Ali Sina - Understanding Muhammad

Muhammad and His Cult
and the lie passed from one generation to another. After Muhammad’s death, the
sycophants continued fawning over him, praising him to the skies, even
attributing miracles to him, thinking that this would add to their prestige and
make them look pious. There are many miracles attributed to Muhammad even
though he confessed in the Qur’an that he could not perform any. 295
Fourteen hundred years later, millions of Muslims behave in the same
way they used to at the time of Muhammad in Medina. Those who dissent are
afraid to talk, and if they do, are swiftly silenced, while the lackey fawners are
honored for extolling the Prophet and his “virtues.” How can truth triumph in
such a repressive atmosphere so fraught with hypocrisy and sycophancy
There are several stories about Muhammad ordering the assassination of
those who criticized him and about Omar, as Muhammad’s right hand man, who
was ever ready to draw his sword and threaten to slit the throat of anyone who
dared question his master’s authority. Muhammad encouraged sycophantism
and punished independent thinking and criticism. People trapped in such an
oppressive atmosphere, eventually come to believe in the superhuman qualities
of the leader and their faith in them becomes genuine and real.
Recently, a team of eye surgeons went to North Korea to help people with
cataracts. Thousands of young and old lined up and after they recovered their
sights, the doctors were stupefied to see that the first thing these people did was
to go to the large portraits of the dictators Kim Jung Il and his father hanging on
the wall, to prostrate themselves and thank THEM – not the doctors who helped
them, but the two tyrants who kept them blind for so many years.
Muhammad’s mission flourished partly because he came during a time
and to a place of ignorant, superstitious and largely chauvinistic people. The
qualities he needed to bolster his marauding religion were already present in his
early followers. Chauvinism, bigotry, haughtiness, arrogance, megalomania,
stupidity, boastfulness, greed, lust for sex, disdain for life and other ignoble
character traits that are the hallmarks of Islam were already present as the
materia prima in Arabia. These attributes were later imposed on other nations
who became prey to Islam. Those who already had these base attributes found in
Islam a common ground to stand and a “divine” validation for their deviant,
criminal penchant.
295 The unbelievers repeatedly asked Muhammad to perform a miracle so they could believe (Qur’an
17: 90) and Muhammad kept telling them "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man- a
messenger" (Qur’an 17: 93)
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