THE SKELETON IN ISLAM’S CLOSET

I very much appreciated the responses and comments regarding The Fragility of Islamofascism posted in the TTP User Forum.  I also received requests to explain the Koran’s "Satanic Verses" more fully.

The saga of the Satanic Verses starts with the earliest accounts of Mohammed’s life written by accepted Islamic scholars such as Ibn Ishaq (died 767 AD) and al-Tabari (d. 923).

"Accepted" means by Islamic tradition.  Mohammed supposedly died in 632 and Ishaq wrote about him over 100 years later – so could not have interviewed anyone who knew him.  Yet we only know of Ishaq through quotes of him by Tabari, who lived 300 years after Mohammed.

Thus the earliest source of Mohammed’s life and the alleged founding of Islam was written three centuries later.  The saga of Mohammed is a myth for which there is no genuine historical evidence whatever. 

I discussed this in The Myth of Mecca, written a few days after the Moslem attack on America of September 11, 2001.

So we are talking "sacred history" here, not actual history.  Ishaq and Tabari, whose accounts form the official biography of Mohammed, tell a story regarding a chapter or sura in the Koran known as An-Najm, The Star, numbered 53.

Remember that the word Koran means Recitation in Arabic, Mohammed reciting Allah via the voice of Angel Gabriel heard in his head.  Every word of the Koran, Moslems believe, is the actual unalterable perfect Word of God.  So God Himself, in verses 19-20 of Sura 53, says:

Have you thought about al-Lat and al-Uzza and Manat the third, the other?

These are the "Daughters of Allah," goddesses worshipped by the Arabs to whom Mohammed was preaching, trying to convert them to his new religion.

Ishaq and Tabari then say the next verses, 21-22, were:

These are the exalted females whose intercession is to be hoped for.

Thus Allah acknowledges that he has three daughters who are gods like him.

Ibn Ishaq and al Tabari (and other recognized early biographers, Ibn S’ad, d. 845, and al-Wakidi, d. 823) then explain Mohammed has made a mistake, that he was listening to Satan instead of Allah – for there is only One God and has no daughter gods.

Oops. Polytheism is The Big Islamic No-No.  Gabriel gets upset at Mohammed for being tricked by Satan.  Mohammed has to ask his scribes (as he was illiterate and couldn’t write) to cross out these "Satanic Verses" of Sura 53:21-22 and replace them with:

Are men’s children to be boys and Allah’s to be girls? That is an unfair division!

Men only want sons, you see, so it is an insult to Allah to claim he has daughters. How ridiculous. So there can only be One God.  The final proof of Allah’s solitary existence is that’s he’s sexist.

How satanic.  The alteration of Sura 53:21-22 is the great Skeleton in Islam’s Closet.  Moslems are terrified of it being exposed.  Satan tricked Mohammed, the supposed unalterable Word of God was wrong and had to be changed.  It puts the entire Koran in doubt.

And doubt is the one thing most terrifying of all to Moslems.  They try to terrify us with bombs and bloodshed and bullying.  All we need to do is terrify them with doubt.  The mental virus of doubt will destroy their minds – it is the true weapon of Mass Moslem Destruction.