So there is this thing that Muhammad left called "Satanic verses". It is part of the Koran that incorporates the worship of the venerated pre-Islamic goddesses, Allat, Manat, Al-Uzza - with the inclusion of his god, Allah.
Muhammad included them because he was growing frustrated and disillusioned with his new found prophethood, as people didn't care for his bullshit. So to entice the Meccans to join Islam he included other popular gods in his religion. And while this tradition is now widely rejected by Muslims, the majority of the tradition is actually recorded in explicit detail in some of Islamic books like the Tafsir and Sira, as well as fragments in the Quran.
And since this is now considered a pure blasphemy in the eyes of Islam, Muslims consider that Muhammad was "tricked" by Satan for acknowledging that Allah had three daughters. In Islamic theology - Allah has no children.
Even today, no Muslim can tangibly explain why Muhammad was tricked by Satan, so they try to ignore it, and they get furious when someone brings it up, like Salman Rushdie did.
Muhammad included them because he was growing frustrated and disillusioned with his new found prophethood, as people didn't care for his bullshit. So to entice the Meccans to join Islam he included other popular gods in his religion. And while this tradition is now widely rejected by Muslims, the majority of the tradition is actually recorded in explicit detail in some of Islamic books like the Tafsir and Sira, as well as fragments in the Quran.
And since this is now considered a pure blasphemy in the eyes of Islam, Muslims consider that Muhammad was "tricked" by Satan for acknowledging that Allah had three daughters. In Islamic theology - Allah has no children.
Even today, no Muslim can tangibly explain why Muhammad was tricked by Satan, so they try to ignore it, and they get furious when someone brings it up, like Salman Rushdie did.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
