On numerous occasions I’ve
said that I love Muslims (the people)—but I hate Islam (the religion)! Some of
my reasons for hating this religious ideology are summarized quite well in the
book, Muhammad and the Unbelievers; a Political Life by Bill Warner.
This short book (only 167 pages) provides a
fascinating and readable story of Muhammad’s life. It summarizes the very
earliest biography of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq and weaves into the biography parts
of the Muhammad’s teachings from the Koran and other early respected Islamic
sources (I’ve read Ibn Ishaq’s biography of Muhammad--over 700 pages-- and the
Koran so I know that Warner’s summary is accurate).
The advantage
of this book over some modern biographies of Muhammad is that this book has not
been filtered through the lenses of Muslim apologetics or modern Western
political correctness. The story comes directly from Islam’s earliest and most
sacred sources. Almost every paragraph in the book has been documented from
those sources
The picture that
emerges is that Muhammad was a man who was kind, hospitable, generous, loving,
patient and forgiving—toward Muslims who submitted completely and
unquestioningly to his rule.
Toward “Kafirs”
(unbelievers), on the other hand, he was mercilessly vicious and cruel. He
would threaten, intimidate, deceive, rob, rape, enslave, torture, execute and
slaughter Kafirs by the hundreds! On one occasion, he sat all day long watching
literally hundreds of Jews being beheaded at his command. Then he ordered their
wives and children into slavery.
Muhammad ordered
the executions of people for no other reason than the fact that those people
had criticized Muhammad or had changed their minds and turned away from his
religion. He “captured slaves, sold slaves, bought slaves, freed slaves,
tortured slaves, had sex with slaves, gave slaves as gifts of pleasure,
received slaves as gifts, and sued slaves for work” (164).
He allowed the
black slave of his wife Aisha to be tortured in order to determine whether
Aisha was faithful to him or not—and only after the torture revealed that Aisha
was faithful did Muhammad receive a revelation exonerating her of any
wrongdoing!
These stories do
not come from “Islamophobic right wing extremists” but from Islam’s earliest
and most sacred sources. These are the stories and teachings that Muhammad
encouraged his followers to emulate—and which faithful Muslims in power have
emulated for roughly 1,400 yeas!
You can buy the
book on Amazon for $17.95: https://smile.amazon.com/Mohammed-Unbelievers-political-Islamic-trilogy/dp/097855289X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1549309883&sr=8-2&keywords=muhammad+and+the+unbelievers)
As a Christian,
I love Muslims—but I hate Islam!
