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72 Islam’s Peace

ila (god) but Al lah and Mu ham mad is his Uthman ibn Affan, the third ca liph,
prophet.” This “con ver sion with out faith” was con sol i dated and ex panded the grow ing Is -
es tab lished when Abu Sufyan, a Qur’aish leader, lamic em pire. A son-in-law of Mu ham mad,
upon sur ren der ing Mecca in 630 to Mu ham mad he stan dard ized the Qur’an, burn ing all ri val
and his su pe rior army, ad mit ted that he doubted cop ies over pro tests of those still alive who
the lat ter’s prophet hood. He was warned, “’Ac - re mem bered dif fer ent read ings and miss ing
cept Is lam and tes tify that Mu ham mad is the verses. Among these was Mu ham mad’s fa -
apos tle of Al lah be fore your neck is cut off by vor ite wife Aisha who, by the way, never
the sword.’ Thus [with out be liev ing] he pro - veiled her face. Uthman, too, was mur dered
fessed the faith of Is lam and be came a Mus lim” by a ri val Mus lim fac tion. Pre vented from be -
(Cf. Ibn Hisham, part 4 of his Bi og ra phy of the ing bur ied in a Mus lim cem e tery, he was bur -
Prophet, cited in Trifkovic, Sword, 48). This ied at night by friends, iron i cally, in a Jew ish
pat tern is fol lowed to day: con fess or die! cem e tery.

Upon Mu ham mad’s death in A.D. 632, Is lam di vides the world into dar al-Is -
many Arabs at tempted to aban don Is lam. Abu lam (the house of peace) and dar al-Harb (the
Bakr (the first ca liph to suc ceed Mu ham mad) house of war). To bring “peace,” Al lah com -
and his war riors in the in fa mous Wars of Apos - mands, “I shall cast ter ror into the hearts of
tasy killed tens of thou sands of ex-Mus lims, the in fi dels. Strike off their heads! (8:13);
forc ing Ara bia back into Is lam. Mu ham mad had Slay the idol a ters wher ever you find
com manded, “Who ever re lin quishes his faith, them...(9:5); O Prophet, strug gle with the un -
kill him.” Is lam is still en forced this way un der be liev ers and hyp o crites and be thou harsh
shari’a (Is lamic law) in Saudi Ara bia and wher - with them...(9:73); Be lievers, make war on
ever Mus lims are able to do so. This is peace and the in fi dels that dwell around you...” (9:123).
tol er ance?! Per pet ual ji had is com manded un til all the
world is un der shari’a. Nor would that bring
The Uni ver sal Is lamic Dec la ra tion of peace, be cause Mus lims fight among them -
Hu man Rights was an nounced at the In ter na - selves, as his tory tes ti fies.
tional Con fer ence on the Prophet Mu ham mad
and his Mes sage held in Lon don in April 1980. It The fourth and last of the “rightly
de clares, “Is lam gave to man kind an ideal code guided” ca liphs was Ali, Mu ham mad’s
of hu man rights four teen cen tu ries ago...based cousin and son-in-law. Ac cused of com plic -
on the Qur’an and the Sunnah [teach ings and ity in Uthman’s mur der, he never fully es tab -
prac tice of Mu ham mad]....” HUMAN RIGHTS? lished his rule. Aisha sup ported a re bel lion
What de ceit! against him, re sult ing in the Bat tle of the
Camel in which 10,000 were killed. Ali won,
Abu Bakr was suc ceeded as ca liph by but was mur dered in 661.
Umar Abu Hafsa. His ar mies took Da mas cus in
635, Antioch in 636, Je ru sa lem in 638, Syria in Wars of suc ces sion pit ted Qur’aish
640, Egypt and Per sia in 641. En tire cit ies were against Bed ou ins, Umayyads against the
mas sa cred, such as Behnesa, Fayum, Nikiu and Hashimite fol low ers of Ali, etc. Most of Ali’s
Aboit in Egypt, Tri poli in North Af rica and fam ily were killed by ri val Mus lims in 680.
Euchaita in Ar me nia. Carthage was razed to the Mecca was be sieged by troops of Yezid, an
ground. In 644, Umar was mur dered. Umayyad; the Ka’aba (later re stored) was
burned to the ground, its Black Stone split

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