For Yuna and what is really islam?

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 16, 2007 at 06:08

You are very correct that the likes of Reza Asaln must be watched. He is free to say what he wants to say but this should not be left unchecked. As for Islam: The Qur'an clearly says that Allah sent Muhammad to the Hijazi Arabs only. As for Allah: the ancient sources tell us that Allah was no other than Hubal a very old Arabian pagan deity (see Crone's "Meccan Trade and the rise of Islam"). Islam and the moon?

The association of Islam with the moon is very much posterior to Muhammad. So where did Islam come from? I do believe that John Wansbrough was very correct in saying that islam is the product of the religious debates that preoccupied the great civilizations of the Middle East in the late antique period, and when the Arabs invaded the Middle east starting in 633CE they did not have a well defined religion as of yet (there was no Qur'an or hadith or sira or tarikh or Islamic law etc...).

The Arab polity elected Islam (that was still being developed out of sectarian debates in the late antique Middle east) as the religion of this polity for reasons that we still do not understand. But this very radical theory about the origin of Islam detaches Islam from Arabia and Muhammad from the Qur'an. Almost all historians of early Islam believe that this indeed what happened!

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