Quote:Oh thats right - the tiny skirmishes in which Muhammad was acting in self defense is Muhammad slaughtering pagans
You could always try reading them. Or is this you demonstrating the Islamic principle of "sucking it up and being objective"?
freediver wrote on Jul 31
st, 2013 at 8:20pm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Qurayza#Demise_of_the_Banu_Qurayza
627: Muhammed executes 700 prisoners of war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_expeditions_of_Muhammad
623: First raid (failed)
Muhammad's order and reason for expedition: Raid Quraysh caravan to relieve themselves from poverty
630:
Muhammad's order and reason for expedition: To attack the people of Hawazin and Thaqif for refusing to surrender to Muhammad and submit to Islam because "they thought that they were too mighty to admit or surrender" after the Conquest of Mecca
Outcome: Muslims: 5 killed[255] Non-Muslims: 70 killed,[254] 6000 women and children captured
632 (year Muhammed died):
2nd last raid:
Muhammad's order and reason for expedition: Demolish the Temple of Dhul Khalasa worshipped by the Bajila and Khatham tribes
Outcome: 300 killed by Muslim
632:
last raid
Muhammad's order and reason for expedition: Invade Palestine and attack Moab and Darum
Outcome: Local population "slaughtered" by Muslims, "destroying, burning and taking as many captives as they could"
Quote:blah blah blah, your constant resort to reductio ad Hitlerum just makes you look hysterical
It is not reducto ad hitlerum. I am demonstrating how absurd your argument is by showing that it applies equally well to Hitler.
Quote:Muhammad put the arab world on the map
With the sword.
Quote: and ushered in a 500 year golden age of scientific flourishing
And slaughtering pagans.
Quote:And I just love how you just mindlessly throw around terms like "meagre [sic] reforms" - as if you know all about them and the exact impact they had. We both know you don't have a damn clue about what he did on this front, and you especially don't have a damn clue about the impact it had on his society, and how influential it was in spreading islam.
I know that he killed anyone who disagreed about how wonderful his reforms were. If you keep that up long enough, everyone starts to say what a great guy you are.
Quote:Time to reveal your emperors clothes FD - your entire case is based on nothing but a Walt Disney script of an evil monster slaughtering innocent pagans, combined with reductio ad Hitlerum.
Muhammed slaughtered pagans. He also slaughtered Jews. The comparison is entirely appropriate.
Quote:Thats literally your entire argument. Its childish, its ignorant, its bigoted, and its pathetic.
My argument is spelled out in the opening post, with evidence. Muhammed was a classical warmonger. He was just better at it than most.