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Why is US even in Iraq again? Weapons of mass destructions was it? sorry i forgot maybe they came up with a new excuse.

Can I honestly tell you guys, this is sick to hear, you think i support this? this is the kind of stuff that makes us look bad, and is ruining our image. I am half muslim, i'm also half christian, that doesnt mean i hate either religions, i support both, but there's no point in bashing one, what does that do for you? your just sinking to their own level when you make fun of Prophet Muhammed, and the religion of islam. I know both religions, but not 100%, but i try to understand them both very well.

Now if you want to talk about the marriage to Zaineb, prophet Muhammed's step son was Zaid, before prophet Muhammed was a prophet he was a slave and he adopted a boy named Zaid son of Harithah, and when Zaids father, uncle, and brother came to take him back, prophet Muhammed gave Zaid a choice, to either go with is family, or stay with him, and Zaid chose to stay with Prophet Muhammed. Later, Zaid was know known as Zaid son of Mohammed, and God wanted to make it clear that an adopted child isnt your REAL child. SO when Zaid was married to Zaineb, they had troubles and he was going to divorce her, God told Prophet Muhammed to marry Zaineb when they got divorced, Prophet Muhammed avoided this message from God. SO when Zaid got a divorce from Zaid, God sent a verse down in the Koran saying that I married you to Zaineb, to prove that your adopted son isnt known as YOUR son. SO prophet Muhammed was married to Zaineb by god, not by paper. He later changed Zaids name from Zaid son of Muhammed back to Zaid son of Harithah.

Prophet muhammed's marriage to ayesha was because when Prophet Muhammed was aging, angel gabrielle showed him his wife in heaven, and she was similiar to Ayesha, god told prophet Muhammed to marry Ayesha and teach her everything you know. We all know the learning age for a person is age 6-18, when he first got together with ayesha she was 6-7, they lived together for about 15 years, and they never had sex. He taught her everything he knew so when he'd pass away she would be the person everyone would go to if they had questions. when he died she was known as the "mother of believers" she was the person that would carry on the religion of islam. He didnt marry her for his pleasure, get a grip.

"That and the lack of "kill the non-believers" in the Bible. Why do you keep avoiding that?"

I'm not avoiding that, yes the koran says that, but do any of you have the slightest idea of why its in there?....i thought so. It seems thats the only reason you guys hate the koran, hate prophet Muhammed, and hate the religion of islam. It says that because when prophet Muhammed was spreading the religion of islam around, and these "non believers" despised the religion and prophet muhammed and everything that had to do with it. Prophet Muhammed was told by god to kill these people "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be stern against hem. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed" (9:73). Prophet Muhammed didnt just wake up one day and decide to kill people, he was told by god, and he listened, which is the right thing to do(Not kill non believers but to listen to god). If someone attacks you are you not going to attack back?

These are the kinds of people that give muslims a bad name, do you think every muslim supported Bin Laden? do you think every muslim supported Saddam Hussien? or the Hamas groups? Some despise them and muslims hope that many others can look at these kinds of extremists and NOT judge every muslim by there actions. THe only ones that support them are muslims who got their mind corrupted by these leaders ideas. Its sick, it really is, but doesnt mean the the WHOLE religion of islam is based on what they do. DO you really think these guys read the koran daily, that they are forgived when they shot someone and right after wash their hands and go pray to god? i cant stand seeing them pray.

"Actually historical proof shows otherwise -- Mo was the leader of the bandit pack that robbed Meccan caravans (with the connivance of Medinah's leaders). The Meccans got bugged with this and retaliated, but Mo killed them and then slaughtered all the innocents and took their women and children and sold them into slavery or made them his slaves"

ah yes because no muslims died either, because muslims didnt get attacked in the mosque while praying, because muslims didnt get beat for walking on the street, because muslims didnt die trying to spread the religion of islam around. All the muslims, according to you cronos, and your internet, are only on this earth to kill, and prophet Mohammed did nothing but kill people left and right. He had marriages, he had kids, he was on this earth to teach people the religion of islam.

Its two different religions, the bible and the koran have many smilarities but distinct differences, like muslims believe jesus isnt the son of god, because god cant have a son. That virtually is the only thing that separtes the two religions, and that makes it so different.

How do you explain jesus being the son of god, when he clearly wasnt.

"How do you explain the fact that he changed the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac to a sacrifice of Ishmael?"

Because it was Ishmael that he sacrificed. Why is it that you blame everything on Prophet Muhammed? God gave Abraham(Ibrahim) a dream that he had to kill his son, his only son, but we all know he had more then one son, so further in his dream is says take ishmael(ismail) and right before he was going to take his life, god replaced his(ishmael) body with a black and white sheep, which made this whole thing a test. So this has absolutely nothing to do with Propphet Muhammed.

"Oh...so the Muslims were the VICTIMS"

Hey i didnt say that the muslims were the victims, but they werent the culprits either, oh yeah and prophet mohammed wasnt the insigator either.

Yeah he didnt like writing, it doesnt mean that he didnt know how to write. He trusts his memory more then what he wrote.

"look outside the lies of the Koran"

Maybe you should try looking into the Koran for valid facts.

"Actually he risked his life while killing others like the hundreds of Jews of Mecca & Medinah he ordered killed"

right...because absolutely NO muslims died either.

He's the prophet of GOD do you know what that means?? it means that he had a connection with god. Everything that he did in his time, he was told by god, or asked god if he should do it. So why dont you blame god for all this killing you speak of.

How can you compare Hitler to Prophet Muhammed when they're nothing alike. Prophet Muhammed had a connection with god, Hitler just killed virtually everyone in his sight.

actually he memorized most of the ideas he had, he didnt like writing. so no he wasnt an "illiterate idiot", maybe you should read up before you speak.

He's not "my" prophet cronos, he's islams prophet. Prophet muhammed risked his life in spreading the knowledge of islam, people who joined him were brutally beaten, they were forced to lie on burning sand, had huge boulders on their chests, red hot iron poured on them, and they still followed through because islam is a pure and incredible religion. Prophet muhammed was bribed to stop teaching people about islam, he was beaten himself, his uncle life was taken, his first wife's life was taken, he didnt promise safety he promised a religion. People who were against him were out to get him, one in particular Abu Safyan would not back down. He would take an army of men and attack muslims as they were praying, but before he did this Prophet muhammed and an army were at war with Abu safyan and they(prophet muhammed and the muslims) won this war, and they kept getting attacked so they would go on to win against a jewish clan and non believers because they were sick of the repeated beatings they were taking and not doing anything about it at first, so cronos this is where all the killing came that you speak of, that aparently makes us "bad" people, but the people who would attack the muslims first were "angels", in your words.

"And that's your "prophet" Amanda"

Thank you for describing my prophet for me, but all you seem to do is find the negetivity in prophet mohammed when in fact, he did more good then bad. He gave people a religion to believe in, and that in itself is something mostly everyone in the world wants. Dont sit there and tell me that my prophet was bad, when all you do is judge him by what you hear, or read off of the internet, until you know the religion of islam you cant critisize it.

Some of you fail to realize the time these marriages were taken. This was a while back and to critisize who he married without knowing the whole thing is idiotic. I've read most of your guys's responses and most are just copying and pasting from the internet, thanks but I've read all of this, and untill you've read the real thing, you have absolutely no right to critisize the religion of islam, or prophet mohammed's personal life for that matter.