Alton Nolen, alleged beheader. |
It took the gruesome videos of two
American journalists being beheaded by a masked Islamic State (ISIS) butcher,
followed since then by more victims, to finally wake Americans to the threat
that they face from Islam, but the beheading of a Moore, Oklahoma victim by a
man who had been trying to get his co-workers to convert to Islam that brought
the threat to the homeland.
The memory of the 9/11 attack on the
World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon have long since begun to fade, but
Islam has returned to page one with a display of the violence that is the heart
and soul of a cult based on the life and teachings of Muhammad.
Don’t call it a religion. And surely
do not call it the “religion of peace.” There was nothing peaceful about Islam
from its earliest days when the citizens of Mecca came to the conclusion that
Muhammad and his followers were a threat to them. That was 1,400 years
ago.
If it were in my power, I would
require every American to read “It’s All
About Muhammad: A Biography of the World’s Most Notorious Prophet” by F.W.
Burleigh ($`6.95, Zenga
Books).
Instead, I will only highly recommend
it as the best way to understand the man who literally invented a so-called
religion based on his own pathologies and then, through terror, ensured it
spread to the entirety of Arabia in his lifetime.
As the author notes in its
introduction, the biography is based almost entirely on the original literature
of Islam as well as early biographies, histories, and collections of traditions.
Twenty thousand pages of material were given line-by-line scrutiny “because what
is written about him in the original literature is
disturbing.”
“More than two-thirds of the canonical
biographical materials have to do with the violence he used to spread his
religion.” It was a short step from
Muhammad, the self-proclaimed prophet who later called himself the messenger of
Allah, to Alton Nolen, the Muslim convert who is alleged to have beheaded a
former co-worker.
What is little known about Muhammad is
that he suffered from epileptic fits throughout his life and had had a troubled
youth that would have unhinged anyone. A fortunate marriage at age 24 took him
out of a life of low status and poverty. His wife was twenty years his senior, a
woman of wealth. Though a grave concern in an era when the fits were seen as
demon possession, Muhammad began to interpret them as the voices of Allah and
his angels, particularly Gabriel.
“It was during this period of
emotional and intellectual upheaval that his overcharged brain, wracked by
doubts and suffering, came to his rescue in the form of a series of spectacular
hallucinatory experiences that convinced him he was unique and had been singled
out by God for a special purpose. This took place in A.D. 610 when Muhammad was
forty years old.”
“His belief became unshakable and
later became content of much of the Koran and his later ruthless behavior as
pillage, rape, the enslavement of men, women, and children, and other atrocities
he perpetrated—make such a belief beyond ludicrous.”
“It was sufficient for Muhammad to
think something for it to become the truth. He was convinced that whatever came
into his head came from Allah.” For ages insane asylums have been filled with
such people.
As Muhammad drew followers to himself
and to the exacting rituals he created for Islam, he enriched himself and them
with acts of banditry, attacking caravans and then attacking tribes,
particularly Jewish ones, to build a mountain of stolen wealth. Burleigh notes
that the Koran has a chapter “entitled ‘The Spoils of War’” that “transformed
Muhammad’s religion into an organized-crime enterprise for its approval of
plunder.” He told his believers “Enjoy
what you take in war” for it is “lawful and good.”
Again, it is a short step from his era
to the present one in which believers have united to create the Islamic State
(ISIS) by war and to begin to steal the wealth of Syria from the sale of its oil
on the black market. Imposing themselves on a large area of Iraq, ISIS is simply
an extension of al Qaeda and al Qaeda is an expression of Muhammad’s demand that
Islam become the sole religion of the world, exacting a subjugation tax from any
who would not convert.
Burleigh concludes his book saying
“Muhammad was a diseased genius, an epileptic psychopath with a clever tongue
who believed God talked to him, a toxic mixture that transformed him over time
into a mass murderer and a despot pushing a delusional
religion.”
It should surprise no one that he
“divided the world into lands conquered and lands yet to be conquered, into
lands that submitted to his delusions about himself and lands yet to submit to
his delusions.”
Following World War I and the collapse
of the Ottoman Empire, Islam was in decline, but the discovery of oil in the
Middle East provided the funding to spread its message. That message, dependent
on violence and terror has created such a problem in the Middle East that
Islamic nations there are joining in the effort to defeat ISIS.
Burleigh asks “Who will defend you
against the encroachment of what Muhammad created and the very real threat that
it could eventually destroy all that you cherish?” He does not recommend the man
who said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of
Islam.” That man is President Barack
Hussein Obama.
And now you know why the murders
committed by Major Nidal Hasan in 2009, killing his fellow soldiers at Fort
Hood, or the murder in Oklahoma were both deemed “workplace violence” by law
enforcement authorities reluctant to challenge the White House to the reality
that both were inspired and approved by Islam.
© Alan Caruba, 2014