A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

put his foot on it, and ripping it off with the courage of a divine knight, he attacked the enemy to achieve
his most cherished aim.
Was it the valor of his followers that won the day? Of course, it was a great factor in securing the
field, but the inspiration that the Prophet provided was the paramount reason of success. Though he is
considered 'illiterate' by his followers, he was the master of mob psychology and excelled in operating
this mechanism.
The day, i.e. 17 Ramadan, the second year of Hijrah (623 A.D.) when the battle took place, was
punctuated with sharp gales. As the first violent blast swept across the valley, the Prophet told his
followers that the Angel Gabriel had arrived with one thousand angels to help the Muslim cause. The
following two piercing blasts were interpreted by him as the arrival of the angel Michael and the angel
Israpheel, each heading a reinforcement of 1,000 angels to fight on the side of the Muslims!
Nobody stopped to think why were they not visible to the crusaders, but to Muhammad only? Again,
the angels must be very weak creatures if three thousand of them were required to fight just 1,000
Meccans. The Koran testifies to this event:
"And Allah most surely helped you at Badr, when you were utterly abject. So fear Allah, and happily you will
be thankful. When you saidst to the believers: 'Is it not enough for you that your Lord should reinforce you with
three thousand angels sent down upon you, Yea: if you are patient and god fearing, and the foe come against
you instantly, your Lord will reinforce you with five thousand swooping angels". (The House of Imran: III:120)
By this statement Muhammad secured the entire credit for his Prophethood, which had been honored
by Allah with a reinforcement of 3,000 heavenly fighters, and a promise of 5,000 belligerent angels in any
future engagement against the infidels.
One ought to know the attitude of the Prophet toward his chief adversary, Abu Jahl, who was
presented to him when he was about to breathe his last. As he lay at his feet, the Prophet looked at him
and said, "it is more acceptable to me than the choicest camel in Arabia".
Now, we come to booty, the goal of the Islamic warfare, which Allah Himself sanctioned to strike
terror in the hearts of those who refuse to bow before the Islamic Imperialism and claim their right to
human dignity.
By modern standards the booty acquired from the Battle of Badr may look trivial but by then
prevailing economic conditions of Arabia, its psychological effects, and the part it played in building the
Arab Empire, was simply terrific; "the loot consisted of 115 camels, 14 horses, a great store of vestments
and carpets, articles of leather, with much equipage and armor". The famous sword of Abu Jahl, known as
'Dhul-Fikr' fell to the share of the Prophet.
The Battle of Badr was fought on the doctrine of Jihad, which essentially means building the Arab
Empire by denying non-Muslims all rights except the right to serve their Arab masters, which servitude is
perpetual humiliation of non-Muslims through a system of subjugation and payment of tribute (i.e.
imperialism). When we delve deeper into this doctrine, it transpires that its tentacles equally spread to the
non-Arab Muslims, who are converted to Islam with the force of arms; they are, of course, exempted from
the payment of Jaziya i.e. poll tax, but are treated as second-class citizens and may be exploited
economically as well as psychologically through the hegemony of faith, which favors the Arab Muslims
against the non-Arab Muslims. I shall return to this point later.
To further explain the novelty of Jihad as the Doctrine of Struggle against the infidels, the following
point should be made: A Muslim nation requires no particular reason to attack a non-Muslim country. It is
in itself a heinous crime not to acknowledge Muhammad as the last Prophet of God. According to the
Koran all religions are false except Islam. Thus Allah is the enemy of non-Muslims, who are regarded as
the worst kind of beasts under the sun. It is a myth that the Jews and Christians being 'People of the Book'
are exempt from this restriction. Having abrogated all other religions, the Prophet prescribes the course of
action against them as Jihad. Muhammad’s solution for the problem of any person or nation denying
Islam is a perpetual war against them until the infidels are killed or subdued.
All previously imperial nations, as they became civilized and conscious of human dignity, realized
that it is morally wrong to maim, mutilate and murder other people for personal or collective gain and