I would urge anyone who find a copy of this book to read it. I don't agree with all of what Gilchrist explores and relates, but it is a very valuable guide to the cult of Mecca. Gilchrist explains Islam, its foundation, the texts, and the life of its creator and cult leader, Muhammad. If you receive your news and information from the main-stream media, or the usual array of academics and politicians or 'scientists', you will be utterly ignorant about the Meccan cult.

Islam is a very simple construction: 1) be nice to, support and aid fellow Moslems [these are the very few 'peaceful verses' one might find in Mein Koran that send the multi-culti into orgasms] and 2) Dominate, kill, murder, wage war, attack, or at the very least ignore and marginalize those who are not Moslem [this is the mainstay of Mein Koran, the so-called Medinan verses of Jihad, blood, hate, bile and intolerance].

When the very few followers of the cult of Muhammad were forced on the pain of the death, to leave Mecca and flee to Medina, [where improbably Muhammad was welcomed as a political arbiter between 3 Jewish tribes and 2 Arab clans]; the potential for booty presented itself. Medina lies close athwart to the main caravan routes heading from Mecca north to Christian Syria. It is well known that the Moslems were poor, disadvantaged and generally suffering in Medina, notwithstanding their leader's political position. Raiding, plundering and Jihad would change all of that. Gilchrist:

“This raid [one of the early Moslem raids out of Medina], however, was pursued in one of the four holy months (Rajab in this case) when the caravan crews were unarmed and fighting was prohibited throughout the peninsula. Worse still, the Muslim band had posed as pilgrims by shaving their heads an fell on an unsuspecting Meccan company completely deceive by their appearance.

Moslem deceit. Breaking rules, laws, known mores and cultural ethics. What religion prescribes caravan raiding, killing, stealing and deceit as examples of a higher metaphysics ? Making the claim that Islam was born in peace and prophethood is sheer ignorance. Of course the 'Allah' or Lord was right there to help Muhammad with his bad optics.

“On their return to Medina the whole city was shocked and dismayed at this flagrant breach of Arab custom. Muhammad himself refused to accept the booty at first but then, very conveniently, a "revelation" justifying the raid came from above, one which is now part of the Qur'an: 

They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of God to prevent access to the path of God, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred Mosque and drive out its members". Surah 2.217

So don't fight in the holy months of Ramadan, unless of course you are fighting and killing for Muhammad or the Lord of Mecca [Baal, the ilah]. Muhammad's family deity Baal, the ilah of Mecca said so. How convenient that surely is. But the multi-culti will noisily point to 'in the sight of God', sigh and descend into epileptic seizures of one-world joy. However, this phrase when viewed in the original Arabic, presents an entirely different theme. Gilchrist:

“In the original Arabic the verse up to the words "path of God" reads Innallathiina aa-manuu wallathiina haajaruu wa jaahaduu fii sabiilillah. The link between the word "haajaruu wa jaahaduu" is very significant. From the same root letters come the nouns hijrah (emigration) and jihad (warfare). Those who "suffered exile" (haajaruu) are also those who "fought" (jaahaduu) in the path of God. The hijrah was not just a flight from Mecca. It was a preparation for jihad. It was the mainspring of the establishment of an ummah (community) that was to spread its influence through warfare. Muhammad's objective was to create a theocratic Muslim state and community by fighting those who stood in its way and who chose to resist it. 

Where Islam is potentially universalized in Hijrah it is inherently politicized in Jihad. The move out of Mecca with the faith presages the move against Mecca for the faith. In that transition, not only is the Hijrah implemented in its prospective relevance, but Islam is defined in its essential character. (Cragg, The Event of the Qur'an, p. 134).

In other words, the flight to Medina was just one phase of the entire Moslem Jihadic enterprise. Muhammad could not convert the Meccans with his garbled theocratic nonsense, plagiarized poetry, or with his demands that his family deity, Baal, the ilah of Mecca, was the only idol worthy of veneration. Forced out of his hometown, characterized by the Meccans as insane, crazy and deranged, Muhammad with his small coterie of cult acolytes fled Mecca, took up residence in Medina and very quickly began attacking caravans, pillaging wealth, and by the allure of gold, money and sex-slavery, attract Jihadis and Ghazi or warriors. We are told that this is the genesis of a 'great religion'. I do imagine that Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 was of a similar caliber.