He supported himself by raiding caravans. How noble.
There. Fixed it.
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Sure there is, at least a few billion.
what in the heck were the goons reading, he was a pervert pedaphile outlaw murderer..............
He sat before the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her. Thereupon the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.
So as Mark Levin would say, "Get off the mic, ya big dope!"
For a moment, I thought this was an article on Dennis Kucinich or Mother Teresa.
While you have to be impressed with his results, that doesn't mean that you have to respect what came from these results.
Honestly, how does one camel jockey overthrow larges treks of the Byzantine Empire and form a mass of followers that has conquered a good 20% of the globe or so? Yeah, it's impressive. And piss be upon him.
The Western media will undoubtedly come to understand and appreciate the ‘Mercy to all Mankind’ just like its scholars and intellectuals have, the craven ones that survived.
If western intellectuals said what they really thought about Mohammed, Muslims would use it as an excuse to execute the western intellectuals.
And I suspect that's what this article is all about.
It's interesting that the writer wants to know the opinions of "western intellectuals" rather than the opinions of "western peoples". These are two very different things.
Western intellectuals have all but done away with Christianity as a political/social force in Europe, and Europeans have followed their intellectuals.
The American people are more religious than Europeans, but our intellectuals are trying to follow Europe's sectarian lead. That's one difference between blue and red states.
Question an intellectual about Christ and Muhammad and you'll two different answers. Ask him if he'd rather live under Islamic rule rather than in the West and you'll only get one answer.
Why do cultural leaders hold Shaw in any kind of esteem? Maybe because he was one of the founders of Fabian Socialism and a die-hard atheist.
Anyway, his views on some other influential, and contemporary, figures:
There were several men infinitely greater in Western Civilization that provided progress, knowledge and a greater understanding of humanity and God as compared to mohammed. One stands above all the rest in the West, Jesus Christ, God incarnate, the very bedrock and capstone of our civilization; mohammed wasn't fit to untie his sandals much less stand shoulder to shoulder.
If these are all the western critics this author could find who'd praised mohammed, it's an incredibly shallow collection. None of which I could tell had any theological instruction or training as to rate this camel herder's concept of God and his messages thereto. As the Church branded him and his religion a heresy, so it stands. It is the enemy of Western Civilization, as was Nazism and Communism, materialism and humanism, too. It doesn't hold a candle to what we once stood for, and will need to raise up and defend again. I'm easily willing to do so, is enough of our fellow Americans (and maybe whatever Europeans having any spine or pride or both?) willing to? I'm not only concerned about my civilization, my society, my country and my faith, but my children and at some point grandchildren as well....or hasn't enough people seen the big picture regarding this protracted conflict?
"The character attributed to Muhammad in the biography of Ibn Ishaq is exceedingly unfavorable. In order to gain his ends he recoils from no expedient, and he approves of similar unscrupulousness on the part of his adherents, when exercised in his interest. He profits to the utmost from the chivalry of the Meccans, but rarely requites it with the like. He organizes assassinations and wholesale massacres. His career as tyrant of Medina is that of a robber thief, whose political economy consists in securing and dividing plunder. . .He is himself an unbridled libertine and encourages the same passions in his followers. For whatever he does he is prepared to plead the express authorization of the deity. It is, however, impossible to find any doctrine which he is not prepared to abandon in order to secure a political end. At different points in his career he abandons the unity of God and his claim to the title of Prophet. This is a disagreeable picture for the founder of a religion, and it cannot be pleaded that it is a picture drawn by an enemy. . ."
Ibn Ishaq died in 768 C.E., one hundred and thirty years after the death of Muhammad. His work is the earliest known attempt at a biography of the Prophet -- and it was distinctly unfavorable. He didn't rate a fatwa, a riot or a beheading, likely because he wrote close to Muhammad's death, when the gloss of the centuries of fabrications hadn't yet elevated the robber-thief-murderer to a god-like status.
Why do I have a bad feeling that these "most influential" persons in history also included Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and Mao Tse Tung?
*PBUT, too (and it ain't "peace"...
...and if the Allies had lost WWII, Michael Hart would be using the same phrase to kiss Hitler's rosy red, too.
Shaw needs no introduction, nor comment.
Indian freedom icon and intellectual Annie Beasant
western intellectuals!?
His character was pure and stainless. His house, his dress, his food — they were characterized by a rare simplicity. So unpretentious was he that he would receive from his companions no special mark of reverence, nor would he accept any service from his slave which he could do for himself.
Is Dr. Weil talking about the same Muhammad(Pork be upon him) that we all know & revile?
This man REmoved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.
Fixed you typo for you, Alphonse de La Martaine.
This author is a light weight. He forgot to mention BJ, Jimmah, GWB, Ibrahim Hooper....
A lot of people said the same crap about the cult of Lenin too, even many westererns.
You forgot the Barf Alert.... And I just bought these shoes.
If Mohammed's armies had conquered Europe, the modern world would never have come into existence.