Knowledge is Strength

Submitted by Shirley Sacks (United States), Sep 11, 2006 at 16:09

Almost the day after 9/11, I read the Koran. Shortly afterwards a book called Islam According to the Earliest Sources, plus many others. I learned that Mohammed was NOT a man of peace. He conquered by war. He kicked all the jews out of Medina, which he conquered, as they refused to submit to his new religion, and afterwards, just in case, he had all the jewish men, around 600 beheaded and then dumped in a mass grave. This is history even to those who who applaud Mohammed. Their excuse for this early barbarity was that it stopped the jews from allying themselves from Mohammed's enemies. But it did happen, of that there is no disagreement.

I learned that Mohammed, conveniently got messages from God to suit his ambitions. The beheading of the jews being one of them, also seducing a relative's wife. When the common law said this is not a good thing, Mohammed conveniently said he got a message that God said he should take this women. And when there was gossip about this, he got another message from God, banning gossip. Muslims today say how good their religion is as it bans gossip, but that's where that rule comes from. I learned a lot, and what I have learned is that Mohammed was a con artist. I learned that the world is not safe from his madness and never was.

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