Part 1
The Religion of Peace

Who was Mohammad? How did the Muslim "religion" get its start?

Mohammad was born around approx 570 A. D. in Mecca, which is Saudi Arabia today & also where the Queen of Sheba came from. It was a very isolated region, however many
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religions were practiced then, including Judaism & of course, Christianity. The area was in constant tribal warfare, which really hasn't changed any at all. Some ppl believed in angels & demons & some in mystical creatures they referred to as "jinns."
After the fall of the
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Roman Empire, during what is known as the Dark Ages.
For his 1st 3 or 4 years Mohammad was raised by a nurse who his mother had given him to take care of. His parents & grandparents later died subsequently when he was a boy, leaving him to be raised by his uncle. He is said
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to have entered into "trances" regularly or what his nurse called "demon possessions."
It is believed that he was illiterate & had no education.
It is unclear at what age he was when it was arranged that he marry a rich widow named Khadija, who was 15 years older than him. He
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worked w/her & traveled all over the Arabian region. He learned of other religions & cultures through his business dealings w/Jews & Christians.
Mohammad continued to encounter these "demon possessions" all through his adult life. He would tell ppl of the things he saw during
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his trances but they paid him no mind. At the age of 40, he claimed to have his most relevant trance yet. He claimed that during this specific trance that he had been grabbed & held so tightly by some "being" that he couldn't breathe & thought he would die. He claimed the
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being gave him a message so commanding that he awoke shaken. He believed it was a jinn (or mystical creature).
After telling his wife of his dream, she then told her cousin, Waraqa, who belonged to a sect of Christians. It was Waraqa who suggested it might be a visit from a
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messenger of God based on the fact that Moses had a similar experience when he received the ten commandments.
To affirm this Khadija & Waraqa submitted him to a 4 part test.
They asked if he saw the being from his dream in the room & when he said "yes" they began the test.
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1) They asked him if he saw the being while sitting on his wife's left thigh. He said "yes"
2) They asked if he saw the being while sitting on her right thigh. He said "yes"
3) They asked if he saw the being while sitting on his wife's lap (or both thighs). He said "yes"
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4)At this point the wife disrobed & asked if he saw the being now & Mohammad answered "No." I'm betting its bc he was thinking about other things, but alas the wife decreed that it must have been a visit from an angel in that case, bc an angel wouldn't look at an uncovered
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woman.
With that Mohammad was declared by these two women(of all ppl) to be the "new prophet of God. "
I cannot help but fathom if they believed the ten commandments were from God, why they would not insist on an actual, tangible miracle to go with it, as w/Moses. But no, an
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entire world wide religion, prominent in over 50 countries & growing is all literally based on this RIDICULOUS 4 part lap dance test.
Source: Islam Religion of Peace or War by The Truth
#ReligionOfPeace
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Part 2 tomorrow