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Islam’s Peace 71

din ner hon or ing “the holy month Ramadan,” nor ets were in spired of Sa tan (Surah
flat tered Mus lims say ing “all the world con tin - 26:221-227).
ues to ben e fit from this faith and its achieve -
ments.” BENEFIT? Does it bother to day’s Mus lims that
mur der, rape, plun der and slav ery of in no cent
Chal lenged to do mir a cles like Christ, peo ple were the ac cepted way of life upon
Mu ham mad could do none. On March 16, 624, which Is lam was founded and still op er ates?
near Badr, he led 300 war riors in a vi cious at tack Ap par ently not. Ka’b’s mur der (the ac count
against a large Meccan car a van pro tected by a slanted with fic ti tious de tails) is jus ti fied on a
force of 800. Some 40 Meccans were killed and pop u lar Mus lim website, re veal ing Is lam’s
60 taken pris oner to a loss of only 14 Mus lims. pe cu liar mean ing of “peace” and “jus tice”:
This amaz ing vic tory was seen as the at test ing “Ka’b had be come a real dan ger to the state of
mir a cle Mu ham mad needed. As a re sult, the peace and mu tual trust which the Prophet was
ranks of Mus lims swelled with those ea ger to strug gling to achieve in Madinah....The
share in fu ture plun der. Prophet was quite ex as per ated with
him....This was all part of the great pro -
Hav ing proved him self the prophet of cess...which helped to make Is lam spread and
Al lah with the sword, Mu ham mad sealed his es tab lish it on foun da tions of jus tice and pi ety
apos tle ship with more than twenty mur ders, be - [em pha sis added] (www.islam101.com/peo -
gin ning with al-Nadr, an old en emy from Mecca. ple/com pan ions/maslamah.html).
Taken cap tive in the bat tle at Badr, he pleaded
that the Meccan Qur’aish tribe would never kill Christ left Chris tians “an ex am ple,
cap tives. Mu ham mad had him be headed any - that ye should fol low his steps: who did no
way, jus ti fy ing the deed with an other “rev e la - sin, nei ther was guile found in his mouth:
tion”: “It is not for any Prophet to have cap tives who, when he was re viled, re viled not again;
un til he hath made slaugh ter in the land” (Surah when he suf fered, he threat ened not...[but]
8:67). bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that
we, be ing dead to sins, should live unto righ -
Much of the grow ing Mus lim wealth teous ness...” (1 Pe ter 2:21-24). But the Mus -
came from rob bing and kill ing Jews, caus ing lim must fol low the ex am ple of Mu ham mad
“the dis ap pear ance of these Jew ish com mu ni ties who killed all who dared to dis agree with
from Ara bia proper” (W.N. Arafat, Jour nal of him!
the Royal Asi atic So ci ety of Great Brit ain and
Ire land, 1976, 100-107) -- jus ti fied by a fur ther A Chris tian must “know” God (Jer e -
“rev e la tion” (Surah 33:26,27). To this day, by miah 9:24; John 17:3), “love” God with all
law no Jew may set foot in Saudi Ara bia. his heart (Deu ter on omy 6:5; Mat thew 22:37,
etc.) and “be lieve” in Christ in his heart (Acts
A num ber of po ets were mur dered at Mu - 8:37; Romans 10:9). The God of the Bi ble
ham mad’s be hest for hav ing mocked him in wants man’s trust and af fec tion with out co er -
verse. The first was the po et ess Asthma bint cion.
Marwan, stabbed to death by Umayr while she
was nurs ing her youn gest child. The poet Abu In con trast, Al lah can be nei ther
Afak (re port edly more than 100 years old) was known nor loved. Nor does one even have to
mur dered next. Then came the Jew ish poet Ka’b be lieve to be come a Mus lim. Un der threat of
bin al-Ashraf. A timely “rev e la tion” said all po - death, one merely re cites aloud, “There is no

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