Ali Sina - Understanding Muhammad

Muhammad and His Cult
This story is beyond belief. How can anyone let himself to be fooled to
this extent Albert Einstein was not joking when he said, “Two things are
infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Order of the Solar Temple: This apocalyptic cult claimed 74 victims in
three bizarre mass suicide rituals. Most of the members of the sect were highly
educated and well-to-do individuals, much more intelligent than Abu Bakr,
Omar and Ali, and other companions of Muhammad.
The cult gave great importance to the Sun. Their fiery ritual murdersuicides
were meant to take members of the sect to a new world on the star
“Sirius.” To assist with the trip, several of the victims, including some children,
were shot in the head, asphyxiated with black plastic bags and/or poisoned.
The two known leaders of the group were Luc Jouret, a Belgian
homeopathic doctor, and Joseph di Mambro, a wealthy businessman. They were
Muhammad and Abu Bakr of this cult. However, they believed in their own
insanity so much that along with their followers they too committed suicide.
This is something Muhammad was not willing to do. Muhammad never put his
life in the way of harm. He surrounded himself with bodyguards at all times and
never confronted the enemy in person.
In a letter delivered after their deaths, Jouret and di Mambro wrote that
they were “leaving this earth to find a new dimension of truth and absolution,
far from the hypocrisies of this world.” 289 Cults have an infatuation with death.
This sounds eerily familiar to what Muhammad used to preach, except that
Muhammad was more attached to this world and its lustful pleasures and so had
no intention of leaving it. He praised martyrdom, but that was for others. He did
not advocate suicide. Instead, he goaded his followers to wage jihad, kill and
readily die. He told them to love death more than life, to loot and to bring booty,
women and slaves for “Allâh and his messenger.” He was much more
pragmatic than other cult leaders and therefore less sincere.
Heaven's Gate: On March 26, 1997, 39 members of the cult known as
“Heaven's Gate” decided to “shed their containers” and get on a companion
craft “hiding in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet”.
The Heaven’s Gaters died in three shifts over a three-day period after
celebrating their last meal on earth. As one set of cultists ingested the poison, a
lethal dose of phenobarbital mixed in with pudding and/or applesauce and
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