OneFutureofMany

Before I left Islam, I was debating a Sudanese Christian who challenged me to name one good thing about Muhammad. Just one. I thought: easy. We Muslims practically worship Muhammad as the greatest man who ever lived. So I tried to recall good qualities, honesty, compassion, mercy, love, anything, any single story, and I couldn’t remember one. So I went to Google and typed: “the qualities of the Prophet.” Islamic websites came up, and I thought, good, now I’ll have plenty of examples for this guy. I opened them and was stunned: even the Islamic websites offered no good qualities in the sense he’d challenged me to find. They praised his courage in spreading Islam, his fighting of Allah’s enemies, his physical strength, and his strictness. Not one of the qualities the man had asked for. Even the famous mercy at Mecca, sparing the people who had supposedly persecuted him, turned out to be for strategic reasons. And when I started digging into the Quran and the sira for myself, I found that he married a child, he took Safiyya, a Jewish woman, the same day he killed her father, her brother, and her husband, trading his companion Dihya seven other captives for her, and posting a guard by the tent in case she tried to avenge them while raping her. He had the men of the Jewish tribe beheaded, down to boys checked for pubic hair. He raided trade caravans and took other tribes’ treasures. He lied and broke truces he asked for. He slept with all of his 9 wives the same night. He killed anyone who mocked him. He recruited raiders with the promise of other cities’ women. And when his own fighters hesitated to touch married captives, because their husbands were alive and watching, Muhammad told them it was fine because allah said so. Even the pagans of Arabia had higher morality than he did. Every one of these acts was stamped with Allah’s approval. He even married his adopted son’s wife by divine decree. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. I left Islam when I met this disgusting man, a man who turned his qualities into a religion, transmitted it to every generation of Muslims since, and made himself the ceiling of their morality. This is the man Mamdani wants you to learn from.