Editor note:  We are in favor of leaving religions altogether. However, this article is published here, because, a peaceful appeal to Muslims for their return to their roots, from which they were brutalized to accept Islam, deserves a place here and everywhere else.

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Muhammad: A Highway Robber

The Muslims who migrated to Medina from Mecca were called muhajirs (refugees). These muhajirs were very poor. Muhammad also bribed many poor people of Medina to convert them to Islam. He also converted many slaves by paying ransom to their owners. The major financial burden of all such activities was borne by his rich friend Abu-bakr. But that was not adequate and to solve the problem, Muhammad contemplated some means. Firstly, evict the rich Jewish community from Medina and acquire their riches and wealth. Secondly, attack and loot the trade caravans of the Koreish of Mecca. Thirdly, extort money from rich non-Muslim inhabitants of Medina. And fourthly, impose sadqa (a portion of the income, later on called zaqat) on the well off Muslims.

In the month of Ramadhan, 622 AD, Muhammad sent a team of 30 muhajirs, under the leadership of his uncle Hamja, to loot a Koreish trade caravan that was returning from Syria. But the expedition failed. Then he sent another team, in January, 623 AD, to loot a caravan, led by abu-Sufyan, but failed. Later on, he sent two expeditions to loot a caravan led by Umaiya-bin-Khalaf and Abu-Sufyan, but failed. In the same year, He sent another team to Nakhla, in the month of Rajab and his men killed one, made two other captive and returned to Medina with a large treasure of spoils. Out of 12 months in a year, 4 of them—Rajab, Muharram, Jilqad and Jilhajj—were considered holy in the entire Arab peninsula and bloodshed was prohibited in those months from time immemorial. But Muhammad’s men committed bloodshed with his tacit support.

These incidents give testimony in favour of the allegation by the said Bangladeshi apostates that Muhammad was a highway robber.

Muhammad: An Assassin

When the Muslim population in Medina swelled to a considerable extent, Muslims, having indulgence from Muhammad, started oppressing the non-Muslims of Medina. When they could understand that they had brought their misfortune by their own mistake, it was too late. There were a few popular poets in Medina who then started to arouse the non-Muslims by writing provocative poems against Muslims and criticizing Muhammad’s deeds. Naturally, such propaganda earned displeasure of Muhammad. But he refrained from killing or punishing them in broad day light fearing an uprising of the non-Muslims of Medina. So, he decided to assassinate them in the darkness of night. At first, he assassinated the poetess Ashma and then the poet Abu-Afaq.. Then he assassinated the poet Kaab-bin-Ashraf. These incidents substantiate the allegation of the Bangladeshi apostates that Muhammad was an assassin.

Muhammad: A Mass-Murderer

It has been mentioned earlier that Muhammad was bent on to evict the Jewish community of Medina, divided into 3 clans namely Beni Kanuika, Beni Najir and Beni Koreiza, from the city to grab their riches and wealth. To achieve his goal Muhammad warned them first that if they did not embrace Islam they should be ready to face very serious consequencies. At the same time, he empowered the Muslims to kill any Jew at any time and anywhere. Firstly, he scared the Beni Kanuika to such an extent that they agreed to leave Medina with as much belongings as a camel can carry.

The Jews of Beni Najir used to live in a suburb of Medina. One day he went to Najir colony but returned to Medina without telling anyone the reason for his departure. Later on he brought the allegation that the Jews of a nearby house tried to crush him by rolling down a stone on him from the top of a building. He then promulgated an order telling that such dangerous people have no right to live in Medina. But the allegation was never investigated. However, the Beni Najir Jews declined to leave Medina and the Muslims put their colony under seize. Ultimately, the entire population of Najir, except two families who converted to Islam, left Medina. Some of them settled at Khaibar, a place nearly 100 miles in the north of Medina and the rest went to Syria.

In 626 AD, the Prophet brought allegation against the Beni Koraiza that they had entered into secret intrigue with the Koraish of Mecca against the Muslims of Medina, an allegation that was never investigated into. A kangaroo court was formed with a new convert Sa’d, loyal to the Prophet, as the Judge, who was fatally wounded in the clash. He issued a bloody verdict that all the able men would be beheaded, women and children would be sold as slaves and the spoils would be divided amongst Muslims. They were nearly 2000 souls, including men, women and children. The verdict was delivered in the afternoon and immediately the men, about 800 in number, hands tied behind their backs, were separated from women and children, and kept under confinement. (Boys with pubic hair were taken as adults). The Prophet selected Rihana, most beautiful among the women for him. During the night a ditch large enough to contain 800 corpses was dug in the market-place of Medina.

In the morning, Mohammad, himself a spectator of the tragedy, commanded the male captives to be brought forth in companies of five or six at a time. The unfortunates were then asked to sit down on the brink of the ditch facing the ditch, in a row and Hamja, the Prophet’s uncle, and Jubair, Talha and Ali, the cousins of Muhammad, chopped their heads off and kicked the dead bodies into the ditch. Only one woman was beheaded along with the men-folk and it was alleged that in one occasion she had planned to kill the Prophet by rolling down a heavy stone from the top of a building.

To describe the incident Sir W Muir, the celebrated biographer of the Prophet, writes, “The butchery, begun in the morning, lasted all day, and continued by torchlight till the evening. Having thus drenched the market-place with the blood of seven or eight hundred victims,

and having been commanded for the earth to be smoothed over their remains, Mohammad returned from the horrid spectacle to solace himself with the charms of Reihaha, whose husband and all her male relatives had just perished in the massacre. He invited her to be his wife; but she declined, and chose to remain his slave or concubine”. The Life of Mahomet, Voice of India, New Delhi, 1992).

This present author has never seen a Muslim biographer of the Prophet to narrate this cold blooded massacre of 800 people by the Prophet. A Bengali biographer, Abdul Aziz Al Aman, has only mentioned it in his Kabar Pathe (On the Road to Kaaba) and described the massacre of the Koraiza Jews as a blot in the history of Prophet’s stay in Medina as well as a blot on the history of Islam.

In this context, it should be pointed out that, the Muslims intend to destroy Israel and also, to take over the earth from the followers of other religions by massacring the non-Muslims of the world en masse. Where from they derive their inspiration and guidance to achieve their goal? It is from Muhammad’s deeds in Medina – his killing of Jews of Medina and massacring the Arab infidels. So the Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Muhammad, while delivering his speech, before the Muslim delegates, in OIC Summit held in Malaysia in 2003, said:

…It cannot be that there is no other way. 1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way. And we can only find a way if we stop to think, to assess our weaknesses and our strength, to plan strategy and then to counter-attack. As Muslims we must seek guidance from the Al-Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet. Surely the 23 years’ struggle of the Prophet can provide us with some guidance as to what we can and should do.

So, it is obvious that the apologists like Mr Asgar Ali Engineer of Mumbai will always refrain from describing this bloody episode of his Prophet because it would then not be possible for them to portray the Prophet as an apostle of peace. That is also the reason that the so-called secular Indian media, many other apologist groups including the monks of the Ramakrishna Mission say that his (Muhammad’s) life and deeds in Medina, was an example of kindness and forgiveness, which even a Billy goat would refuse to accept,

Muhammad lived in Medina for 10 years, during which he organized 82 raids as a part of jihad against non-Muslim settlements of Arabia, massacring in excess of a thousand people, who refused to accept Islam. Out of these 82 raids, Muhammad participated in 26 raids, called Ghazwah, while the rest are called Sariah.

It has been pointed out above that the Jews of Beni Najir, after being evicted from Medina, settled at Khaibar, nearly 100 miles north of Medina. Muhammad said to his followers that he would drive the Jews out of the Arab peninsula. So, in August, 628 AD, he invaded Khaibar with an army 1600 strong after sunrise (just after finishing the fazr or early morning prayer),

when the inhabitants of Khaibar were totally unprepared. Massacre of unarmed people continued throughout the day drenching the land with blood. Kinana was the leader of the Jews. Information reached Muhammad from a traitor Jew that Kinana had concealed his treasure of gold ornaments and utensils; he received as dowry while marrying Safiya, in a secret place. One would be shocked to know the inhuman torture that Muhammad inflicted on Kinana to get the word out of him. Kinana was forced to lie down on his back and Muhammad placed burning charcoal on his chest and fanned it to glow red hot. Many believe that the torture continued till the burning charcoal penetrated Kinana’s heart and lungs. When a traitor Jew disclosed the secret place, Kinana was beheaded. Safiya, Kinana’s wife, was extremely beautiful and in the same night, Muhammad raped Safiya.

Muhammad and the Prophets of Hinduism

In neutral judgment, the Prophet of Islam would undoubtedly come to one as nothing but a highway robber, an assassin, a mass-murderer, a sexual pervert, a rapist. The ordinary Muslims, generally ignorant of the life-story of Prophet Muhammad, are brainwashed Mullahs to believe that Muhammad was the greatest man ever to appear on earth by concealing his violent and inhuman deeds. In many occasions, this author have been surprised to see that these common Muslims do not know the hair-raising and blood-chilling cruelties committed by their Prophet. Dictated by the Mullahs, they parrot that Muhammad was the greatest of humankind.

On the contrary, the Prophets of Hinduism—i.e., the thinkers and philosophers who originated the Hindu theology, Hindu philosophies, Hindu spiritualism in the Vedas and authored Puranas and epics—were called Rishis. They were highly educated, men of high moral character. They used to renounce every carnal passion and mundane desires and live in ashramas in forests, far from the urban crowd. As a result, the books authored by them do not contain hatred, but love and compassion for the entire humanity.

Consistent with the origin of the two creeds, we witness that to project Muhammad as the greatest man, hundreds of people are being executed or brutally murdered by Muslim mobs every year on the allegation of blasphemy. On the contrary, it would be difficult to find a Hindu assassin to murder a blasphemer for the Prophets of Hinduism even by offering a handsome reward.

We may now listen to what an enlightened Muslim has said about the message of Hinduism. The Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), an NGO—which works for promoting peace and amity between the people of the two neighboring countries—held its yearly convention at Peshwar, Pakistan, on November 21–22, 1998. Pakistani delegate Dr Abdul Karim Naik, in his address, said, “Only the message of the Upanisads is capable of removing discriminations among the human race created on the basis of religion and nationality. Only Upanisads consider the entire humanity as a family and every person living in this world as a member of the world family.” (Islamic Voice, March, 19990)

It is, therefore, evident that the Islamic scriptures that divide the humanity into believers and non-believers (kafirs) and propagates hatred towards the kafirs is incapable of producing lasting good for the entire humanity. But it is really a pity that the converted Muslims of the subcontinent, whose forefather were forced to embrace the violent cult of Muhammad at the point of sword, detest their true root: the nonviolent, humane and tolerant creed and civilization of Hindustan. This has been causing much misery, suffering and cruelty to numberless innocent people in this lands of historical tranquility, peace and tolerance. A creed, forced upon a people by the sword cannot create, a peaceful society: Muslims of the subcontinent are a glaring proof of that. The sooner they abandon it, the better is it for them and their neighbours.

(To be continued)