later as a tourist attraction by the caliph of the time (who had moved his court from Amman to Jerusalem on a whim) to keep his restless court from getting out of hand.
During the time of mo (if he existed as a real person or not) he was said to have many ermines and he was being pursued by assassins. The question is why would he have travailed through very dangerous territory to some forsaken village months away from Mecca?
The whole bit was simply invented to create more similarities to Christ. Of course, Christ unlike mo did not personally behead 400 people ... That alone should be enough of a clue.
Now, the left hated Hitler for taking Germany away from them in 1932-33 and Spain in 1936-38. This what gulled the West into making a deal with Hitler in 1938. He then flipped on them are made the pact with Stalin. But then he outsmarted himself by going to war with the USSR a year or more before the Wehrmacht was fully ready to take on the Red Army.
Mo rode to hell on a dream horse called “Barrack”. Kind of like how the current Barrack is taking us. (Which leads me to say “Scr*w you Mo and the horse you rode in on!”)
I can visualize if the Kenyan usurper where to have watched the video of how he would have a real snarky look on his face.
Top notch story-—(and a great ‘storyteller’)——now I know the ‘facts’
Remember-—John the Baptist was not ‘The Christ’ either, just a forerunner
Remember-—John the Baptist was not ‘The Christ’ either, just a forerunner
That’s a good point, and one that I hadn’t considered.
“Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” - Manuel II Palelologus
I like the spore theory
RE: I like the spore theory
What on earth is that? Was he seeded by Aliens or something?
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