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| Muhammad and the Dead Poets' society. When he couldn't be bothered he had others do his beheading for him. Favourite targets: jews and poets |
Herein the problem with apologists of Islam, apologists like Maha Akeel in the Arab News (talking of Boris Johnson making fun of the burka).
They say things that are patently untrue. And which are easily provably untrue, even according to their own doctrines. When they do this, they are either Knaves or Fools. That is, they either know they are lying and are just trying to fool we infidels. Or they are Fools in that they don't know that they are lying, they really believe what they are saying.
I don't know where most Muslim apologists fall on the Knave vs Fool dichotomy. I suspect it's most often the latter; that is, the are Fools, who truly believe what they're telling us, untrue and all that it may be.
The Trinity of Islam, for example, has numerous example of Muhammad killing people, himself, or ordering the killing of people. And of taking revenge — poets and Jews were his favourite targets.
Yet someone like Maha Akeel, whose brain has been rotted by obeisance to this violent ideology, can say patently false things like:
The Prophet faced numerous incidents of insult and defeat but did not retaliate with vengeance or violence when he had the chance.
Oh yes, he did!
Just look at poets, just poets, killed by him or on his orders:
For a man who "never" took revenge, there certainly are a curious number of bodies piled up around the prophet of Islam:
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..."Ka'ab bin Al Ashraf used to satire the Prophet and incited the infidels of the Quraish against him... They used to hurt the Prophet and his Companions... When Ka'ab bin Al Ashraf refused to desist from hurting the Prophet the Prophet ordered Sa'd bin Mu'adh to send a band to kill him... When they killed him, the Jews and the polytheist were frightened... (Abu Dawud 3000)
Abu Afak was one of the B. Amr b. Auf of the B. Ubayda clan. He showed his disaffection when the apostle killed al-Harith b. Suwayd b. Samit... The apostle said, "Who will deal with this rascal for me?" Whereupon Salim b. Umayr, brother of B. Amr b. Auf, one of the "weepers", went forth and killed him. (Ibn Ishaq 995)and
She [Asma bint Marwan] was of B. Umayyya b. Zayd. When Abu Afak had been killed she displayed disaffection... Blaming Islam and its followers she said: "I despise B. Malik and al-Nabit and Auf and B. al-Khazraj. You obey a stranger who is none of yours... Do you expect good from him after the killing of your chiefs?"...These were three poets murdered on Muhammad's orders for having criticized or made fun of him (usually for having murdered someone else). Source
When the apostle heard what she had said he said, "Who will rid me of Marwan's daughter?" Umayr b. Adiy al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house and killed her. (Ibn Ishaq 996)
Still, to Akeel, Muhammad is:
"... the beloved Prophet in his patience, humility, strength, kindness, tolerance and benevolence".
[gee, sounds like Boris...]
Akeel may even believe this. Which makes her a Fool rather than a Knave. Not sure which is worse. The Fool is naive; the Knave is a cheat.
Akeel may even believe this. Which makes her a Fool rather than a Knave. Not sure which is worse. The Fool is naive; the Knave is a cheat.
But both are wrong.
