
Originally Posted by
WanRen
No doubt this study will received tremendous resistance mainly off course from Muslims and Muslim supporters they have and will make claims that Spencer is nothing but a bigot and an Islamophobe at the same time ignoring that Spencer was never arrogant or aggressive in presenting his research compare to Muslim leaders and I repeat Muslim leaders that openly preach death to America! Allh akbar! death to Israel! all fiery speeches and proclamations that are clearly racist, bigot and Christianaphone.
You are familiar that most of the current Islamic world was colonized by Christian Europeans, right? And that a lot of the colonization process was brutal and dehumanizing, right? There's a reason anti-European and anti-American sentiment go a long way in the Islamic world: it describes long-held feelings about colonial empires that have overthrown indigenous leaders and have brutalized their peoples.
But, we will never hear anyone accusing them of being bigot Muslim cleric such as Shabir Ali, Zakir Naik, Hamza Yusuf etc. they speak strongly about anti Christian why are they not being consider bigots?
A lot of people call them bigots, such as yourself. Congratulations on being blind.
Spencer did a very tremendous job a deep research and study that no other scholars would have dare to do in fear of reprisals from Muslims.
Please, tell me how otherwise completely disunited and warring Arab tribes managed to become united under a central government that managed to win battles against two of the strongest states on earth at the time (admittedly weakened by fighting each other, but still each individually strong enough to keep major incursions to their territories limited). Or Syrian Byzantine scholars mentioning him two years after his death.
In short, there's decent evidence that Muhammad probably existed. The evidence is much stronger than for Jesus, at any rate (though, I'd say there's a good chance of there having been an historical Jesus).
http://www.opendemocracy.net/faith-e...ammed_3866.jsp
In fact after listening and reading its point of view, it would seem that there is now a chance a theory that Jesus is that Mohammed? Mohammed the word mean "the praise one" who is the praise one? is it Jesus Christ?
No. That's completely foolish. There's a 600 year gap between the two.
Maybe this is why Muslim leaders taught to their followers never to have picture of Mohammed because there was no Mohammed?
Muslim have no problem of photos of Mary or Jesus but they have problem with Mohammed?
Have you even seen a Masjid? They don't have any pictures of humans at all, and most Muslims don't concern themselves with how Christians worship, aside from saying they are wrong for trying to make the One God into three gods. They do think Mary is an important figure, with Jesus being a prophet second only to Muhammad (and they also believe that Jesus is going to herald the Day of Judgement, too), but they don't have any images of either of them, in general (Islam, having 1 billion followers with no real religious leader aside from imams, who don't have the same authority as, say, a bishop in most Christian churches; thus, many individual interpretations of Islam crop up).
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