Moderate Muslims, thank G-d, tend to follow the portions of the Koran that cover the peaceful and worshipful early period in the life of the Prophet Muhammad. The Muslim fundamentalists, on the other hand, tend to focus on the more violent passages of Koran and Hadith, which emanated from the later period in Muhammad?s life, after he had achieved military hegemony in Medina. Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, the Saudi Wahabbists, Hizbollah, Hamas, the Iranian clerics, and a growing international network of Islamic terrorists embrace this aspect of Islam, an aspect that is entirely comparable to the Nazi faith of Hitler. We can?t afford to apologize for examining the professed faith of those who hijacked the passenger planes on Sept. 11 and who are now trying mightily hard to obtain weapons of mass destruction.
Serge Trifkovic, the author of the book Islam: The Sword of the Prophet quotes from, among other traditional sources, the Sirat Rasul Allah, a universally accepted biography of Muhammad, which was written by Ibn Ishaq, an early Islamic writer, and translated into English by Alfred Guillaume. Trifkovic describes the scene after Muhammad achieved military victory against pagan Mecca in the battle of Badr. Flush with victory, a transformed Muhammad would claim divine sanction for the slaughter of pagan captives, whom he described as ?the worst animals? and the robbery and enslavement of captured Jews and Christians. A triumphant Muhammad would return to his home base of Medina after the battle and proceed to establish a theocratic police state, which offered Medinans a choice between conversion, expulsion or death. That totalitarian state essentially remains in place to this day.
In Medina, the Sirat Rasul Allah recounts, the poetess Asma bint Marwan was murdered after Muhammad exclaimed, ?Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?? Umayr, a follower who heard Muhammad?s exclamation, preceded to stab Marwan to death as she nursed her baby. Muhammad would later assure Umayr that ?two goats won?t butt their heads about her.? Another follower would murder the elderly Abu Afak, who also had criticized Muhammad, after Muhammad exclaimed, ?Who will deal with this rascal for me?? Muhammad established an atmosphere of terror and fear that continues to permeate the Islamic world. As a Prophet, Muhammad?s pronouncements, and actions, have been and are codified as divine writ.
Muhammad went on to instigate a series of similar murders, each grizzlier than the last, but the murder of the Jewish merchant Ibn Sunayna is notable, because it followed a pronouncement by Muhammad to kill the Jews. Another follower, named Muhayyisa, would proceed to kill Sunayna, his employer. Muhayyisa?s brother would reproach him for the murder saying, ?You enemy of G-d, why did you kill him, when much of the fat on your belly comes from his wealth?? Muhayyisa responded, ?Had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to kill you, I would have cut your head off.? The brother replied, ?By G-d, if Muhammad had ordered you to kill me, would you have killed me?? to which Muhayyisa responded, ?Yes, by G-d, had he ordered me to cut off your head, I would have done so.? The brother, exclaiming ?By G-d, a religion that can bring you to this is marvelous!? was so impressed with the attitude of his brother that he became a Muslim.
Muhammad?s passions would then turn from individual murder to mass murder and genocide. First, he would expel two Jewish tribes from Medina, and in the process confiscate their property and wealth with enough of the loot going directly to Muhammad to make him wealthy. Then, after claiming to receive a divine revelation, Muhammad would order an attack against the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayzah. When the men of Banu Qurayzah refused forced conversion, 900 were decapitated and dumped into a mass grave in front of their families. Muhammad was said to have exclaimed at the scene, ?Truly the judgment of Allah was pronounced on high.? The women would then be raped, and Muhammad would take one of them, who had just witnessed the murder of her father and husband, Raihana bint Amr, as a concubine. Those unfortunate enough to survive this would be tortured and murdered in a manner that the Hadith lays out in graphic and gruesome detail.
In the latter part of his life, the part emulated by today?s terrorists, Muhammad chose to toss aside all conventions of morality and order to pursue power and success. Muhammad believed that his evil was sanctioned by Allah and was a necessary means toward the utopian goal of establishing paradise on earth for all of his followers. Likewise, Adolph Hitler also believed that his actions were humane and in the interest of achieving an earthly utopia.
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Chuck Morse is a talk show host on AM 950 WROL-Boston and author of Thunder out of Boston, Why I?m a Right-Wing Extremist, and The Gramsci Factor.
Serge Trifkovic, the author of the book Islam: The Sword of the Prophet quotes from, among other traditional sources, the Sirat Rasul Allah, a universally accepted biography of Muhammad, which was written by Ibn Ishaq, an early Islamic writer, and translated into English by Alfred Guillaume. Trifkovic describes the scene after Muhammad achieved military victory against pagan Mecca in the battle of Badr. Flush with victory, a transformed Muhammad would claim divine sanction for the slaughter of pagan captives, whom he described as ?the worst animals? and the robbery and enslavement of captured Jews and Christians. A triumphant Muhammad would return to his home base of Medina after the battle and proceed to establish a theocratic police state, which offered Medinans a choice between conversion, expulsion or death. That totalitarian state essentially remains in place to this day.
In Medina, the Sirat Rasul Allah recounts, the poetess Asma bint Marwan was murdered after Muhammad exclaimed, ?Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?? Umayr, a follower who heard Muhammad?s exclamation, preceded to stab Marwan to death as she nursed her baby. Muhammad would later assure Umayr that ?two goats won?t butt their heads about her.? Another follower would murder the elderly Abu Afak, who also had criticized Muhammad, after Muhammad exclaimed, ?Who will deal with this rascal for me?? Muhammad established an atmosphere of terror and fear that continues to permeate the Islamic world. As a Prophet, Muhammad?s pronouncements, and actions, have been and are codified as divine writ.
Muhammad went on to instigate a series of similar murders, each grizzlier than the last, but the murder of the Jewish merchant Ibn Sunayna is notable, because it followed a pronouncement by Muhammad to kill the Jews. Another follower, named Muhayyisa, would proceed to kill Sunayna, his employer. Muhayyisa?s brother would reproach him for the murder saying, ?You enemy of G-d, why did you kill him, when much of the fat on your belly comes from his wealth?? Muhayyisa responded, ?Had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to kill you, I would have cut your head off.? The brother replied, ?By G-d, if Muhammad had ordered you to kill me, would you have killed me?? to which Muhayyisa responded, ?Yes, by G-d, had he ordered me to cut off your head, I would have done so.? The brother, exclaiming ?By G-d, a religion that can bring you to this is marvelous!? was so impressed with the attitude of his brother that he became a Muslim.
Muhammad?s passions would then turn from individual murder to mass murder and genocide. First, he would expel two Jewish tribes from Medina, and in the process confiscate their property and wealth with enough of the loot going directly to Muhammad to make him wealthy. Then, after claiming to receive a divine revelation, Muhammad would order an attack against the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayzah. When the men of Banu Qurayzah refused forced conversion, 900 were decapitated and dumped into a mass grave in front of their families. Muhammad was said to have exclaimed at the scene, ?Truly the judgment of Allah was pronounced on high.? The women would then be raped, and Muhammad would take one of them, who had just witnessed the murder of her father and husband, Raihana bint Amr, as a concubine. Those unfortunate enough to survive this would be tortured and murdered in a manner that the Hadith lays out in graphic and gruesome detail.
In the latter part of his life, the part emulated by today?s terrorists, Muhammad chose to toss aside all conventions of morality and order to pursue power and success. Muhammad believed that his evil was sanctioned by Allah and was a necessary means toward the utopian goal of establishing paradise on earth for all of his followers. Likewise, Adolph Hitler also believed that his actions were humane and in the interest of achieving an earthly utopia.
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Chuck Morse is a talk show host on AM 950 WROL-Boston and author of Thunder out of Boston, Why I?m a Right-Wing Extremist, and The Gramsci Factor.