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Who Was Muhammad?
persecuted in a city justified in taking his revenge on any citizen of that city? Muslims use the same logic when they bomb and kill innocent civillians. If they perceive a country as having been unfriendly towards them, they think it is okay to impose payback by killing any innocent citizen of that country. Everything Muslims do today that baffles the world is an imitation of what Muhammad did.

          In chapter 22, Verse 39 of the Qur'an, Allâh gives permission to fight. This is the very same verse with which Osama Bin Laden began one of his letters to America. Can we therefore really say that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism?
 

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          In Medina, the immigrants from Mecca were a mere handful. To be effective in his raids, Muhammad also needed the help of recent Muslim converts native in that town, whom he called "Ansar" (the helpers).

          However, the Medinans had not joined Islam in order to raid caravans and wage wars. Believing in Allâh is one thing. Raiding, robbing and killing people are altogether something else. Arabs, prior to Muhammad, were not used to religious wars. Even today, there are Muslims who, though they may believe in Allâh, do not want to fight and kill for their religion. To persuade that kind of follower, Muhammad made his Allâh issue this command:
Fighting is good prescribed for you, and you dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you love a thing, which is bad for you. But Allâh knows, and you know not. (Q. 2:216)
Soon, the Prophet's efforts bore fruit. Goaded by greed for booty and by promises of rewards in the afterlife, the Medinan Muslims joined in the banditry and looting business as well. As Muhammad's army grew and his ambition soared, the bandit decided to graduate to potentate. He encouraged his followers not only to wage war for him "in the way of Allâh" but also to pay for the expenses of those wars.
And spend of your wealth in the cause of Allâh, and make not your own hands contribute to (your) destruction; but do good; for Allâh loves those who do good. (Q. 2:195)

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Note, how Muhammad links "doing good" with looting, terror, and murder. It is by this very twisted sense of morality that Muslims are able to sacrifice their consciences and take up a sociopathic situational ethics toward other groups, one that must always be played to their advantage. However a situation benefits Musilims is considered good. Muhammad made his followers believe that subsidizing his warefare and committing such acts of terrorism for Islam were the best deeds that pleased God.

          Today, Muslims who cannot fight, compensate by contributing to Islamic "charities". The "charities" are not established to build hospitals, orphanages, schools or senior housing. Rather, they are established to expand Islam, to build mosques and madrassas, train terrorists, and finance jihad. Islamic charities will aid the poor only to enlist them for their political cause. A good example of that is the huge amount of money the Islamic Republic of Iran pays to the Hezbollah of Lebanon. This, of course, is not done out of real charity. The masses of Iranians today are living in abject poverty. Those who are lucky enough to work, try to survive with a salary that amounts to no more than $100 US dollars per month. They are in dire need of food, jobs and shelter. Why then take their money and give it to the Lebanese? The idea is to make Islam taste sweet in their mouths and enlist them in the war against Israel.

          When people didn't pony up enough funds for his military campaigns, Muhammad would would angrily rebuke them:
And what reason have you that you should not spend in Allâh's way? And Allâh's is the inheritance of the heavens and the earth, not alike among you are those who spent before the victory and fought (and those who did not): they are more exalted in rank than those who spent and fought afterwards; and Allâh has promised good to all; and Allâh is Aware of what you do. (Q.57:10)
          Muhammad cleverly equates the money that Muslilms spent on his warfare to a "loan" given to God, and promised them "goodly interest" on their money:
Who is he that will Loan to Allâh a beautiful loan? For (Allâh) will increase it manifold to his credit, and he will have (besides) a liberal Reward. (Q.57:11)
          In this way, he made his followers believe that Allâh is in dept to them for aiding Muhammad in his wars of conquest. While Muhammad made Allâh tell his followers how great will be the reward of those who finance his warfare

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expeditions, he did not want them to brag about their contributions and their sacrifices. Making sacrifices was to be understood as a privilege. It was the believers who had to be grateful to him for the opportunity of serving him, and not the other way round:
Those who spend their substance in the cause of Allâh, and follow not up their gifts with reminders of their generosity or with injury, - for them their reward is with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. (Q. 2:262)
          After rousing them to wage war and instruction them to smite the necks of the unbelievers, he assured them that their "good deeds" would never be forgotten.
So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allâh had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and (as for) those who are slain in the way of Allâh, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish. (Q. 47:4)
          In other words, Allâh can kill the unbelievers without the help of the Muslims, but he wants Muslims to do it in order to test their faith.

          Thus Muhammad depicts Allâh as a mafia godfather, a thuggish gangleader who test the loyalty of his henchmen by asking them to kill. In Islam the faith of the believer is ultimately tested by their bloodthirstiness and, readiness to kill in the cause of Allâh. Then he said:
And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to frighten thereby the enemy of Allâh and your enemy and others besides them, whom you do not know (but) Allâh knows them; and whatever thing you will spend in Allâh's way, it will be paid back to you fully and you shall not be dealt with unjustly. (Q. 8:60)
          Muhammad made empty promises that those who warred (with body or finances) against unbelievers and accepted him as Allâh's messenger would find rewards piled high in the afterlife. In characterizing these rewards, he was indeed most generous and extravagant. He claimed there would be all kinds of

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goodies and endless sexual indulgence in paradise, and warned that punishment loomed for those who ...

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39 Qur'an Chapter 47, Verse 38: Behold, ye are those invited to spend (of you substance) in the Way of Allâh: But among you are some that are niggardly. But any who are niggardly are so at the expense of their own souls. But Allâh is free of all wants, and it is ye that are needy. If ye turn back (from the Path), He will substitute in you stead another people; then they would not be like you!"
40 See also Chapter 63, Verse 10
41 An affidavit made public in federal court in Verginia in August 19, 2003, contends that the Muslim charities gave $3.7 million to BMI Inc., a private Islamic investment company in New Jersey that may have passed the money to terrorist groups. The money was part of a $10 million endowment from unnamed donors in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=2563 Also on July 27, 2004, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed the indictment of the nation's largest Muslim charity and seven of its top officials on charges of funneling $12.4 million over six years to individuals and groups associated with the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, the Palestinian group that the U.S. government considers to be a terrorist organization.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18257-2004Jul27.html

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