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“The merciful, Kind Mohammed, that I knew as my prophet would never order men and boys to be beheaded. Nor would he sell women and children into slavery”

Were my eyes playing tricks on me? Mohammad was saying that he would fight people until they became Muslim or until he killed them and took their property that was impossible, it ran encountered to everything I knew about Muhammad and it contradicted the Quran’s clear statement that there is no compulsion in religion.
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It was then that I began to realize I inherited an airbrushed image of Muhammad.

“I have seen it cited on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and innumerable Dawah materials to show that the Quran discourages murder. What each of these references omitted was the first line of the verse, which makes it explicit that the prohibition of murder was directed specifically to the Jews. It was not a teaching sent to Muslims.”

“ if an Islamic extremist wants to mobilize his followers to active terrorism, he will quote the violent references, to the exclusion of the peaceful ones.” this method of selective quotation is pervasive often egregious for example. The chronic verse that I have seen quoted more often than any other to defend. A peaceful view of Islam is 5:32.
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‘Things which it is disgraceful to discuss, matters which would distress certain people, in such reports as [my teqcher] told me he could not accept his trustworthy- all these things I have omitted.”

“Muhammad’s first biography Sirat Rasul Allah by In Ishaq, comes down to our day only through transmission of a later biographer, Ibn Hisham. In his introduction, Ibn Hisham explains that he altered the story of Muhammad’s life.”
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“ that is also why, generally speaking, Muslims cannot dispassionately discuss Muhammad. They bring immense baggage to the table, and the discussion will doubtless be colored by apparent, unrelated things, such as loyalty to kin even current affairs between Israel and Palestine.”

“ but far closer to the Muslim heart, Muhammad is the man that embodies Islam, a symbol for the whole of Islamic civilization. Because of Heidy and tradition, Muslim religion, culture, heritage, and identity find their core in the person of Muhammad. That is why Muslim see an attack on his character as equivalent to a personal attack on them and everything they stand for. Continued….