Muhammad: The First Islamic Radical
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Self-radicalization is a commonly used
term in the media today that applies to extremist Muslims, who turn to
violence in the name of Jihad or Islam. It is as if those Muslims, who
were normal peaceful people in recent past, suddenly turn to a violent
path all on their own without any appeal to any ideals or indoctrination
from outside. Even if anything, the teachings of Islam, or the Islamic
doctrine of Jihad, certainly has nothing to do with their so-called
self-radicalization.
The fact of the
matter is: the religion of Islam itself is an extremely radical and
violent ideology, and its founder Prophet Muhammad himself was the first
radical of Islam. And as per the Quranic injunction, Muhammad remains
an ideal personality to be emulated (including his radicalism) by
Muslims for all eternity.
The story of
Muhammad is the journey of a boy born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in 570 AD.
His father dead before his birth and mother passed away in early
childhood, he was raised by his uncle Abu Talib. He grew up to become a
trader and at the age of 25 married a elderly rich woman, Khadija bint
Khawalayd, 15 years his senior. In the year 610 AD, he supposedly met
Angel Gabriel in a cave outside Mecca. Thereon, started the process of
his alleged receiving of divine revelations from God via Angel Gabriel
for transmission to mankind. Those revelations were, after his death,
recorded in a book, called the Quran. The Quran is divided into 2
dramatically different parts: (1) The more sober Mecca Quran, and (2)
the militant Medina Quran. In his life journey from Mecca to Medina,
Muhammad beginning as a modest and rather pacifist preacher became
transformed into self-radicalized militant prophet of war, mass murder,
terror, torture, rape and child molestation.
In Mecca, at
least toward the beginning, Muhammad was more like pious preacher,
exhorting people to submit to true path of God, namely Islam. He
followed disciplines of prayer, fasting, and worship.
The Mecca Quran
was more inclined toward spirituality, tolerance, acceptance, and inner
cleansing through submission to the word of Allah; it is certainly not
militant or violence inciting. 550 verses were revealed in Mecca.
Following are just a few examples:
(1) Devotion to God:
O
man! What has seduced thee from thy Lord Most Beneficent? Him Who
created thee, fashioned thee in due proportion, and gave thee a just
bias; In whatever Form He wills, does He put them together. Nay! But ye
do reject Right and Judgment! But verily over you (are appointed angels)
to protect you, kind and honourable, writing down (your deeds): They
know and understand all that ye do. As for the Righteous, they will be
in Bliss; and the Wicked, they will be in the Fire, which they will
enter on the Day of Judgment, and they will not be able to keep away
therefrom. And what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is?
Again, what will explain to thee what the Day of Judgment is? (It will
be) the Day when no soul shall have power (to do) aught for another: For
the Command, that Day, will be (wholly) with God. (Surah 82.6-19)
(2) Humility
By
the Glorious Morning Light, and by the Night when it is still, Thy
Guardian-Lord hath not forsaken thee, nor is He displeased. And verily
the hereafter will be better for thee than the present. And soon will
thy Guardian- Lord give thee (that wherewith) thou shalt be
well-pleased. Did He not find thee an orphan and give thee shelter (and
care)? And He found thee wandering, and He gave thee guidance. And He
found thee in need, and made thee independent. Therefore, treat not the
orphan with harshness, nor repulse the petitioner (unheard); but the
Bounty of thy Lord - Rehearse and proclaim! (Surah 93.1-11)
(3) Freedom to practice whatever religion one chooses to.
109:6 Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion
(4) Be patient with unbelievers and let Allah judge:
73:10 And bear with patience what they utter, and part from them with a fair leave-taking. [3, Mecca]
10:109
And (O Muhammad) follow that which is inspired in thee, and forbear
until Allah give judgment. And He is the Best of Judges. [51, Mecca]
(5) Just warn, not coerce, the infidels.
50:45
We are Best Aware of what they say, and thou (O Muhammad) art in no
wise a compeller over them. But warn by the Qur'an him who feareth My
threat.
10:99:
And if thy Lord willed, all who are in the earth would have believed
together. Wouldst thou (Muhammad) compel men until they are believers?
(6) Show kindness and tolerance toward infidels.
7:199 Keep to forgiveness (O Muhammad), and enjoin kindness, and turn away from the ignorant.
After 13 years of
preaching Muhammad in Mecca, he was allegedly forced to flee Mecca in
622 to Medina, where almost all his followers had already migrated. And
these Mecca teachings culminated into one of the most famous Quranic
verse 2:256, urging 'no compulsion in religion':
“There
shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right
course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut
and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no
break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.”
RADICALIZATION OF MUHAMMAD IN MEDINA
It was in Medina
that Muhammad attained power and transformed Islam from a relatively
benign form of monotheism into an militant expansionary political
ideology that persists to this day. In Medina we see a very different
Muhammad and a very different concept of Islam and a very different
Allah. Here Muhammad gradually became radicalized in accordance with the
commands of God and became a political ruler and military commander.
The Allah of Medina guided his prophet to become a warlord, seeking
military conquests. In Medina, Muhammad used the threat of the sword to
compel people to embrace Islam. Gone was message of verse 2:256: Let There Be In Compulsion In Religion. It was replaced by such teachings as 9:5, 9:29:
(1) Fight the unbelievers until religion is for Allah only:
"And
fight them until there is no more fitnah (disbelief and polytheism,
i.e. worshiping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will
all be for Allah alone (in the whole world). But if they cease
(worshiping others besides Allah) then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of
what they do." (Sura 8.39).
(2) No more choice in religion
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As for him who opposes the messenger, after the guidance has been pointed out to him, and follows other than the believers' way, we will direct him in the direction he has chosen, and commit him to Hell; what a miserable destiny! [4:115]
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Then should they turn back (meaning: apostized), seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and do not take from them any companion or supporter (Quran, Chapter 4: 89)
(3) No more patience with unbelievers. Now must curse them:
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[22.72] When Our Clear Signs are rehearsed to them, thou wilt notice a denial on the faces of the Unbelievers! they nearly attack with violence those who rehearse Our Signs to them. Say, "Shall I tell you of something (far) worse than these Signs? It is the Fire (of Hell)! Allah has promised it to the Unbelievers! and evil is that destination!"
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[33:57] Surely, those who oppose GOD and His messenger, GOD afflicts them with a curse in this life, and in the Hereafter; He has prepared for them a shameful retribution.
(4) Tolerance no more; coerce the kafirs:
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"In order that Allah may separate the pure from the impure, put all the impure ones [i.e. non-Muslims] one on top of another in a heap and cast them into hell. They will have been the ones to have lost." (Sura 8.37)
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Certainly! Allâh will admit those who believe (in the Oneness of Allâh Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, to Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise), while those who disbelieve enjoy themselves and eat as cattle eat, and the Fire will be their abode. 47:12
(5) No more pacifism. Time to terrorize, torture, murder:
The
only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and
strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or
crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or
will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the
world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom (5:33)
"Allah
revealed His will to the angels, saying: 'I shall be with you. Give
courage to the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the
infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their
fingers!' That was because they defied Allah and His apostle. He that
defies Allah and his apostle shall be sternly punished by Allah." (Sura
8.12-13)
(6) No tolerance for critics. Just kill them:
9.061
Among them are men who molest the Prophet and say, "He is (all) ear."
Say, "He listens to what is best for you: he believes in Allah, has
faith in the Believers, and is a Mercy to those of you who believe." But
those who molest the Messenger will have a grievous penalty. (In the
link 'leaving Islam' you will find many events where Muhammad had
numerous critics murdered )
(7) Do not associate even with your parents and siblings if they reject Islam:
9.023
O ye who believe! take not for protectors your fathers and your
brothers if they love infidelity above Faith: if any of you do so, they
do wrong
(8) Time to cursed who reject Islam for eternity
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9:73 O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey's end.
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22:19 These twain (the believers and the disbelievers) are two opponents who contend concerning their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads [103, Medina ]
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22:20 Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; [103, Medina ]
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22:21 And for them are hooked rods of iron. [103, Medina ]
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22:22 Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning.
Muhammad's
13 years of preaching in Mecca was out and out a failure, mastering
only 100-dd followers. Had he continued walking the same path in Medina,
Islam would have died a natural death, probably in his life-time
itself. But the militant radicalization of Muhammad that changed Islam
into a plundering Mafia enterprise, offering its prospective followers a
share of the loot and captured women, as well as forcing those who
would reject Islam to embrace it on the pain of death, that Islam became
a lasting and expanding successful religious enterprise as it continues
today.
In
Medina Muhammad re-invented Allah and turned Him into a criminal
Godfather Whom Muhammad would use to hand over earthly political power
to him, and utilize His supposed teachings as religious and legal
justification for his evil criminality. That is how Islam turned itself
into a successful cult.
Abrogation: The complete and ultimate radicalization of Islam and its followers
Most
Muslims are like ordinary people, and the Mecca part of the Quranic
revelations could offer them a peace basis of religious life. But Allah
did not leave that option open to them. The radical Muhammad of Medina
faced a huge problem with the initial non-militant teachings of the
Quran. Had his followers appealed to those nonviolent teachings of the
Quran, his desire for plunder, power and dominion could not be realized.
And Allah, ever ready to satisfy Muhammad's every desire, came to his
rescue by abrogating the entire Mecca teachings of the Quran:
- Quran 2:106. “Whatever a Verse (revelation) do We {Allah} abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring a better one or similar to it. Know you not that Allah is able to do all things?
- Quran 16:101 “And when We change (one) communication for (another) communication, and Allah knows best what He reveals.”
This
abrogation doctrine nullifies the earlier teachings, namely the
pacifist Meccan revelations by the radicalized and militant later
revelations of Medina, which turns Islam into an absolutely radical and
militant religious faith. It gave Muslims no option to appeal to the
apparently peaceful verses revealed in Mecca. For a detailed listing of
the verses of the Quran that were canceled by the doctrine of
abrogation, go to http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-27.htm.
Through the
process of aborgation, 71 Suras of the Quran out of 114 in total, i.e.
62.28% of the suras of the Quran, have become null and void (Abu Ja'afar
al Nakhass' al Nasikh wal Mansukh'). Therefore, only 43 later Surahs
revealed in Medina stand valid. And this valid part of Islam teaches
Muslims only deceit, torture, murder, assassination, massacre, genocide,
pillage, robbery, enslavement and rape as divinely sanction halal
(legal) acts that would earn Muslims a ticket to Islamic paradise, as
long as those are perpetrated upon kafirs.
In
sum, Muhammad initiated Islam as a relatively benign and nonviolent
religious faith, but as he grew in power, he radicalized it into an evil
ideology whose sole purpose is to conquer the world for Allah. The
Quran became a declaration of war against the kafirs. This war is
permanent until ALL kafirs have converted to Islam, or are in dhimmitude
(institutionalized discrimination akin to second class slavery status)
or have been murdered.
From
a humble preacher, Muhammad, after turning into a radical, went on
order more than 60 raids and invasion, some involving massacres, and he
personally participated in 27 of those. The worst sufferer of Muhammad's
militant radicalization was the Jews of the Arab Peninsula, who
suffered whole-sale exile, execution and enslavement. Some of the most
chilling utterances of Muhammad concerning the Jews are:
...the Apostle of Allah said, “Kill any Jew that falls into your power.” (Ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad, p. 553)
Narrated
'Abdullah bin 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will
fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The
stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)!
There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.” (Bukhari 4:52:176)
And the
radicalization of Muhammad saw its climax in the Massacre of Banu
Quraiza, where he ordered the beheading of 600 to 900 men, and
personally initiated the slaughter by beheading 2 Jewish leaders. To
read about this very great Banu Quraiza tragedy, go to: http://www.islamreform.net/new-page-209.htm
Therefore, the
so-called self-radicalization of Muslims is nothing but their following
the teachings and commands of the holy Quran and emulating the examples
of Prophet Muhammad, the only perfect man ever to appear on the earth.
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