Submitted by MOHAMAD NOZZI (Singapore), May 13, 2009 at 02:56
Plato, you have to bear in mind that if Prophet Muhammad were a muslim extremist, muslim religion would not be restored/formed and this caused the religion to be ceased at the time when the angel Gabriel gave revelation to him.
The reason is simply that if Allah's mission for him is to slaughter non-muslims without mercy in preaching the message of Allah to non-muslims, Muhammad would not preach to his wife, cousin, friends and associates and he simply slaughtered them without giving a chance to them to be converted to Muslims and that caused Muhammad to be the only muslim in the whole world since the religion of muslim that had been passed down from Ismail, Jesus, Abraham and etc. should have ceased during that period and that caused his surrounding people to be idolatry.
If Prophet Muhammad werea muslim extremist,there would not be any write-up for the Holy Quran since he was illiterate in accordance to the Cambridge History of Islam. The reason that there is a write-up of Holy Quran is the existence of new muslim converts to assist him as and when he received the revelation from Allah. For instance, if Muhammad were a muslim extremist, he would not preach to his wife, friend, daughter and his associates instead, he would slaughter them one followed by another. As nobody would be converted to new muslims as a result of him being a muslim extremist, there would not be any write-up for the Holy Quran due to nobody could assist him for the write-up.
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