Was Muhammad Insane?

Posted in Blog Tags: Badr, Islam, Jews, Koran, Mecca, Medina, Muslim, Sharia, Yathrib, Zaynab bin Jahsh

THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF ISLAM is the belief that God talked to Muhammad and dictated the contents of the Koran to him. Muslims are indoctrinated into believing this is so, and they act on the numerous incitements to violence that they find in it.

For insight into Muhammad’s mental condition, consider Chapter 33 of his Koran, entitled “The Confederates.” This is one of the chapters Muhammad composed in Yathrib (later called Medina) where he fled after his Meccan compatriots determined they needed to kill him to preserve their way of life.

The chapter is like a wild theme park ride that races in and out of numerous topics. In the 73 verses that make up the chapter, Muhammad covers the following in the God-voice he used for the Koran: He recaps a recent battle with the Meccans and excoriates people who were afraid to fight and die for him; he gloats about his extermination of the men and boys of one of the Jewish tribes of Yathrib, the confiscation of their property, and the enslavement of their women and children; he authorizes himself to take as many wives as he likes, permits himself to marry the wife of his adopted son, forbids himself from taking any more wives after he has taken as many as he likes, but allows himself sex slaves.

As the verses of this “revelation” continue, Muhammad imposes full body and face cover for women when outside the home, threatens people with humiliating punishment in the afterlife for annoying him, threatens to murder his critics, prohibits the practice of adoption, and dishes up images of sadistic torture in Hell awaiting people who don’t believe in him. He also praises himself as a “lamp spreading light,” and holds his behavior as a “beautiful pattern” for people to follow if they want to score well with Allah.

Among the verses is a celestial advisory that he must be obeyed:

“It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision: if any one disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he is indeed on a clearly wrong Path.” (Koran 33:36) [All of the Koran quotes in this article are taken from the Yusuf Ali translation.]

Despite their tediousness, it is worth exploring some of these verses because, in addition to providing evidence of his strange mentality, they also show that his Koran was like a blog in which he commented on the happenings of the moment. The happenings of the moment recorded in Chapter 33 had to do with war, sex, and Muhammad’s betrayal of his adopted son.

In the war part of these verses, Muhammad covers the Meccan assault on Yathrib that came to be known as the Battle of the Trench, so named because of a three-mile defensive trench he dug around vulnerable parts of the valley to fend off the attackers. By the time of this battle, he had been waging war on the Meccans for almost five years. The two major battles of Badr and Uhud had already been fought.[1]

The Battle of the Trench was the third major fight, which took place in A.D. 627. The Meccans attacked with an army of 12,000 warriors, drawn from numerous tribes who were itching for payback for all the harm Muhammad had caused them. But they were unable to get beyond the trench and finally gave up after a fierce windstorm leveled their encampments.

Verses 9 to 25 recap the action. Most are a diatribe against cowardly or fake believers who Muhammad was certain would have betrayed him had they been given the opportunity. But he declares that Allah did not provide them with the opportunity because he sent the windstorm that disheartened the invaders and sent them packing. The battle was a test of faith of the believers who held firm, and Allah knows how to reward those who hold firm in their faith.

And rewarded they were: After the invaders left, Muhammad attacked the only remaining Jewish tribe of Yathrib and ended up distributing their wealth to the faithful. When he arrived in the valley, half of its 20,000 population was Jewish, divided among three major tribes. By the time of the Battle of the Trench, Muhammad had driven out two of the Jewish tribes. Hoping to escape the same fate, the remaining tribe at first insisted on not taking sides during the Meccan attack, then agreed to aid the invaders, but then backed out of it. Muhammad used this as an excuse to behead all of the men and boys.

About this massacre, Muhammad has Allah say:

“And those of the People of the Book (the Jews) who aided them (the invaders) – Allah did take them down from their strongholds and cast terror into their hearts. (So that) some ye slew, and some ye made prisoners. And He made you heirs of their lands, their houses, and their goods, and of a land which ye had not frequented (before). And Allah has power over all things.” (Verses 26-27)

The fundamental problem with Islam is the belief that God talked to Muhammad and dictated the contents of the Koran to him. Muslims are indoctrinated into believing this is so, and they act on the numerous incitements to violence that they find in it.

As with much of the Koran, substitute Muhammad for Allah and the real meaning comes through. What these verses mean in plain language is that the Jews surrendered after a three-week siege, hoping Muhammad would exile them as he had done to the other Jewish tribes, but he beheaded the men and boys — somewhere between 400 and 900 with 700 being the likely number of victims. He happily seized all of their wealth of farms, date plantations, fortresses, and homes, and he enslaved all of the woman and children. The booty was distributed among his followers who participated in the siege — minus the 20 percent cut he kept for himself. The likely reason he attacked the Jews was to seize their wealth to pay off his followers for the hardships they had endured during the Battle of the Trench. The fact the Jews had briefly taken sides with the Meccans was merely the pretext.[2]

MUHAMMAD ENAMORED. Like David when he saw Bathsheba bathing, Muhammad lusted after the wife of his adopted son Zayd one day when he visited their home and she answered the door in a skimpy dress. He got his adopted son to divorce her and he married her, adding her to his growing harem. He also ended the practice of adoption so that Zayd was no longer recognized as his son. (Illustration fromIt’s All About Muhammad, A Biography of the World’s Most Notorious Prophet, p. 272)

The chapter continues with blog entries concerning his marriage to Zaynab, the wife of Zayd, a slave whom he had adopted three decades earlier.[3] Muhammad added Zaynab to his harem after pressuring Zayd to divorce her. He lusted for her and wanted her for himself, his adopted son be damned. This marriage scandalized even some of the truest believers because it was taboo among the Arabs for a father to take the wife of his son, even if the son was divorced from her or deceased. Muhammad made use of Allah to finesse the matter. To deal with his critics, he had Allah end the practice of adoption and declared that not only was his adopted son no longer his son, but he had never been his son because adoption was a human invention and was displeasing to Allah. Therefore, Muhammad declared he was blameless in the matter. Moreover, Allah had granted him the right to marry Zaynab, “and Allah’s command must be fulfilled.” (Verse 37) When critics kept up their attacks, Muhammad threatened them with bloody murder: “They shall have a curse on them: whenever they are found, they shall be seized and slain (without mercy).” (Verse 61)

This amazing chapter continues with details about the wedding banquet with Zaynab. It so happened that his anger was sparked when some of the male wedding guests dallied after the banquet was over. This irked Muhammad to no end, perhaps in part because he was eager to sleep with Zaynab, and they kept him from her, but also because he suspected the men had lingered in order to ogle his bride. He composed Verses 28-34 that warn all of his wives to watch their behavior. Then in verse 59, he decides good behavior is not enough. His wives and all believing women from then on had to cover up so that no part of their body was on display outside of the home. Thus the burka was born:

“O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Verse 59)

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Florida Muslim family terrified after home targeted with gunfire following Paris attacks

A Muslim family in Florida told local media on Monday that their home had been targeted with gunfire due to backlash from the Paris attacks.

Orange County resident Amir Elmasri showed WFTV the hole where a bullet passed through his garage door and into the master bedroom. Elmasri said that he found the bullet in a dresser drawer in the bedroom.

According to Orange County deputies, evidence gathered at the scene suggested at least three bullets were fired at the home. The shooting was thought to have occurred between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Sunday when the family was away.

The police report noted that the victim “expressed concern and believes this incident may be retaliation towards him for the recent terrorist attacks in France because he is Muslim.”

“We are as peaceful as any American family,” Elmasri insisted. “I mean, why would you shoot at my garage?”

Elmasri pointed out that his family was now living in fear.

“They feel unsafe now,” he explained. “Why somebody is shooting at us, what did we do?”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/florida-muslim-family-terrified-after-home-targeted-with-gunfire-following-paris-attacks/

Lebensraum

Lebensraum listen (help·info) (Ger.: “Living space”) was a racist ideology that proposed the aggressive, territorial expansion of Germany, especially into Eastern Europe.^[2] Originally a biology term for “habitat”, the publicists for the German Empire (1871–1918) introduced Lebensraum as a concept of nationalismthat became a geopolitical goal of Imperial Germany in the First World War (1914–1918), as theSeptemberprogramm (1914).^[3] In the post-war Weimar Republic (1919–1933) the concept and the term were features of German ultra-nationalism; later, during the Third Reich (1933–1945), Lebensraum was an ideological element of Nazism, which advocated Germany’s territorial expansion into Eastern Europe, justified by the need for agricultural land in order to maintain the town-and-country balance upon which depended the moral health of the German people.^[4] In Mein Kampf (1925–26, My Struggle), Hitler justified Lebensraum as a natural law, by way of which a healthy and vigorous people of superior race, possessed an inherent and mystical right to displace unhealthy and feeble peoples of inferior races; especially when the people of superior race faced overpopulation in their native territories.^[5]

In practice, the Nazi policy of Lebensraum was to kill, deport, or enslave the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and other Slavic populations and other peoples living there considered racially inferior to the Germans and to repopulate Eastern Europe with Germanic people.^[6][7][8] The populations of cities were to be exterminated by starvation, thus creating an agricultural surplus that would feed Germany, and thereby allow political replacement by and re-population with a German upper class.^[6] The eugenics of Lebensraumexplicitly assumed the racial superiority of Germans as an Aryan master race (Herrenvolk), who, by virtue of their superiority (physical, mental, genetic) had the right to displace any people they deemed to beUntermenschen (subhumans) of inferior racial stock.^[9]

Sociologically, the Nazis insisted that the Lebensraum lands be developed as racially-homogeneous societies, to be realised by avoiding miscegenation, the intermixing of Germans with native peoples of an inferior race.^[7] Therefore, in a territory designated as German Lebensraum, the racially inferior natives, by law, were subject either to being killed, deported, or enslaved by the Nazis.^[7] In the course of the Second World War in Europe (1939–45), Nazi Germany supported the Lebensraum politics of officially racist régimes, such as Fascist Italy (1922–43), the Slovak Republic (1939–45), and the Independent State of Croatia(1941–45).^[10]

Historically, the concept of the Germans as people without space (Volk ohne Raum) predated Adolf Hitler's ideological application of Lebensraum to the national politics of Germany, about which he said: "We are overpopulated and cannot feed ourselves from our own resources"; hence, the Nazi Party claimed that German territorial expansion was inevitable, because of the critical overpopulation of the Weimar Republic, the smaller, post–WWI Germany designed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919).^[11]

Politically, since the 1920s, the Nazi Party had proposed and justified territorial expansion as an inevitable, geopolitical necessity for Germany, which would resolve overpopulation and provide the natural resources required for the well-being of the German people.^[11] On 24 February 1920, Hitler announced the National Socialist Program, point three stated: “We demand land and territory [colonies] for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population”;^[12] that is, Lebensraum specifically from Russia and her vassal states, as noted in Mein Kampf.^[13][14] Given the improved Russo–German political relations consequent to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939), in the pact's three-year period (1939–41), the Germans told the Russians that Nazi Germany had discarded plans to annex territories from the U.S.S.R., and that Germany would seek Lebensraum in central Africa.^[15]

About the international politics of Lebensraum, Hitler said that Germany sought the diplomatic settlement of claims for living space in Europe, which would require that the European powers cede territories claimed by Nazi Germany.^[16] Despite the façade of seeking diplomatic settlements to Germany’s claims for living space, the Third Reich prepared war for Lebensraum, because, by the late 1930s, Hitler had realised the militarisation of German society in preparation for Operation Barbarossa (22 June 1941), the eventual and “necessary” war between the peoples of Germany and of Russia.^[17] In planning the destruction of Poland, by partition and annexation, Nazi Germany told the Polish Government that if war between Germany and the Soviet Union resulted in Germany taking Lebensraum from the Soviet Union, then Germany would allow Poland the right to annex parts of the Ukraine, whilst Germany annexed more Soviet territory — if Poland were to subordinate herself to Germany, and allow the German annexation of Polish territories. Aware that the proposal would immediately be rejected, the Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, nonetheless proposed that territorial-annexation settlement to the Polish diplomats who sought to forestall the Nazi invasion of Poland (1 September 1939).^[18][19][20]

The Third Reich invoked precedents — geopolitical, historical, cultural — to legalistically justify their pursuit of Lebensraum beyond the borders of Germany.^[21] Besides the historical examples of the British and French colonial empires, Nazi territorial expansion was justified with the cultural example ofManifest Destiny (1845), the ideological justification for the colonisation, by the white people of the United States, of the “American frontier”, the inhabited North-American lands south of Canada and north of Mexico.^[7] Hitler said that the geographic size of the European nation-states was “absurdly small in comparison to their weight of colonies, foreign trade, etc.”, which he contrasted to “the American Union, which possesses, at its base, its own continent, and touches the rest of the Earth only with its summit”; and that colonisation of the continental U.S., by the Nordic peoples of Europe, would create a nation possessed of a great, internal market, of a great capacity for material reproduction, and a fertile land fit for great biological reproduction; hence was North America the ideal Lebensraum proposed by Nazism.^[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum

I came across this concept while searching the words: "World Repopulation Concept" just something that came to mind while seeking info on the refugee issues. Which lead me to these interesting Title Related to the concept.

Lebensraum and Improving the Racial Stock, 21st century style

Iran War: U.S. adopts Blitzkrieg & Lebensraum foreign policy

A social studies teacher at Spring View Middle School gave students an ode to Islam to sing, set to the tune of Rachel Platten‘s “Fight Song.” But instead, the chorus goes:

This is their fight song

Spread Islam now song

Prove that they’re right song

Other parts of the song declares that they “don’t really care if no Jews or [Christians] believe,” and “Islam… Allah’s on the way.”

Parents were upset, to say the least. “I believe that by singing this song, the children feel comfortable believing that maybe Allah is the only god, and maybe that they should start following him,” one parent told CBS Los Angeles. “And that I’m not OK with.”

Even Islamic organizations like CAIR aren’t happy with the song, especially the lyrics “they might only have one god,
but they can make an explosion.”

“Our reaction was that obviously the teacher could have had a better choice of words,” spokesmanOjaala Ahmad said.

Watch above, via CBS Los Angeles.

[Image via screengrab]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/california-middle-school-makes-kids-sing-about-spreading-islam/