RE: Did Mohammad exist?
July 31, 2012 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2012 at 5:35 pm by Bahraini.)
Quote:Islam may have spread through war and savagery (to a certain extent), but that was never required nor encouraged unless it was provoked by the other side. The important thing to know is that Muslims are strictly prohibited to start a war and/or fight against non-Muslims except for the purpose of self-defense. An Islamic state is not allowed to fight non-Muslims who are not hostile to Islam, who do not oppress Muslims, or try to convert Muslims by force from their religion, or expel them from their lands, or wage war against them, or prepare for attacks against them, as the Quran says, "Thus, if they let you be, and do not make war on you, and offer you peace, God does not allow you to harm them" (4:90).
& when cartoons & books provoke Muslims, its safe to say that they'd wage war on anybody that doesn't kiss Mohammad's ass.
Quote:In fact, according to what I know, the Prophet Muhammad granted the citizens of an Islamic state the freedom to practice their own religion as long as they sign a pact of non-aggression and pay taxes as demanded by the state. During that time, there were many examples of Christians, Jews, and other religious communities flourishing under Islamic rule without being forced to live as Muslims. You can find more information about this in a book entitled "The Jews of Islam," by Bernard Lewis.
until Mohammad chooses to kick them out, like he did the Jews. Even when they peacefully lived together, they had to pay Muslims just because they were not Muslims, that's ridiculous.
Quote:Yes, but that doesn't show anything negative about him. Why? Because the fact that Muhammad had multiple wives does not mean that he was sexually hyperactive nor anything like that. On the contrary, that has nothing to do with it because most of the wives that he had were widows whom he married during times of war to protect them. The latter life of the Prophet consisted of years of wars for the emerging Muslim nation, when Muslims had to fight in self-defense to protect their lives and their religion. Consequently, hundreds of his companions were killed, leaving behind widows and orphans without anyone left to care for them. So, that's why Muhammad set an example for the surviving companions by remarrying the widows in order to support them.
I agree with the concept, not the argument, nobody should dictate how many wives (or husbands) a person can have as long as all parties agree. With that being said, your argument is ridiculous, so if I want to be a good person, I should go to Gaza & marry hot widows to "protect" them. Lets face it, he took advantage of grieving widows, he probably had a widow fetish.
lets not forget that he married a nine year old, I'll concede that it was the norm at the time & he's not an exclusive in that club, but he was supposed to be a prophet & should know better than that.
Quote:If you doubt Mohammad exists, you would have to doubt people in his lineage, and some of these people were really famous for events shortly after the death of Mohammad.
I do doubt their existence, & if they ever existed, they could be the ones that created him.
Quote:As for a lack of documents from Muhammad’s lifetime, again, I don’t see how disproves the existence of a man who lived over 1,400 years ago and belonged to a remote primitive tribe amongst the desert nomads of the Arabian Peninsula. And I doubt that those people would have left behind documents about Muhammad because the majority of them were probably illiterate. Even if such documents did exist, it would be pretty exceptional for them to have survived all this time. You run into a similar problem with artifacts because most of them would have been lost over the course of time.
The Arabian Peninsula was also a haven for poets, & none of them made any reference for 60 years after his death. & please watch the video and/or read the book to counter his arguments, why did Mohammad hold a cross? why were there so many documents & none of them mention Mohammad?
& your argument of those documents being lost doesn't hold any water, there were a lot of documents, none of them mention Mohammad, then he suddenly appears 50 years later when its convenient.
Quote:Wait, porn is being blocked? I propose that we send troops immediately to aid those suffering under this oppressive and tyrannical regime.
bring MOAR porn, we're suffering here, cell phones & bluetooth were the central hub for porn at some point, now its BBM.
