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72 The Fraud of Islam

THE FOUNDER

The minute, basic chronology of Muhammad in the Moslem tradition and story is superfi-
cially accurate, but non-Moslem historians are far from approving that he was "of a deeply religious
nature", known for "truthfulness, generosity, and sincerity", or "calm and meditative". In fact, very
little is known about Muhammad, but it seems clear that he was the illiterate son of a nomadic "trav-
eling merchant" Arab tribe sub-chieftain. This is the Arab way of referring to the traditional occupa-
tion of the Bedouin nomads of the Southern Arabia Peninsula. The commodity in which they
"traded" was mostly human slaves. This would account for both his grotesque distortions of the
Biblical account -- which he likely got from some tribesmen, which he met on the trail -- and for his
sanctification of slavery as a way of life. Since the stories told around the tribal campfire in the Ara-
bian Desert related only the biblical heroes and their stories -- and lacked mention of any meaning-
ful biblical teachings -- Muhammad had no concept of the morality and ethics of the Bible. The
teachings and values of the Bible are therefore missing from Islam. The cruelty and rigidity of Mu-
hammad's ancient Arabian paganism is the core of Islam's creed.

ISLAM -- REVERSAL OF CHRISTIANITY

When Muhammad and his followers returned to Mecca from Medina, he did not, as the
Moslems state to westerners, "forgive his enemies". In Islamic tradition the very concept of "for-
giveness" is unknown and unrecognized. Instead, the rule of "blood revenge" is mandatory. While
in exile, Muhammad had gathered a band of marauding warriors and given them a religious sanc-
tion for their activities. They were called "The Mystic Fighters" and scored stunning victories, to
the point that the superstitious, pagan populace believed them to be divinely inspired.

Those who did not join were promptly executed.

In theological terms, Muhammad was less of a religious figure than a war-chieftain, a sol-
dier and a tyrant. In contradiction to Biblical prophets, and as a total contrast to Jesus Christ, his
kingdom was purely political-military in nature. In sum, Islam dogmatized the spiritual and secular
realms in a rigid theocracy, which admits no deviation. It was for this reason that 19th-century
scholar Ernest Renan called Islam "the heaviest chains which have ever shackled humanity".

ISLAMIC "EVANGELISM" - THE "SWORD OF ISLAM"

Perhaps the boldest falsehood in the representation of Islam and the Moslems is the conten-
tion that the spread of the new faith was "rapid and peaceful". It was indeed rapid, but far from
peaceful. Its most prominent symbol is the "Seif-el-Islam" -- “The Sword of Islam". Indeed, the
most important symbol of Islam is, appropriately enough, the sword (or the saber) and the sword
was the primary instrument of Islamic expansionism. In most cases the conquered were given only
two choices -- immediate conversion or a speedily cut throat.

Since in Islam the concepts of "peace" and "submission" are synonymous, "peace" can be
achieved only by total submission to Islam. No other form of peace is conceivable to a Moslem.
Therefore, when Muhammad's "mystic fighters" subdued a nation, they believed that "peace" had

The Berean Voice September-October 2002