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> There was also a question in my post Jochen, can't you answer it? Who
> do you say Muhammad was? Tell us. I've asked you this question a
> number of times. You've never answered it.
Actually this question has been answered by the pals of Jochen a few centuries ago.
And Jochen will not answer this because his motive is "Inter-Faith Dialogue". But let
me help Jochen and others out of this "Inter-Faith Dialogue". Most of us may not have
heard the word Maometis derived from Mahomet. the word Maometis means The
number of the beast, i.e., 666 stuff . When the Christian polemics started a few
centuries ago strong vituperative language was poured out upon Muhammad(P) headed
by Maracci, Prideaux and others. The word Mahoun and Mahound means
Muhammad, imagined in the middle ages to be a pagan God. In Scottish this word
means the devil.[1]
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expulsion of the Sarcens from the Holy Land, medieval
war-propaganda, free from the restraints of factuality
was building up a conception of 'the great enemy'. At one
point Muhammad was transformed into Mahound, the prince
of darkness. By the eleventh century the idea about Islam
and Muslims current in the crusading armies were such
travesties that they had a bad effect on morale. The
crusaders had been led to expect the worst of their
enemies, and, when they found many chivalrous knights
among them, they were filled with distrust for the
authorities of their own religion.[2]
A few centuries ago the Prophet(P) was called the pagan God, the number of the
beast i.e., the devil. This was the work of those Holy Ghost inspired Christians. These
Christians also said that the Prophet(P) was a Child Molester, a Keeper of Harem and
an anti-Christ. The great lies of the Crusades against the Prophet(P) and Muslims can
even be seen in the so-called classics The Adventures Of Don Quixote.
Coming back to the modern age, we will still find Christians like Jochen calling the
Prophet(P) Child Molester although in a politically correct language. Go to Hyde Park
Speakers' Corner (London, UK) on Sunday and you will find Christian
fundamentalists calling Allah, the Moon god and repeating the same age old polemics
like the Prophet(P) was a Child Molester, a Keeper of Harem and an anti-Christ.
Basically, nothing has changed from then till today. The "Crusades" are still there
although wrapped up in a deceptive way. So do not get fooled by Jochen's "Inter-Faith
Dialogue" or "Christian-Muslim Understanding". All these are lies and damn lies.
Being on the soc.religion.islam for more than two and half years, I can testify that.
And regarding, the "Crusades" they are still here but people like Jochen shed
crocodile tears. Now one can say that Katz is falsely being accused of what he has not
done! A book is recommended by Katz called The Original Sources Of The Qur'an.
Apart from talking about the highly speculative sources of Islam, this book concludes
in a fashion which is not too unexpected from a missionary:
Before this paragraph Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall describes the matrimonial relations of
the Prophet(P). This is about how Muhammad(P) had 'acquired' wives as well as the issue
of Zayd and Zainab.
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There are, however, people who have studied the life of the Prophet(P) as well as Islam.
They do not have an axe to grind like Tisdall. Montgomery Watt after examining the
various charges of voluptuousness, apart from others, heaped on the Prophet(P)
conludes that:
Thomas Carlyle, who was among the first people to speak against the Christian lies
against Muhammad(P) says:
Missionaries just do not stop at the Prophet(P) himself. There is also something
interesting about the Noble Companions of the Prophet(P) that Tisdall has to say
Who calls Abû Hurrairah a lair? A Christain missionary or a Muslim? And this is all
there in the book recommended by Jochen. If he thinks that Muslims will sincerely
believe that spreading lies against Islam are over, he is sadly mistaken.
References
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[2] W Montgomery Watt, Muhammad At Medina, 1956, Oxford At The Clarendon
Press, p. 324.
[3] Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, The Original Sources Of The Qur'an, 1905, Society For
The Promotion Of Christian Knowledge, London, p. 280.
[5] Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & The Heroic In History, 1993,
University Of California Press, p. 38.