Muslims believe that God revealed the Qur’an to Muhammad, God’s final prophet, through the angel Gabriel, and regard the Qur’an and the Sunnah (words and deeds of Muhammad) as the fundamental sources of Islam.[5] They do not regard Muhammad as the founder of a new religion, but as the restorer of the original monotheistic faith of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. Islamic tradition holds that Jews and Christians distorted the revelations God gave to these prophets by either altering the text, introducing a false interpretation, or both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
Ever wonder what Mecca was like before Mohammed was born? It must have been a fascinating place, for it was a trading center, a melting pot of different cultures. Traders were there of many different religions. The Quraysh tribe there worshipped Hubal, Al-ilah, and Al-ilah’s three daughters. A black rock from heaven was held in high esteem and placed in a corner of the Ka’bah. The Ka’bah was the center of worship of 360 idols according to the Bukhari vol.3 book 43 ch.33 no.658 p.396 and vol.5 book 59 ch.47 no.583 p.406. The Encyclopedia of Islam (edited by Eliade) p.303ff says the people, prior to Islam, would pray five times toward Mecca and fast for part of a day for an entire month. The Quraysh fasted on the 10th of Myharram/Muharram. Mohammed ordered this too, but later it was optional (Bukhari vol.5 book 58 ch.25 no.172 p.109), also Bukhari vol.6 book 60 ch.24 no.31 p.25.
Pre-Islamic Arabs made pilgrimages (‘Umrah) to Mecca. Fiqh us-Sunnah vol.5 p.122, and Bukhari vol.2 book 26 ch.33 no.635 p.371-372 say they thought not performing ‘Umrah was one of the major sins on earth. At Mecca they covered the Ka’bah with cloth Fiqh vol.5 p.131, and they had a sacred month of no war prior to Islam (Bukhari vol.2 book 23 ch.96 no.482 p.273).
Many primitive people worshipped a sun god and a moon goddess. Western Arabs were unusual in worshipping a moon god and his wife, the sun goddess. There are pre-Islamic statues of his symbol: the crescent moon. It looks just like the crescent moon of Shi’ite Muslims, except the Shi’ites added a small star. The Yemenites/Sabaeans had a moon god according to the Encyclopedia of Islam p.303.
Generically, the word “Allah” likely was a contraction of the Arabic Al-ilah, which means “the god”. Both Arab Christians and pagans used the word Ilah for God.
Prior to Mohammed, the Ka’bah, which housed 360 idols, was called Beit-Allah, or “House of Allah”. Mohammed’s father, who died before he was born, was named ‘Abdullah meaning slave of Allah. Also, a tribe of Jews was called ‘Abdullah bin Salam in Bukhari vol.5 book 59 ch.13 no.362 p.241.
Specifically, among the idols worshipped at Mecca, one was just called “Allah”. This particular idol was the tribal god of the Quraysh, and he had three specific daughters.
The Meccans before Mohammed fasted on the same day, gave alms to their own, prayed toward Mecca, and made pilgrimages (‘Umrah) to Mecca. There were many differences too, but some marvel in the continuity of these unchanged practices in common with the pagan Quraysh worship.
Allah had three daughters named Lat, ‘Uzza, and Manat. At one time the “prophet of Allah” compromised and said in the Qur’an (Sura 53:19) that “their intercession was to be hoped for.” In other words, he said we should hope for the help of these three idols.
Mohammed’s followers must have been amazed that he said this. Later, Mohammed changed his mind and said Satan deceived him. Since a mistake was made, these verses were “abrogated” or taken out. These are often called “the Satanic verses.”
Satanic Verses is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muir in reference to the inclusion in the Qur’an of a small number of apparently pagan verses said to have been uttered by Muhammad. Some Muslims refer to the utterance of the two verses as the Gharaniq incident. Narratives involving these verses can be read in, among other places, the biographies of Muhammad by al-Wāqidī, Ibn Sa’d, al-Tabarī, and Ibn Ishaq (the latter as reconstructed by Alfred Guillaume).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses
Bahira is a Nestorian monk that Muhammad was supposed to have met during a trip returning from Syria to Mecca. His Christian name was supposed to be Sergius or Georgius. The Muslim traditions say that Bahira recognized, through various signs, that Muhammad is a prophet. There are suggestions that Bahira stayed with Muhammad and taught him as alluded to in Surah xvi.105. “Husain the commentator says on this passage that the Prophet was in the habit of going every evening to a Christian to hear the Taurat and Injil.” (Hughes’ Dictionary of Islam, p. 30, quoting Tafsir-i-Husaini, Sale p. 223 and Muir’s Life of Mahomet, p. 72)
This Christian sect that constituted a large part, maybe even the majority of Christians in Arabia and the Middle East during the time of Muhammad. This group was very missions oriented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorian
Mu?ammad failed to bring his “new” religion by peaceful methods. His religious arguements failed to change the minds of the pagans and thier beliefs.
“Mu?ammad founded his new faith against great odds. The people of Mecca, even of his own tribe, rejected him. After 13 years of persecution and hatred, he moved his center of activity north to Yathrib, which then became known as al-Mad?nah (Medina), the city of the prophet. This emigration, or the hijrah, in 622?C.E. marked a significant point in Isl?mic history, and the date was later adopted as the starting point for the Isl?mic calendar.
Mu?ammad was to return to Mecca ,this time he would bring convertion by the sword and the Islamic trail of slaughter against pagans begins.
“Eventually, Mu?ammad achieved dominance when Mecca surrendered to him in January of 630?C.E. (8 A.H.) and he became its ruler. With the reins of secular and religious control in his hands, he was able to clean out the idolatrous images from the Ka?bah and establish it as the focal point for pilgrimages to Mecca that continue down to this day.?See pages 289, 303.
Mohammed preyed upon caravans with his men. Bukhari vol.3 book 37 ch.8 no.495 p.280 says, “When Allah made the prophet wealthy through conquests…” 1/5 of all spoils of war was put into treasury, and Sahih Muslim vol.2 book 5 ch.401 no.2348 p.519 says Mohammed’s family had a share out of that. The Muslims first looting is known as the Nakhla Raid. During the traditional month of truce, his followers ambushed a caravan, killing one, enslaving the rest, and taking the plunder. Mohammed himself led the second raid at Badr. Mohammed added to his wealth by attacking the Jewish settlement of Khaibar. He and his loyal men got plunder and wives (Mohammed needed another wife?) of the 700-1,000 Jewish men of the Banu Quraiza tribe they beheaded after they surrendered.
“Within a few decades of Mu?ammad?s death in 632?C.E., Isl?m had spread as far as Afghanistan and even to Tunisia in North Africa. By the early eighth century, the faith of the Qur??n had penetrated into Spain and was at the French border. As Professor Ninian Smart stated in his book Background to the Long Search: ?Looked at from a human point of view, the achievement of an Arabian prophet living in the sixth and seventh centuries after Christ is staggering. Humanly, it was from him that a new civilisation flowed. But of course for the Muslim the work was divine and the achievement that of Allah.?
Amr ibn al ‘Aas led an Arab army that sacked Alexandria in 642. Another enlightened monothiest,he also burnt the Great Library of Alexandria
“They will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous.” The Arabs subsequently burned the books to heat bathwater for the soldiers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Amr_ibn_al_.27Aas_conquest_in_642
Womans rights take a beating as well. Pre-Islamic Arab women where powerful in society,they also ran businesses and could decide who to marry .This is proven by Khadijah, Mohammads first wive!
Khadijah earned two titles: Ameerat-Quraish (Princess of Quraish) and al-Tahira (the Pure One), and Khadija Al-Kubra (khadija the great)and was said to have had an impeccable character. She used to feed and clothe the poor, assist her relatives financially, and provide for the marriage of those of her kin who could not otherwise have had the means to marry. By 585, Khadijah was left a widow. Despite having married twice, and twice losing her husband to the ravaging wars to which Arabia was subjected, she showed no inclination to marry a third time, even though she was sought for marriage by many honorable and highly respected men of the Arabian peninsula, throughout which she was quite famous, due to her business dealings. She did not want to be widowed for a third time.
It also seems Khadijah and her family where the creators of Islam and poor old Mohammad is just a patsy, and an opportunist bandit! It seems Khadijah’s family where the ones intent on bringing monotheism to Arabia.
“(O Muhammad) ask those who are reading the book before thee.” The Muslim historian Tabari further tells us Khadija (the first wife of the Prophet) read the former scriptures and knew the stories of the prophets.” Now Muhammad lived with Khadija for some fifteen years before he began to announce his mission, and when it is remembered that during that period he must also have had close and frequent intercourse with Waraqa, the cousin of his wife, who was in turn both Hanif and Christian, and was the translator of the Christian scriptures into Arabic, the reader is at no difficulty to understand whence the Prophet obtained his knowledge of the Jewish Rabbinical fables.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waraquah
Waraqah ibn Nawfal, Waraqah ibn Nawfal ibn Assad ibn Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusayy Al-Qurashi (Arabic ???? ?? ???? ?? ??? ?? ??? ?????? ?? ??? ?????? died circa 610) was the parental cousin of Khadija, Muhammad’s first wife.
Waraqah was a “Christian” Ebionites priest[1] living in Mecca, and had knowledge of the previous scriptures. When told of Muhammad’s first revelation (when he received the first five verses of surat Al-Alaq), he immediately recognised him as a prophet.[2]
According to hadith, Al-Haakim reported with a saheeh (authentic) isnad from Aisha that Muhammad said, “Do not slander Waraqah ibn Nawfal for I have seen that he will have one or two gardens in Paradise.”
According to the Sirah Rasul Allah, the traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad, which speak highly of Waraqah, he was a pious and knowledgeable person who had knowledge of the previous prophetic scriptures such of that of Jesus. He recognized the signs of prophethood soon after Muhammad received the first of the revelations. Some Muslims regard this as a specific fulfillment of Isaiah 29:11-18.
During the reception of the first revelation, Muhammad was distressed at seeing the vision of an angel. He was consoled by Khadija who took him to Waraqah, who then told Muhammad that the angel he had seen, Gabriel, was the same one God had sent to Moses. Waraqah also told Muhammad that – as had happened to the previous prophets – his people would drive him out into exile, and that (if he lived long enough, for he was old) he would support Muhammad in the cause. However, Waraqah died a few days after this meeting.
And so Messianic Judaism is established in the Middle East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebionites
The Ebionites were a Jewish-Christian sect[1] that insisted on the necessity of following Jewish religious law and rites,[1] which they interpreted in light of Jesus’ expounding of the Law.[2] They regarded Jesus as the Messiah but not as divine. The Ebionites revered his brother James as the head of the Jerusalem Church and rejected Paul of Tarsus because he was an apostate towards the Law[citation needed]. Their name suggests that they placed a special value on religious poverty.
Much of what is known about the Ebionites derives from the Church Fathers, who wrote polemics against the Ebionites, whom they deemed heretical Judaizers.[3][4] Some scholars agree with the substance of the traditional portrayal as an offshoot of mainstream Christianity. Many scholars distinguish the Ebionites from other Jewish Christian groups, e.g. the Nazarenes,[5] while others contest this
Thus Jesus Christ is invariably spoken of with the deepest reverence as a Prophet sent from God, to whom was entrusted the Gospel, or Injil, as Muhammad described the Evangel. The many references, to Christians in the Qur’an make it clear that they must have been numerous in Arabia at that time; and Muhammad seems to have entertained no little friendship for them, as may be seen by the following advice given to his followers:-
”Thou shalt surely find those to be nearest in affection to them (i.e., true believers) who say, ‘We are Christians.’”1 Muhammad certainly had reason to reward the followers of Christ with grateful affection, for it was in the Christian Kingdom of Abyssinia that his persecuted followers found a safe asylum when the oppression of the Meccans had become intolerable.
Islam arrives in Europe
The Islamic World was also a main factor in Medieval European slavery. From the early 700s until the early Modern time period (rough the 18th or 19th centuries) Muslims consistently took European slaves. This slavery began during the Muslim Conquest of Visigothic Spain and Portugal in the 8th century. The Muslim powers of Iberia both raided for slaves and purchased slaves from European merchants, often the Jewish Radhanites, one of the few groups that could easily move between the Christian and Islamic worlds. As the Muslims failed to conquer Europe in the 8th century they took to pirate raids against the shores of Spain, southern Portugal and France, and Italy, that would last roughly from the 9th century until the 12th century, when the Italian city-states of Genoa, Venice, and Pisa, along with the Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Castile, as well as the Sicilian Normans, began to dominate the Mediterranean. The Middle Ages from 1100 to 1500 saw a continuation of the European slave trade, though with a shift from the Western Mediterranean Islamic nations to the Eastern, as Venice and Genoa, in firm control of the Eastern Mediterranean from the 12th century and the Black Sea from the 13th century sold both Slavic and Baltic slaves, as well as Georgians, Turks, and other ethnic groups of the Black Sea and Caucasus, to the Muslim nations of the Middle East. The sale of European slaves by Europeans slowly ended as the Slavic and Baltic ethnic groups Christianized by the Late Middle Ages. European slaves in the Islamic World would, however, continue into the Modern time period as Muslim pirates, primarily Algerians, with the support of the Ottoman Empire, raided European coasts and shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries, ending their attacks with the naval decline of the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th and 17th centuries, as well as the European conquest of North Africa throughout the 19th century.
FYI the oldest Koran is drenched in blood
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4581684.stm
By: Ian MacWilliam
BBC News* -
The Othman Koran is the oldest in the world
In an obscure corner of the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, lies one of Islam’s most sacred relics – the world’s oldest Koran.
It is a reminder of the role which Central Asia once played in Muslim history – a fact often overlooked after seven decades of Soviet-imposed atheism.
The library where the Koran is kept is in an area of old Tashkent known as Hast-Imam, well off the beaten track for most visitors to this city.
It lies down a series of dusty lanes, near the grave of a 10th century scholar, Kaffel-Shashi.
The Mufti of Uzbekistan, the country’s highest religious leader, has his offices there, in the courtyard of an old madrassa.
Just across the road stands a non-descript mosque and the equally unremarkable Mui-Mubarak, or “Sacred Hair”, madrassa, which houses a rarely seen hair of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, as well as one of Central Asia’s most important collections of historical works.
”There are approximately 20,000 books and 3000 manuscripts in this library,” said Ikram Akhmedov, a young assistant in the mufti’s office.
”They deal with mediaeval history, astronomy and medicine. There are also commentaries on the Koran and books of law. But the oldest book here is the Othman Koran from the seventh century.”
Sacred verses
The Othman Koran was compiled in Medina by Othman, the third caliph or Muslim leader.
Before him, the sacred verses which Muslims believe God gave to Muhammad were memorised, or written on pieces of wood or camel bone.
To prevent disputes about which verses should be considered divinely inspired, Othman had this definitive version compiled. It was completed in the year 651, only 19 years after Muhammad’s death.
This priceless Koran is kept in a special glass-fronted vault built into the wall of a tiny inner room.
About one-third of the original survives – about 250 pages – a huge volume written in a bold Arabic script.
”The Koran was written on deerskin,” said Mr Akhmedov. “It was written in Hejaz in Saudi Arabia, so the script is Hejazi, similar to Kufic script.”
It is said that Caliph Othman made five copies of the original Koran. A partial Koran now in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul is said to be another of these original copies.
Historical text
Othman was murdered by a rebellious mob while he was reading his book. A dark stain on its pages is thought to be the caliph’s blood.
It was Othman’s murder that precipitated the Shia-Sunni divide which has split the Muslim world ever since.
Later disputes over the succession led to a division between the mainstream Sunnis, and supporters of Othman’s immediate successor, Ali, who became Shias.
The story of how the Othman Koran came to Tashkent is a remarkable one.
After Othman’s death it is believed it was taken by Caliph Ali to Kufa, in modern Iraq. Seven hundred years later, when the Central Asian conqueror, Tamerlane, laid waste to the region, he found the Koran and took it home to grace his splendid capital, Samarkand.
It stayed there for more than four centuries, until the Russians conquered Samarkand in the 1868. The Russian governor then sent the Othman Koran to St Petersburg where it was kept in the Imperial Library.
But after the Bolshevik revolution, Lenin was anxious to win over the Muslims of Russia and Central Asia. Initially he sent the Koran to Ufa in modern Bashkortostan.
But finally, after repeated appeals from the Muslims of Tashkent, it was returned once more to Central Asia in 1924. It has remained in Tashkent ever since.
Visiting dignitaries from the Muslim world often turn up to see the Othman Koran in the depths of old Tashkent, so it is odd that it is still kept in such an out of the way location.
But the authoritarian Uzbek government has inherited a Soviet-era distrust of Islam, and still views much of its own Islamic history with suspicion.
The mufti’s official religious establishment is closely watched and takes care not to attract too much attention to itself.
As a result, its greatest treasure, the world’s oldest Koran, continues to sit quietly in the medieval quarter of old Tashkent.
Source: BBC News and www.islamicity.com
Invention of Christianity
http://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/the-invention-of-christianity/
Invention of Judaism
http://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/the-invention-of-judaism/
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The Heresy of the Ishmaelites
The religion of Mohammed is a heresy as it is a branch of Nestorianism. The history of their connection is described by Saint John of Damascus in his book ‘The Heresy of the Ishmaelites’ which constitutes a small part of his monumental work ‘The Fount of Knowledge’:
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/c020e6c708cf40a7.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Damascus
orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_islam.aspx
Nestorius was a Hellenic (Greek) Patriarch of Constantinople who propounded the heresy that the Virgin Mary was not the Mother of God as he believed that Lord Jesus the Christ was not God but only a man, a prophet as expressed in his book the Bazaar of Hercleides. Nestorius’s blasphemous heresy was rightly condemned, but he gained many followers among the Persians (Iranians) with the consequence that by the end of the fifthe century a schism occurred as much of the Church in Iran and many places in the East had apostasized into Nestorianism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorian
When Mohammed was twelve years old (circa AD 582), he accompanied his merchant uncle Abu Talib on a caravan to Bosrah, a city in southern Syria. While he was in that city, Mohammed met a Nestorian monk named Bohira who befriended the boy. According to Saint John of Damascus, Bohira laid a plan to make Mohammed the founder of a new religion and became his mentor. Bohira authored much of the Koran.
Mohammed’s meeting with the monk is described in the Koran, although muslims deny that Bohira became Mohammed’s mentor.
thetruecall.com/home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50
Apparently, the oldest known existing history of the encounter is written by Hunayn Ibn Ishak, a Nestorian writer (who quotes the earlier writer Ibn Hisham). This fact is a sore point with Mohammedan historians who deny that many of Ibn Ishak’s details are true and rely on later writers who “purged” Ibn Ishak’s history of inconveniences.
nestorian.org/hunein_ibn_ishak.html
Ruins of Monastery of Monk Bohira in Bosra, Syria
bosracity.com/photogallery/old-city/old-city-08.JPG
The Orthodox Christian account of this history is further confirmed by the correspondence between Nestorian and Mohammedan theology. The Mohammedan position on Christology is identical with that of the Nestorians. The Mohammedans believe that Jesus Christ was merely a prophet. They deny that He is God. In other words, the Mohammedans believe that Jesus Christ was only a man just like the Nestorians (and Jews) believe. Nestorianism is the predecessor of mohammedanism as islam conquered precisely those countries such as Persia where nestorianism went before. A muslim community has existed at the terminus of the Silke Road in Xian, China since circa 750 AD. Ancient monographs recorded on the backs of stone turtles at the ancient mosque in Xian record the early history of mohammedanism in wstern China. The famous Forest of Steles in Xian which contains the stone monograph histries of ancient China (most of them on the backs of turtles) contains a stele which records the history of the first 150 years of nestorianism in China from 630 to 780 AD.
lynnsupdate.com/nestorian_tablet.htm
islamicarchitecture.org/architecture/xianmosque.html
All early Christian writers such as Nicetas Choniates of Byzantium and Bartholomew of Edessa classed Mohammdanism as a heresy rather than a brand new religion. Traditional papist historians such as Hilaire Belloc echo this view.
ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/HBISLAM.TXT
newadvent.org/cathen/02315c.htm
The role of judaism in the formation of sunni islam is evident. Sunni islam was the religion of the first muslim dynasty – the Ummayads whose capital was Damascus, Syria – the same country as Mohammed’s old mentor. Compared with Orthodox Christian Byzantium, the Mohammedan heresy represented a sharp turn of religion and culture in the direction of judaism, an indication of its sponsors. The Ummayad dynasty lasted little more than a 125 years during which time it greatly expanded politically. During these years even mohammedan historians attest that the populations of the countries which the Ummayads conquered remained entirely Orthodox Christian. This indicates that during its early history, Mohammedanism was a religion of a wealthy elite which infers jewish participation. Certainly, jews had everything to gain from the expansion of islam. Jewish power was far more unfettered in Mohammedan countries than in Orthodox Christian lands whose laws condemned the jewish religion. The sharia law of mohammedanism elevated jews to the status of “people of the Book” while lowering Christians to a minority religion. The influence of the Orthodox Chistian Church declined while jewish power benefited from the early expansion of saracen power.
A setback to jewish strategy ocurred with the reactionary shiite revolution. The Ummayad caliph was assasinated and mohammedanism stopped its barbarous expansion once the comparatively more benign shiites took power about AD 749 in the form of the Abassid dynasty. The jewish diaspora’s capitol was the city of Babylon in those days, and the rabbis were apparently well prepared as the King of Khazaria in Scythia (Russia) converted to judaism at exactly this juncture in time. Economic activity and slave trading was henceforth centered in the more northern Slavic lands during the high Middle Ages which is when the shiite Abassids dominated islam. Possibly, the Karaite reaction against Talmudism within judaism initiated by David Ben Anan in Persia during the seventh century with a view of returning to essenism played a part in loosening judaism’s grip upon mohammedanism in precisely those countries from which shiism emerged.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anan_ben_David
khazaria.com/
At any rate, judaism’s influence within shiite mohamedanism was not completely shattered as can be seen from the evidently anti-Byzantine friendship between the west Roman Emperor Charlemagne and the Abassid caliph Harun al-Rashid, the most powerful caliph in mohammedan history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harun_al-Rashid
Such a meeting proved to be a sign of things to come: First, by way of Latin papist adoption of mohammedan philosophies. And ultimately as an ominous predecessor of modern ecumenism, the demonic jewish inspired movement which seeks to unite all the religions of the World.
ecumenizm.tripod.com/ECUMENIZM/index.html
http://www.sophiaperennis.com/penn_falsedawn.html
Ishmaelites were never united against the theory of antipodes as were the Church Fathers. The works Claudius Ptolemy and pagan Greek sciences generally were preserved by the Ishmaelites.
aina.org/books/hgsptta.pdf
These included occult sciences such as alchemy derived from pagan Hellenic and other civilizations such as Hindu India.
sophiaperennis.com/eberly_alkimia.html
sophiaperennis.com/eberly_alkimia_toc.html
The modern west lauds the contribution of Mohammedanism to the arts and sciences while despising its politics in the modern World. In view of these facts, most of the modern pro-zionist west has a view of Mohammedanism which is the inverse of the truth.
Vergilius and Antipodes
Conflict With Rabbanus Maurus
Era of First Mohammedan Philosophical Influence Upon the Latin West
Harun Al-Rashid Meets Charlemagne
Ismailis
atheism.about.com/od/islamicsects/a/ismailis.htm
Ismaili Secret Societies
‘Spanish Islam’ by Reinhardt Dozy
The Grand Lodge of Cairo
Apostasy of Latin Europe
A major step towards the creation of an artifical Cosmos was the mechanization of timekeeping in western Europe concomitant with its apostasy from the Eastern Orthodox Church (the Great Schism of 1054).
‘History of the Hour’ by Gerhard Dohrn van Rossum
press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13051.ctl
As with so many other aspects of technology as well as the occult, the Latins received the technology of mechanized timekeeping from the Arabs.
“Hassan Ibn Sabbah by J.C.Rochefort
The Assassins’ cult is a good example of the diversity of unconventional means to reach and build a parallel political power of a certain magnitude. Hassan Sabbah was neither prince nor king. He didn’t rule over any country or nation in particular, he was just the leader of an islamic religious cult: the Ismailis. Even though the origin and the base of his power are not a nation-state, the Old Man of the Mountain and his Assassins will have a great influence in the Middle East from the XIth till the end of the XIIIth century.
It is first through its organization as a secret society that the Ismaili Cult becomes a possible instrument of Power conquest for Hassan ben Sabbah. In Persia around 1090, Hassan gives a purpose, a new form and impulse to the sect. Its new name (Assassins) is derived from the Arabic <> (smokers of hashish), then Hassan will have all his enemies assassinated by faithful disciples intoxicated with hashish.
During the Crusades, the supreme leader of the sect will be known as the <>. Almost all the organization will be destroyed in 1256 by the Mongol army of Hulagu.
The Assassins established a pirate-state without precedent in history and terrorized Western Asia for more than a century. Their name refers to a sect formed of fanatics that systematically make attempts on the life of political and religious prominent personalities.
The most remarkable thing is the devotion of Hassan’s disciples that would kill others or themselves on a simple wave on his part. They are called fidawis or fidaïs (faithful). This leads us to talk about the strange power that Hassan exerts on his men. He binds to him religious fanatics because he knows how to excite and elate them with the taking of an intoxicating potion: the hashish. At the sound of his voice, they rush to assassinate the designated victims. Hashish throws the fidawis into a delirium, during which they believe themselves to be at the doorstep of paradise.
Hassan had large and magnificent gardens set up with flowers, fruits, trees, fountains and beautiful young girls, and walls built around them. He would have young followers carried there, when they were asleep and totally intoxicated with hashish, and they would awake believing to be in paradise.
Later on, fully awaken and having been brought back to their master, they would hear him say that he had given them a foretaste of heavenly happiness. These young faithful are ready for anything to go back to such a place of delights. They are ready to kill and to die. Having made the attempt, carried out the assassination, they don’t even try to get away.
They stay on the scene and wait to be caught. They don’t resist arrest, bear the pain and withstand torture. They even die smiling. Such fanaticism on the part of the Assassins arouse admiration and fear in all the Muslim world. One fears what one does not understand. The intensity of the fidawis’ fanaticism and their defiance of death appear strange to many an observer. What secret does Hassan Sabbah hold ?
The power of Hassan comes from the fear produced by the selective assassinations he orders. Above all, it’s the choice of victims that makes an impression. The fidawis only attack heads of government and religious leaders. They decapitate the leading class of various countries and kingdoms of the Middle East, spreading dismay and striking forever the imagination.
The first victims are the great Vizir Nizam-al-Mulk and the sultan Melik-Shah. Other important victims are the vizir Fakhr-el-Mulk, the vizir Achmed Nizam-Eddin, the sultan Mohammed Tapar, the caliph of Egypt Abu Ali Mansur and the caliph of Bagdad, el-Mustarshid. The total contempt of death showed by the <> establishes a rule of terror in Asia. The stabbing campaigns of the Ismailis had serious consequences. Army generals, Heads of State, famous people were falling, victims of assassination-attempts that were nothing short of suicide-missions. Thus they would leave for a time a province defenseless, a country without leaders, or cause by their sudden death the interruption of some important project. It is very difficult to stop on time murderers that are not afraid of death. Each assassin will give his life with joy as long as it could be useful to the sect; that is, he will do the impossible to kill the person marked for death by Hassan or his successors.
Another cause than hashish could explain the fanaticism of the Ismailis; it is the ideological indoctrination, the teachings given to beginners and other members of the cult. There are nine degrees of initiation. The first two steps make a strict believer of the average member and an austere keeper of the faith. Up to the third degree, initiation tends to strengthen the devotion and obedience to Islam’s religious Law. A majority of Ismailis do not go further than the second degree.
Once he has reached the fourth degree, the convert or follower is not a Muslim anymore. Each upper degree make him stray a little more from the orthodoxy. The fifth degree takes him away from every revealed religion. After reaching the ninth degree, the initiate abandons all beliefs and submission to anything else than his own reason. He is left to himself and his own devices.
A double discourse (double talk ?) rules over all activities of the sect. While the majority of its members are Muslims and believers, the leaders themselves are unbelievers and non-Muslims. The followers do not know that their leaders believe neither in Allah nor Mohammed. A double language serves a double purpose here (fulfills a double function): the faithful believe in God (fanatically), but their leaders (clear-minded and logical) do not. The action of the cult is based on the obedience of a few devoted fanatics. That is, the unbelievers (the leaders) need the faithful (the fidawis) to act. The double strength of belief and unbelief are integrated in the sect. The believers give their lives, and the unbelievers use them as basis of their power.
The strength of Ismailism comes from the fact that their headquarters are located in a very remote place. Starting from a precise geographical location, a faraway citadel which name is very well known throughout Persia, the will of the Ismailis opposes and defies the power of the sultan. This fact is very important: the orders to kill, the death sentences and the assassins of the sect all originate from an inaccessible and mysterious place located in the middle of a high mountains’ range to strike at the heart of the empire. This behaviour looks mysterious, unpredictable and frightening. Hassan Sabbah had taken the castle of Alamut in 1091. Located in the mountains of Northern Persia (Rubdar mountains in the Ghilan), it will become later the capital of a small independant state.
The Assassins are particularly interested in castles and mountains’ strongholds that are located in remote and difficult to reach places. Throughout the years, they will capture more than thirty of these castles that will make up the true foundation of their power. The most famous being those of Alamut, Lamassar (or Lemsir), Masyaf in Syria and Kerduch.
Remember that it is the precision of the crimes and the choice of victims that gives the Assassins’ actions an almost magical efficiency. Precise murders and assassination’s attempts fall like thunder and do much more to shake down whole empires than the intervention of mighty armies. The Seldjuk empire and the Fatimid empire of Egypt will collapse partly because of the attacks of the Ismailis. In the same way, the Abassid caliphate will fall, doubly victim of the blows dealt by the Assassins and the Mongol invasion of the 13th century.
Hassan Sabbah is the first to use mystery as a weapon. It allows him to establish a parallel power of an unprecedented nature. He is also the first monarch to view his sons as unworthy of succeeding him and to have them spend all their life as members of the lowest rank of the sect. What is revolutionary in this way of thinking, is that he estimates that his wife and children, simply because they are his wife and children, do not deserve special favours. The sons of Hassan are mixed in the anonymous crowd of the faithful where their father seems to forget about them. One of his sons will be executed for having broken the rule of abstinence and asceticism of the Order by drinking wine, another will be accused of having killed a high priest (Daï) of the order, Hussein Kaïni, and to have conspired against his father. He will be beheaded publicly.
Hassan will choose as successor his favourite disciple: Kya Buzurg-Humid. If he gets rid of his sons, it is because he considers them inferior to him and denies them the necessary qualities to inherit his power. Since their high birth could talk in their favour, he thought it wiser for the future well-being of the sect to eliminate them now while he was still alive. He forbids his successors to start a dynasty, then only the search for- and the choice of the more able and the worthier can allow the order to always have an exceptional Grand master at its head. The foundation of a dynasty would make the intelligence and personality of its leader depend upon the fortunes of heredity. However, Kya Buzurg-Humid will make the mistake of appointing his son Kya-Mohammed as his successor.
The power of the assassins will last 180 years. They will own up to 74 castles and strongholds and have hundreds of thousands of followers. Half of Asia will fear them. Their organization is based on a double discourse (a secret doctrine and a public doctrine), on absolute obedience and on occult slogans and watchwords.
The Old Man of the Mountain aims only at taking fortified castles, possessing obedient slaves and planing and ordering selective assassinations. The secret of his power is his total freedom towards moral obligations and religious faith: <>. But this unbelief of the master is hidden, because the followers are believers and must scrupulously fulfill the duties laid down by Islam.
The Grand master must then give an example of austerity and strict religious obedience, although he doesn’t believe any of it. An elite, a small group of unbelievers rules a crowd of thousands of believers, that are unaware of the fact that their leaders do not believe a word of what they are preaching. This is all the secret of this brilliant manipulation ! “
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Thank you yet again. I will be re-reading this post a lot as well. Hopefully the greatest hoax ever Abrahamic Monotheism ,will be shown as to be nothing more than original fascism. One god , One Empire ,One Emperor. it is just a tool of slavery and the belief of slaves.
As I say ,there is a big difference between knealing down and bending over , and as the church says ,its better to give than recieve
To the true believers…are YOU bending over and recieving gods love? Or does he prefer your children?
“A political tradition is one designed to control people using rules, regulations, and threats of punishment if the individual does not comply. Except in democratic systems, the individual has little part to play other than to follow the rules. To see, talk to, or identify with the deity is dangerous for all political systems (polytheistic as well as monotheistic) because such connections could possibly place the individual in a position of interpreting the deity’s will, undercutting the ruler’s authority and affecting public policy. The creators of the Islamic tradition fully realized this, and that is why Muhammed is considered the “seal of the prophets,” for to do otherwise encourages more prophecy, new lamps for old, and change that could alter the power structure. Again, for the individual to have direct contact with an all-powerful deity represents a possible challenge to the power structure and for this reason anyone making claims of contact with God is considered a heretic, a psychiatric case or a criminal.”
Excerpted from “Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World” By John A. Rush
The Arabs (not including the Gulf Arabs) and Muslims had the benefit of rich pre-islamic Architecture, Medicine, Science, Literature, Astronomy and History (even though much of it was burned and/or destroyed), whereas the West had not for the most part. Society was still advancing (in many parts stagnant) at a slower pace than before Mohammed. This is all what separated the Caliphate from Christendom. Islam and Christianity are on two sides of the same coin. Islam didn’t advance the world anymore than Christianity did. Actually the Arabs themselves (Gulf Arabs, not the arabized peoples west and north) were not sophisticated by any means. All they did was take pre-islamic art, architecture, science, mathematics and then claim it as Arabic and Islamic. That said most Islamic advancements actually came from Persians and Persia who never forgot their pre-islamic history and many pre-islamic concepts.
From http://www.islam-watch.org/LeavingIslam/Ali.htm
Comment From an Old Apostate
by Ali
2004/12/22
Dear Ali Sina,
I’m writing to you to show my deep respect for your work. I’m now almost 65 years old. If you can, please dedicate some time to an old man.
I’m myself an apostate (though I don’t like this word as it’s too pompous). I left Islam 40 years ago after I had left my mother country which is Oman (nowadays I’m leaving in the USA ). So, coming back to my point, I left Islam long ago and at that time there was nothing dangerous or interesting in it. My American friends didn’t understand my deed since nobody was interested in Islam or Muslims. And Muslim communities in the US were small and I didn’t fear to be killed by fanatics. Nowadays I’m retired and as I have some free time, I decided to make a little research into the present state of Islam and Muslims.
I looked through different sites but I couldn’t find any critical sites about Islam. I found only sites of devout Muslims who can’t imagine that some people dare to question Islam or even leave it. And a few months ago I found your site. I’m very happy that there are ex-Muslims like you and some of them are great scholars like you. My daughter is working in Amnesty International and I informed her about your site. Let us hope that human rights organizations will not just help Muslims but will also fight their rotten ideology.
And could you please answer some questions?
1) As I’ve mentioned, I’m from Oman . That is a very interesting country with interesting culture. Oman is a mixture of Arab, African and Indian traditions. I left Islam but I didn’t forget my culture. I’m still interested in Oman . I like Islamic arts and calligraphy. I think Arabic is a beautiful language. So, I want to ask you: are you interested in your culture? Iran has such an interesting history. Islam is dangerous but Islamic culture as well as history of Muslim countries are fascinating.
2) I’m very disturbed by the growing Muslim population in Europe and here in America . Is it dangerous in your opinion? They are breeding like rabbits and sooner or later they will become the majority. They will impose Sharia.They will kill non-believers. They will veil our women. Do you think it will happen? There are many apostates but 1.3 billion Muslims still believe in Allah.
Thank you for your time
Best regards,
Ali
My dear friend Ali,
Kudos to you for your insight and wisdom and for realizing that Islam is dangerous before most people.
Yes of course I am very much interested in my culture. I also love Persian language, Parsi, its architecture, its poetry and its art. I also love Persian calligraphy. Yes I think Arabic is also a beautiful language and I love the Middle Eastern art and cousin. However, these are not Islamic. Is there any instruction or even mention of architecture, calligraphy, music, poetry or any form of art that constitute the basis of any culture in the Quran? Calling our culture Islamic is misnomer. Our culture is ours. It existed before Islam. Take for example the palace of Kasra.
It was destroyed by the marauding army of Islam during the Khilafat of Omar. Doesn’t it look like a mosque? So as you see, what has erroneously come to be known as Islamic architecture is Persian architecture. The word cupola comes from the Persian word coppeh.
Quran does not teach architecture, music, poetry or any form of art. In fact Muhammad berated poets and discouraged or banned art. Painting, sculpture, music and dancing are prohibited in Islam. The Quran does not teach mathematics, chemistry, medicine or any other science. Quran teaches war and incites its followers to hate. It goads the Muslims to become Jihadis and terrorists. So,
Islamic culture is an oxymoron, while Islamic terrorism is redundancy.
We must hold to our culture, cherish it and protect it. It is not Islamic culture; it is the culture of our people. Actually we have to slay Islam to salvage our culture and revive it.
Yes I think the unchecked immigration of this many Muslims to the West and their government subsidized polyfiloprogenration is eventually going to cause big problems in the West. If this growth is not stopped, civil wars are sure to happen. The problem is that Muslims are unwilling to integrate and are determined to take over the countries where they reside. I see only three alternatives. One is expulsing Muslims from the western countries. The other is de-Islamizing them. And the third is civil war. Since the first two are not happening, the third is almost certain to happen.
I prefer deIslamization. That is why I created this site. People like you and me contribute to our country. We are part of it. We are integrated and love our compatriots. We want to uphold our constitution and promote our liberties. We are not undermining our government nor are we trying to sabotage it and replace it with a 7th century barbarity. We are patriotic citizens of the country were we reside. The followers of Muhammad however are loyal to Muhammad and his cult. They are constantly devising ways to advance their cause and fight the system. They are the fifth column.
Muslims often say the ratio of women to men converting to Islam is 4 to 1. This they say to claim that Islam is not anti woman. But the truth is something else. The truth is that Muslim men target non-Muslim women and seduce them and coerce them to convert to Islam systematically while Muslim females can’t do such thing. Muslims have launched a relentless campaign to conquer the west through seduction conversion and marriage.
I believe it is very much up to the ex-Muslims to not let this happen. We have seen the destructive power of Islam. We saw how it destroyed our cultures and civilization and took away our freedom. We must not let this happen in the West. This time we know the enemy and we are aware of its lies and modus operandi. The truth about Islam is spreading fast and people are awakening. The enlightened people are leaving Islam is huge numbers and each one of us is fighting back to stop Islam in its track. Islam thrives on ignorance. This war can only be won with knowledge. Truth will set us free.
Notice the picture: http://www.islam-watch.org/LeavingIslam/Images/tagkasra.jpg
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Yet again you seem to have hit the nail on the head. Another really BAD effect of Abrahamic monotheism is the destruction of native cultures , be they Celtic , Saxon , Aztec , Persian , Malayan et etc etc. The varity of life and culture found in humanity used to be breath taking , today we seem to be trying to reduce humanity to one ,monoculture brown servile blob.
Also another very important point is the false claims of knowledge and art and architecture. Most ancient knowledge ,great buildings and great works had nothing to do with Abrahamic monotheists ,they either burned and destroyed them or laid claim to them for themselves.Abrahamic monotheism has held back humanity for hundreds of years as it promoted ignorance , biggotry and the end of the world.
Just as it is for the good Jews to stop Zionist fanatics ,it is the good Westerners that need to bring down christian fanatics and the good Arabs and other ex-Muslims that need to bring down Islamic fanatics. Humanity has to face its evils and defeat them. Especially evil that preys on your women and children.
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