Posted on 05/07/2012 4:12:33 AM PDT by lbryce
Did the Prophet Muhammad really exist? This question, which may seem bizarre on the surface, is at the root of a new book by Robert Spencer, a prominent author and the director of Jihad Watch. Spencer, a figure who is praised by his fans and loathed by his detractors, has written numerous books on Islam.
Earlier this week, The Blaze spoke with the expert about his controversial, new book, Did Muhammad Exist? As can be derived from the title, the text delves into some uncomfortable subject matter, as Spencer examines the historical documentation surrounding the Muslim prophet.
The books official description perfectly encapsulates its central tenets:
Did Muhammad exist?
It is a question that few have thoughtor daredto ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived and led in seventh-century Arabia. But this widely accepted story begins to crumble on close examination, as Robert Spencer shows in his eye-opening new book.
In his blockbuster bestseller The Truth about Muhammad, Spencer revealed the shocking contents of the earliest Islamic biographical material about the prophet of Islam.
Now, in Did Muhammad Exist?, he uncovers that materials surprisingly shaky historical foundations. Spencer meticulously examines historical records, archaeological findings, and pioneering new scholarship to reconstruct what we can know about Muhammad, the Quran, and the early days of Islam. The evidence he presents challenges the most fundamental assumptions about Islams origins.
The premise of the book is that Islam like Judaism and Christianity deserves to be scrutinized and appropriately examined. Spencer maintains that Islam, unlike the other massive faith systems, has never truly been given the academic attention and examination it deserves. Like Christianity, he maintains that the faith is one that deserve[s] historical scrutiny.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Widows without their own support system "voluntarily" do a lot of things in impoverished societies. Getting burned to death is among the least of their worries ~ white washing old India (which, ta ta ta da) includes PAkistan ~ isn't in the cards. Too many witnesses from outside you know.
Pakistand is white washing India? Or you’re explaining that Pakistan used to be India, maybe.
India did not used to be impoverished in the eras when the sati rite was ever practiced. It was voluntary and rare. Widows were culturally taken care of by elder children and also dharmashalas.
The history of India as told by adversaries such as the British and Muslims is full of outright lies.
And Sanskrit is the oldest langage on earth and predates any Ice Age. “Sati” means chaste or devoted.
Sumerian, the language of the folks who invented writing, which is just one of the things used to attest to the age of Sanskrit, is older than that.
Current research suggests it and the core language behind the Finno-Ugric subgroup and possibly a different core language behind the Sa'ami languages is of Dravidian origin.
It'll take a lot more work to trick that out.
I know Sanskrit texts have some stories of events and conditions that could have existed ONLY in the Ice Age, but we don't really know the original language ~ maybe someday, but all these languages as they existed independent of writing in ancient times may well be older than dirt but without writing we do not know.
Languages disappear all the time anyway.
Now, about the Brits and Moslems telling lies about HIndu India, sure ~ they do that even today. But the Portuguese who were there quite a bit earlier tell the same stories.
I accept what the Vedas say about the history of the world, not historians with axes to grind and mistakes in understanding. The Portuguese were butchers when they came to Goa, btw.
Obviously somebody messed up when you let the Ports debark!
Everyone in the world has been slaughtering each other for millenia.
Think of it this way - which history of the American Revolution is more accurate, the American version or the British version?
Etc.
Everything has degraded terribly in the last 5000 years. Populations slaughtered and dispersed, civilizations destroyed, cities drowned under water and covered with jungles, histories forgotten. After the war of Kurukshetra, it shortly went downhill all over the world.
Good thing we won't have to face another End Of The Glaciers event for another 100,000 years.
Note, Dwarka was recently discovered underwater ~ so it was an historic city right where the Mahabarat said it was ~ but a little offshore.
These things happen even without sealevel change. In fact, ancient Alexandria was found just a couple of decades ago ~ offshore!
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