Perhaps this violence ingrained into Islam comes from its main man,
Muhammad. Muhammad was a warlord involved in over twenty battles, and
is highly criticised for his mass murder of the men of Banu Qurayza, a Jewish
tribe of Medina. He killed all the men and took the women and children as
slaves. This does not sound like a man dedicated to peace, and if you base
your entire lifestyle on his way of thinking then I guess that is going to bring
out your darker side too. I think we all know about the other traits
Muhammad had that were considered somewhat taboo. How can Muslims
hold a man in such high regard knowing that if he were alive today he’d be
hated across the globe? Does it say something about Islam?
One of the truly greatest men who ever walked the planet, a free thinker
unrestrained by the chains of religion even in a day when such rebellion
could earn you a gruesome death, François-Marie Arouet (probably better
known to you as Voltaire) wrote a play about the prophet of Islam called
Mahomet. The play is a study of religious fanaticism and self-serving
manipulation based on an episode in the traditional biography of Muhammad
in which he orders the murder of his critics. When Voltaire was asked why he
wrote the play, he replied with a show of majestic elegance and linguistic
mastery:
"It was written in opposition to the founder of a false and
barbarous sect to whom could I with more propriety inscribe a
satire on the cruelty and errors of a false prophet."
Voltaire was warning us about fanaticism in 1741! If only we listened….
Islam is not to Blame … Apparently
A worrying number of Muslims (fanatical in nature, I hope), have said world
peace will only be achieved once everyone on Earth submits to Islamic law.
World domination is an open goal of every religion, but while most religions
inspire pamphlet-brandishing followers to knock on your door at 7am, it
seems to me that Islam has a unique ability to make people pick up guns
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