Lets examine first just how peaceful Mohammed in fact was. Every Muslim will admit that Mohamed was a not a pacifist, but at the same time, they would insist he only resorted to violence when there were no other alternatives, or as the will frequently state “Mohammad only killed enemies of Islam and never killed an innocent person”. Let’s look at some of the occasions where we know Mohammad had authorized the use of violence.
One good example of this would be the battle of Badr. This battle took place during the time after Mohammad had been evicted from Mecca for his blasphemous rhetoric against the many god’s worshiped by the Meccan’s. After his eviction, Mohammad and his band of thugs supported their existence in exile by ambushing trade caravans and dividing the loot among themselves…of which Mohammad always receive 1/5th of the loot…interestingly…Mohammad actually tells his men that it was Allah’s idea that he should receive 1/5th of the loot.
Historically Muslims claim that they were merely returning property that belonged to Mohammad and his followers that they had to leave behind after they were expelled from Mecca and which coincidentally happened to be contained in the many trade caravans leaving Mecca (apparently Mecca traded exclusively in goods stolen from Mohammad and his followers if this is true)…however if this was true, Islamic law would indicates that all of the retrieved property be returned to the rightful owner of said property rather than being dived up between the raiders. Eventually, Mecca grew tired of seeing it’s caravans raided and it’s caravaner’s being killed and they sent out a force to protect a particular caravan that they had knowledge Mohammad and his thugs would attempt to attack. The Meccan force succeeded in prohibiting the raiders…I mean Muslims from attacking the caravan. Mohammad, having grown tired of being unable to pick off the caravan headed towards a watering hole located in Badr…it was a location that Mohammad knew the Meccan force would have to travel to eventually as there were so few sources of water along the trade route they were defending. The Meccan force having successfully escorted the caravan to safety, began it’s long journey back to Mecca. The Meccan arrived at the outskirts of Badr in desperate need of water only to learn that the water source was being defended by Mohameed and his troops…allow me to read you a description of what followed: The following is a description of the quote “battle” that is found on:
thereligionofpeace.com. Note, the description of events are from respected Islamic historians of the time:
The Muslims clearly had the advantage against the weary and reluctant Meccan’s, even though they were lesser in number.* Initially, they amused themselves by killing the few men desperate enough to try and reach the water:
The Muslims toyed with several other thirst-crazed Meccan’s in the same deadly manner before Muhammad finally gave the order to rout the “enemy.”
The period following the victorious battle was one of giddy celebration for the Muslims.* The decapitated heads of Muhammad’s opponents from Mecca were presented to him, and their slayers honored.* Live captives were brought before him as well, where he ordered some ransomed and some executed.* In what seemed bizarre even to his own men, Muhammad walked among the bodies of the dead Meccan’s and taunted them, insisting that they could hear him in Hell (Bukhari 59:314).
The captured wealth of the Meccan’s was divided among the victors.* Hamza, the man who had slaughtered the first Meccan attempting to reach water, turned his cruel amusement toward defenseless animals, cutting the humps off of camels and disemboweling them for no reason other than to relish their agony (Bukhari 59:340).
Amid the drunken carnage, Allah “spoke” to Muhammad and told him to make sure that the other Muslims gave him a fifth of the war booty.* These words have become permanently recorded in the Qur’an (8:1), even though they have no relevance today.* The prophet of Islam also informed his men that their victory was actually due to a legion of angels sent down by Allah (8:9) – which were, of course, visible only to Muhammad (8:50).* (For some reason, the angels didn’t show at the next battle, in which the Muslims were routed at Uhud).
In this case, the historical context is completely at odds with any misconception on the part of modern-day Muslims that the Battle of Badr was a defensive conflict.* Only the Meccan’s fought in defense of their lives and property that day – and they did so reluctantly, after Muhammad took monumental steps to force them into battle.
