Though Muhammad was a traitor, the Meccans didn’t pursue him into Medina. Once he was out of town, they were no longer concerned with him. This was a mistake.

This was about the time that the themes of Muhammad’s religion became about warfare. The physical variety.

Muhammad’s exile was at about the time that Muhammad began referring to his god primarily as “Allah”, where he seemed to prefer “Al Rahman”, the name of the Hanif god, during his initial preaching in Mecca.

To aquire wealth, Muhammad would have his men raid Meccan caravans. These caravans were initially defenseless, so the raiders encountered little resistance. But in time, caravans started getting more evasive.

Eventually, the caravans would primarily run during the observance of Ramadan. The idea was that, because absolutely no violence was permitted during the month-long celebration, then caravans could pass by Medina without fear.

Except some of Muhammad’s raiders decided to attack a caravan anyway. However, Muhammad inquired of his god, and as his god often did, he provided a revelation that satisfied Muhammad’s personal desire: the booty was considered legit, meaning that raiding on Ramadan was allowed.

Muhammad had committed an immense cultural faux-pas. But as his means of violence increased, fewer people challenged him.

One of the most significant battles in Muhammad’s life was the Battle of Badr, in which Muslims emerged victorious against the Quraysh, damaged their trade routes, and established Muslims as a serious threat against the people who were once Muhammad’s friends and family. Muhammad had risen (descended?) from being a mere traitor to a significant adversary to the kin he had betrayed.

It can be interesting to see Muslims portray the Battle of Badr as glorious, when you know that it was a battle between pirates and merchants.

Medina had three Jewish tribes. Among them, Muhammad and his Muslims were in a minority. It was at Medina that Muhammad had established a pattern that would eventually be followed by Muslims the world over. While they were few in number, they would present themselves as peaceful and conciliatory. But they would also take opportunities to put pressures in place in an effort to make their own religion seem more attractive. As Muslims grew in number, they became increasingly belligerent in their demands. Eventually, enough power would consolidate around Muslims that they could go full mask-off, taking whatever influence and wealth they wanted by force.

Initially, Muhammad would change the qiblah, or direction of prayer, towards Jerusalem, rather than Mecca. He also taught that Christians and Jews could attain salvation by observing their own religions. These acts were intended to make other people less defensive around Muslims. But Muhammad had only said them when it was advantageous for him to do so. Once he had sufficient strength, all pretense of tolerance was discarded.

One of the problems that Muhammad ran into was that the Jews knew their own Scriptures better than he did. So when Muhammad made the claim to be a prophet, it didn’t hold up to scrutiny. There was even a point where Muhammad claimed to be the Jewish messiah. No points for correctly guessing how they responded to that.

Muhammad wasn’t very bright. He initially claimed that the Jewish Scriptures indicated that he was a prophet, and indicated his coming. When the Jews understandably rejected his claim, he then claimed that this teaching was erased from all Scriptures everywhere in the world in a conspiratorial fashion, all in an effort to hamper him.

Muhammad didn’t check his own brain to see whether this new statement contradicted his earlier claim that he was mentioned.

Like many half-wits who fail at reason, Muhammad would turn to threats and violence.

The first Medinan Jewish tribe that Muhammad threatened was the Qaynuqa, who were told to either convert or be driven into exile. After they refused to convert, Muhammad looked for a pretext to go to war with them. This was found when a Jew was accused of harassing a Muslim woman. The Jew was killed by a Muslim, and the Muslim was later killed by a Jew.

The Qaynuqa were forced into exile, leaving their properties in the hands of Muslims. This would greatly increase Muhammad’s influence.

The next tribe Muhammad would target would be the Nadir. But pay attention to how the conflict started, because it tells us a lot about how Muslims think.

First, on Muhammad’s order, some Muslims killed a Nadir Jew named Kaab Al-Ashraf. Muhammad then declared war on the whole Nadir clan, because he feared retaliation against him for the murder he ordered.

Even when a Muslim commits murder, they’ll still look for a way to make themselves the victim.

What’s more, Muhammad was such a fool that he didn’t seem to consider the possible consequences for his call for murder until it was already completed.

To make his call for war seem more divine, Muhammad claimed that an angel appeared to him in a dream and warned him of the retaliation. Whether for lack of skepticism or for spoils of war, the Muslims went to war, bringing the Nadir Jews to surrender, and the survivors were exiled.

After that, there was just one Jewish tribe left in Medina, the Qurayza. And they were like, “We saw what happened to those other guys, and want none of that.” Then they just straight-up surrendered.

Pay attention and learn a valuable lesson: Never surrender to Muslims.

Ever. Their forgiveness is capricious, and their cruelty is legendary.

On the plus side, Muslims today are generally talentless at fighting. This is due in large part to the fact that their religion gives them a reason to die, not a reason to live.

But if you’re up for a reason to never surrender to Muslims, pay attention to what happened to the Qurayza.

Muhammad decided that every adult male in the tribe should be executed. And to divide the men from the boys, they checked each individual male to see whether public hair was growing in.

Yep. They peeked.

Muhammad then had a huge ditch dug, had the men beheaded, then dumped their remains into the ditch.

Everyone who survived became property. Boys were made into slaves. Girls and women were made into sex slaves. This includes widows, some of which were forced to have sex the very night their husbands were executed.

By the way, Muhammad ordered a fifth of the women captured to be added to his personal collection of sex slaves. And, as a reminder, he only had one child, a daughter, in his entire life.

With all opposition eliminated from Medina, Muhammad finally had a city that he fully controlled, to use as his base of operations. And yet, it wasn’t his home. Even his initial base of operations was obtained through invasion. Even at their starting point, Muslims were always the invaders.

There’s an irony that begs to be recognized: that though Muslims love to claim that all land in the world belongs to their god and their prophet, in reality, they can never be anything other than invaders, anywhere they go.

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