The Prophet Armed. Rock the Kaaba.Islam is the only one of the world’s great religions to have been founded on the Sword as well as the Word. It began with The thirty-nine ….
Southern Arabia was a remote and backward place when Mohammed was born. Outside powers showed no interest in the empty quarter. Beyond the oases of a few urban centers on the trade routes, society was brutal and nomadic, surviving, as it always had, thanks to the camel, the ship of the desert, and the date, the bread of the desert. Political power was fragmented among many tribes. As the pastoral society gave way to a merchant economy centering on the city of Mecca, located on the principal north-south trade route, tribal institutions broke down,and with them, religious and public morality.
—But beyond the correctness of monotheism, what does Rambam say of Islam and its founder, Mohammed?
One of Rambam’s most well-known public letters is his letter to the Jews of Yemen (available in Hebrew at Rambam L’Am, Igrot, “Igeret Teiman [or] Petach Tikvah,” pp. 103-193), who were suffering during the “Golden Age,” as it is so often called, of Islam. Just as Rambam had been chased out of Andalusia (Spain) by marauding Muslim armies from the Maghreb, the Jews of Yemen were being persecuted by the Muslim mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula. In this famous letter, Rambam terms Mohammed the psychopath (Meshugah) and describes the ugliness and the viciousness of the Muslims toward Jews as the worst the Jews had experienced since the Exile. Indeed, Rambam, who most certainly understood the theology of Islam, points out in this letter that Islam was theologically corrupt as well, having taken the Jewish Torah and effectively rewritten it for its own purposes.
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Mohammed was born in Mecca, about the year 570 , to the family of Beni Hashim, a modest branch of the dominant Quraish tribe. His father, Abdallah, probably died a few months before his birth. The baby was apparently turned over to a Bedouin wet nurse and spent the first five or six years of his life in the desert. Later, after his mother;s death, his upbringing was taken over by an uncle named abu-Talib, a rich merchant and a good citizen, for he collected the poor tax.
John Phillips photography. Arab Legion 1948.— Another example of how IHRC reflects Iran agenda is the selectiveness of its campaigns. They don’t mention the bloody suppression of Syria’s revolution by Iran’s ally Bashar Assad, though there was an elderly woman, marching with a Hezbollah placard, while giving out leaflets of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) who wore an improvised T-shirt with the words “Syria is best friend of Palestinians.” The only Arab revolution they do champion is that of Shi’ites in Bahrain – many of the demonstrators on Friday had badges with Bahraini flags and the IHRC have hired advertising on buses in London supporting the “Bahraini Struggle,” one of the efforts by Iran to undermine the Sunni Gulf states.
The Syrian revolution along with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has to a large degree pushed Iran out of the mainstream of the Palestinian struggle. Tehran is now competing with al-Qaida for patronage of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, most Hamas leaders prefer Cairo nowadays. But Iran’s Qods Day in London and around the world proves that they are determined to continue using the cause as part of their efforts to dominate Muslim discourse. —Read More:http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/the-axis/iran-s-specter-looms-large-over-london-s-annual-quds-day-march.premium-1.459264
Abu-Talib let the young Mohammed accompany him on caravans to Syria. Through his business connections, Mohammed met a wealthy widow named Khadija. He led one of her caravans to Syria, where her goods were sold at a handsome profit. The widow decided that Mohammed had broght her luck, and one day she proposed. Though Mohammed was twenty-five and Khadija forty, the difference in ages must have been outweighed by other advantages, for he readily agreed to the match. The next fifteen years of the Prophet’s life are glossed over in the biographies. One can only imagine that he was happily married, since he took no other wives while she lived. Khadija, despite her age, gave Mohammed three sons, all of whom died in infancy, and four daughters.
—Washington for its part is quietly pushing President Morsi to make good on his promise of a military operation to root out al Qaeda affiliates from central Sinai. debkafile’s Washington sources report that the Egyptians don’t say this outright, but are hinting that they are waiting for President Barack Obama to order the release of substantial aid funds before embarking on this counter-terror offensive or withdrawing their tanks from Sinai. They are very clear about the amounts that would satisfy them: A grant of half a billion dollars from the United States and a US guarantee for an International Monetary Fund loan of $4.6 billion.
Our sources report that the Muslim Brotherhood regime needs an urgent influx of cash to pay public sector wages on Sept. 1.
3. President Morsi is holding another move in abeyance pending the Obama administration’s response to his urgent financial needs. He has not yet replied to Tehran’s official invitation for him to represent Egypt at the non-aligned summit of Muslim nations taking place in the Iranian capital on Aug. 30. The inference is that if Washington meets Cairo’s economic aid requests, Morsi with refuse Iran’s invitation; but if it falls short, the Muslim Brotherhood will start a process of rapprochement with Iran, the first since Islamist revolutionaries seized control of Tehran in1979-80.—Read More:http://www.debka.com/article/22289/Cairo-uses-illicit-Sinai-tanks-to-bargain-for-massive-US-aid
But Mohammed must have had other things on his mind, for he took to brooding on a cave on Mount Hira. It was there, when he was forty, on the twenty-seventh day of Ramadan in the year 610, that the angel Gabriel fond him. Mohammed became aware of a voice and a figure that remained always in front of him, whichever way he turned. Gabriel, says the Koran, “stood on the uppermost horizon, then drawing near, he came down within two bows’ lenghts or even closer and revraled to his servant that which he revealed.” The angel told him:
Recite the name of thy Lord who creatred,
Created man from a clot.
Recite!For thy lord is most gracious,
Who taught with a pen,
Taught man what he knows not.
On subsequent visits the angel told Mohammed that he should devote his life to bringing Alllah’s word to man, and Mohammed began to preach the revealed word within a small circle of
ly and friends. One of the first converts was his close friend abu-Bakr, a wealthy merchant. Mohammed met him at the central shrine, called the Kaaba, where Meccans prayed to 360 idols cut from stone in human form some of them dressed in costumes and perfumed with saffron and other spices. Mohammed convinced abu-Bakr that his revelations were genuine. Soon there were thirty-nine converts, who prayed at home, keeping the faith secret…..( to be continued)
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