Muhammad the Greatest: A Comparative Study

[Kayenneh]

It doesn't matter if Muhammad was a great man or not (or even real, for that matter). As long as too many of his followers are crazy fundamentalists, it's irrelevant if one man was brilliant or not. For instance, I don't join your merry posse because I only like to dress as the offspring of a ninja and a bat during costume parties. (And that's just one of the reasons..)

[Al-Fatihah]

Yet confirmation bias is a logical fallacy, so by its very definition it does conflict with logic.

Response: Confirmation bias does, but being bias does not.

[Cyberman]

You are persisting in confusing the two concepts - confirmation bias, which is a logical fallacy, and personal bias, which is about opinion. You're not being accused of personal bias, though I have no doubt there's a lot of that going on.

[Welsh cake]

Response: I never got mad in whatever way you speak of so I don't have a clue what you are talking about.

I've had my fill of you dodging questions for one day thank you.

You're here to seek confirmation bias. I could care less what you believe in.

I don't care.

If Muhammad is as "great" as you say, don't you think I should care by now? Shouldn't you be asking yourself why I don't care? And counter this apathy I have for your dogmatic drivel by providing reasons and well-supported arguments that would make me care?

You can make a start by trying to convince me of what Muhammad has supposedly done for the human race, what he has done for my life.

[Minimalist]

Muhammad was just as fictional as jesus and moses....or Zeus. Time to join the 21st century, Abdul.

[DeistPaladin]

I find it necessary to repeat, since my last post wasn't addressed, that discussions of character are wholly irrelevant to the truth of a claim. You are free to talk about how great a character Muhammad was and I'll leave you to it. It does nothing to advance Islam as a credible model of how the universe works.

[Kayenneh]

Why, oh why is always when a thread like this is made and someone claims to have made a study, that they never have a peer reviewed paper to show? If reading fiction was all it took to be a scholar, I would have been one for 20 years!

[downbeatplumb]

Mohammed could have been fantastic,(bet he wasn't though) but all we hear about Islam now are riots, people flying planes into buildings, suicide this, massacre that and the destruction of anything that is not Islam.

Islam has become the new "reds under the beds", the radical elements have put it there and there it will stay for a very long time.


The only thing I can think that would dislodge them from this position is a new enemy for the media to focus on.

[pocaracas]

The example may be very praiseworthy, but clearly the followers neglect to follow that example... at least the most visible ones:

Response: I agree that the violent reaction to the drawing of cartoons is very much wrong and uncalled for. However, the reaction is not prescribed in the Qur'an or Sunnah, thus it has nothing to do with Muhammad's character.

Now, take that extra step and understand why your precious Muhammad has a bad rep, regardless of what his actual character was (recorded).

[Minimalist]

You are free to talk about how great a character Muhammad was and I'll leave you to it.

Bugs Bunny is a great character, too.

I still don't like carrots.