Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
The founder and war leader of the Meccan moon-cult, or ‘Islam’ meaning submission to Al Lah (The Lord of Mecca or moon deity) and his ‘only messenger’ Muhammad, was born, lived, died and was real. The sex-slaving, brigand and corrupt was first mentioned by name in a Christian-Syriac fragment, written around 634.
This Syriac document references a Muhammadan raid on peaceful villages and farms. The year of the raid is uncertain. But this was the modus operandi of a cult of cut throats and thieves: “many villages [in Homs] were ravaged by the killing [of the followers] of Muhammad and many people were slain and [taken] prisoner from Galilee to Beth,” and “some ten thousand” other Christians were slaughtered in “the vicinity of Damascus.”
Another Christian monk and historian, Thomas the Presbyter, confirms the depradations of the cult formed by Muhammad. Writing circa 640, he states that “there was a battle [probably Ajnadayn] between the Romans and the Arabs of Muhammad in Palestine twelve miles east of Gaza. The Romans fled. . . . Some 4,000 poor villagers of Palestine were killed there. . . . The Arabs ravaged the whole region.” They even “climbed the mountain of Mardin and killed many monks there in the monasteries of Qedar and Bnata.” By Romans, Thomas means the Byzantine Christians or ‘Eastern Romans’.
The Christian Egyptian Copts also recorded the Muhammadan irruptions. A Coptic homily, dating from around the 640s, associate the Musulmans with a heretical and false piety. This homily advises Coptic Christians to fast, but not “like the Saracens who are oppressors, who give themselves up to prostitution, massacre and lead into captivity the sons of men, saying, ‘we both fast and pray.’” The activities of Muhammad’s followers were the exact opposite of Christian piety.
John of Nikiu, writing in 650 or thereabouts, said that the Musulman invaders and by then, conquerors of Egypt, were “enemies of God” and adherents of “the detestable doctrine of the beast, that is, Mohammed.” The Musulmans were justly described as Satanic. Any cursory reading of the Muslims handbook of hate, Mein Koran, makes this claim obvious and justifiable.
Saint John of Damascus (b. 676) performed a thorough analysis of Muhammad and his cult ‘Submission’. Taking Mein Koran at face value he concluded that the only “miracle” Muhammad performed was to invade, slaughter, and enslave those who refused to submit to him — a “miracle that even common robbers and highway bandits can perform.”
Saint John remarked that this Arab ‘prophet’ (profiteer is fitter) inserted into his own vapid mouth whatever words from his Al-Lah that served him best, “simulating revelation in order to justify his own sexual indulgence”. Saint John remarked that by equating himself with his ‘god’, the moon idol (Al Lah) of Mecca, Muhammad made his religion appealing and justified his own behaviour by easing the sexual and moral codes of the Arabs and fusing the notion of obedience to God with war to aggrandize oneself with booty and slaves.
In the eighth century, Nicetas Byzantinos, who studied the Koran, presented it as the “most pitiful and most inept little book of the Arab Muhammad … full of blasphemies against the Most High, with all its ugly and vulgar filth,” particularly its claim that heaven amounted to a “sexual brothel.” In his entry for the years 629–630, Theophanes the Confessor (b. 758) wrote:
“He [Muhammad] taught his subjects that he who kills an enemy or is killed by an enemy goes to Paradise [Koran 9:111]; and he said that this paradise was one of carnal eating and drinking and intercourse with women, and had a river of wine, honey and milk, and that the women were not like the ones down here, but different ones, and that the intercourse was long-lasting and the pleasure continuous; and other things full of profligacy and stupidity.”
Allah was denounced as an impostor deity, namely Satan: “I anathematize the God of Muhammad,” read one Eastern Roman canonical rite.
Regarding Christianity, Muhammad viewed it as his arch enemy. He and his cult deny the Trinity, reduce Christ to a prophet of Islam (some 600 years before Muhammad formed his cult) and regarded all Christian practices and idols including the cross, as blasphemy and sacrilegious. All of this certainly proves that Muhammad was Satanic. Thus, “the false prophet,” “the hypocrite,” “the liar,” “the adulterer,” “the forerunner of Antichrist,” and “the Beast” became mainstream epithets for Muhammad among Christians for centuries.
These names need to be restored to his cult and all its members.