CATHOLIC - What Catholics Need to Known about Mohammadanism, a.k.a. Islam

We humbly offer this Pastoral Letter for the Greater Honor and Glory of God and the Salvation of Souls and for those who humbly and sincerely desire to see the Truth, no matter what the Truth may be, because, as Pascal teaches, there is... sufficient light for those who wish to see and sufficient obscurity for those who do not wish to see (Blaise Pascal [1623 - 1662], PENSÉES SUR LA RELIGION, Section VII, Morality and Doctrine, ¶ 430, 1660 A.D.).

But first, proper preparation is necessary because, as St. John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople and a Father of the Catholic Church teaches, unless the Holy Ghost prepares the minds and hearts of those who write and of those who read, the writer writes in vain and the reader reads in vain.

PRAYERS

In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Prayer to God the Holy Ghost

Come, O Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of Thy faithful by the light of Thy Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to relish what is right and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.

Because the Devil, as a roaring lion, goes around seeking whom he may devour with his false accusations, blatant lies, half-truths, subtle errors, confusion, equivocation, ambiguity, hypocrisy, bitter zeal and emotionalism with which he attacks many souls, it is necessary to say the full EXORCISM prayer daily. Here is the concluding Prayer.

Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel

Come, O Holy Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. Rebuke him, O God, we humbly beseech Thee; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the Power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and all of the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Contents

Part 1 - Preliminary Data

Proper Preparation
Prayers
Introduction
Condolences
Condemnation of Terrorism
Commendation of Americans Who Are Mohammadans
Islamics

Part 2 - God in Our Lives

Faith, Hope, Trust and Confidence in God

Part 3 - The Roots of the Enemy

Know Your Enemy
Satanic Terrorists
Abraham and His Children

Part 4 - Biographical Data About Mohammad, the Cult Founder

Mohammad
Khadijah, the First Wife of Mohammad
Hanifs
Mohammad the Hanif
Mohammad the Cult-Founder

Part 5 - Mohammad and His “Wives” and Children

Mohammad and His Harem
Details of the “Wives” of Mohammad
Children of Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah and Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid
General Information
Commentary

Part 6 - Additional Data About Mohammad

More Biograhical Data About Mohammad
From The Life of Muhammad
Commentary
Early Terrorist Acts of Mohammad
Mohammad’s Terrorist Acts 1-13 with Commentaries
Summary of Mohammad’s Terrorist Acts

Part 7 - Islamic-Arabian School of Philosophy

General Data
Avicenna
Averroes
Refutation of the Islamic-Arabian Errors of Philosophy

Part 8 - Cultic Terrorism

Terrorism in the Qur’an, a.k.a. Koran, with Commentaries

Part 9 - Mohammad and Christ

Compare Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah with Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ, the Promised Messias of the Prophecies of the Old Testament Prophets

Part 10 - Data on Islam

Islamic Doctrine and Religion
Some Islamic Sects
Major Shiite Sub-Sects or Schismatic Denominations
Variances in Koran, a.k.a. Qur’an
A Brief History of Islam
Islam, A Peaceful Religion?
Commentary

Part 11 - Recent Moslem Terrorist Activities

Brief Recent History of Moslem Terrorists/Terrorism Before 9-11-2001 A.D.
Terrorist fundraising in the United States
List of Terrorist Groups
Chronology of Significant Moslem Terrorist Incidents

Part 12 - Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual Warfare Declared by Moslem Leaders
Commentary

Appendices

Appendix One- Transcript of Usama Bin Laden Videotape
Appendix Two - Reaction to Bin Laden Videotape

Introduction

Today it has become necessary to try to help to vanquish the insecurity, fear, anxiety, frustration and anger running throughout America and Western Europe. In addition, it is also necessary, now more than ever before, to try to clear away the confusion, exasterbated by gross misinformation, and perhaps by even some deliberate disinformation?, of what Islam really is as well as some biographical data about its founder and a brief historical examination of this organization and an even more brief doctrinal examination of its beliefs and teachings. Perhaps most of these things are as foreign to most of you as much of it had been to Us?

These are the various purposes of this Pastoral Letter which one of Our Archbishops had requested that We write just a few days after the attack against America, Tuesday, September 11, 2001 A.D. After listening to various cogent reasons, We agreed to do it. Please keep in mind that We are not an Orientalist. Therefore, with a few exceptions, We have had to rely upon non-Catholic sources which We have had to take at face value due to lack of other resources.

As you well know, on September 11, 2001 A.D., there was an attack against the United States of America. What you may not know is that before this day, there had already been many attacks against the United States of America on American soil!

Condolences

First, We extend Our deepest condolences and sympathies to all of the families and friends of those who lost loved ones, family members, friends, and co-workers on September 11, 2001. On the First Friday of November, the Feast Day of All Souls, November 2, 2001, We will offer a Pontifical Requiem Mass in which We will include each of the over 6,000 deceased victims.

We mourn with every one of the families and friends of:

1) Each of the passengers and crew on hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 which, with malice of forethought, was deliberately flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center located in lower Manhattan in New York City by devil-possessed killers who now burn in the eternal fires of Hell forever and ever for their mortal sins of the murder of all of the victims of the passengers and crew of this airplane as well as the thousands of the other innocent victims in, under and around this and the other buildings which were also destroyed or damaged as a result of their part in the Satanic plot against America.

2) Each of the passengers and crew on hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 which, with malice of forethought, was deliberately flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center located in lower Manhattan in New York City by devil-possessed killers who now burn in the eternal fires of Hell forever and ever for their mortal sins of the murder of all of the victims of the passengers and crew of this airplane as well as the thousands of the other innocent victims in, under and around this and the other buildings which were also destroyed or damaged as a result of their part in the Satanic plot against America.

3) The 65 passengers and crew on hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, which, with malice of forethought, was deliberately flown into the west wall of the Pentagon at an altitude of about 6 feet above ground level, by devil-possessed killers who now burn in the eternal fires of Hell forever and ever for their mortal sins of the murder of all of the victims of the passengers and crew of this airplane as well as the over 100 innocent victims in the building as a result of their part in the Satanic plot against America.

4) The 44 passengers and crew on hijacked United Flight 93 which crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when, after voting and reciting the “Our Father”, some of the passengers fought with the hijackers to overcome the terrorists on board to try to gain control of the airplane in order to prevent those devil-possessed killers, who now burn in the eternal fires of Hell forever and ever for their mortal sins of the murder of all of the innocent victims who were the passengers and crew of this airplane, from deliberately flying into either the White House or the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. and, in effect, from carrying out their part in the Satanic plot against America.

Condemnation of Terrorism

We unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism and all supporters and instigators and backers of terrorism, but most especially the cowardly acts of terrorism in the Satanic attack against the United States of America on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 by devil-possessed, hate-filled despots who now burn in the eternal fires of Hell forever and ever for their cold-blooded and ruthless murder of thousands of innocent people, as a result of their part in the Satanic plot against America.

Such evil men have sown the wind, but they shall “reap the whirlwind” (Osee 8:7) for “behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a destroying whirlwind” (Isaias 28:2) to His enemies whom He has “cast into the pool of fire, burning with brimstone” (Apocalypse 19:20).
We remind everyone of this Divine warning of God the Son, Jesus Christ, the Just Judge:

“He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is just, let him be justified still: and he that is holy, let him be sanctified still. BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY; and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to his works. I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end” (Apocalypse 22:11-13).

There will be those who will try to hide “themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: And they [will] say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him [God the Father] that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb [God the Son, Jesus Christ]: For the great day of THEIR [i.e. the Holy Trinity] wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?” (Apocalypse 6:15-17) for no one shall be able to hide from the Wrath of the Lamb of God, the Eternal Divine Logos, the Word of God, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!
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In that day, let no one excuse himself saying he was not warned! On the contrary, God the Holy Ghost, through the pen of the inspired writer, Saint Paul, clearly teaches: “For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if you bite and devour one another; take heed you be not consumed one of another. I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, THAT THEY WHO DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT OBTAIN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:14-25).

Commendation of Americans Who Are Mohammadans

We commend all Americans who are Mohammadans for their patience and understanding of what are hopefully only a very few of their fellow Americans who, from fear, act in an irrational way, or even, God-forbid, a violent way, against them. Recently, someone explained that to condemn all Islamics, especially all of those who are Americans, for the attack against America on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 by loose-knits groups of hate-filled despots, would be like condemning all of the members of all Protestant churches for the acts of those relatively few hate-filled despots who are members of the Klu-Klux-Klan, the KKK, of whom some also claim to be members of various Protestant groups.

Fear can cause some “normal” people to behave in an abnormal way, especially those people who are not spiritual, but who are instead materialistic and worldly. Please know that We include you in Our Holy Masses so that there will be no more hate-crimes against any Mohammadans, especially those of you who are Americans and who have left behind repressive cultures to enjoy the peace and opportunities which the democratic system of the United States of America has shared with you.

We likewise commend you for opening your Mosques to non-Mohammadans. Recently on the radio We heard a Jewish Rabbi make a comment, while inside of a Mosque, in which the Rabbi said how the terrorists would be surprised to learn how a Jewish Rabbi, and his Jewish congregation, was made to feel very safe in a Mohammadan Mosque!

This is the kind of thing which helps to make America strong and helps to overcome centuries of hatred and prejudice of one tribe or race or nationality or group against another! It was so refreshing to know how the Mohammadans here in the United States of America are making an effort to try to help their fellow Americans to better understand them and their religion and that, like various organizations, they also have some extremist “leaders” who have groups of “followers”!

We have noted with interest the staunch support which King Abdullah of Jordan has given to the United States, standing shoulder to shoulder with America. Queen Rania of Jordan, his wife, appearing on a recent televised news program, supported her husband’s policies. Both have condemned the terrorists. When Queen Rania was asked if she was fearful for herself, her husband and their children (they have three children), she stated that it would be a sad situation indeed people could not freely speak their own mind on the subject of terrorism. The courage of the King and Queen of Jordan is a shining example to all other world leaders, most especially those in the Islamic world (Jordan is an Islamic country), whose example was perhaps inspired by the courage of President and Mrs. Bush?

Islamics

Based upon the limited time and resources at Our disposal since 9-11-2001, or, as some now call it, 911, there seems to be a pattern emerging of sharp contrasts within the Islamic world from whence the terrorists and their terrorists organizations have come and in which they have trained to a large extent. But, dear Reader, as you read what follows, it should become self-evident to you that there are in fact some major differences. We respectfully disagree with Queen Rania who stated that there is only “one” Islam. We give below some schismatic groups within Islam who do in fact have basic differences in regard to “doctrine” and its practice.

On the contrary, the sharp pattern which seems to present itself at this time is that there are de facto a group of people who try to imitate their leader Mohammad. This is both logical and natural. But there are other groups which do not seem to do this.

Therefore, in order to try to clear up the confusion in the minds of many loyal and patriotic Americans, especially, We will attempt to be more precise in trying to identify those who believe and teach the “doctrines” and/or practices of terrorism, which general group We will call Moslems and those who catagorically reject, to varying degrees, such “doctrines” and/or practices, which general group We will call Mohammadans, despite the fact that some writers use these terms interchangeably and sometimes use yet another term, Islamics, a term We will use to include both Moslems and Mohammadans, especially if research has not clearly indicated if the subject under discussion on a particular point or issue refers totally, or 100%, to either Moslems or Mohammadans. There will be some instances when We will need to use the term Mohammadan to indicate a teaching or a policy or a practice of Mohammad himself. Since the singular term Mohammadan will always be used in these latter situations, the possibility of confusion should be greatly minimized. But these distinctions do not apply to direct quotations because they are from other writers.

Differences between these two generally classified Islamic groups were also brought out of late by others. Recently appearing on a different televised program, two other “leaders”, namely, the son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (his father had been the Shah of Iran until 1979), and Benazir Bhutto (the former Prime Minister of Pakistan from December, 1988 to August 1990 and again from October, 1993 to November 1996), have both indicated how there has been a wide rift which has been developing in Islamic countries.

This rift between the fanatical Moslems who, following the teachings of Mohammad, want a theocracy and the moderate Mohammadans who, in de facto rejecting at least some of the teachings of Mohammad, want a democracy. This has meant internal unrest and domestic instability and has led to a lack of control by the various governments of certain Islamic countries over the fanatical Moslem terrorists within their respective borders.

They claimed that the catalyst to this supposedly happened when the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was deposed as the Shah during a revolt led by the Moslem terrorist religious leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in February, 1979, in Iran. The situation worsened in October, 1979, when President Carter allowed the deposed Shah to enter the United States for medical treatment. The next month, November, 1979, Iranian Moslem terrorists took over the United States Embassy in Teheran, the capital of Iran.

Upon what basis did the November, 1979, Iranian Moslem terrorists take over the United States Embassy in Teheran and take American citizens as hostages? Was it based upon the pagan and Satanic philosophy of the notorious Nazi who has been quoted as saying that “the best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear” (Heinrich Himmler [1900 A.D - 1945 A.D.], head of the German police, including the infamous Gestapo? He ordered the deaths of large numbers of people, especially Jews). Or, was it based upon some kind of obscure Mohammadan teaching, whether accurately or inaccurately interpreted? We shall examine this latter point below.

When the November, 1979, Iranian Moslem terrorists took over the United States Embassy in Teheran, the group of American citizens they took as hostages were mostly embassy employees. The November, 1979, Moslem terrorists demanded that the United States return the Shah to Iran for trial in exchange for the prisoners. President Carter denounced the action of the Moslem terrorists as a violation of international law, and he refused to meet their demands. Despite the fact that the former Shah died in July, 1980, in Egypt, the Iranian Moslem terrorists continued to hold the hostages to protest American policies toward their country. They finally released the Americans on Tuesday, January 20, 1981, the day President Carter left office. This was the same day that Ronald Wilson Reagan took the Oath of Office as the new President of the United States.

Despite the taking of American hostages by Iranian Moslem terrorists, the United States, to the best of Our knowledge, has never blocked Mohammadans from coming to its shores, whether on student, business or visitor visas or seeking citizenship in the United States. Such has been the great charity of the United States government and its citizens towards all peoples, including Mohammadans.

Part 2 - God in Our Lives

Faith, Hope, Trust and Confidence in God

Let us go therefore with confidence to the Throne of Grace:
that we may obtain mercy, and find Grace in seasonable aid.
(Hebrews 4:16)

In various polls which have been taken since Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the claim has been made that about 28% of all Americans have a great deal of fear. This 28% figure has remained steady since that day, seemingly oblivious to whatever good or bad news comes forth from the media. These polls also indicated that the other 72% were actually doing fairly well on the subject of fear.

Fear is from the Devil and his human agents. Those of you who have different fears or who feel fearful or uncomfortable with a certain person or group of persons, or just with the fields of carnage in general or with those who are responsible for them, or fearful of new threats of attacks, be they chemical or biological or military or anything else, or who are feeling insecure or stressed or anxious about the future for yourself and your loved ones, We remind you how the Prince of Peace, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Eternal Divine Logos, the Divine Word of God, has told all of us through His Apostles: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid” (John 14:27).

Also, remember how God protected the three young men in the fiery furnace as it is written: “...be it known to thee, O king, that we will not worship thy gods, nor adore the golden statue which thou hast set up. Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with fury: and the countenance of his face was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and he commanded that the furnace should be heated seven times more than it had been accustomed to be heated. And he commanded the strongest men that were in his army, to bind the feet of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast them into the furnace of burning fire. And immediately these men were bound, and were cast into the furnace of burning fire, with their coats, and their caps, and their shoes, and their garments. For the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace was heated exceedingly. And the flame of the fire slew those men that had cast in Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago. But these three men, that is, Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell down bound in the midst of the furnace of burning fire. And they walked in the midst of the flame, praising God, and blessing the Lord...”

“Now the king’s servants that had cast them in, ceased not to heat the furnace with brimstone and tow, and pitch, and dry sticks, And the flame mounted up above the furnace nine and forth cubits: And it broke forth, and burnt such of the Chaldeans as it found near the furnace. But the angel of the Lord went down with Azarias and his companions into the furnace: and he drove the flame of the fire out of the furnace, And made the midst of the furnace like the blowing of a wind bringing dew, and the fire touched them not at all, nor troubled them, nor did them any harm. Then these three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified and blessed God, in the furnace...”

“Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was astonished, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king. He answered, and said: Behold, I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them, and the form of the fourth is like the son of God. Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, went out from the midst of the fire. And the nobles, and the magistrates, and the judges, and the great men of the king, being gathered together, considered these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, and that not a hair of their head had been singed, nor their garments altered, nor the smell of the fire had passed on them. Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth, said: Blessed be the God of them, to wit, of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that believed in him: and they changed the king’s word, and delivered up their bodies, that they might not serve nor adore any god except their own God” (Daniel 3:18-24; 46-51; 91-95).

Those who are at peace will not let the terrorists’ fear tactics force them to jump into the quicksand of fear, but rather, those Catholics who have validly received the Sacrament of Confirmation according to the pre-Vatican 2 PONTIFICALE ROMANUM, administered by a valid Bishop of the Catholic Church, will fight against these uniform-less tyrants as soldiers of Jesus Christ with SPIRITUAL weapons!

Therefore, wearing the SPIRITUAL armor of your Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and holding the SPIRITUAL shield of your Five First Saturdays in front of you, with the SPIRITUAL sword of your Rosary, do not permit evil or even negative people to sabotage your peace of soul, whether they are distant threats from terrorists or close warnings from confidants.

Usually, the distant threats from terrorists are easily recognizable and you should (hopefully) know how to deal with them to regain your peace of soul. But what can be more easily overlooked is who is closer to you. This is why IF you should happen to find yourself with a relative, for example, who tries to steal your peace from you with a continuous fusillade of fear, fired by the smoking canon of hypocrisy, whether explicit in cold, steeled words or implicit from the profundity of their pejorative negativity, you need to try to make an objective evaluation about whichever person or situation or issue is under discussion!

Sometimes this fear is engendered by those who are not sufficiently busy or who otherwise have too much time on their hands. This explains why an idle mind is the Devil’s workshop in which the fire of idle gossip heats the steel of an absent person’s character which is then beaten into whichever grotesque shape the blabing tongue of the scandalmonger hammers it. On the contrary, We recommend that everyone follow the Rule of Saint Benedict in this regard: “Idleness is the enemy of the soul” (Op. Cit., Rule # 48), even if it means that the scandal-seeker seek full, or at least parti-time, employment, thus eliminating the occasion of sin.

In some cases, a scandalmonger, bereft of integrity, moral values and sound character, could try to impute to you their own exaggerated fears, doubts, anxiety and stress about a particular person, a misinterpreted situation or a misconstrued issue. Thank them for their concern, but in a charitable manner point out to them their shortcomings in this regard.

On the other hand, if it seems as if there is a credible basis that the warning might be real and not imagined, not exaggerated, and not misinterpreted, prudence still requires that you ask for proof and, if possible documentary proof, or at least some objective evidence and also, if possible, even one or more witnesses, before you even consider the possibility of even considering their position, not to mention taking at least several days or even weeks to pray about it.

Some of these people are so emotional and hyper that you feel physically and emotionally drained and exhausted as the result of such an episode with such a depressed, energy-draining “vampire” who seems to continually complain that no one shows up for their “self-pity parties”, despite the engraved invitations, soaked with the excess foam falling from their rabid tongues, specially concocted for the morose occasion.

On the contrary, if a person thinks he is “religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is vain” (James 1:25). Again on this subject one reads that “the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison. By it we bless God and the Father: and by it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes; or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet. Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.. But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth. For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work” (James 3:8-16).

So, then, let us all remember how Christ rebuked the winds and the waves commanding them: “Peace, be still” (Mark 4:39). Then came a great calm. The Prince of Peace tells you, today: “Peace, be still.” Do you not feel the calm of your soul? Again does Christ speak down through the centuries to you today: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid” (John 14:27).

Meditate upon the solace which can be found in these words of Christ: “Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?” (Matthew 8:26). Christ tells us, through the Apostles, that there is no reason for any of us to be fearful because, despite the storm-tossed boat on the sea of anxiety, stress and dread, so long as we are with Christ, it is irrational, not to mention a lack of faith, to give in to fear and to terror. The only persons who should have any fear are those in the state of Mortal Sin and thus in fear of losing their immortal souls in the eternal fires of Hell for all eternity! Such as these have good reason to have fear, but not those in the state of Sanctifying Grace!

This was brought out in the excellent English play by that famous British playwright and motion-picture scriptwriter Robert Bolt [born in Manchester, England in 1924 - 1995], A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS [1960]. It is about the life of Saint Thomas More [born in London, England, c. 1477 A.D. - martyred by beheading at Tower Hill, London, England, Saturday, July 6, 1535 A.D.]. It was later turned into a movie with the same title in which Saint Thomas More was so admirably portrayed by Paul Scofield for which he received an Academy Award for best actor in 1966. Robert Bolt received an Academy Award for his movie script for this illustrious movie in 1967.

There is a scene in which the tyrant, Thomas Cromwell [c. 1485 A.D. - 1540 A.D.], summoned the saint to his office. There, secluded from the eyes and ears of the world, Cromwell, in a fit of anger, attempted to terrorize the saint, with certain dire death threats. Perhaps Cromwell, a man of the world, might have been thinking about this line which a Roman writer had penned many centuries before then: “Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terror!” (Tacitus, 55 A.D. - 117 A.D.). While this may be true of those of the world, it is not necessarily true for those who are not of this world, which explains why Saint Thomas More checkmated Cromwell with: “Master Cromwell, terror is for children!” One must wonder if Cromwell had those words ringing in his own ears a few seconds before he, too, was beheaded about five years later? But, unlike Saint Thomas More, Cromwell did not receive the crown and palm of martyrdom!

In a number of different places in the Gospels one reads these familiar words of Christ: “Fear not” as in this example: “Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom” (Luke 12:32).

In trying to rally the United States from the cesspool of that terror a previous American generation called the “Great Depression”, which began in October, 1929, when stock values dropped sharply, the President uttered these words which are so applicable for today: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance” (President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1933).

In summary of the subject of fear, We cite two thoughts about it.

“We must not fear fear” (Saint Francis DeSales, Letters to Persons in the World, 4, 13).

“Fear is a greater evil than the evil itself” (Saint Francis DeSales, Letters to Persons in the World, 6, 12).

Part 3 - The Roots of the Enemy

Know Your Enemy

Know your enemy is an axiom of importance for every soldier of Jesus Christ in the war against Satan and his human followers. You can not hope to win a war unless you can first identify your enemy, know exactly who your enemy is, what tactics the enemy uses, the history of your enemy, and as many other things as you can learn about your enemy which you can use to your advantage.

In the movie Patton [1970], an unforgettable portrayal of the American 4-Star General, George Smith Patton, Jr. [ [born in San Gabriel, California on Wednesday, November 11, 1885 A.D. 1885 - assassinated? in a hospital in Heidelberg, Germany on Friday, December 21, 1945 A.D.], by George Campbell Scott [1927 A.D. - 1999 A.D.] (who won the 1970 Academy Award as best actor for Patton), there is the portrayal of General Patton being awakened in the morning by his personal aide.

Lying face down in an open position on the top of his blanket is a book written by his counterpart, the German Field Marshal, Erwin Rommel [born at Heidenheim an der Brentz on Sunday, November 15, 1891 A.D. - committed suicide at Ulm, on Saturday, October 14, 1944 A.D.], a.k.a., The Desert Fox, on his philosophy of military attacks. This is an example of how a military genius was humble enough to do his homework by reading the book of another military genius. By doing this, General Patton knew what tactics to expect from General Rommel based upon his military philosophy and thus how to avoid becoming another notch on General Rommel’s tank gun, so to speak. As a matter of fact, when General Patton won the tank battle against General Rommel, he is reported by bystanders to have exclaimed with great excitement at this victory: “Rommel, you magnificent *******, I read you book!!!” For the record, Rommel’s book, Infanterie Greift An (“Infantry Attacks”), was based on his experiences during World War I.

To the best of Our research, General Patton won all of his battles. This fact helped America and its allies to win World War II. Because it is worth while to get an inside look into the mind of a battle-winning, war-winning, field commander, here are a few random quotations ascribed to him:

1) “Do not take counsel of your fears.”
2) “There is only one type of discipline, perfect discipline.”
3) “Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.”
4) “Say what you mean and mean what you say.”
5) “You shouldn’t underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.”
6) “It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.”
7) “God deliver us from our friends, we can handle the enemy.”

So here is an actual example of a military genius who wanted to defeat the enemy so much that he was not only willing to read the book his enemy had written, but also to learn and to apply tactics to effectively counter them and thereby triumph over him.

We should all follow the example of General Patton and learn as much as we can concerning all of our enemies. From a practical standpoint, the first book we need to read is the Bible, especially the New Testament. Christ and His Apostles give us invaluable insights into the Spiritual Life as well as how to deal with our spiritual enemies.

One quick example is that as soldiers of Jesus Christ, all of us must be on our guard against Satan and his devils as well as his human agents: “Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world” (1 Peter 5:8-9).

Satanic Terrorists

Everyone, especially the front-line soldiers of Jesus Christ, are in a spiritual battle today, not only against Satan and his devils, but also his human agents, most especially since Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Some of these human agents of Satan are various groups of terrorists. It is a known fact, reported by the secular news media in the United States of America after September 11, 2001 that most, if not all, of the September 11, 2001 terrorists were in fact Moslems.

But were the September 11, 2001 terrorists in fact terrorists because they were Moslems, which would then tend to indicate that there is something intrinsically evil in Islamism, despite the portestations to the contrary by various respected Mohammadans, especially in the United States, or is it merely a coincidence that some, or possibly all, of the September 11, 2001 terrorists were also Moslems?

Of further interest is the fact that most of the terrorists were also Arabs. Although a small minority of Arabs are Christians, a large percentage of Arabs are Islamics. But before examining what Islamism is, let us first examine who the Arabs are. One is able to quickly determine who the Arabs are by reading the Old Testament of the Bible.

Abraham and His Children
Ismael, Isaac, Zamram, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue

Ismael and Isaac

“Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar, She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request, She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife. And he went in to her. But she perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress. And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee. And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away. And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert, He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress. And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand. And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude. And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men’s hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren. And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me. Therefore she called that well, the well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad. And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael. Abram was four score and six years old [i.e. 66 years old] when Agar brought him forth Ismael” (Genesis 16:1-16).

“And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly. Abram fell flat on his face. And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations. And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God. Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations. This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised.... God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara. And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him. Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth? And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee. And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him. And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year. And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham... And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision. The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son. And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him” (Genesis 17:1-10; 15-22; 25-27).

“And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day. And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground. And he said: Lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away from thy servant. But I will fetch a little water, and wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the tree. And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken. Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth. And he himself ran to the herd, and took from thence a calf, very tender and very good, and gave it to a young man, who made haste and boiled it. He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree. And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo she is in the tent. And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. Now they were both old, and far advanced in years, and it had ceased to be with Sara after the manner of women. And she laughed secretly, saying: After I am grown old, and my lord is an old man, shall I give myself to pleasure? And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed? Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son. Sara denied, saying: I did not laugh: for she was afraid. But the Lord said: Nay; but thou didst laugh. And when the men rose up from thence, they turned their eyes towards Sodom: and Abraham walked with them, bringing them on the way” (Genesis 18:1-16).

“And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken. And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her. And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac. And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him, When he was a hundred years old: for at this age of his father, was Isaac born. And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me. And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age? And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning. And when Sara had seen the son of Agar, the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she said to Abraham: Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac. Abraham took this grievously for his son. And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. But I will make the son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed. So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee. And when the water in the bottle was spent, she cast the boy under one of the trees that were there. And she went her way, and sat overagainst him a great way off, as far as a bow can carry, for she said: I will not see the boy die: and sitting overagainst, she lifted up her voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the boy: and an angel of God called to Agar from heaven, saying: What art thou doing, Agar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the boy, from the place wherein he is. Arise, take up the boy, and hold him by the hand, for I will make him a great nation. And God opened her eyes: and she saw a well of water, and went and filled the bottle, and gave the boy to drink. And God was with him: and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became a young man, an archer. And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt” (Genesis 21:1-21).

Zamram, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue

“And Abraham married another wife named Cetura: Who bore him Zamram, and Jecsan, and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and Sue. Jecsan also begot Saba, and Dadan. The children of Dadan were Assurim, and Latusim, and Loomim. But of Madian was born Epha, and Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa: all these were the children [and grandchildren] of Cetura” (Genesis 25:1-4).

“And the sons of Cetura, Abraham’s concubine [Note: Both Hagar and Cetura were Abraham’s concubines. In those days, a concubine was a lawful wife, but of an inferior degree.], whom she bore: Zamran, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue. And the sons of Jecsan, Saba, and Dadan. And the sons of Dadan: Assurim, and Latussim, and Laomin. And the sons of Madian: Epha, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaa. All these are the sons [and grandsons] of Cetura” (1 Paralipomenon 1:32-33).

Therefore, the twelve tribes of Israel, the Jews, come from Abraham and Sara through their son Isaac. Twelve tribes of the Arabs come from Abraham and Agar through their son Ismael. The additional tribes of the Arabs come from Abraham and Cetura through their children Zamram, Jecsan, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue.

Part 4 - Biographical Data
About Mohammad, the Cult Founder

Mohammad

In order to understand Islamism, one must first begin at the beginning. Therefore, We begin with the founder of Islamism, namely Mohammad. Because most Westerners, especially Americans, know pitifully very little about Mohammad, here is some information which Our research has culled from various sources. Primary sources include almost all of the Catholic sources We have used. Primary sources also include some Mohammadan sources We have found at various Web Sites on the Internet. Secondary sources include the remainder of the Internet sources which are mostly Mohammadan.

Although We prefer to use only primary sources, since We have no direct access to Islamic works of various kinds, and are unable to read or to translate the various Arabic languages, We have had to rely upon primary and secondary sources, mostly on the Internet, for that data.

Please keep in mind that in translating from Arabic, which uses characters other than the Roman characters which are used for English, various writers have different ways of spelling the same word. There is seldom any uniformity as to any exact spelling of any one particular word translated from Arabic, especially proper names, e.g. Mohammad. This can lead to confusion; however, We hope this warning will pre-empt most of that in what follows.

According to Oriental writers, Mohammad, whose name is also spelled Mahomet, Mohammed, and Muhammad, and who is also called Mohammad Mustafa ibn Abdullah, a.k.a. Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah, of the clan of Bani Hashim [born at Mecca, Saturday, April 20, 571. A.D. - died at Madina, March, 632 A.D. or 633 A.D. One source claims he had been poisoned by an old Jewish woman a short time before this.], was a direct descendant of Ismael, a.k.a. Ishmael, through one of the first twelves tribes of the Arabs and consequently of Abraham and Agar. His father was Abdullah and his mother was Amina. One of his grandfather’s was Abdul-Muttalib who was the the Chieftan of the tribe of Bani Hashim. In those days, Arabia was prey to gross polytheism.. Mohammad is the acknowledged founder of Mohammadanism which Mohammad called Islam, a term which means “submission to God”. This explains why some writers refer to the followers of Mohammad as Moslems, Moslims, Muslims or Mussulmans, which are terms which mean “dedicated to God”.

It is ironic how the terms Moslim and Moslem, which are alternate spellings for the word Muslim, are frequently pronounced “mawzlem”. When Moslim and Moslem are pronounced “mawzlem”, they sound like the Arabic word which means “oppressor”.

Some writers prefer to call the followers of Mohammad, Mohammadans, also spelled Mahometans, Mohammedans, and Muhammadans, just as the followers of Christ are frequently called Christians. Mohammadans are also called Saracens and in Northern Africa they are called Berbers. We have already explained above that when We normally use the term Moslems, We thereby identify those who believe and teach the “doctrines” and implement the practices of terrorism. We use the term Mohammadans to identify those who catagorically reject, to varying degrees, the “doctrines” and practices of terrorism. We use the term Islamics to include both Moslems and Mohammadans. Please note that this does not necessarily hold true for direct quotations from other sources.

When Mohammad was born, Mecca, which is in western Arabia, was the most important city of Arabia because, enclosed within its walls was the national sanctuary, the famous Kaaba, a.k.a. Kabah, a.k.a. Caaba, a.k.a. Ka’aba, which was a cubical stone building. This building contained the fabled “black stone” which supposedly had come down from Paradise whiter than milk, but was changed to black by the sins of the children of Adam who have touched it.

The Kaaba was originally dedicated to the one Supreme Being. But, with the passage of time, it became a veritable pagan Pantheon which contained at least 360 pagan idols of all shapes and forms. Pilgrims would come year after year in vast number to the Kaaba from every part of the Arabian peninsula. The citizens of Mecca and, most especially, the Kuraish clan, to whom the guardianship of the Kaaba had been entrusted, profited greatly from these pilgrimages and the great fairs which were held in connection with them. Despite all of this, the parents of Mohammad were very poor.

When he was still young, Mohammad was sent into the desert to be raised by a foster family. By today’s standards, this is very strange, but in those days this was supposedly a common practice. When he was a young child, he worked as a shepherd. When he was six years old, his parents died. His parents belonged to the distinguished clan or tribe of Kuraish, a.k.a., Koraish, the hereditary guardians of the sanctuary of the Kaaba.

After his parents died, he was raised by his uncle Abu Taleb, a.k.a. Abd Manaf Ibin Shaybah Al-Hashim, who instructed him in commercial business. One of his grandmother’s, namely, the mother of his uncle Abu Taleb was Fatimah, a.k.a. Fatima. The wife of Abu Taleb was Fatimah (a.k.a. Fatima) Bint Assad. This may explain in part why Mohammad himself named his youngest daughter Fatima, whom he had with his first wife Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid? Abu Taleb apparently had three brothers, namely, Hamza, Abu Lahab and Abbass.

When he was either 9 or 12 years old, his uncle took him with him on a caravan to Syria. After Abu Taleb had finished his trading in Syria, he returned to Mecca with his nephew, who continued his solitary life as he had done before. But his uncle saw to it that Mohammad, along with his own brothers, Abbass and Hamzah, were given had some training in the use of weapons of war. The implication is that they were taught as adults since the weapons of war would be those used by adults, e.g. swords. Exactly how a 9 or 12 year old could be taught as an adult remains to be explained, not to mention how he could hold the large adult-size sword?

At least one story claims that Abu Taleb disliked and spoke out against any kind of persecution. He also supposedly championed the unfortunate and persecuted against their aggressors. Mohammad, it is further claimed, as this little boy of around 9 or 12 years of age, loved his uncle because his uncle had integrity and certain principles.

The story continues how one day, a battle took place between the defending tribe of Kinana and the agressing tribe of Qais. The chief from the tribe of Kinana came to Abu Taleb for help and, addressing him as the “son of the bird feeder and pilgrim water giver”, asked him for help, which Abu Taleb promised to give. As a result, the Kinana chief clansman easily agreed to the terms which Abu Taleb required for his help. Thus, the Hashimite chieftian joined them in battle with Mohammad at his side.

It is also related that Abu Taleb founded the Alliance of Fodhool. This alliance was an agreement which was signed by all the Meccan chieftians whom today would probably be called war lords. The terms of this agreement stated that they would help and protect any pilgrim was was attacked or robbed at Mecca. It then so happened, goes the story, that one day a pilgrim, who was from the Khathaam tribe, was paying homage to the Kaaba cube in Mecca with his daughter. The daughter was kidnapped by terrorists while the father was beaten for trying to rescue his daughter.

The Khathaamian father screamed for help. As a result, the bystanders, who did nothing to rescue his daughter from the terrorists, suggested that he go to Abu Taleb, who was the founder of the Fodhool Alliance. When the destraught father finally arrived where Abu Taleb was, the father pleaded his case. Abu Taleb immediately directed some men, who were armed with adult-sized swords, to go look for the girl who had been kidnapped by the terrorists and bring the terrorists to justice. The story also relates that Mohammad was also a part of the Fodhool Alliance and that he also went along with the swordsmen. Here the mental picture is verbally painted of a 9 or 12 year old child trying to carry an adult-sized sword. It must have been rather akward for a child to try to carry such a large sword? In addition, one is given the impression that the 9 or 12 year-old Mohammad was probably in the way? After all, how does one rationally expect a 9 or 12 year old child to effectively fight an adult fighting him with an adult-sized sword?!

Other than a suicide mission, this sounds somewhat like the fairy tale of the 101 Arabian Nights fiction! Eventually, the adult swordsmen found, whether with or without little Mohammad is curiously not mentioned, the terrorists who had kidnapped the girl as well as the girl. Omitting all of the details of the fight, the story continues that the kidnapped girl was returned to her father. The terrorists were brought before the Meccan Elders, presumably Abu Taleb, and the other members of the alliance, not for a trial, but rather only for some kind of punishment which the story fails to relate.

Upon analyzing this story, there seems to be a contradiction between the claim that after Mohammad returned to Mecca with his uncle, that Mohammad continued to lead his solitary life as he had done before on the one hand and, on the other hand, the claim that Mohammad was also a part of the Fodhool Alliance and went along with the swordsmen whom his uncle had immediately sent out to find the terrorists and the kidnapped girl. This variance seems to indicate that the part which Mohammmad took in this episode is possibly fictitious, especially since he was apparently only about 9 or 12 years old at that time, as is even quite possibly the whole story.

Another source claims that some years later Mohammad got a job as a camel driver on the trade routes between Syria and Arabia. Still later, he managed camel caravans on behalf of merchants. During his mercantile trips to Syria and other countries, he became somewhat familiar with Jews, the heretical Nestorian Christians, and the local pagans of those regions.

Some of the pagans of Arabia were blood-thirsty savages because, before Islamism, Arabia did not have any kind of political organization, nor did it have any kind of organized moral and legal structure. This meant that there were no judicial courts because there was no organized system of justice, and certainly not any kind of police force as is familiar to Westerners of today. This meant that there was no device which could control crime or to curb criminal and terrorists acts. So, then, if a male Arab committed a crime, he had no reason to feel sorrow or remorse at his heinous act. Rather, he boasted that he could do whatever he felt like doing, and if what he felt like doing was considered to be sinful or evil in other countries, he could care less.

Arab society in those days was dominated by men, especially by the war lords. It seems that some women, even today, who live in such societies, still feel the same way, because, except for Turkey, which is under secular control and making an attempt to be a democracy, it appears that in actual practice in much of the rest of the Islamic world, women do not have much real legal or social status, despite what one may find written to the contrary. At best, at least from the outside looking in, many Islamic women look as if they are second-class citizens.

In the days of Mohammad, and perhaps even today, many Arab men, consider that women bring bad luck. This is why, generally speaking, they still apparently treat women more like chattel than like individuals. For example, before the time of Mohammmad, a man could marry as many women as he wanted to marry. When he died, his eldest son would inherit all of his wives, except his own mother. In other words, the oldest son would marry all of his step-mothers. Obviously, there was an absence of a moral code of ethics as well as a legal code to restrain him.

In the Wild-Wild-East, research indicates that pre-Islamic Arabs were savages. Pagan Arabs, giving into their base passions as the result of the effects of Original Sin, would spend their entire lives in an endless cycle of lawless warfare. This explains why the favorite profession of a pagan Arab was being a terrorist who plundered and killed without mercy. These pagan terrorists tortured to death their prisoners of war. One of their favorite hobbies was to torture to death helpless animals. These cruel and hate-filled terrorists had a perverse sense of “honor” which led them to kill their own infant daughters. When the wife of an Arab terrorist gave birth to a daughter, he was unable to conceal his anguish and displeasure.

In many cases, so it is claimed, Arab terrorists killed their daughters for sundry specious reasons, frequently burying them alive! It has been claimed that Islamic law made the killing of children a capital offence: “Kill not your children for fear of want: we shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you. Verily the killing of them is a great sin” (Qur’an Majid. Chapter 17: verse 31).

Some of the Arabs who did not kill their daughters deprived them of all their rights. Why? According to their convoluted mentality, once their daughters got married, because they would live in the homes of other men, they (these Arab fathers who permitted their daughters to live) should not spend any money on them by caring for their material wants and needs over and above what was necessary to keep them alive.

Khadijah, the First Wife of Mohammad

And so it happened that Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid, a.k.a., Khadija, a.k.a., Chadija, the first of the many wives of Mohammad, was born, grew up and lived in this kind of misogynistic society. Such a depraved “society” proves the level to which a soul can sink without God in one’s life, especially without the valid reception of the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation, and a real living of the spiritual life and everything that implies.

Khadijah controlled an ever-expanding home-based-business from Mecca which spread into the neighboring countries. Some would consider her achievements astonishing in any age, but for her to be so successful in that woman-hating society, was really remarkable! Her contemporaries call her the princess of the Quraysh and the princess of Mecca.

This is also why she received many marriage proposals from Arab nobles and princes. Although she tried to ignore all of them, many of them were persistent. Yet she rejected the whole lot of them. Such rejection gave rise to speculation as to what kind of man she would marry.

At the age of twenty-five, the poor, but ambitious, Mohammad, married this rich Meccan widow, Khadijah, for whom he then worked as a business agent. This advantageous alliance enabled him to live at his ease and gratify his taste for religious seclusion.

Hanifs

Towards the end of the 6th Century, various men from Mecca, Medina and Taif, who were searching for a more pure religion than the dominant polytheism so rampant in Arabia, especially at Mecca, borrowed various doctrines and practices which appealed to them from the Jews, the heretical Nestorian Christians, and sundry pagans. This hodge-podge mixture of cafeteria-styled dogmatism became the basis upon which they claimed to have made up a “pure” religion. According to them, their home-grown cult was based upon their ancestor Ismael, a.k.a. Ishmael. The members of this diverse cult are known to history as Hanifs.

The Hanifs were strict monotheists, they believed in a future life, with its eternal punishments and eternal rewards, they abstained from wine and they practiced other austerities. Mecca had some Hanifs and some of them were from the lineage of Khadijah, the very first wife of the many wives of Mohammad. One of them was her first cousin, Waraqa bin Naufal, a.k.a. Waraka. It was through Waraqa bin Naufal, a first cousin of his first wife, that Mohammad came under the influence of this cult and thus Mohammad himself became a Hanif.

Waraqa bin Naufal teamed up with Ubaydullah bin Jahsh, Uthman bin al-Huwayrith and Zayd bin ‘Amr. These four men were of the opinion that their people had corrupted the religion of their father Abraham and that the stone cube they went around in a pagan ritual was insignificant because it could neither hear nor see nor could it do anything, as is true of all other pagan idols. So it came about that these four monotheists did not believe in the pagan ritual of circumabulating the Kaaba. It is interesting to note that it is ironic that this pagan ritual was later embraced by the Islamics and is still in use today, despite the Islamic claim that their religion is not pagan!

Waraqa bin Naufal was one of the very few people in Mecca who were educated. He is to have translated the Bible from Hebrew into Arabic. He had also read other books written by Jewish and Christian theologians. He was searching for the truth. It is not surprising, therefore, that Khadijah, the very first of the many wives of Mohammad, would be very strongly influenced by the opinions of Waraqa, her first cousin. She shared his contempt for pagan idols and pagan idolaters. Just like Waraqa and various other members of her family, she also was a follower of Abraham and Ismael.

Mohammad the Hanif

The Hanif, Mohammad, began to spend more and more time in the hill caves near Mecca. It was during one of these periods of solitary contemplation, when he was about forty years old, that he claims he received his prophetic mission.

Sometime before 611 A.D., Mohammad began to have epileptic seizures. When Mohammad was 40 years old [611 A.D.], he had apparently refined the teachings of the first cousin of his first wife (Khadijah), namely, Waraqa bin Naufal, a co-founder of the cult of the Hanifs in Mecca. Just as the Hanifs, he also wanted to restore his country to the purity of primitive monotheism. To this end, he formed the scheme of establishing a cult, or, as he expressed it, a new religion which would abolish the gross idolatry into which his countrymen had fallen and of replanting the only true and ancient religion professed by Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and all the prophets, which consisted chiefly in the worship of only one God.

Mohammad the Cult-Founder

He claimed to be the “Prophet of God.” He claimed that his spasmodic convulsions, which were happening more and more frequently, were nothing more than heavenly visions in which, he alleged, that Saint Gabriel (Jibreel) the Archangel appeared to him and commanded him to restore what he termed the religion of Abraham. Mohammad named this new cult, which he considered to be a religion, Islam, that is, “submission to God,” whence his followers are called “Moslems,” or “Mussulmans”, that is, “dedicated to God.” Mohammed maintained that a great number of prophets had been divinely commissioned at various times, chief among whom were Adam, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, but that he was superior to all of them. Mohammad pretended that his divine mission was clearly foretold in the writings of both Jews and Christians, whom he charged with having corrupted the Scriptures and suppressed the prophecies bearing witness to himself.

In reality, the actual basis for such pretensions was a combination of things. Some of his teachings he claimed to have found in the Old and New Testament editions which had apparently been translated into Arabic by Waraqa bin Naufal. From this questionable translation, he had collected lofty maxims which he mingled with the pagan folklore of his country and with his own schizophrenic hallucinations and imaginings.

It was from this cacophony of mutual contradictions that he made up his own sundry doctrines. Their moral application is summed up in Islam, that is, in abandonment, in submission to an almighty God, placed very high above the world. At the outset, the character of the self-proclaimed “prophet” appeared gentle and calm. Yet strange phenomena and convulsive crises became more frequent as his fame began to spread.

But his man-made “doctrines” lost their earlier simplicity. In his suras, or maxims, the collection of which forms that unequal and incongruous book known as the Qur’an, a.k.a. Koran (Reading), he taught the oneness and omnipotence of God, sanctioned polygamy, and offered, as a reward to the faithful of Islam, the eternal joys of a promised land where, far from all sin, under the cool shade of trees, they would enjoy delicious drinks in silver goblets and would eat exquisite fruit in a paradise overflowing with sexual delights. He prescribed prayers, fasting, ablutions, pilgrimages to Mecca with processional encircling of the Kaaba. He recommended union and solidarity among the believers of Islam.

He said: “O believers, give alms from the best things you have acquired, from the fruits which you have made the earth bring forth...You will attain perfect piety only when you have given alms of what you cherish most.”

Regarding non-believers, his teachings varied. At times he counseled tolerance, saying: “Listen not to the infidels or the hypocrites; but do them no ill.” But more frequently, he ordered a war to the death. “Make war on those who do not believe in God or in the last day.” He says: “When you meet any infidels, kill them, to the point of making a great carnage, and you will tighten the shackles.”

Why is there such a variance in the teachings of Mohammad? Did he have two totally different personalities? Besides suffering from more and more frequent epileptic seizures, he was apparently also suffering from advanced schizophrenia, far beyond dementia praecox.

Was there anything which could have triggered such advanced schizophrenia? It seems reasonable to take the position that most probably the suras which recommended tolerance and mildness date from the early days of Mohammad?s preaching. But it is self-evident to those who study his character, that it definitely changed after he had begun to attract followers in Mecca, and most especially after the two rival armed tribes in Medina joined his cult.

There seems to be an unanimity with all of the historical data to which We have had access, to wit, that when Mohammad first began to preach his own man-made-up hybrid religion, he was not a violent person. If anything, he seems to have been humble and meek like Christ. Assuredly, today there seem to be various Moslem leaders who are like this. Perhaps this explains why President Bush and other have said that Islam is a religion of peace?

During this first preaching tour in Mecca, he was persecuted for preaching his home-made religion, Islamism, and also for denigrating the pagan religions of the inhabitants of Mecca. Some of the followers of Mohammad were tortured. Things became so bad for him and his handful of followers, that he apparently sent most of them to Abyssinia, a.k.a. Ethiopia, for a safe place of refuge. Eventually the persecutions forced him and the rest of his followers to move north to Yathrib, a.k.a. Medina, where a few members of two Arab tribes wanted Mohammad to be their prophet.

However, shortly before Mohammad and the remainder of his group left to go to Medina, he had another epileptic seizure. He used this seizure as his basis upon which to claim that he had received
a “revelation” which permitted him and his group to fight the people of Mecca. He knew that in Medina there was an armed group of men who would not only support him, but fight on his behalf. He was also aware that if he and the remainder of his small group now in Mecca went to Medina that geographically they would farther away from their pagan persecutors in Mecca whom he felt might try to kill him.

Part 5 - Mohammad and His “Wives” and Children

Mohammad and His Harem

Summary of the “Wives” of Mohammad
and Their Ages When “Married”

1st wife:   Khadijah Bint.Khuwaylid a.k.a. Khadeejah Bint Khuwali. He was 25 and she was 40.
2nd wife: Ayesha Bint Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq. He was 49 and she was only 6!
3rd wife:   Sawda Bint Zam’ah, a.k.a. Saudah Bint Zama. He was 49 and she was 50.
4th wife:   Hafsah Bint Umar. He was 51 and she was 20.
5th wife:   Umm Salamah, a.k.a. Umm Salam Hind Bint.Abi Umayya. He was 55 and she was 29.
6th wife:   Zaynab Bint Jahsh. He was 56 and she was 35.
7th wife:   Juwayriyyah Bint Harith, a.k.a. Juwairiah Bint.Al-Harith. He was 56 and she was 20 and Jewish.
8th wife:   Zaynab Bint Khuzaymah, a.k.a. Zainab Bint Khuzaima. He was was 56 and she was 30.
9th wife:   Umm Habibah Bint Abu Suffayan, a.k.a. Umm Habibah Ramla Bint Abu Sufyan Ibn Sakhr.
                  He was 60 and she was 35.
10th wife: Safiyyah Bint Huyayy, a.k.a. Safiyah Bint Huyay. He was 60 and she was only 17 and Jewish.
11th wife: Rayhanah Banu Qurayzah. He was 60. Her age is not known.
12th wife: Maryah, a.k.a. Mariyah Al-Qibtiyaa.   He was 60 and she was 20.
13th wife: Rayhana. He was 60. She was only a girl, but her exact age is not known. She was Jewish.
14th wife: Duba Bint Amr. He was 60. Her age is not known.
15th wife: Fatima Bint Al-Dahhak. He was probably 60. Her age is not known.
16th wife: Hend. He was probably 60. Her age is not known.
17th wife: Asma of Saba. He was probably 60. Her age is not known.
18th wife: Habla. He was probably 60. Her age is not known.
19th wife: Asma of Noman, a.k.a. Asma Bint Al-Numan. He was 60. Her age is not known.
20th wife: Omm Sharik. He was probably 60. Her age is not known.
21st wife: Maymuna, a.k.a. Maimunah (not of Hareth). He was probably 60 and she was 36.
22nd wife: Zaynab (his third wife name “Zaynab” after wives # 6 and # 8). He was probably 60.
                  Her age is not known.
23rd wife: Khawla.He was probably 60. Her age is not known.
24th wife: Amrah Bint Yazeed. He was 60. Her age is not known.
25th wife: Leila Bint Al-Khatim. He was probably 60. Her age is not known.
26th wife: Mulaika Bint Kaab. He was probably 60. Her age is not known.

Details of the “Wives” of Mohammad

1st wife: Khadijah Bint.Khuwaylid [born 554 A.D. or 556 A.D. died December, 619 A.D.]. In 596 A.D., when he was 25 years old, Mohammad married Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid, a.k.a. Khadeejah Bint Khuwali, who was 40 years old, as We have already explained above. Khadijah employed Mohammad in her business. Her father was killed in a battle. She was a very successful and wealthy business lady. Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid had been married twice before she married Mohammad, thus making Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah her third husband. After their marriage, Mohammad no longer had to work. Mohammad could wander around the caves in the local area and meditate. Mohammad had his first “revelation”, which was really an epileptic seizure, when he was 40 years old. This means that Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid was 55 years old at that time.

They were married for about 25 years during which time Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid bore Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah almost all of his children. Different sources give various information about their children. For example, one source claims that the couple had two sons and four daughters and yet another source gives three sons and three daughters. Our research has uncovered the following data on their children.

Children of Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah
and Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid

1. Qassim Mohammad, a.k.a. Qassem Mohammad, a.k.a. Abul Qassim (a son). He was their eldest child and, because of this fact, he was known as Abul Qassim. The boy died before his second birthday.

2. Zaynab, a.k.a. Zainab, the Heroine of Karbala, was the eldest daughter.

3. Ruqayyah, a daughter, was the third child.

4. Umm Al-Kulthoum, a.k.a. Umkalthoum, a daughter, was the fourth child.

5. Fatima Al-Zahra, a.k.a. Fatimah, [born at Mecca c.605 A.D. - died at Madina in 633 A.D.), was the youngest daughter and the fifth child. Fatima married Ali who was the son of Abu Talib. Fatima was the mother of sons Hassan, a.k.a. the Imam Hassan, and Husayn, a.ka. the Imam Husayn [Hussain]. According to Shiite legend, there was also a third son, Muhassin, a.k.a. Sayyed Muhassin [Mohsen], who died when only a child. Fatima is considered to be the ancestral mother of the Imams of the Shiite Muslims. She is also considered to be the ancestral mother of everyone who claims to be a direct descendant of Mohammad because supposedly none of Mohammad’s other children had children. The cause of death of Fatima Al-Zahra was severe internal hemoraging from a punctured lung caused by a broken rib that she suffered from what one source described as “a cowardly attack on her home”.

6. Ta’hir, a son, was also their last child.

7. Other sources give an additional name: Abdullah, a son. However, since their first son, Qassim Mohammad, was called Abul Qassim, is it possible that this first son was also called Abdullah by some writers, or was he a son from another marriage as was Ibraheem, his alleged son from his 12th wife, Maryah?

One source says that Khadijah died in December of 619 A.D. at the age of 65. As long as Khadijah was alive, Mohammad did not have to work.

This verse in Koran Majid may refer to her: “... and there are some who are, by god’s leave, foremost in good deeds; that is the highest grace” (Chapter 35; verse 32).

She had what Koran Majid has called Qalb Saleem (“the sound heart”) in verse 89 of its 26th chapter. Qalb Saleem or the sound heart, has been defined by A. Yusuf Ali, the translator and commentator of Qur’an Majid, as follows: “A heart that is pure, and unaffected by the diseases that afflict others. As the heart in Arabic is taken to be not only the seat of feelings and affections, but also of intelligence and resulting action, it implies the whole character.”

2nd wife: Ayesha Bint Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq [born 614 A.D. - died 671 A.D.]. In 620 A.D. Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Ayesha Bint Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, the daughter of Abu Bakir, when he was 49 years old and she was only 6 years old! He consummated the “marriage” with her when she turned 9 years of age in 623 A.D. This explains in part why they had no children together, although it does not explain it during her later teen years. She was the only virgin woman in Mohammad’s life. She transmitted 2000 hadiths. When Mohammad died in 632 A.D., she was 18 years old. She died at the age of 57 in 671 A.D., 100 years after Mohammad was born.

3rd wife: Sawda Bint Zam’ah, a.k.a. Saudah Bint. Zama. [born 570 A.D. - died about 638 A.D.]. In 620 A.D. Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah married the widow, Sawda Bint Zam’ah, when he was 49 years old and she was 50 years old. They had no children together. Although she was neither young nor beautiful, she was the right woman to take care of Mohammad’s young children after Khadijah died in 619 A.D. They got “married” in 620 A.D. She was middle aged, fat, funny and kind. It is stated that Sawda “gave” her “nights” to Ayesha to have him for sex. This means that old Sawda was nothing more than a maid servant while young Ayesha was for sex,

4th wife: Hafsah Bint Umar [born 602 A.D. - died 668 A.D.]. In 622 A.D., when he was 51 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” the 20 year old widow Hafsah Bint Umar who was the daughter of Umar Ibin Khataab, a.k.a. Caliph Umor. They had no children together. She had first “married” Khunais Ibn Al-Khataab and then became a widow at the age of 18 in 620 A.D. She lived with Mohammad for 8 years and died in 668 A.D. when she was 66 years old.

5th wife: Umm Salamah, a.k.a. Umm Salam Hind Bint.Abi Umayya [born 597 A.D. - died 681 A.D.]. In 626 A.D., when he was 55 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Umm Salamah, who was 29 years old. They had no children together. Her first husband was Abdullah Bin Abdul Asad with whom she had 4 children, Salama, Umar, Zaynab, Darra. She outlived all of the other “wives” of Mohammad and died when she was 84 years old in 681 A.D.

6th wife: Zaynab Bint Jahsh [born 592 A.D. - died 641 A.D.]. In 627 A.D., when he was 56 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Zaynab Bint Jahsh, who was 35 years old. They had no children together. Her original name was Barra. She was originally married to Zayed Bin Harith, who was Mohammad’s adopted son. Mohammad himself had arranged that marriage. She was the first cousin of Mohammad. Zaynab’s mother Umayma was the daughter of Abdul Muttalib, Mohammad's grandfather. One day Mohammmad saw Zaynab “in a loose undress” and, seeing her beautiful body, he “wanted to have her”. The grateful adopted son, Zayed Bin Harith, then divorced Zaynab to clear the way for Mohammad to marry her. Special “revelations” were made to Mohammad in order to sanctify the “marriage” (33:37,53) which permits Islamic men to marry an adopted son’s wife. However, this is absurd when on considers that Islam forbids the adoption of children (33:4,5,37). Mohammad claimed that “his” Allah himself performed his nikah with her. She was 35 when Mohammad “married” her. Ayat of hijab (33:53-56) was also revealed after the feast of their “marriage”. Zaynab was a very independent lady. For example, she had her own leather products business. Hence, she did not need Mohammad’s money. By marrying Zaynab Bint Jahsh, Mohammad set the precedent for Islamic men that it is permissible for them to marry their first cousin. She died in 641 A.D., the first wife of Mohammad to die after Mohammad’s death.

7th wife: Juwayriyyah Bint Harith, a.k.a. Juwairiah Bint.Al-Harith [born 607 A.D. - died 672 A.D.]. In 627 A.D., when he was 56 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Juwayriyyah Bint Harith, who was 20 years old, the daughter of a great Jewish Chieftain, Harith. They had no children together. She had been taken prisoner during a raid which means that she was part of the spoils of war in the battle against Banu Mustaliq. Her father was the chief of Banu Mustaliq. She was taken as a captive by a soldier named Thabit Ibn Qais. It is claimed that she was extremely beautiful. This “marriage” took place after Mohammad’s “marriage” to Zaynab Bint Jahsh, also in 627 A.D. She was “married” to Mohammad until he died in 632 A.D.. She died in 672 A.D. at the age of 65. Since she was Jewish, this shows how Mohammad set a precedent that enabled all Arab men to marry Jewish women.

8th wife: Zaynab Bint Khuzaymah, a.k.a. Zainab Bint Khuzaima [born 597 A.D. - died about 627 A.D.]. In 627 A.D., when he was 56 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Zaynab Bint Khuzaymah, who was 30 years old. They had no children. Her first husband, Abdullah Bin Jahsh died in the battle of Uhud. She died very soon after the marriage, probably of a broken heart for her dead husband Abdullah Bin Jahsh.

9th wife: Umm Habibah Bint Abu Suffayan, a.k.a. Umm Habibah Ramla Bint Abu Sufyan Ibn Sakhr [born 596 A.D. - died 668 A.D.]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Umm Habibah Bint Abu Suffayan, who was 35 years old. They had no children together. She had been sent to Ethiopia during the migration of the first handful of Islamics to Ethiopia. The King of Ethiopia, Negas, presented her to Mohammad as a wife. She was “married” to him in a proxy “ceremony” by King Negas. Her first husband was Ubaydullah Ibn Jahsh who was the brother of Zaynab Bint Jahsh, the 6th wife of Mohammad. Ubaydullah became a Christian while in Ethiopia. So she got a divorce from him. Mu’awiya was her brother. She died at the age of 72 in 668 A.D.

10th wife: Safiyyah Bint Huyayy, a.k.a. Safiyah Bint Huyay [born 614 A.D. - died 674 A.D.]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Safiyyah Bint Huyayy, who was only 17 years old. She was the widow of the chieftian Kinanah of Bani Nadir. They had no children together. She was war booty. She was taken prisoner after the slaughter in Khybar. In that battle, she lost her father, her recently married husband and all of her other close relatives. This captured Jewish woman was given to a Moslem soldier called Dahia. However, when Mohammad saw her exquisite beauty, he immediately bought her from Dahia and proposed marriage to her. She was in a state of shock when she was brought to Mohammad. Safiyyah’s cousin’s was also brought along with Safiyyah, but Mohammad was not interested in her cousin because she was not that pretty. Safiyyah had no choice but to marry Mohammad to save her own life. She was with Mohammad until he died in 632 A.D. She lived as a widow until she died in 674 A.D. when she was 60 years old.

11th wife: Rayhanah Banu Qurayzah [born ? - died ?]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Rayhanah Banu Qurayzah. They had no children together.

12th wife: Maryah, a.k.a. Mariyah Al-Qibtiyaa [born 611 A.D. - died ?]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Maryah, who was 20 years old. Once source claims that they had no children together, while another source claims they had a son by the name of Ibraheem. She was a Coptic sex slave. The King of Egypt gave her to Mohammad as a slave whom he then “married”. She was extremely beautiful and gave birth to a son whom Mohammad named Ibrahim. Ibrahim died at infancy at an age of 18 months. Other sources say 10 months. Mariyah lived with Mohammad until he died in 632 A.D.

13th wife: Rayhana [born ? - died ?]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” the Jewish girl Rayhana. She, too, was booty from a battle. She was a Jewish girl of extreme beauty which is why Mohammad “married” her. But one source indicates that she refused to covert to Islam and refused to marry Mohammad and that, as a result, he made her his sex slave instead of his wife-apparently but little difference, if any?!

14th wife: Duba Bint Amr [born ? - died ?]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Duba Bint Amr. She was a very beautiful Arab woman. Her long hair covered her entire body (Ibn Saad, al-Tabaqat, p 153). Mohammad was physically attracted to her. According to one source, Mohammad asked her son’s permission to marry her. This same source claims that Mohammad backed out of the marriage proposal when he heard that although she was very beautiful, she looked very old. This is an obvious contradiction!

15th wife: Fatima Bint Al-Dahhak. She divorced Mohammad immediately after their “marriage” by saying to him: “I take refuge in Allah from thee”.

16th wife: Hend. (The only information We have found about her thus far is her name.)

17th wife: Asma of Saba. (The only information We have found about her thus far is her name.)

18th wife: Habla. (The only information We have found about her thus far is her name.)

19th wife: Asma of Noman, a.k.a. Asma Bint Al-Numan. [born ? - died ?]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Asma of Noman. When Mohammad discovered that she was suffering from leprosy, he did not consummate the marriage. She divorced Mohammad immediately after their “marriage” by saying to him: “I take refuge in Allah from thee”.

20th wife: Omm Sharik. (The only information We have found about her thus far is her name.)

21st wife: Maymuna, a.k.a. Maimunah (not of Hareth). He was probably 60 and she was 36.

22nd wife: Zaynab (his third wife name “Zaynab” after wives # 6 and # 8). (The only information We have found about her thus far is her name.)

23rd wife: Khawla. (The only information We have found about her thus far is her name.)

24th wife: Amrah Bint Yazeed [born ? - died ?]. In 631 A.D., when he was 60 years old, Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Amrah Bint Yazeed. She had become an Islamic just a very short time before her marriage to Mohammad. When she arrived at Medina and took a look at Mohammad in person, she appealed to Allah for refuge from Mohammad. Shortly aftwards they were “married” after which time Mohammad sent her back to her people, apparently without consummating the “marriage”.

25th wife: Leila Bint Al-Khatim. Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah “married” Leila Bint Al-Khatim despite the fact that she was discouraged by her tribe to wed him.

26th wife: Mulaika Bint Kaab. He was probably 60. Her age is not known. She divorced Mohammad immediately after their “marriage” by saying to him: “I take refuge in Allah from thee”.

General Information

Besides his 26, or possibly even more, “wives”, one source claims that Mohammad also had at least 8 concubines in addition to an unknown number of sex slaves. If you add his 26 wives to at least 8 concubines, realizing that the actual number most probably was larger than 8, the total is 34. Then you also need to add the unknown number of female sex slaves! One might very conservatively estimate that the total actual number of women in Mohammad’s life was more than 40 women! The actual number could have been as high as 50 or even more?!

Mohammad Mustafa Bin Abdullah’s “Allah” justified additional “marriages” for Mohammad who not only went further then the average Arab concerning his relationship with women, but who always tried to defend his acts by his “revelations” from his “Allah”.

The Koran of Mohammmad grants Islamic men up to four wives. But this excludes concubines and slave women. In contradistinction to ordinary Islamic men, Mohammad “married” at least 24 wives. Again, this does not include all of his concubines and sex slaves. The “Allah” of Mohammad made certain he would have plenty of women to save him from the horrors of celibacy, as Mohammad “revealed”:

“Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave-girls whom Allah has given you as booty; the daughters of your paternal and maternal uncles and of your paternal and maternal aunts who fled with you; and any believing woman who gives herself to the Prophet and whom the Prophet wishes to take in marriage. The privilege is yours alone, being granted to no other believer”(Koran 33:50-51).

How convenient! This “revelation” came after Mohammad had “married” more than four “wives”. Mohammad did not ask the permission of his “Allah”, he