**Ben, you are issuing warnings. There is no reason for that. You should have read the life history of Muhammad for the 13 years that he spent in Makkah when he was persecuted and his followers had to flee for their life. That was a hard life like Jesus. Much harder than that of Jesus. 13 years++.
It seems that you have no knowledge about religions. Do not be furious. Try to enter the field of discussion with your arguments if you have any and please behave like a Catholic. If you are incompetent then leave the discussion to some of your senior memebers.
If there was no Muhammad then nobody would have known about jesus and John the baptist. Tell me who believes in Jesus and John the baptist outside your own flock? None but the Muslims only. Do you realise that?? There are many more lessons about religions that you have to learn patiently here on the forum. All are posting their point of view. Why are you upset so quickly?**
Mohamads chronological sequence, after his Hijrah or Emigration from Mecca to Medina in AD 622.
It is then that he grows in military power and conquests—in unjust violence.
After the Battle of Badr (AD 624)
The Battle of Badr saw about 320 Muslims defeat about 1,000 Meccans, seventy to eighty miles west of Medina, at the wells of Badr, near a frequented trade route, which led up to the King’s Highway and on to Syria.
He is now strong enough to commit the following acts of violence and persecution without a substantial fear of reprisal.
(1) Before Muhammad’s Hijrah, he used to sit in the assembly and invite the Meccans to Allah, reciting the Quran and warning them of God’s punishment for mocking his prophets.
\A Meccan named Al-Nadr bin al-Harith would then follow him and speak about heroes and kings of Persia, saying,
**“By God, Muhammad cannot tell a better story than I, and his talk is only of old fables which he has copied as I have.” **
On other days al-Nadr would interrupt Muhammad
until the prophet silenced him.
It was al-Nadir’s bad fortune to join Mecca’s army, riding north to protect their caravan, which Muhammad attacked at the Battle of Badr.
The story-telling polytheist was captured, and on Muhammad’s return journey back to Medina,
Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, at Muhammad’s order, beheaded him, instead of getting some possible ransom money.
He was one of two prisoners who were executed and not allowed to be ransomed by their clans—all
because he wrote poems and told stories critiquing Muhammad.
Source: Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, trans. A. Guillaume, (Oxford UP, 1955, 2004), pp. 136 (Arabic pages 191-92); 163 / 236; 181 / 262; 308 / 458.
Reputable historians today consider Ibn Ishaq to be a good source of early Islam, though they may disagree on his chronology and miraculous elements.
