A Supremist Religion II: Muhammad The Bad Neighbor

Muhammad believed and acted as if there was a duality in reality. What do I mean? In a figurative sense there are two Muhammad’s. There is the religious preacher Muhammad (the younger more peaceful one), and there is the warrior-politician Muhammad (the violent murderous thug). Duality is one of the things that is confusing about Islam even to those who study it. It always has two messages to preach, and the reason it has two messages to preach is that there are two Muhammad. One that was dominant during the Meccan years of the Qur'an (the young peaceful portion) and one that was dominant in the later years of Muhammad's life after the Haj in Medina (old murderous thug). 

More than that, when you read the Qur'an, it’s clear there are two Qur'ans because they were written over a 23 year period and during Muhammad's life he became more murderous. One Qur'an is religious (early), the other Qur'an is political/murderous (later); both are combined in the Qur'an you buy at Amazon. Muhammad the religious man was not much of a success at all, but Muhammad the political man, and the warrior, was overwhelmingly successful. The truth of Muhammad's legacy is this. In the last nine years of his life he averaged an event of violence every six weeks. By this process of constant warfare he became the first ruler of all of Arabia.

Muhammad did not get along well with his neighbors. Even in his early religious phase, he was pushy and aggressive. When he went to Medina, his behavior became 10 times worse. When he eventually began to settle in Medina, approximately half the town was Jewish. Within three years after he arrived, all the Jews were eradicated. They had been either driven out of Medina— after their money was taken— or they’d been killed and sold into slavery.

Before Muhammad died, he had struck out to the north to Syria to fight the Christians. Some of his dying words were: “Let there be neither Jew nor Christian left in Arabia.” He would often attack neighboring tribes and attempt to force them to submit to Allah (himself). When they’d refuse, he would often kill the male members until the rest surrendered and then they were given a choice to convert. If they didn’t, they were killed or sold into slavery. Women, children, men. This was profitable enterprise for him. Jihad was profitable. 

He used jihad to finance more jihad. Muhammad came up with a way to make religion and politics pay. You still see the fruits of that philosophy today in modern Jihad. What we see is that in Islamic philosophy, Jihad not only supposedly helps the believer in the afterlife, it helps their families now in this life because the families are rewarded for the suicide bombings performed on behalf of other family members.