Reality Denied: The Inconvenient Truth about the Palestinian – Israeli Conflict

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REALITY DENIED:The Inconvenient Truth about

thePalestinian Israeli Conflict


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What a "uslim #ho converte$ to Christianit% sai$

As a former Shiite Muslim, I recommend this book toanyone who desires to know the truth about Islam. Dr.Heinrich has uncovered imortant material that is hiddenfrom !estern audiences. "his reli#ion is not based on love$ ithas no lace where %od or Allah transforms the life of aerson. It is a reli#ion of an#er and con&uest.'

(( Adrian Medley, )ehrersbur#, *A


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the reason ihadists have a assionate hatred for both Israeland America.


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All -ible Scriture &uotations are from the ew AmericanStandard /ersion of the -ible. 0oyri#ht 1 2345, 2346, 2347,2348, 2392, 2396, 2397, 239:, 2399, 233: by the ;ockmanondervan*ublishin# House.

All ?uranic &uotations are from the Authori@ed n#lish"ranslation of the Arabic ?uran BCoran by Dr. )ashadChalifa, ditor and "ranslator. =sed by *ermission of>ondervan *ublishin# House.

All Hadith &uotations were translated by =niversity of

Southern 0alifornia, 0enter of Muslim(Eewish n#a#ementand are from the =S0 website. =sed by *ermission of>ondervan *ublishin# House.

REALITY DENIED: The Inconvenient Truth about thePalestinian ** Israeli Conflict!

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All ri#hts reserved. o ortion of this book may bereroduced in any form without the written ermission of theauthor.

*rinted in the =nited States of America

"he urose of this book is to inform readers of the

si#nificant eole, tribes, nations, and events

that formed todays Middle ast and

#lobal crises, and to develo

enli#htened readers whothink critically.


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Tables of Content

With +ubtitles

Cha,terPa'e

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4 Adolf Hitler, !orld !ar II and the Arab 0onsiracy296

Insti#ators of Hatred

"he a@i *alestinian Alliance"he Matter of thics and Morality

9 *ost !orld !ar II and the -irth of Israel657

"he Eewish *assion and Stru##le for their*romised ;and

"he -irth of Israel

)efu#ees and more !ar

8 Muslim !ar of Misinformation and *roa#anda643

!arnin#s to and Decetions acceted by!estern

%overnments and Academics

3 "he 0onflict +ands Internationally752

*eace A#reements L /iolence

Si#nificant ?uestions about *alestine'

25 Summary and 0onclusion78J

!ords of Hoe and 0omfort


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"he hardest thin# to e+lain is the #larin#ly evidence whicheverybody had decided not to see.'

(( Ayn )and


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&i'ures

2 An Islamic *oster 0elebrates Americas Destruction 7 6 "he %reat >i##urat of Ancient =r

23 7 A )elief 0arvin# of the Moon %od 23 J "he %enealo#ical "ree of AbrahamGEewish Side 68 : "he %enealo#ical "ree ofAbrahamG Arab Side 63

4 Illustration of a 0oin with 0rescent MoonJ4 9 Stone Monument with 0rescent Moon

J4 8 Manuscrit Deicts the -irth of Muhammad

J3 3 Hamas -ride#rooms with 0hild -rides:2 25 Muhammad )ides his

!in#ed Horse :9

22 Muhammad ;eads Abraham, Moses and Eesus in *rayer:9 26 *aintin# of Muhammad Cillin# Eews

49 27 Modern "errorist


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64 *russian meror !ilhelm II nters Eerusalem269 69 A =ni&ue Eewish !eddin#

272 68 ;awrence of Arabia after the-attle of A&aba 27J 63 "he -alfourDeclaration 278 75

%eneral Allenbys Airlane over Eerusalem2J2

72 %eneral Allenby nters Eerusalem2J2 76 %eneral Allenby Accets the

Surrender 2J6 77 ;etter of

Disaointment 2:5 7JHa Amin l(Husseini, the %rand Mufti of Eerusalem2:J 7: 2363 Arab )iot in Eerusalem

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74 Armed Eewish %uards *rotect


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:2 a@i *oster236 :6 Holocaust *risoners Interviewed by an AmericanSer#eant 234 :7 *risoners


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Israelis !earin# %as Masks durin# Ira&i Attacks759

82 American *atriot Missiles Intercet Ira&i Scud Missiles.

759 86 *alestinian key chains ofIsrael 722 87 FsloAccords *articiants 72J 8J

-us -ombed by a Suicide -omber72J 8: *alestinian 0hildren *ractice Cillin#

Eews. 728

84 %erman School#irls offer a@i Salute.

728 89 Arabic dition of Hitlers Mein Kampf723 88 A 0hilds


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4 "he Seven 0ities of the Mountains of Israel'266 9 "he 2365 Ma of the *romised ;and

2:7 8 "he -ritish Mandate Ma of 23662:8 3 "he = *artition *lan

of 23J9 625 25 "he Maof the *salm 87 ations 662

22 Armistice Demarcation of 23J3674 26 @ekiels Mountains of Israel' 0ities674 27 0atured ;and of the 2349 !ar

6:J 2J "he ations of @ekiel 78

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A,,en$ices

2 !ho Fwns the ;andJ56 6 !estern vs. Islamic !orldviewsJ5: 7 -asic


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"oday, the world has chan#ed forever. Fur world willnever a#ain be the same.'

Immediately, olitical fi#ures and news broadcastersechoed the same sentiment. "he destruction of the "win"owers in ew ork 0ity stunned the nationG it was a wake(u

call from the bowels of hell. -ut was 3 ( 22 really the daywhen the world chan#ed forever Fr was it the day when wereali@ed the world had chan#ed, and we Americans were toobusy in our ursuit of life, liberty and materialistic hainessto be bothered with reality Did we care to investi#ate thenumerous warnin#s Most disturbin# is this &uestionG !hywere we surrised "he fact is that warnin#s e+isted foryears, decades, yes even centuries. o one bothered to

notice$ no one ever thou#ht that one day there could be awar of culture, reli#ion and economics.

Almost immediately after Setember 22, oliticiansand the media also referred to Islam as a reli#ion of eace.'At a memorial service at the ational 0athedral in!ashin#ton D0, an Islamic Imam oened the service with arayer in Arabic to insure that Allahs rotection and blessin#was over the =nited States. "he &uestion is, If we look to

Eudaeo(0hristian %od for Divine rotection and blessin#s, whywas an a#ent of Allah invited'

"here is a certain level of common knowled#e thatmost readers have concernin# the Middle astQ#lobal events."his book di#s below that level and reveals hidden truths aswell as numerous fictionalQmythical oinions that havebecome established as truth. It identifies historical ersons,nations and events that formed the foundation of todays

Middle ast and #lobal crises. ;earn what you need to knowand why you need to know it. "here is a world ofdisinformation in !estern media where facts are all too oftencloudy and blurred concernin# ideolo#ies, failures of#overnments, or the reorters worldview. "his is eseciallytrue when emotions cloud facts and lo#ical reasonin#. "hisbook outlines, in a chronolo#ical se&uence, a reortdelineatin# what has haened, what has been said, andwhy. -y tracin# Islams #reat con&uests and determinedstru##les a#ainst non(believers since the time of Muhammad,this book illustrates that Islams values and #oals are not


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secular society, and even more so with Eudaeo(0hristiansociety.

"o add confusion to the matter, there is a #rowin#belief in mainline 0hristendom that the %od of the Eewisheole and 0hristians is the same deity as Allah. "his

ersective has even encroached uon some traditionalevan#elicals. "he fact is that there are hu#e differencesbetween the %od of Abraham, Isaac and Eacob and Allah, the#od of the Muslims.2"o identify those differences, this bookdiscloses the maor events of Muhammads life and of thoseof some of his followers so the reader can comare thoseevents with the biblical account of Eesus and His disciles."his book also connects Muhammads life, instruction and

actions with radical Islamic terrorists of today in aninformative, easy to ready style. -oth the ?uran and Islamichistory reveal that Allah is not %od or that Islam is not areli#ion of eace.

Wh% +e,tember ((.

Americans have no understandin# of the ower

Muslims ascribe to their symbols and calendar dates. In thesummer of 2487 Muslim were on the march to converturoe to Islam by the ower of the sword. "hey had ustdefeated %reece, )omania, Serbia, -ul#aria, and were on avictory roll into uroe. -y early Setember they were inAustria and were besie#in# the city of /ienna where the0hristians were outnumbered by Muslims by 65 to 2.However, news of their revious con&uests had traveledthrou#hout uroe. Fn Setember 22, J5,555 soldiers

arrived from *oland and, and while still outnumbered by theMuslims, they saved the city. "hat ended the con&uest ofuroe. So why did Fsama bin ;aden choose Setember 22"o rei#nite the war effort that ended in 2487. "he &uestionremainsG Did the war really end in 2487 "his book willanswer that &uestion and many more.

2"he Arabic word Muslim means one who submits' to %ods


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A "ust Rea$ Preface

In my numerous tris to the Middle ast, I have beenrivile#ed to dine in the homes of Eews, 0hristians and Arabfriends, as well as in the tent of a -edouin family. I haveheard their frustrations concernin# the olitical strife. !hile

studyin# and teachin# there, I met a lovely


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"his book identifies historical ersons, tribes, nationsand events that formed the foundation of todays Middle astcrises. It will inform you of what you need to know and whyyou need to know it. "his book resents, in a chronolo#icalse&uence, what has haened and what has been said. "he

reason the reader needs to know this information is that, in aworld of disin(formation, facts concernin# ideolo#ies, failuresof #overnments and reli#ion all too often become cloudy andblurred. "his is esecially true when emotions shade lo#icalreasonin#.

"wo si#nificant oints make todays Middle astcultural hiackin# so owerfully dan#erous.


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the true tenants of the Islamic faith.


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I#norance is weakness ( know the truth,but

self(inflicted i#norance is suicide.'

(( =nknown

Cha,ter (


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Introduction

Abraham could never have ima#ined that thedescendants of his two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, would oneday be the focus of world attention. In the centuries thatfollowed, the descendants of Isaac became known as the

Hebrew 0hildren, then as Israelites and today as Eews. "heyfollowed the %od of Abraham, Isaac and Eacob. "hedescendants of Ishmael became known as Ishmaelites andare todays Arabs who embraced the -abylonian moon #od ofwar. "he latter #rou absorbed a number of other ethnic#rousQtribes who were descendants of Abrahams other sonsand their cousins. Fne of those was sau who crossed overfrom Isaacs line.

"he core issue of the Middle ast conflict has less to dowith land, olitics, refu#ees or anythin# else of that nature,than it has to do with the reli#ious issues of !hose %od is%od' and !hich book, the -ible or ?uran, 6 is theauthentic !ord of %odQAllah' "hose two issues aree+tremely si#nificant to radical Muslims as they believe theyare commanded to convert the entire world to Islam."hrou#hout recent centuries Islam has been rather dormant.

In the ast few decades it has develoed a revivedersective of #lobal con&uest. !hy

Fther si#nificant &uestions areG If Allah is #reaterthan all other #ods, why are non(Muslim nations stron#er andmore roserous than MuslimQIslamic nations' If theEewish eole are cursed by Allah, why has Allah ermittedthem to return' !hy have the Arabs lost all of the warswith Israel' As will be shown, these &uestions are e+tremely

roblematic to Muslims and their only aroriate resonseis the comletion of Hitlers work as soon as ossible.

In site of the current conflict and ublic oinion, ahistorical overview reveals that the Eewish and Arab eolehave at times lived in eace and harmony with each other.=nfortunately, all too often there has been conflict in theirJ,555 year(old history. Some of these conflicts were recordedin the Fld "estament and reveal that the Arabs were the

a##ressors. "he -ible also shows that some Arabs held keyositions in Cin# Davids administration, and a thousandl t ti d b i 0h i ti h


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encountered the Holy Sirit on the Day of *entecost. Hence,a review of history is si#nificant.

Since %od did make a covenant with Ishmael, the daywill come when Arabs will be blessed by the %od of Abraham,Isaac and Eacob. Hence, ust as there was a reconciliation of

sau and Eacob B%en. 77, one day there will be reconciliationbetween their descendants, but first there will be eriods ofwar and ud#ment. In the meantime, radical Muslims BArabsaear to worshi death in their &uest for #lobal victory whilethere are millions of eace(lovin# Muslims who simly wish tolive a &uiet life, care for their families and contribute to thecommunities in which they live. "his distinction must not befor#otten.

-oth Eews and Arabs reco#ni@e Abram Bname chan#edto Abraham as their siritual and #enealo#ical forefather.on(Arab Muslims, such as the #ytians and "urks,reco#ni@e him as their siritual forefather. "herefore, it isnecessary to be#in this study from the be#innin#,' that is,with Abraham.

6555 -0 Abram BAbraham *atriarch of the Eewish and Arab*eole Abram, whose name was chan#ed toAbraham, lived in =r of the 0haldees,' located southeast of-abylon in what is today southern Ira&. It was known as thecity of the war(#od Nannar, also known as Sin andsymboli@ed by a crescent moon over a wise old man.7

Abraham was obviously knowled#eable and sensitive to themany deities worshied by his family and community. "hecity was filled with a multitude of temles and shrines where

riests racticed various reli#ious rites.J

"he most sacred laces were the @i##urats, whichwere man(made yramid(tye structures built of bricks andtar that resembled mountains uon which sacrifices could beoffered to the #ods. "he ancients believed it was at theinnacle to where the #ods descended from heaven to meetman. In later centuries these temles were relicated by theAssyrians and -abylonians. "he biblical tower of -abel was

also a @i##urat B%en. 22.


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"he %reat >i##urat at =r that Abram would have beenfamiliar with was built in the 62 stcentury -0 by Cin# Shul#i,who claimed to be a #od. It too was a massive steedyramid aro+imately 625 by 2:5 feet in si@e. !hile theentire structure was made of sun(dried bricks, the outer layer

or skin consisted of oven(fired bricks that withstood theelements of the desert heat, winds and sand storms. It wasdedicated to the moon #od Sin, el or Nannar, the atronmoon #od of the city and was deicted with a crescent moon."he shrine on the >i##urats innacle was both a lace ofsacrifice and a bedroom chamber for the deity. Since se+ wasoften art of ancient reli#ions, riests chose women to sendthe ni#ht with them in the chamber of the deity.

&i'ure /! The 0reat 1i''urat of Ancient 2r! "his

center of worshi, near modern asiriyah in southernIra&, was constructed in the 62st century -0 by Cin#Shul#i. "he yramid(tye structure was a temle,whereas #ytian yramids were tombs.


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&i'ure 3! A Relief Carvin' of the "oon 0o$!!orshiers come before the moon #od of war knownas Sin, el or Nannar, deicted as a wise old man.ote the crescent moon that is believed to be theori#in of the Islamic moon.


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and reintroduce the moon #od of Abraham. ;ittle wonderthen, that Muslims consider Abraham to have been the firstMuslim. However, they vehemently ar#ue a#ainst thehistorical fact that Allah was ori#inally the war #od of-abylon symboli@ed by the crescent moon.

"he 0han#in# ;and of *romise

%od romised land to Abraham and his descendants.As will be shown, that romise was reeated to his son Isaacand #randson Eacob. "here have been many hases in theboundary lines of eole #rous and nations throu#houthistory. !hile these lines chan#ed as emires rose and fell,

si+ maor successive hases remain si#nificant inunderstandin# the transition from the initial biblical romiseby %od to todays olitical delineation.

2. "he land romised to Abraham is a massive area."he east(west boundaries are from the )iver of#yt':and the Mediterranean Sea in the west to theuhrates )iver in the east B%en. 25G23, 2:G28(62.


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be#innin# at the )iver of #yt' on the north(easternside of the Sinai *eninsula and went to the uhrates)iver. "he biblical romise remains unfilled as nohistorical fi#ure ever controlled this massive re#ion."he land occuied by the Israelites was modern(day

Israel, the !est -ank and lands ust east of the Eordan)iver Bart of Eordan.

"a, (! The Promise$ Lan$ of the AbrahamicCovenant!"he land area is delineated by a shaded solid lineand includes a land mass from the uhrates )iver to theMediterranean Sea. It has a 755 kilometer border on thenorth and a 2JJ5 kilometer border on the south. "he broken

lines show resent nation states of Israel, ;ebanon, Eordan,Ira&, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

7. "he land romised to Moses and eventuallyoccuied by the Israelites after the +odus is describedin umbers 7JG6(26. Fther descritions are found inDeuteronomy 2G9(8$ 22G6J$ Eoshua 2GJ, 26(27$ and 2

Cin#s 8G4:. In the books of Eud#es, Samuel and Cin#s itis often referred to as the land from Dan to-eersheba ' It rou#hly covers the same area as in


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J. "he fourth set of boundaries of the Holy ;and wasestablished when the Eewish catives returned from-abylonian cativity Beh. 22G69(75. -y the timeEesus arrived five centuries later, the land was dividedinto three districtsG Eerusalem and the surroundin#

area of Eudah, %alilee, and a arcel of land east of theEordan )iver known as *erea.

:. In 28J5 the ;ondon 0onvention established thenational boundaries of #yt of what would eventuallydetermine the southern boundary of modern Israel.;and boundaries of various eole #rous in the 23th

century were unclear. =nless there was a distinctive

natural marker, such as a river or mountain, no oneknew where one country ended and another be#an.Hence, Muhammad Ali, who was the Fttoman *asha of#yt, was not only the founder of the modern state of#yt, but he also determined that a national borderfrom the southern ti of the Dead Sea e+tendin# to thenorthern oint of the %ulf of A&aba would be theeastern border of #yt. ;ater another boundary line

was created from the northern ti of the %ulf of A&abato Al(Arish alon# the Mediterranean Sea. "oday theland between these two international bordersencomasses southern Israel and includes the e#evDesert and the southern city of ilat on the %ulf ofA&aba.

4. "he establishment of the modern northern border of

Israel was ust as disconcertin#. In the 2365s therewas a #reat deal of wran#lin# as to where it should belocated. A#reements resultin# from the San )emo0onference and later the ;ea#ue of ations resulted inits lacement in such a manner as not to dividevilla#es or the lar#e roerties of two wealthy landowners, a -edouin sheik named Amir Mahmud al(


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Hence, the modern boundaries of Israel have little ornothin# in common with the land descrition of the ori#inalbiblical covenant.8 "here is, however, one e+cetion. "hewestern border is the Mediterranean Sea. et even that wascomromised when the %a@a Stri was #iven to the

*alestinian Authority.0enealo'ical Recor$: Who is Who.

Eews and Arabs

A &uestion is often asked as to the identity of theEewish eole, Arabs and *alestinians. In the centuries thatfollowed Abraham, his son Isaac and his #randson Eacob

Bname later chan#ed to Israel,' %en. 76G68 and theirdescendants eventually became known as Eews' Bsee


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*alestine the #ytians laid aside their ride and rallied withfellow Muslims to evict the Eews.

Also included in todays broad definition of Arabeole' are the Assyrians, Hittites and descendants of otherancient tribes. "his writer once met an American colle#e

student who was tourin# Israel. She roudly said that shewas an Assyrian and could seak her native lan#ua#e.Assyrians today lace themselves under the Islamic(Arabumbrella.

!hat is known is that Ishmael had twelve sons whowere identified as rinces' B%en. 29G65(62. "hese rincesbecame Ishmaels #reat nation' in the closin# verses of%enesis 6:. "heir names and those of their sons are listed in

2 0hronicles 2. In many cases the tribal names becamenames of Arabian territories in the Arabian Desert BmodernSaudi Arabia.

"he Ancient *hilistines and Modern *alestinians

"he #enealo#ical history of the *alestinian eole is&uite interestin#. Ironically, since their &uest for modernIsrael they have had differences of oinions concernin# theirancestral ori#in. In recent years they claimed to bedescendants of the *hilistines, 0anaanites, Eebusites as wellas sons of Abraham. However, there are four difficulties withthese claims.

2. All three #rous disaeared from history rior tothe end of the Fld "estament eriod Bcirca J55 -0.Does it not seem stran#e that they would suddenlyreaear in the 65thcentury and announce that theyhave always been fully occuyin# *alestine

6. "he Eebusites were a sub#rou of the 0anaanites,but the *hilistines were a different eole #rou. "heclaim of Eebusite ancestry may be because the

Eebusites occuied Eerusalem rior to the Israeliteinvasion. If this were true, then the *alestinians couldsay they have a historic ri#ht to the city that was


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7. either one of these eole #rous weredescendants of Abraham and his son Ishmael.

J. "he final difficulty is that the *alestinian claim isbased uon the biblical record$ a book Muslims claim isfull of errors. one of the ori#inal Islamic writin#s

mention the *hilistines, 0anaanites or Eebusites.

Since the *hilistine connection has been acceted bythe !estern academia, it is e+lained in further detail. "heywere an ancient eole who, in the 2J thor 27thcentury -0,mi#rated from 0rete in the Ae#ean Sea. Scholars believethey relocated because the volcano, Mount Cnossos, in 0rete

eruted causin# maor devastation. "hey fled to #yt, wherethey were reelled and eventually settled alon# the coastalland known today as the %a@a Stri.'

%a@a is the name of both a city and a thin stri of landarea located alon# the Mediterranean Sea, a southwesternortion of Israel. "he earliest known inhabitants were theAvvites BDeut. 6G67$ Eosh. 27G7 who were defeated by the*hilistines, who in turn were defeated by the invadin#

Israelites. However, there never was a sustained victory foreither side because the two #rous *hilistine and Israelites fre&uently fou#ht each other.

In the Stri' the *hilistines established five maorcitiesG Ashdod, Ashkelon, %a@a, kron and %ath BEosh. 27G72$ ISam. 4G29$ Eer. 6:G65. "he city of %a@a layed an imortantrole in the life of Samson accordin# to Eud#es 27(24. "he Fld"estament records numerous battles between the two

#rous. "he historical fact is that the ancient *hilistines wereof %reek ori#in, not Arab or any Arab sub(#rou by anystretch of the ima#ination. ventually they intermarried withother eole #rous and disaeared from the scene rior tothe ew "estament era. In AD 27: meror Hadrian, whohated the Eews, cursed their land by renamin# it *alestine,'in honor of the ancient *hilistines. It is sometimes said thatthe word *alestinian' ori#inated from the word *hilistine.'!hile there aears to be an etymolo#ical connection, it is

va#ue and any attemt to substitute etymolo#y for history isa #ross error. "he fact that the Fld "estament reeatedly


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"herefore, the &uestion is, !ho are the *alestinians'"he answer lies in combinin# the biblical record with Middleast history for the ast two centuries. "here aears to bean interestin# connection between the descendants of sauand the modern *alestinians.

Abraham raised his family, includin# his sons Isaac andIshmael in the ancient city of -eer Sheva in southern Israel.As Abrahams descendants multilied as did their cattle theyneeded lar#er #ra@in# lands. Ishmael moved south intoArabia, hence the name Arab,' while Eacob remained in0anaan Bmodern Israel. sau moved east into the SeirMountains B%en. 74G8 and settled in the ancient city of *etraBmodern Eordan. "here they multilied and the re#ion

became known as dom."he linea#e of sau is reserved in %enesis 74G26

states that saus #randson Amalek was the father of theAmalekites. !hen the Israelites were leavin# #yt and ontheir way to 0anaan, they were confronted with hostility bytheir cousins, the Amalekites B+. 29.

Another art of the linea#e is reserved in I Samuel 2:where the rohet Samuel told Cin# Saul to wie out the

Amalekites and all their ossession. Saul failed to do so andthe rohet ersonally killed the Amalekite kin# A#a# BI Sam.2:G77. Some escaed and fled to *ersia.

"he ne+t linea#e is found in the book of sther whereHaman, who was the second hi#hest rankin# official in the*ersian #overnment, wanted to kill all the Eews. sther 7G2identifies him as the son of Hammedatha who was anA#a#ite. "he A#a#ites were a sub#rou within the Amalekite

clan, which is why the first century historian Eosehusidentified Haman as an Amaletite.22 In essence, thedescendants of sau and Eacob were in conflict throu#houtthe centuries.

!hen Cin# ebuchadne@@ar of -abylon caturedEerusalem in 45: -0, he took the leadin# #overnment andreli#ious leaders to -abylon. "he eole of the Holy 0ityrebelled and the kin# sent his army to restore order in :39

and a#ain in :84Q:, by which time he became so frustratedwith the Eews that he burned Solomons temle. A#ain he


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relocated thousands of eole to -abylon leavin# only theoorest of the oor to maintain the land.

"he domites of *etra saw their vulnerable relatives in0anaan and raided their villa#es slau#hterin# innocent men,women and children. "he book of Fbadiah was written to

warn them of %ods endin# ud#ment for their ride Bv. 7and violence a#ainst your brother Eacob' Bv. 25 anddestruction.

About five centuries before 0hrist, the abataeans, anArab sub#rou known for their stone carvin#, befriended thedomites. "he abataeans worked and lived to#ether withtheir new friends for a brief time to establish domite trust,and then con&uered them. "he domites had been deceived

Bv. 9 and those who escaed moved west into the e#evDesert Bof modern Israel where they became known as theIdumeans. "he abataeans built the beautiful city of *etrathat tourists see today and the Idumeans inhabited smallvilla#es in desert lands of what was once known as 0anaan.


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"a, /! The "i'ration of the E$omites! About6,555 -0 Abraham raised his family near -eer ShevaBA'. ;ater the sau clan moved to *etra B-' %en.74G8 in the Mount Seir re#ion. Around :55 -0 theclan moved west into what is today southern Israel.


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&i'ure 4! The 0enealo'ical Tree of Abraham:


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Ishmael as well as a Hittite woman and theirdescendants became art of Arab ancestry.


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#rous who, for the most art, have lost their ancientdistinctions but still maintain clan and tribal loyalties.

istorical 7vervie#

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returned home very hun#ry and sold his birthri#ht to hisbrother for a &uick bowl of stew B%en. 6:G63(7J. Decadeslater, when Isaac was old and on his deathbed, he was aboutto #ive his blessin# to sau, but it was already #iven to Eacobleavin# him with neither the birthri#ht nor a blessin#. As a

result, sau desised his brother. In fact, sau burned with somuch an#er that he lanned to kill his brother B%en. 69GJ5(J2, but their arents sent Eacob away to save his life B%en.69GJ6(68G3. Arab animosity is not only due to the Isaac(Ishmael 0ovenant conflict but also the Eacob(sau blessin#(birthri#ht issue. Hence, Arabs believe the Eews have trickedthem twice.

23th 28th 0enturies -0G Eoseh "aken to #yt by theIshmaelites

"he ne+t recorded encounter of the traditional Eew vs.Arab' conflict is the story of Eoseh. He was the favorite sonof his father Israel Bformerly known as Eacob which in turncreated an#er amon# his brothers. "heir feelin#s intensifiedwhen he foolishly described his dreams wherein he was in asuerior osition over them. Eealously ra#ed and they

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"he linea#e of the Ishmaelites has already been discussed."he linea#e of the Midianites is that they were descendantsof Midian, the son of Caturah. She was a concubine whobecame Abrahams wife after Sarahs death B%en. 6:G6(J."heir kin#doms Bum. 72G8 were near Moab east of the

Eordan )iverQDead Sea area.It should be noted that the chan#e of tribal names in

reference to those who urchased Eoseh has been cited bydestructive critics as roof of the e+istence biblical errors.However, when Samuel wrote the book of Eud#es, he usedthese tribal names interchan#eably in Eud#es 8G66(68. "hefact remains that while most of the Ishmaelites lived in theArabian Desert, some inhabited two other desert areas such

as the lands near Moab in modern Eordan. "hey assimilatedand later became known as Arabs.' "his was underscoredby Moses and Samuel who considered the Ishmaelites andMidianites as the same eole #rou. Hence, there are noerrors in the narratives of the fi#htin# cousins.'

2:th 0entury -0G "he domite 0onfrontation a#ainst Moses

After Moses led his eole out of #ytian slavery,they were faced by their distant cousins, the domites andMoabites. Moses re&uested ermission to ass throu#h theirland as it was the shortest way to the *romised ;and Bum.65G2J. He even offered to ay for water, but the domitekin# refused Bum. 65G28(62. %od told Moses not to attackthem BDeut. 6GJ(8, 23, but to lead the Israelites in a detouraround the domite kin#dom throu#h hostile and difficultdeserts. "he domite resistance to Moses was not out of fear

of a forei#n enemy, but simly reven#e for erceivedinustices a#ainst Ishmael and sau. ote that sau wasori#inally from the same linea#e as Moses and the Israelites,but married into the Ishmael tribe where an#er and reven#eaears to be #enerational.

2Jth or 27th 0entury -0G %ideon

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-0. Amon# those ud#es was one of articular mentionG%ideon.

At this time a number of nei#hborin# tribes includin#the Midianites, Amalekites, Ishmaelites and several othereastern tribes reeatedly invaded the Israelite lands to kill

domestic animals, destroy cros, and cause a wholesaledestruction BEud. 4G2(4. In resonse %ideon took a small#rou of 755 Israelite men and strate#ically attacked theenemy at ni#ht a rare mission since ancient battles weredaytime events. !ith each man blowin# a trumet and thenholdin# u a bri#ht li#ht, the enemies were &uickly confusedand they killed each other in their attemt to escae.

In the ensuin# battle the brothers of %ideon were

killed. !hen %ideon finally catured the Midianite kin#s,>ebah and >almunna, he asked, !hat kind of men did youkill at "abor'

Men like you,' they answered, each one with thebearin# of a rince.' %ideon relied, "hose were mybrothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the ;ordlives, if you had sared their lives, I would not kill youO.'%ideon killed them and took the ornaments off their camels

necks BEud#. 8G28(23, 62b. %ideon then turned his attentionto the ornaments that adorned the camels of the Ishmaelitekin#s.

%ideon collected the #old earrin#s, the endants andthe urle #arments worn by the kin#s of Midian and thechains that were on their camels necks' BEud#. 8G64b.Hence, at the end of the day, the seven years of Arabinvasions ended with %ideon bein# both victorious and rich.

Afterward, the land enoyed eace throu#hout his lifetime aeriod of forty years.

It was the custom of the time to carry idols, ornamentsor other mementos of #ods when travelin#, and eseciallywhen #oin# into battle. "hey believed these items wouldsecure divine victory and rotection. "he word ornament' inEud#es 8G62 is better translated as crescent ornament,' asfound in the ew American Standard, ew Cin# Eames and

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the hrase moon(shaed necklaces.'27"hat was the samea#an deity that centuries later Muhammad would call!llah,and today the same crescent ornament' adorns the roof ofevery mos&ue.

It was believed that when one eole #rou defeated

another, the winnin# #rou had the suerior deity. "he victorwould destroy the idol of the defeated foe. Scholars believethat %ideon took the #old and ornaments not only for thevalue of its wealth, but also to destroy the crescent moonsymbols of the a#an war #od. !ithout an idol B#od theenemy would feel emasculated and helless, at least untilnew idols could be made. In this case, %ideon and his eolelived in eace for the rest of his life.

The crescent moon ornamentsof war gods mentioned in $udges

8%18-1&, '1 are the same as the

crescent moon ornaments onmos(ues"

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He united the twelve disor#ani@ed and s&uabblin# Israelitetribes and transformed them into a cohesive military forcethat became an international suerower. ever had aeole #rou been so dramatically transformed within asin#le #enerationG from s&uabblin# tribes to international

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3th ( 8th 0enturies -0G Arab(Israelite 0onflicts

Since a few conflicts between Eews and Arabs wererecorded in the -ible, it can be assumed there were robably

others that were not recorded. onetheless, the first biblicaluse of the word Arabians' is found in 6 0hronicles 29G22,where the Arabs and *hilistines brou#ht #ifts and silver toEehoshahat Ban Israelite as tribute Bta+es, alon# with2J,555 rams and #oats. Fbviously the reason they aid ta+eswas because they were a subu#ated eole to an Israelitekin#. ote also that the Arabs and *hilistines are mentionedas two distinct eole #rous Bthat lived in oosite re#ions.

About the year 8J2 -0, when Aha@iah wanted to bekin# of Eudah, he #athered a #rou of Arab assassins. "heycarefully entered the cam of his older brothers and killedthem B6 0hron. 66G2. "hen Cin# Aha@iah fou#ht thedomites B6 Cin#s 2JG9 and defeated 25,555 of them in the/alley of the Salt near the Dead Sea. Afterwards he caturedSela, now known as *etra in modern Eordan. Fn numerousoccasions Arabs have told this writer that throu#hout theirhistory they have fou#ht each other when not fi#htin# Eews

or 0hristians.

Several decades later, when =@@iah was kin# of EudahB936(9J5 -0, he also fou#ht and defeated both the*hilistines and Arabs B6 0hron. 64G4(8. "hose who suffereddefeat had to ay tribute, or ta+es, to the victor a commonractice throu#hout all ancient Middle ast cultures. Hence,when Muhammad instituted his new reli#ion, he re&uirednon(Muslims to ay aJi'ra,a ta+ imosed uon non(Muslims

for the rivile#e of life and the continuation of their reli#iousfaith.

Arab violence predatesslam, but slam sanctifies it

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In the mid(seventh century -0, a nomadic tribe knownas the abataeans established ermanent residency in theancient city of Sela and aid tribute Bta+es to the Assyrians.-y the Jth century, several additional abataeanscommunities were established in the e#ev Desert, a lar#e

land mass in todays southern Israel.Scholars are of a #eneral consensus that the

abataeans were robably a sub(#rou of the Arabs, but thisis without certainty. If true, they would be the only Arab(related #rou to have lived in or near the land of the Eews.!hat is si#nificant, however, is that no archaeolo#icaldiscoveries have uncovered Arab occuation in the area ofmodern Israel rior to the Islamic invasion in AD 474 with the

e+cetion of a few abataean villa#es in the e#ev Desert.

45:, :39, and :84 -0G Cin# ebuchadne@@ar 0on&ueredEerusalem

Cin# ebuchadne@@ar of -abylon con&uered Eerusalemin 45: -0. !hen the Eews rebelled, he returned in :39 -0 todefeat them a#ain. "hey rebelled a#ain and when he

returned a#ain in :84 -0, he was so thorou#hly dis#ustedwith them that he destroyed the city and Solomons "emle.In the kin#s mind, the destruction of the temle wasaramount to killin# the %od of the Eews, ust as %ideondestroyed the crescent moons from the Midianites. !ith thedestruction of the temle, the last divinely aointed kin#,>edekiah B:39(:84, was taken into e+ile. "here has notbeen a divinely aointed kin# over the Eewish eole sincethen, nearly 6,455 years a#o.

!hile many were taken into cativity in -abylon, somefled to the west and settled in Sain. However, the oor anddestitute were left behind to occuy Eerusalem and the land."he domites became aware of the -abylonian destructionuon their cousins and took advanta#e of them. "heyreeatedly raided Eerusalem and the surroundin# villa#esstealin# whatever they could from eole who were so oorthat not even the -abylonians wanted them. "he domites

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It was in resonse to the domite relentless attacks onthe Eews that the rohet Fbadiah #ave his rohetic words.He said that because the sons of sau attacked andslau#htered the sons of Eacob Bv 3(25, Divine ud#mentwould fall uon the domites. He also said that one day

e+iles of Eerusalem who are in Seharad' Bv. 65 will returnand live in the e#ev. "he word Seharad' is a reference toEews livin# in Sanish(seakin# nations.2J "hey will occuythe land once held by the sons of sau.

4th 0entury -0G %od *romised -lessin#s uon the Arab *eole

!hile the -ible has romised ud#ment a#ainst those

nations Bnamely ArabQIslamic nations who lan to destroyIsrael, %od has also romised blessin#s for the Arab eolethrou#h His rohet Isaiah. "ony Maaouf, in his $shmael ini"lical %istor& noted comments by Isaiah concernin# theArab eole.2:He says that in the comfort chaters of IsaiahJ5 ( 45, %od will brin# restoration to His eole and the Eewsas well as others. Included are the Arabs who will one daysin# the raises of the ;ord. +amles are the Arab eole ofCedar and SelaG

Sin# to the ;F)D a new son#. Sin# His raise fromthe end of the earthR ou who #o down to the sea,and all that is in it. ou islands and those who dwell onthem. ;et the wilderness and its cities lift u their voices,the settlements where Cedar inhabits let the inhabitantsof Sela sin# aloud, let them shout for oy from the tos

of the mountains.Isaiah J6G25(22

Isaiah also identified the Arab settlements of Midian,hah, and ebaioth as followsG

A multitude of camels will cover you, the youn# camelsof Midian and hah$ all those from Sheba will come$ they

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will brin# #old and frankincense, and will bear #ood news ofthe raises of the ;F)D. All the flocks of Cedar will be#athered to#ether to you, the rams of ebaioth will ministerto you$ they will #o u with accetance on My altar, and Ishall #lorify My #lorious house.

Isaiah 45G4(9

onetheless, while %od romised blessin#s for theArab eole, He also romised Divine ud#ment a#ainst themand all the nations that will one day rise a#ainst Israel in anattemt to destroy her.

:37 ( :92 -0G *rohetic !arnin#s by @ekiel

In 0hater 7: of @ekiel, the rohet resentedreasons as to why %od was a#ainst the descendants of sau.

2. "hey fou#ht a#ainst and took innocent Israelite livesBv. :,

6. "hey wanted Israels land Bv. 25 and

7. "hey blashemed and boasted a#ainst the ;ord Bvv.26(27.

ote that when the rohet soke a#ainst MountSeir,' he was referrin# to the eole who lived there, thedomites. "hose who romoted the a#e(old an#er andersecutions would one day be ud#ed by %od.

J75 -0G Arabs 0onfronted ehemiah

"he obections of Arabs today concernin# the Eewishoccuation of the !est -ank and Eerusalem is hardly a newone. It e+isted centuries before 0hrist. About the year J75-0 the rohet ehemiah wrote in his book the account ofrebuildin# the defensive walls of Eerusalem. Amon# thosewho obected were the Arabs. He stated,

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closed, they were very an#ry. All of them consired to#etherto come and fi#ht a#ainst Eerusalem and to cause adisturbance in it.

ehemiah JG4(8

As of this time, the Ammonites and several other tribeshad not yet intermarried with the Arabs and, therefore, stillmaintained tribal identity.

777 -0G Ale+ander 0atured "hebes

Ale+ander the %reat B7:4(767 -0 of %reek Macedonia

con&uered the known world by the a#e of thirty(three.Amon# his many con&uests was the #ytian city of "hebeswhere he enslaved more than 75,555 citi@ens. "his eventwould forever cast a owerful shadow of distrust uonuroeans. Its effect in todays conte+t is that #ytians viewIsraelis in similar manner. "hey believe uroeans, includin#Eews, cannot be trusted because they came to lunder theland and take advanta#e of the local eole.

243 -0G Antiochus I/ ihanes 0reated the -lood ;ibel'Myth

eus, thereby causin# an abomination. He is believed tohave ori#inated the blood libel myth ( the fictitious account ofEews kidnain# a %entile child and usin# the childs blood


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for *assover. "hrou#hout the centuries the myth has beenromoted by Muslims and some churches. It is still activelyromoted in Islamic countries today.

5e#ish 8asmonean9 Rule 8(3 3 ;C9

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47 -0G )oman Fccuation of Israel

It is a well established historical fact that in 47 -0 the)omans defeated the Eews, not the Arabs or *alestinians, toestablish a buffer @one a#ainst the eastern *arthian mirethat was e+andin# westward. )oman le#ions were sent to

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influence uon the Eewish land at this time, as they werecentered in the city known today as *etra in Eordan.

AD 44 ( 95G "he ealots Bfreedom fi#hters

revolted a#ainst the )omans. "he resonse was a massivemilitary camai#n that resulted in the destruction ofEerusalem and the temle, as well as the enslavement anddeaths of thousands of Eews. ven thou#h there had beenmore than a do@en revolts a#ainst the )omans between 47-0 and AD 44, the conse&uences of this one were so massive

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enemies. He also lanned to rebuild the city in the slendorof %reek culture, but died shortly thereafter.

It is from Palestinia that the modern name Palestinewas derived, even thou#h the *hilistines had disaearedcenturies earlier, their le#acy continued. As stated

reviously, there is no cultural or olitical connectionbetween the ancient *hilistines and modern *alestinians, butHadrians curse remains.

n A 123 !mperor 4adriancursed the land of the $ews b+

renaming it Palestinia, inhonor of their ancient enemies"

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!hile a maority of Eews were disursed into othercountries, some remained in the town and villa#esthrou#hout the countryside. In the late 65th centuryarchaeolo#ists uncovered more than 255 ancient syna#o#ueruins that date from AD 2:5 to 8:5, with about 6: of those

ruins in the %olan Hei#hts ust east of the Sea of %alilee.28"hese discoveries are overwhelmin# evidence that there hasbeen a continuous Eewish resence in the land.

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*eriod. "he mire was lar#ely 0hristian until Musliminvaders reeatedly attacked the city in the 9th and 8thcenturies, durin# which time it decreased in si@e and many ofits districts became Islamic.

726G "he -y@antine )ule in Eerusalem

"he -y@antine *eriod officially be#an when meror0onstantine suosedly converted to 0hristianity in 726. Adecisive battle between the )omans and -y@antines occurredat the -attle of Milvian -rid#e. "here he claimed to haveseen an ima#e of the cross of 0hrist in the sky which was asi#n of his comin# victory. 0onstantine relocated his caital

city from )ome to the eastern side of the -osorus Strait, atwenty mile channel that connects the -lack Sea with theSea of Marmora. He named his caital -y@antium$ today it isknown as Istanbul.

In honor of his victory, he laced the ima#e of thecross on coins, alon# with a#an symbols, and made thecross the symbol of the rei#nin# 0hristian faith.23 "oday,scholars &uestion whether he had ever seen any ima#e in thesky and if he ever was an orthodo+ 0hristian.65 !ith hisvictory secure, 0onstantine now had control of Eerusalem andthe Holy ;and.

746G meror Eulian *lans to )ebuild the Eewish "emle

Eulian became the meror after the death of meror0onstantine. Eulian is known throu#hout history as Eulian theAostate, for he desised 0hristianity and desired to rove it

to be a colossal error, esecially its rohetic assa#es."herefore, on Euly 23, he met with a dele#ation of Eewishleaders who desired to build the temle. He #ranted themermission and soon the "emle Mount was active withcrews clearin# the site of centuries of debris. However, onMay 69 of the followin# year, an earth&uake rocked theMiddle ast and the work ceased. 0hristians believed it was%ods ud#ment a#ainst the emeror, who was killed a few

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forward in knowled#e of the sciences, mathematics, medicineand social advancement.

"o survive, the Arabs had to be fully dedicated to therotection of their own clans and tribes, in site of the factthat related tribes were otential enemies and often became

the tar#et of war. Social mores, ethics, reli#ions andobli#ations were defined with a survival ersective. achtribe had its own reli#ious cult with numerous deities andractices. "he Arabian eole, esecially the -edouin tribes,maintained a strict rovincialism. "hey considered othertribes somewhat inferior. "his attitude survived the centuriesas today Arabs consider the *alestinians inferior. Muhammadwas born into this live or die cultural and hysical

environment. Some scholars have su##ested that theArabian reli#ious and social environment formulated hisreli#ious ideas and his methodolo#y of imlantin# thoseideals.

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Reli'ions of the Arabian Peninsula

Arabian )eli#ions

"he Arabs were olytheistic and had hundreds of idolsreresentin# their deities. Fne of those deities was the moon#od of the sword and war, Hubal, also known as Al(ilah, whichMuhammad renamed HubalQAl(ilahQAl(ilahi Bsimlified toAllah'. "housands of inscritions with crescent moonima#es have been collected from walls and rocks in northernand southern Arabia and dated as early as 6555 -0. Allahwas the ancient moon(#od of war and the sword of various

eole #rous in Mesootamia. !ith these discoveries wererelief carvin#s and votive bowls used in worshi of thedau#hters of HubalQAl(ilah.' "he three dau#hters, Al(;at, Al(=@@a, and Manat are sometimes deicted to#ether withHubalQAl(ilah, reresented by a crescent moon above them.62

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that the name of Muhammads father was Abdullah, meanin#slave of Allah.'

Amon# the si#nificant cities of the Arabian *eninsulawas Mecca, a center known for its tradin# and commercialenterrises. Many Arabian tribes considered it to be their

rimary holy city and re&uired annual il#rima#es as art oftheir reli#ious duties. "ribes often fou#ht over control of it asthe ta+ation of travelin# caravans was a lucrative source ofwealth.

Amon# those who fou#ht for Mecca was Muhammads#reat(#randfather ?ussai Ibn Colabn. Colabn was victoriousand became the self(aointed #overnor. He attemted tounify all the Arab tribes but his success was limited only in

Mecca. His rei#n was assed on to his son Abd Allah ibn Abdal(Muttalib who also functioned as the reli#ious leader of histribe. However, he died shortly after Muhammads birth andleadershi was assed on to someone else. It is believedthat Muhammads assion to unite the Arabs ori#inated withhis #reat(#randfather because he felt that his tribal ositionwas stolen from him.

As #overnor, Colabn constructed a cube(shaed

buildin# in Mecca that he called the Caabah.' It housed the745 Arabian idols and a black stone Bmeteorite that was alsoan obect of worshi. Some scholars believe that the moonsymbol of the HubalQAl(ilah was laced uon the roof of theCabbah rior to Muhammads time, and this is the ori#in ofthe crescent moon that adorns the to of minarets andmos&ues today.


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&i'ure ! LE&T: Illustration of a Coin #ithCrescent "oon! "his coin dated to 6,555 -0, wasfound in Harran, a northern city of the Sumerianmire of ancient Mesootamia.

&i'ure =! CENTER: A +tone "onument #ith

Crescent "oon! Stone monuments with a reliefcarvin# of a crescent moon near the to were used ina#an worshi.

Muslims who eventually #athered the sayin#s andcommands of Muhammad said that the Caabah was built byAbraham. Accordin# to Islamic history, Abraham became thefirst Muslim when he offered Ishmael as a sacrifice to Allah,

but Allah revented the childs death. "his account mimicsthe biblical narrative of Abraham offerin# his son Isaac. "heyalso claimed that Allah #ave the black stone to Adam as hewas leavin# the %arden of den. However, history revealsthat many Arab tribes once worshied stones as ismentioned in Islams second most imortant book, theHadithG

!e used to worshi stones, and when we found abetter stone than the first one, we would throw the firstone and take the latter, but if we could not #et a stonethen we would collect some earth Bi.e. soil and thenbrin# a shee and milk that slee over it, and erform the"awaf around it.

Sahih al(-ukhari, /ol :, T442. 6J

In the establishment of his monotheistic faith,Muhammad no lon#er worshied the moon, but used it as asymbol of Allah. "he three #oddess dau#hters Al(lat, Al(Manat, and Al(=@@a disaeared for theolo#ical reasons, butsuosedly were in early versions of the ?uran. Islamicscholars ar#ue vehemently a#ainst the thou#ht that theirrohet ever worshied them or that Allah has threedau#hters. onetheless, the three mythical dau#hters arere#arded as Muslim saints and a crescent moon rests uonevery mos&ue.


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id +ou now that the crescentmoon on the top of ever+

mos(ue is s+mbolic of Bel, theancient 5ab+lonian moon god/

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0hristian and Eewish %rous

"here were a number of 0hristian #rous in theArabian *eninsula. ;ike 0hristians elsewhere at this time,they had difficulties #ralin# with understandin# the "rinityand the dual nature of Eesus B255U %od and 255U man.

"he decision of the 0ouncil of 0halcedon in J:2 declared thatEesus was fully man and fully %od, but churches in the*eninsula reected the 0ouncils decision. "oday 0hristian#rous that do not reco#ni@e the "rinity as %od the


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than Eesus with two natures B255U %od and 255U man.!hile the estorian view was condemned by the 0ouncil ofhesus in J72, it continued to #row in many arts of theworld, includin# the Arabian *eninsula.

Fne day -uhaira haened to notice a mole on

Muhammads back and told him it was a si#n of riesthood.He also instructed Muhammads uncle Abu("alib, to rotectthe youn# mans life from the Eewish eole. !ord sreadthrou#hout the community and when the time came forMuhammad to make his #rand aearance as a rohet,many were waitin# for him.

)e#ardless of the theolo#ical stru##les of these early0hristians, they did ractice rayin#, fastin#, #ivin# to the

oor Balms#ivin# and rofessin# their faith in 0hrist Eesus. Inli#ht of the fact that Arabs went to Mecca annually for areli#ious il#rima#e, many scholars believe that the fivetenets of the Islamic faith Brayer, fastin#, alms#ivin#,confession of faith, il#rima#e to Mecca, were derived frome+istin# ractices that were already well known. onetheless,Muhammad obviously received a distorted view of0hristianity.


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Aminah -int !ahab, died when he was only si+ years old,and thereafter, he was briefly raised by a -edouin nursenamed Halima Muhammad. !hile under her care he becamesubect to eiletic fits and was assed on to his #randfatherAbdul al(Muttalib who cared for him. !hen the elderly man

died, the boy was assed on to his uncle Abu "alib.0onse&uently, his early years were not only imoverished,but also without education or the nurture of a carin# motheras he was shuffled from one family to another.

Muhammad had a difficult and lonely childhood. Atthe a#e of nine he be#an travelin# with his uncle on camelcaravan merchandisin# e+editions to Damascus. It was herethat he learned how to be a hard worker, a skillful

businessman Btrader and a successful leader. It is believedthat on these ourneys he was e+osed to some of the Eewishsites from where he learned of various Fld "estament stories.

&i'ure >! "anuscri,t De,icts the ;irth of"uhamma$! "his 2Jth century Islamic manuscritillustration has numerous elements taken from

0hristian -y@antine art, such as the illars fromativity art, win#s of an#els and the osition of the


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considered this ima#e a erverse and blashemousmockery.

!hile travelin# with his uncle, his cousin Ali, son of

Abu "alib, became like a brother and would eventuallybecome a central fi#ure of the Islamic Shiite sect. ;ittle isknown of his early years as only eleven verses in the ?uranmake reference to his childhood BSura 37.69

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rudent and wise, he was faithful to his wife durin# herlifetime. He was not about to risk his future by institutin# anyfoolish ideas such as women bein# re#arded as roerty,bein# subservient to men, or remainin# uneducated.Chadias life and re(Islamic Arab history su##est that at

times women enoyed business status and wealth, andcommanded a lifestyle unknown in many other areas of theworld. All this would end, of course, when Muhammadinstituted Islamic Shariah Bor Sharia0 1aws.

Fther !ives of Muhammad

"he accounts of Muhammads other wives, as recorded

in the Quran, %adith68

and other Islamic books arele#endary. Fnly a few are mentioned here. !ithin a decadeMuhammad ac&uired many wives and concubines. His thirdand youn#est wife was Aisha B42J(498, also known as =mmAbdallah. She was his favorite. She was only si+ years old atthe time of the weddin#, but due to her youn# a#e, the :7(year old Muhammad eventually had a harem of 25 to 27wives Bsources conflict. Muhammad waited until she wasnine years old to consummate the marria#e.63Since a true

Muslim faithfully follows the ways of Muhammad, some mentoday marry child brides. "he account of Muhammadsmarria#e with Aisha is found in the u2hari,a book withinthe %adith,is considered by many scholars to be one of themost reliable sources. It contains the followin# reortG

"he *rohet married her when she was si+ years old

and he consummated his marria#e when she was nineyears old, and then she remained with him for nine yearsBi.e., till his death.

Sahih -ukhari, /ol. 9, -ook 46, o. 4J.75

68See Definitions of 0ommon "erms in Aendi+ 9.

63Mikhail, 94 citin# Aisha Abd(Alrahman in 3ies of the Prophet, :9(42.

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&i'ure ?! amas bri$e'rooms #ith chil$ bri$es!In 6553 a mass weddin# was held for Muslim men and

their child brides in %a@a. Muslims continue thetraditions romoted by their *rohet.

-ecause he claimed Allah ermitted him to erformthis act, marria#es between adult Muslim men and re(teen#irls continue. After the *rohets death, Aisha neverremarried and accordin# to Sunni Muslim tradition, sherecorded 2655 hadithsBtraditions. In todays !estern worldMuhammad would, without &uestion, be identified as a childmolester or a edohile.

Muhammad had not only obtained a dee assionQlustfor se+, but also for wealth. He received word that a Eewnamed Cinana, the chief of a Eewish villa#e at Cheibar, hadhidden treasures of #old. Muhammads men catured andtortured him until he was near death at which time he wasbeheaded. "hat ni#ht Muhammad took the victimsseventeen year old widow, Safiya -int Huyay, to bed andlater she became his ei#hth wife but Cinana had no wealth 72


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Most notable is the account of his thirteenth wife,Maria. Since Muhammad was ersuasive by means ofmilitary and reli#ious stren#th, not to mention terrorism andtorture, he ressured Al(Mockawkas, the ruler of the #ytian0otic 0hristians, to #ive him a bride. Hence, Maria became

Muhammads wife and eventually bore him a son. Historicalsources conflict and some state that because she neverrenounced her 0hristian faith. She was either a concubine ora slave, but not a wife.76)e#ardless, her son was eventuallyoisoned by another ealous wife of Muhammads harem.77

Muhammad claimed to be the #reatest and lastrohet of Allah and established secial ri#hts and rivile#esfor himself. "hese ri#hts and rivile#es ertained mostly to

women and wealth. et with all these wives and concubineshe only had two sons. Marias son was oisoned and theother died in infancy.

It was e+tremely imortant in this culture to have ason and the *rohet was deserate. So eventually headoted a boy named >aid. Fne day, after >aid was married,Muhammad visited his home and saw >aids beautiful wife,>ainab. "he assions of Muhammad went wild, so he

returned to the 0ave of Hira and soke to the sirit.' Afterreceivin# council from the sirit' who soke on behalf ofAllah, Muhammad returned to his >aid and an a#reementwas made. >aid divorced >ainab so Muhammad could marryher$ in essence, he married his e+(dau#hter(in(law B?uran77GJ, 79(J5.7J "he marria#e stemmed from his adoted sonand to revent a similar reoccurrence in the future, theadotion of orhaned children was forbidden. "his lo#ic iscounter to modern !estern thou#ht, but the rohibitiona#ainst adotion continues in Muslim states. In face, of theJ9 Islamic countries, only four ermit adotion "unisia,Indonesia, Iran and A@erbaian. ot only are Eews, 0hristiansand other eole #rous victims of Islam, but so are Muslims.

425G /isions, %enies and An#les

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the form of a erson or animal, and can then e+ercisesuernatural influence throu#h that bein#.

"he 2345s oular American sitcom, $ (ream ofJeannie,was based on that le#end. ;ikewise school childrenmay have read a story where someone rubs a ma#ical

lam' three times, says the ma#ical word a4"ra42a4da"4"raBthe name of an Arabian sirit and a #enie comes out of thelams sout to #rant a wish.

"he 9thcentury Arabs had a #reater fear and resectfor #enies than they did for their own #ods. "hey believed#enies were either #ood or evil sirit bein#s that lived in thedesert. !hen one went there to meditate it would be ossibleto communicate with them. "hat mi#ht be why Muhammad

had such dee resect for them. In Arabic, #enies wereconsidered so realistic that dinn' was the collective namefor a #rou of #enies. Einni' was a male #enie andinniyah' was a female #enie, but neither is to be confusedwith the )oman mytholo#ical #enii.' Accordin# to the?uran, Muhammad tau#ht #enies Biinns and they alaudedwhat they had heard. A se#ment of 0hater 96 titled, AlEinn' Bthe %enie' not only #ives credit to Muhammad for

teachin# them, but also discredits Eesus as bein# the Son of%od. ote the followin#,

Say, I was insired that a #rou of inns listened, thensaid, V!e have heard a wonderful ?uran. It #uides tori#hteousness, and we have believed in it$ we will neverset u any idols beside our ;ord. "he Most Hi#h is our only;ord. He never had a mate, nor a son.'

Sura 96G2(7

6uhammad meditated in thedesert during which times hespoe to spirits 7evil/ nown

as genies 79ura 0'%1-2"

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)ushdie was well known to the Iranian eole for his literarywork which included rior novels. It was not until itsAmerican ublication in


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"he more they ressured him, the more determined hebecame.

"o the Arabs, like the olytheistic )omans and %reeksof centuries ast, the idea of a sin#le deity was lau#hable.Eust as the Eews and 0hristians had been the obects of

slander and ridicule, so likewise were Muhammad and hisfollowers. "o an Arab, to become the subect of ridicule isoften considered ust cause for war. Muhammad did nothave the stren#th to win an armed conflict and soon reali@edthat he needed to escae or lose his life. -ut first he had anima#inary fli#ht to a fartherist mos&ue.'

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considerably more difficult than he anticiated and his own?uraysh tribe no lon#er wanted to be associated with him.

&i'ure (@! "uhamma$ Ri$es his Win'e$ orse!

"his 27th

century illustration show the *rohet uon hishorse, -orak Bor -ura&, as he flew from Mecca toEerusalem. "he horse is said to have had the head of awoman and the tail of a eacock.


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&i'ure ((! "uhamma$ lea$s Abraham "osesan$ 5esus in Pra%er! A medieval aintin#, in theA&sa Mos&ue of Eerusalem, shows the *rohet inHeaven leadin# si+ other rohets, includin# Abraham,Moses and Eesus, in rayer.


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revious Scriture Bthe -ible. Indeed, the truth has cometo you from your ;ord. Do not be with the doubters.

Sura 25G3J

Surely, those who believe, those who are Eewish, the0hristians, and the converts$ anyone who B2 believes in%FD, and B6 believes in the ;ast Day, and B7 leads ari#hteous life, will receive their recomense from their;ord. "hey have nothin# to fear, nor will they #rieve.

Sura 6G46

!e have #iven the 0hildren of Israel the scriture,wisdom, and rohethood, and rovided them with#ood rovisions$ we bestowed uon them more blessin#sthan any other eole.

Sura J:G24

Muhammad also fasted on the Eewish holiday of omCiur and led his eole in rayer facin# Eerusalem. He evenwent so far as to say that Allah had #iven the Holy ;andBtodays IsraelQ*alestine to the Eews.

F eole of the scriture, our messen#er has come toyou, to e+lain thin#s to you, after a eriod of timewithout messen#ers, lest you say, !e did not receive

any reacher or warner.'J2A reacher and warner havenow come to you. Allah is Fmniotent. )ecall that Moses

said to his eole, F my eole, remember Allahsblessin#s uon youG He aointed rohets from amon#you, made you kin#s, and #ranted you what He never#ranted any other eole. F my eole, enter the holyland that Allah has decreed for you, and do not rebel,

lest you become losers.'

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id +ou now that 6uhammadtold his people that srael

belongs to the $ews/

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=nfortunately, the era of kindness to the Eewish eole wouldnot last lon#.

466G Muhammad the Mediator

In athrib he faced the Arab Aws and Cha@ra clans

who had been feudin# for years. He not only successfullyarbitrated conflicts amon# them, but he also converted themto Islam. "his further elevated his status in the community.

In the meantime, the Eews and 0hristians reali@ed thatMuhammad was not Eewish, he uttered no rohecies, heerformed no miracles and his life and messa#e contradictedboth Fld and ew "estament laws. "he Eews even had a#limmer of hoe that he mi#ht be their lon# awaited

messiah. However, that hoe &uickly faded when theyreali@ed he was illiterate and every biblical rohet knewhow to read and write. "hey concluded that his so(calledrevelations were used to satisfy his own assions anduroses.

Muhammads favorable comments about Eews and0hristians were about to end. -ecause they soundly reectedhim, the *rohet vilified both. o lon#er would Muslims fast

on the Eewish holy day of om Ciur, now they would fastdurin# dayli#ht hours durin# the month of )amadan, themonth when he received his first revelation. Muhammadchan#ed the direction of his rayers from Eerusalem toMecca. His words became even more heated when the Eewsoined the Meccans in a failed attemt to defeat Muhammad.

0han#e of AttitudeG "he ;aw of Abro#ation

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"hereafter, he soke only of killin# every Eew and 0hristianhe could find. A##ressive ?uranic references be#an at thistime, but were in conflict with revious references ofkindness. "his osed an obvious roblem for Islamictheolo#ians. "o resolve the roblem the 1aw of !"ro/ation

was devised. "he 1aw states that latter sayin#s of the*rohet suersede his earlier ones. Hence, the ?uran has noconflicts. Allah is ermitted to chan#e his mind and,therefore, correct himself. ote the followin# versesG

Allah erases whatever He wills, and fi+es Bwhatever Hewills. !ith Him is the ori#inal Master )ecord.

Sura 27G73

!hen we substitute one revelation in lace of another,and Allah is fully aware of what He reveals, they say,Wou made this uRW Indeed, most of them do notknow.

Sura 24G252

If we will, we can take back what we revealed to you,then you will find no rotector a#ainst us.

Sura 29G84

!hen we abro#ate any miracle, or cause it to befor#otten, we roduce a better miracle, or at least an

e&ual one. Do you not reco#ni@e the fact that Allah isFmniotent

Sura 6G254

Another translation of Sura 6G254 reads as followsG

!hatever communications we abro#ate or cause to befor#otten, we brin# one better than it or like it. Do you

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"hese assa#es motivate Muslims today who wish tomake Islam a #lobal reli#ion. "o say that the ?uran is areli#ion of eace like the -ible is to admit that one has littleor no knowled#e of Islam.

However, while Muhammad said no one can abro#ate

his laws, the ?uran has do@ens of contradictions which areresolved by the ;aw of Abro#ation. "he ?uran has 6J:verses that are ositive and affirm non(Muslims, includin#Eews and 0hristians. "hese are tolerant statementsMuhammad made early in his ministry.' very one of thesewas abro#ated later. 0onse&uently, there are :69 versesthat are intolerant of non(Muslims and an additional 253verses that refer to violence and death to non(Muslims.

More secifically, many of the 253 verses are referenced toEews and 0hristians. "here is not a sin#le ositive or tolerantverse about non(Muslims in the ?uran.

T4! :A* ;< A5=;>AT;?%@erses of peace and tolerance

are superseded b+ verses ofviolence and $ihad hol+ war

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467G Muhammad )aids 0aravans$ Divine )evelations

In Medina Muhammad increased his military stren#thand established a #overnment and state reli#ion. !hen heneeded money to ay his army, the &uickest way to attain

those funds was to attack caravans brin#in# il#rims andmerchandise to Mecca. -ut first he had to seak with a sirit,at which time he received a revelation' that ermitted himto lunder towns, villa#es and travelin# caravans.Muhammad could have suorted himself by ownin# acaravan business Bwhich was very lucrative or bein# amerchant. )ather, he raided towns and cities in his &uest tosread his reli#ion. He not only received ermission fromAllah to steal, kill and destroy, but he was also told to kee

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ou should know that if you #ain any soils in war,one(fifth shall #o to Allah and the messen#er, to be#iven to the relatives, the orhans, the oor, and thetravelin# alien. ou will do this if you believe in Allah

and in what we revealed to our servant on the day of

decision, the day the two armies clashed. Allah isFmniotent.

Sura 8GJ2

His mode of oeration was simleG !hether the issuewas women or lunder, he would receive a revelation,' toustify his assion or that of his men. Cillin# and stealin#&uickly became the way of life.


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Sura 8G24

As reviously stated, Muhammad is said to havecreated Islam as a reli#ion of convenience. !hen he desired

wealth or a woman, he simly asked Allah. Muhammad thenannounced what secial revelation' Allah had #iven him.Allah also encoura#ed him to invade, subdue or kill all non(Muslim men and to take their women and children as slaves,and all roerties of the risoners as booty B/animah.Muhammad said that Allah made the confiscated roerty ofwar lawful Bhalal for Muslim warriors. In essence,Muhammad said that Muslim warriors had the le#al ri#ht tosteal, kill and destroy whatever they wanted in the name of

Allah. Several verses that confirm this are as followsG

"hey consult you about Bthin#s taken as the soils ofwar. Say, "he soils of war Bbooty belon# to Allah andthe messen#er.' ou shall observe Allah, e+hort oneanother to be ri#hteous, and obey Allah and Hismessen#er, if you are believers.

Sura 8G2

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wonder then that *alestinians are #uilt(free when theirchildren become suicide bombers$ they believe their childrenare a#ents killin# for Allah. ;ikewise, when any non(Muslim iskilled, *alestinians and other radical Muslims dance in thestreets with oy and cry out !llahu !2"ar BAllah is #reat.


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sent relief forces which surrised him. Futnumbered three(to(one, Muhammad not only mana#ed to emer#e victoriousbut his chief anta#onists were killed. All ?uraysh men wereeither killed or catured. Fne of the leaders leaded for hislife, sayin#, -ut who will look after my children, F

Muhammad' "he *rohet resonded, Hell,' and orderedhim to be killed.J7

In the revious year there had been a number ofskirmishes between Muhammads men and the Meccans."his was the first lar#e(scale confrontation between themand the victory not only enhanced the *rohets olitical andsocial status, but the Muslims felt confident that Allah was ontheir side. Accounts written years later stated that an#els led

by the archan#el, %abriel, fou#ht with them. "he si#nificanceof the battle was that the tribes throu#hout Arabia nowreali@ed that Muhammad was the leader of a new ower withwhom they would sooner or later have to contend. Somedecided it was better to convert now than to die later$ thusthe e+ansion of Islam be#an.JJ

46:G "he -attle of =hud

"he Meccans did not accet their defeat at -adr

li#htly. "hey carefully lanned their ne+t strate#y and, onMarch 67, they a#ain encountered the Muslims. Muhammadand his men were, for the second time, si#nificantlyoutnumbered but mana#ed to sta#e another victory or sothey thou#ht. As the Meccans were retreatin#, Muhammadsmen be#an #rabbin# the soils of their enemy. However, totheir surrise, the Meccans sent a cavalry uon them,creatin# chaos and killin# many. Muhammad was wounded

by a stone missile. Some of his men believed he was killedwhich added to the chaos. "he si#nificance of the encounteris that Muhammad and his men were soundly defeated. "heloss was a theolo#ical defeat since they believed that Allahwould #ive them only victories after their -attle of -adr.onetheless, the sa#a between the Meccans and Muslimswould continue.

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Some Islamic scholars believe that their doctrine ofsalvation and eternity in aradise for one who dies fi#htin#ori#inated durin# this battle. Fne account states that durin#a battle a soldier asked Muhammad, 0an you tell me where Iwill be if I should #et martyred Bdie fi#htin#' "he *rohet

answered, In aradise.' "he soldier fou#ht until he waskilled.J:Muslims must ask themselves if Muhammad madethe romise simly to lure soldiers into fi#htin# to their deathof if there really is a aradise for martyrs.' J4

469G "he -attle of the Ditch and the Massacre of the -anu?uray@a Eews

"he Meccans attacked a#ain in 469, but this timeMuhammad was waitin# for them. He instructed his men todi# a hu#e trench around the city. !hen the Meccansarrived at the trench, they refused to cross it, and after a fewweeks they returned home. "he -attle of the Ditch' washardly a battle, but it #ave Muhammad clout and he washonored for his wisdom.

However, the Medina Eews of the -enu ?uray@a tribe

did not have as much wisdom. "hey had sided with theMeccans and that decision was a horrible mistake. "he timehad ended for eace and tolerance for those who had oncecomforted Muhammad, his family and followers. He#athered all the Eewish men, aro+imately 355, alon# theditch Bsometimes called a trench' and had 455 of thembeheaded. He then sei@ed the ossessions of theirhouseholds. %irls and women became se+ slaves. Fne ofthose Eewish women was )ayhana, whom the *rohet of

Islam took to bed Braed the same evenin# of her husbandsdeath.

"he news of the con&uests and Muhammads brutalitytraveled &uickly across the Arabian *eninsula. Since reviousworld con&uerors never reco#ni@ed any value in the*eninsula, the Arabs had never e+erienced such massivemilitary destruction. 0onse&uently, more tribes converted to

J:

-ukhari /ol. :, -k. :3, o. 799.J4 )obert Sencer, in his book entitled The Truth !"out Muhammad* d f th 3 ld M t $ t l t < li i B k )


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Islam simly for self(reservation. "hose who did not foundtheir blood on a Muslim sword.

&i'ure (/! Paintin' of "uhamma$ -illin' 5e#s!Detail from miniature aintin# The Prophet, !li, andthe =ompanions at the Massacre of the Prisoners of

the Jewish Tri"e of eni Qura&'ah, illustration of a 23thcentury te+t by Muhammad )afi -a@il. 0ourtesy of the"rustees of the -ritish ;ibrary.

Muhammad was not only a brilliant leader but also anoutstandin# sycholo#ist. He tau#ht his men Bdisciles thatthey were suerior to all other eole, esecially to the Eewsand 0hristians. In fact, near his latter years, he not onlycommanded Eewish eole to be killed, but also redicted theroverbial end times' of humanity when suerior Muslims


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cowards behind stones and trees. ote the followin# versesfrom the Quranand the %adithG

ou are the best community ever raised amon# theeoleG you advocate ri#hteousness and forbid evil, and youbelieve in Allah. If the followers of the scriture BEews and

0hristians believed, it would be better for them.Some of them do believe, but the maority of them arewicked.

Sura 7G225

F you who believe, do not take certain Eews and0hristians as allies$ these are allies of one another."hose amon# you who ally themselves with these

belon# with them. Allah does not #uide the trans#ressors.Sura :G:2

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"he Eews said, @ra J9is the son of Allah,' while the0hristians said, Eesus is the son of AllahR' "hese areblashemies uttered by their mouths. "hey thus matchthe blashemies of those who have disbelieved in the

ast. Allah condemns them.

Sura 3G75

Abu Huraira reorted Allahs Messen#er Bmay eacebe uon him as sayin#G "he last hour would not comeunless the Muslims will fi#ht a#ainst the Eews and theMuslims would kill them until the Eews would hide

themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a treewould sayG Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is aEew behind me$ come and kill him$ but the tree %har&adwould not say, for it is the tree of the Eews.'

%adithShih Muslim, -k. J2, o. 438:.J8

Muhammad then #ave additional instructions

concernin# those who resisted conversion. He wasauthori@ed to terrori@e them. If needed he was ermitted tostrike them above the necks,' or strike their necks,'meanin# to behead them, and to strike every fin#er,'meanin# to remove fin#er nails.

)ecall that your ;ord insired the an#elsG I am withyou$ so suort those who believed. I will throw terror into

the hearts of those who disbelieved. ou may strike themabove the necks, and you may strike even every fin#er.'

Sura 8G26

If you encounter Bin war those who disbelieve, youmay strike the necks. If you take them as catives youmay set them free or ransom them, until the war ends.

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Had Allah willed, he could have #ranted you victory, withoutwar. -ut He thus tests you by one another. As for thosewho #et killed in the cause of Allah he will never ut their

sacrifice to waste.

Sura J9GJ

-ecause of his brutalities, several oets and oliticiansin Medina soke out a#ainst him. !hen the *rohet cau#htu with them, they were tortured to death. Eews who oncedemonstrated kindness had to abandon their homes and fleefor their lives.

"heJihad

Some Islamic scholars believe that it was at =hud,others say it was in Medina, where Muhammad received hisrevelation of6ihad. He tau#ht that the only sure way to knowone would receive eternal life with Allah in *aradise was tobe killed in holy war, known as 6ihad. If death should come,then the soul would ascend to *aradise where there aresome rivers flowin# with wine, others flowin# with milk, andthe rest flowin# with honey Bthree delicacies of the Arabs,

althou#h later wine was outlawed for use on earth. "heheavenly descrition was one of the roverbial wine, womenand son#' that satisfies human lusts. !hen the charismaticrohet convinced his warriors of these wishful eternaldreams, they were ready to kill for anythin# and became thefiercest army that ever marched. ;ittle wonder then thatfundamentalist Muslims today will never accet bein# takenas a rison of war, as they will challen#e their enemies to the

death so they can enoy a aradise of wine, women andson#.

"hrou#hout modern history, durin# times of war,soldiers referred to surrender than be killed. In !orld !arsI and II many enemy combatants were catured by the Alliesand released accordin# to the %eneva 0onvention wheneace was restored. ot so with Muslim fi#hters. Surrenderwas neverQis never an otion. In fact, it is a sin.


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"he *rohet said, "he erson who articiates inBHoly battles in Allahs cause and nothin# comels him todo so e+cet belief in Allah and his Aostles, will berecomensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty Bifhe survives or will be admitted to *aradise Bif he is killed in

the battle as a martyr. Had I not found it difficult formy followers, then I would not remain behind anysari&a #oin# for Eihad and I would have loved to bemartyred in Allahs cause and then made alive, and

then martyred and then made alive, and then a#ainmartyred in His cause.'

%adith/ol 2, -k. 6, o.7: J3

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