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THE SKELETON IN ISLAM'S CLOSET |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 09 February 2007 |
I very much appreciated the responses and comments regarding
The Fragility of
Islamofascism posted in the TTP User Forum. I also received requests to explain the Koran's "Satanic Verses"
more fully.
The saga of the Satanic Verses starts with the earliest
accounts of Mohammed's life written by accepted Islamic scholars such as Ibn
Ishaq (died 767 AD) and al-Tabari (d. 923).
"Accepted" means by Islamic tradition. Mohammed supposedly died in 632 and Ishaq
wrote about him over 100 years later - so could not have interviewed anyone who
knew him. Yet we only know of Ishaq
through quotes of him by Tabari, who lived 300 years after Mohammed.
Thus the earliest source of Mohammed's life and the
alleged founding of Islam was written three centuries later. The saga of Mohammed is a myth for which
there is no genuine historical evidence whatever.
I discussed this in The Myth of Mecca,
written a few days after the Moslem attack on America of September 11, 2001.
So we are talking "sacred history" here, not actual
history. Ishaq and Tabari, whose
accounts form the official biography of Mohammed, tell a story regarding a
chapter or sura in the Koran known as An-Najm, The Star, numbered
53.
Remember that the word Koran means Recitation
in Arabic, Mohammed reciting Allah via the voice of Angel Gabriel heard in his
head. Every word of the Koran, Moslems
believe, is the actual unalterable perfect Word of God. So God Himself, in verses 19-20 of Sura 53,
says:
Have you thought about al-Lat and al-Uzza and Manat the
third, the other?
These are the "Daughters of Allah," goddesses worshipped by
the Arabs to whom Mohammed was preaching, trying to convert them to his new
religion.
Ishaq and Tabari then say the next verses, 21-22, were:
These are the exalted females whose intercession is to
be hoped for.
Thus Allah acknowledges that he has three daughters who are
gods like him.
Ibn Ishaq and al Tabari (and other recognized early
biographers, Ibn S'ad, d. 845, and al-Wakidi, d. 823) then explain Mohammed
has made a mistake, that he was listening to Satan instead of Allah - for
there is only One God and has no daughter gods.
Oops. Polytheism is The Big Islamic No-No.
Gabriel gets upset at Mohammed for being tricked by Satan. Mohammed has to ask his scribes (as he was
illiterate and couldn't write) to cross out these "Satanic Verses" of Sura
53:21-22 and replace them with:
Are men's children to be boys and Allah's to be girls?
That is an unfair division!
Men only want sons, you see, so it is an insult to Allah to
claim he has daughters. How ridiculous. So there can only be One God. The final proof of Allah's solitary
existence is that's he's sexist.
How satanic. The alteration of Sura
53:21-22 is the great Skeleton in Islam's Closet. Moslems are terrified of it being exposed. Satan tricked Mohammed, the supposed
unalterable Word of God was wrong and had to be changed. It puts the entire Koran in doubt.
And doubt is the one thing most terrifying of all to
Moslems. They try to terrify us with
bombs and bloodshed and bullying. All
we need to do is terrify them with doubt.
The mental virus of doubt will destroy their minds - it is the true
weapon of Mass Moslem Destruction.
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