MUHAMMAD'S
EARLY TERRORIST ACTS
After moving to Medina, Muhammad
began to have conflict with the Jews and pagans in the area. I'll focus on several incidents, not
necessarily in chronological order, that illustrate Muhammad as a terrorist.
The first
terrorist incident involves Muhammad's command to his followers to "kill
any Jew who comes under your power".
From
Guillaume, op cit, page 369:
"The apostle said, "Kill
any Jew who falls into your power."
Thereupon Muhayyisa b. Masud leapt upon Ibn Sunayna, a Jewish merchant
with whom they had social and business relations, and killed him. Huwayyisa was not a Muslim at the time
though he was the elder brother. When
Muhayyisa killed him Huwayyisa began to beat him, saying, 'You enemy of God,
did you kill him when much of the fat on your belly comes from his wealth?' Muhayyisa answered, 'Had the one who
ordered me to kill him ordered me to kill you I would have cut your head
off.'"
END OF QUOTE
This story
is also supported in the Sunan of Abu Dawud, Book 13, Number 2996:
Narrated
Muhayyisah: The Apostle of Allah
said: If you gain a victory over the
men of Jews, kill them. So Muhayyisah
jumped over Shubaybah, a man of the Jewish merchants. He had close relations with them. He then killed him. At
that time Huwayyisah (brother of Muhayyisah) had not embraced Islam. He was older than Muhayyisah. When he killed him, Huwayyisah beat him and
said: O enemy of Allah, I swear by
Allah, you have a good deal of fat in your belly from his property.
END OF QUOTE
This murder was committed upon
Muhammad's command. Note that this Muslim murderer would have killed a family member
at the drop of a hat. Muhammad was no better than a bigoted criminal boss, ordering his men
to wantonly murder Jewish people. Hitler did this. Muhammad's command to murder Jews
puts him in the same category as Hitler, and others who have persecuted Jews throughout history.
A quote from an Islamic scholar -
Wensinck writes in his, "Muhammad and the Jews of Medina" [2], page
113:
"It is remarkable that
tradition attributes Muhammad's most cruel acts to divine order, namely the
siege of Qaynuqa, the murder of Kab, and he attack upon Qurayzah. Allah's conscience seems to be more elastic
than that of his creatures."..... Ibn Ishaq and
al-Waqidi report that the prophet said the morning after the murder (of Kab
Ashraf), "Kill any Jew you can lay your hands on.".
This incident is also documented in
Tabari's History [3], page 97 of volume 7.
This
shows that Muhammad had unsuspecting people, those who even had good relations
with Muslims, murdered in cold blood because they were Jewish. There was no justification to murder these
Jews other than they were not Muhammad's followers. These actions were the work of Muhammad's terrorists committing
murder.
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The second terrorist incident
involves another one of Muhammad's requests:
this one for his men to murder an old Jewish man named Abu Afak. Abu Afak was 120 years. Abu Afak had urged his fellow Medinans to
question Muhammad.
From
Guillaume, op cit., page 675:
SALIM B. UMAYR'S EXPEDITION TO KILL
ABU AFAK
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 and said:
"Long have I lived
but never have I seen
An assembly or
collection of people
More faithful to their
undertaking
And their allies when
called upon
Than the sons of Qayla
when they assembled,
Men who overthrew
mountains and never submitted,
A rider who came to them
split them in two (saying)
"Permitted",
"Forbidden", of all sorts of things.
Had you believed in
glory or kingship
You would have followed
Tubba
[NOTE: the Tubba was a ruler from Yemen who invaded
that part of what is present Saudi Arabia:
the Qaylites resisted him]
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. Umama b. Muzayriya said concerning that:
You gave the lie to
God's religion and the man Ahmad!
[Muhammad]
By him who was your
father, evil is the son he produced!
A "hanif" gave
you a thrust in the night saying
"Take that Abu Afak
in spite of your age!"
Though I knew whether it
was man or jinn
Who slew you in the dead
of night (I would say naught).
END OF QUOTE
Additional information is found in
the Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, (Book of the Major Classes) by Ibn Sa'd, Volume
2, [4], page 32:
Then occurred the
"sariyyah" [raid] of Salim Ibn Umayr al-Amri against Abu Afak, the
Jew, in [the month of] Shawwal in the beginning of the twentieth month from the
hijrah [immigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 AD], of the Apostle of
Allah. Abu Afak, was from Banu Amr Ibn
Awf, and was an old man who had attained the age of one hundred and twenty
years. He was a Jew, and used to
instigate the people against the Apostle of Allah, and composed (satirical)
verses [about Muhammad].
Salim Ibn Umayr who was one of the
great weepers and who had participated in Badr, said, "I take a vow that I
shall either kill Abu Afak or die before him.
He waited for an opportunity until a hot night came, and Abu Afak slept
in an open place. Salim Ibn Umayr knew
it, so he placed the sword on his liver and pressed it till it reached his
bed. The enemy of Allah screamed and
the people who were his followers, rushed to him, took him to his house and
interred him.
END OF QUOTE
From a contemporary Muslim scholar -
Ali Dashti's "23 Years: A Study of
the Prophetic Career of Mohammad", [5], page 100:
"Abu Afak, a man of great age
(reputedly 120 years) was killed because he had lampooned Mohammad. The deed was done by Salem b. Omayr at the
behest of the Prophet, who had asked, "Who will deal with this rascal for
me?" The killing of such an old
man moved a poetess, Asma b. Marwan, to compose disrespectful verses about the
Prophet, and she too was assassinated."
Prior to listing all of the
assassinations Muhammad had ordered, Ali Dashti writes on page 97:
"Thus Islam was gradually
transformed from a purely spiritual mission into a militant and punitive
organization whose progress depended on booty from raids and revenue from the
zakat tax."
REVIEW
Here another man was murdered upon
Muhammad's command. This man was 120 years old. He was no physical threat to Muhammad and he did not urge people
to commit violent acts against Muhammad or the Muslims. There was no discussion with Jewish leaders,
there was no dialogue with Abu Afak; it was just an outright murder of another
one of Muhammad's critics. Abu Afak
urged the people who lived in Medina to doubt and leave Muhammad. Abu Afak found that Muhammad's sayings were
strange and dictatorial. He chided the
Arabs who put their faith in Muhammad.
Muhammad heard of this and viewed the 120 year old man as a threat to his
credibility, not to his life. Nowhere
does it say that Abu Afak urged his fellow Arabs to attack or harm Muhammad. Yet for speaking
his mind, for the benefit of his friends, this man was murdered by Muhammad.
The last statement in Umama b.
Muzayriya's verse reveals something though:
"Though I knew whether it was
man or jinn
Who slew you in the dead of night (I
would say naught)."
This statement displays that the
Muslims knew exactly what they were doing.
They knew it was cold-blooded murder that they were committing upon
Muhammad's request. They wanted to keep
it secret, they wanted to hide their evil deeds from the populace at
large. That's why Umama said he
wouldn't reveal who murdered Abu Afak.
When I think of what type of people
order their followers to commit murder, I only can think of organized crime
bosses or corrupt political figures.
Saddam Hussein comes to mind.
How would an Iraqi be treated if he spoke out about Saddam? Amnesty International just reported that
over 1500 political prisoners were executed in Iraq last year.
Or take the Ayatollah Khomenni. His fundamentalist Islamic regime had other
dissident Iranians murdered all over the world. These murderous Muslims represent exactly what Muhammad was all
about. They follow Muhammad's
methodology: kill those who are a
threat to your credibility and power over others.
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The third incident involves
Muhammad's request for his men to murder a woman named Asma b. Marwan.
Quoting from
Guillaume, pages 675, 676.
UMAYR B.
ADIYY'S JOURNEY TO KILL ASMA D. MARWAN
"She was of B. Umayyya b.
Zayd. When Abu Afak had been killed she
displayed disaffection. Abdullah b.
al-Harith b. Al-Fudayl from his father said that she was married to a man of B.
Khatma called Yazid b. Zayd. 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,
One not of Murad or Madhhij. {1}
Do you expect good from him after
the killing of your chiefs
Like a hungry man waiting for a
cook's broth?
Is there no man of pride who would
attack him by surprise
And cut off the hopes of those who
expect aught from him?"
Hassan b.
Thabit answered her:
"Banu Wa'il and B. Waqif and
Khatma
Are inferior to B. al-Khazraj.
When she called for folly woe to her
in her weeping,
For death is coming.
She stirred up a man of glorious
origin,
Noble in his going out and in his
coming in.
Before midnight he dyed her in her
blood
And incurred no guilt thereby."
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. In the morning he came to the apostle and
told him what he had done and he [Muhammad] said, "You have helped God and
His apostle, O Umayr!" When he
asked if he would have to bear any evil consequences the apostle said, "Two
goats won't butt their heads about her", so Umayr went back to his people.
Now there was a great commotion
among B. Khatma that day about the affair of bint [girl] Marwan. She had five sons, and when Umayr went to
them from the apostle he said, "I have killed bint Marwan, O sons of Khatma. Withstand me if you can; don't keep me
waiting." That was the first day
Islam became powerful among B. Khatma; before that those who were Muslims
concealed the fact. The first of them
to accept Islam was Umayr b. Adiy who was called the "Reader", and
Abdullah b. Aus and Khuzayma b. Thabit.
The day after Bint Marwan was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims
because they saw the power of Islam."
{1} The note reads "Two tribes of Yamani
origin."
END OF QUOTE
And from Ibn
Sa'd's, "Kitab Al-Tabaqat Al-Kabir" [op cit] volume 2, page 31.
"SARIYYAH OF UMAYR IBN
ADI"
Then (occurred) the sariyyah of
Umayr ibn adi Ibn Kharashah al-Khatmi
against Asma Bint Marwan, of Banu Umayyah Ibn Zayd, when five nights had
remained from the month of Ramadan, in the beginning of the nineteenth month
from the hijrah of the apostle of Allah.
Asma was the wife of Yazid Ibn Zayd Ibn Hisn al-Khatmi. She used to revile Islam, offend the prophet
and instigate the (people) against him.
She composed verses. Umayr Ibn
Adi came to her in the night and entered her house. Her children were sleeping around her. There was one whom she was suckling. He searched her with his hand because he was blind, and separated
the child from her. He thrust his sword
in her chest till it pierced up to her back.
Then he offered the morning prayers with the prophet at al-Medina. The apostle of Allah said to him: "Have you slain the daughter of
Marwan?" He said: "Yes.
Is there something more for me to do?" He [Muhammad] said:
"No two goats will butt together about her. This was the word that was first heard from
the apostle of Allah. The apostle of
Allah called him Umayr, "basir" (the seeing).
END OF QUOTE
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