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Originally Posted by stevo
As you know, history is written by the winner. Who won all those wars in muhammed's time? give up? muhammed and his muslim army. They won many wars for many years. Then wrote many history books.
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Why trust history at all then? Why trust anything written before you were born? The best we can do is try to figure out what happened. The best guess as to what happened at the genesis of Islam is what I stated above. Islam may have been introduced by aliens to a guy named Mac who lived in Australia for all we know, but I say we simply rely on what we understand.
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Muhammed did not write the Qur'an. It was written about 60 years after his death. In reality the first thing he did was run off to Medina and create an army.
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True. The first thing Muhammed did was spread the word, and that word was the words of the Qu'ran. That was waht I was meaning to say, but thank you for correcting me. Actually, that's the first thing all religous leaders do.
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Pre-empt an imminent attack? Are you serious? The Byzantine Empire payed no attention to Islam until they started invading Egypt/Palestine/Jordan. They were busy fighting Syssanid Empire.
Come on Wil, did you actually read the make-believe history you're sprouting or are you just making it up?
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I read it in a text book and heard it from a prof. and since I don't see you disproving it I have to assume you can't.