The word fundamentalist never existed until the turn of the 20th Century. Verse 122 addresses those Muslims who thought about deserting before this battle. History records that Prophet Muhammad did put the pagan idolaters to great shame when he demolished before them, their 365 idols that were installed in Ka’bah (Mecca), the most respected place of pilgrimage in the whole of Arabia. It have never been otherwise in christian religion. He was to become known as Muhammad, the Prophet.

Mencken's essay " Memorial Service " [1] lists 138 gods, each of whom was "of the highest standing and dignity ... worshipped and believed in by millions." All, he points out, "were theoretically omnipotent, omniscient, and immortal. Yet all these gods, and all the religions established in their names, were once potent forces in the lives of their devotees, satisfying what Bertrand Russell called "the cruel thirst for worship." [2] They were gods able to command devotion and sacrifice; gods in whose names temples were built, heretics were persecuted, and wars were fought download Ahlul Bayt: The Holy Family of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&F) epub. This is in particular the case for Neturei Karta; still these are all Israeli citizens and counted as part of the Israeli demography Ahlul Bayt: The Holy Family of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&F) Ahlul Bayt: The Holy Family of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&F) pdf. By 1500, Sicily was Roman Catholic except for a few Albanian Orthodox communities whose churches soon affiliated themselves with Rome. In the words of John Julius Norwich, "Norman Sicily stood forth in Europe—and indeed in the whole bigoted medieval world—as an example of tolerance and enlightenment, a lesson in the respect that every man should feel for those whose blood and beliefs happen to differ from his own."

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Of course, Muslims per se are not the most violent people on Earth. There is a problem with a small, highly conservative sect of Sunni Islam variously known as Wahhabis or Salafis. There aren't many of them, but they do a lot of damage read Ahlul Bayt: The Holy Family of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH&F) online. Muhammad also claimed that it was the first temple ever built for mankind (Q. 3:97). ����������� Only Muhammad claimed that it was a place built by Abraham.� In looking in the O. T., we find no mention of Abraham traveling to Mecca to build a house of worship. ����������� Further, the late Taha Hussein, one of the most famous Egyptian professors of Arabic literature said that the Islamic myth of Abraham building the Kaba came into vogue just before the rise of Islam.� He comments: ����������� "The case of this episode is very obvious because it is of recent date, and came into vogue just before the rise of Islam.� Islam exploited it for religious reasons".� Quoted in 'Mizar al-Islam' by Anwar al-Jundi. ����������� Every man living in Mecca before and during Muhammad's life had some relationship with the Kaba.� If the Kaba was the house of God, why did Muhammad order his followers to face Jerusalem?� Muhammad's 'revelation' in the Quran says that when Allah had Muhammad change prayer directions, it was a test of the Muslims.� This sounds like a lame excuse on Muhammad's part.� What's the test?� Face another direction?� That does not appear to be such an incredible challenge! ����������� Probably the real answer is that through his early contacts with Christians and Jews, Muhammad knew that their faiths, centered in Jerusalem, where monotheistic.� Muhammad abhorred polytheistic worship, consequently he aligned himself with faiths that he believed were from the true God.� He selected Jerusalem as the direction of prayer.� He hoped that the Jews would receive him as a prophet. ����������� About a year and a half after the migration to Medina, after the Jews had thoroughly rejected him, he turned the direction of prayer to Mecca - the center of pagan worship in the Arabian peninsula (Q. 2:144).� Just as he had compromised with the pagan idol worshippers in Mecca, by sanctioning and worshipping the pagan goddesses Lat, Uzza, and Manat, so now he hoped to gain favor with the pagan Arab tribes that worshipped at the Kaba in Mecca.� He authenticated the pagan focus of attention. ����������� After Muhammad took Mecca, he cleansed the Kaba.� Inside the Kaba were many representations of the prophets.� When his men began to cleanse the Kaba, and wash out the representations, Muhammad placed his hands on the pictures of Jesus and Mary, and said "Wash out all except what is below my hands".� Again, Muhammad went against his own principles, and sanctioned his definition of idolatry. ����������� Muhammad then sanctioned the pagan rituals concerning the Kaba, i.e. kissing the black stone, touching the Kaba, circling the structure, running between the two hills, etc.� Later, Umar said to the black stone "I know that you are a stone, that neither helps nor hurts, and if the messenger of god had not kissed you, I would not kiss you". (Sahih al-Bukhari, volume 2, #667).�� But then he kissed the stone.� Like Umar, many other Muslims follow the prophet in their practice of veneration of a pagan idol. ����������� Before Muhammad, there was a group of people in Arabia who also abhorred idolatry.� They were known as the Hanifites.� Even the Hanifites saw that kissing the black stone was pagan idolatry.� During one of the pre-Islamic Eids, the Qurayshi were worshipping their idols, slaying sacrifices, praying, and making circuits around the Kaba.� Just as they did each year for this festival.� Some Hanifites saw them, and stood apart from them, and said: ����������� "By the Lord!, our people have nothing left of the faith of Abraham.� What is this stone that we should encircle it?� It can neither hear nor speak, neither hurt nor help.� O our people, look out for your souls, for by the Lord are you altogether wanting." ���� One of the Hanifites was Obeidallah... later he embraced Islam.� He immigrated to Abyssinia with other Muslims.� Later he became a Christian.� After his conversion, he said to his Muslim friends 'We (Christians) see, but you are only blinking' - that is, cannot see plainly. ����������� So, why then does Muhammad kiss the black stone?� Why did he incorporate paganism into his faith.� There is even the Quranic story of Abraham - how he chided those who worshipped idols sura 6, 21, etc., and said it was sinful in God's sight.� Yet here we have Muhammad walking around the Kaba, just like the pagans, kissing the stone, just like the pagans.� Even Umar knew it was empty and false, yet he followed Muhammad in kissing the stone. ����������� It cannot be denied that an entire pagan theology and ritual, was adopted by Islam, after Muhammad had one of his convenient 'revelations' and made it 'religiously' correct. ����������� Another Muslim myth, concerning the Kaba, is that 'anyone who prays under the Kaba's water-pipe becomes as pure as on the day when his mother bore him'.� Muslims have a hard time accepting Christ's atonement, but will allow for total forgiveness of sins by uttering a prayer under a spout! ����������� In one of the early Muslim civil wars (a.d. 683), al-Zubayr in Mecca was besieged by al-Husayn.� Husayn's men used catapults and damaged the Kaba.� It looked like 'the torn bosoms of mourning women'.� Zubayr and his men pitched their tents next to the Kaba, and a conflagration caught the Kaba on fire.� The Kaba was severely damaged, and the black stone was split into three pieces. ����������� A short time later, al-Hadjdjadj conquered Mecca and killed Zubayr.� He modified the Kaba's structure. ����������� In 929, the Karmatians invaded Mecca and carried off the black stone!� 20 years later it was returned. ����������� Other natural events (bad weather) have also caused the Kaba to need repair. ����������� Muslims erroneously claim that God has protected the Quran from corruption, yet their god was not able to protect his sacred house! ����������� Later Muslim theologians invented a number of myths about Mecca and the Kaba. ����������� One Islamic tradition is - according to Ibn Abbas:� Muhammad said, 'The black stone came from Paradise and at the time of its descent it was whiter than milk, but that the sins of the children of Adam have caused it to be black, by their touching it.� That on the Day of Resurrection, when it will have two eyes, by which it will see and know all those who touched it and kissed it, and when it will have a tongue to speak, it will give evidence in favor of those who touched and kissed it'! ����������� Muslim writers also said that the Kaba was first constructed in heaven, 2000 years before the creation of the world, where a model of it still remains.� Adam erected the first Kaba on earth exactly below the spot its perfect model occupies in heaven!� 10,000 angels were appointed to guard Adam's Kaba, but obviously they didn't do a good job!� God then instructed Abraham to rebuild it. ����������� There are a number of other myths about the Kaba.� Among them are that Mecca is the navel of the world, that the Kaba was established at the creation of the world, destroyed during the flood, re-built by Abraham, that Gabriel provided the black stone.� There are also legends about the Zamzam water from the nearby well. ����������� Some Muslims say that there are references to the Kaba in the O , cited: Living Islam (Living download here Living Islam (Living Religions) here.

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