WEBVTT 00:11.960 --> 00:15.520 I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. 00:16.840 --> 00:18.260 We respect your faith. 00:20.140 --> 00:21.920 His teachings are good and peaceful. 00:23.320 --> 00:27.980 And those who commit evil in the name of Allah, blaspheme in the name of Allah. 00:28.760 --> 00:33.440 We have reaffirmed again and again that the United States is not and never will be 00:33.440 --> 00:34.240 at war with Islam. 00:35.260 --> 00:36.280 Islam teaches peace. 00:38.140 --> 00:40.180 Islam is a religion of peace. 00:40.180 --> 00:42.260 They are not Muslims. 00:42.620 --> 00:43.560 They are monsters. 00:45.020 --> 00:52.040 Americans have been assured that Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was a man of peace. 00:52.380 --> 00:58.240 And that Muslim terrorists have hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam. 01:01.000 --> 01:07.300 To know the truth in the matter, we only need to focus on Mohammed in his 01:07.300 --> 01:08.760 own words. 01:24.940 --> 01:28.460 Mohammed, the founder of Islam. 01:29.620 --> 01:33.960 Mohammed was born in 570 and died in 632. 01:34.780 --> 01:41.840 Muslims believe that he was the prophet of God, or messenger of Allah, or apostle of 01:41.840 --> 01:42.200 Allah. 01:43.040 --> 01:45.600 Allah is the Arabic word for God. 01:46.620 --> 01:48.420 Islam is the name of their religion. 01:49.140 --> 01:52.080 Islam means surrender or submission. 01:52.080 --> 01:57.520 It is the second largest religion in the world, claiming almost 1.5 billion people, 01:57.900 --> 01:59.080 who are called Muslims. 02:00.200 --> 02:06.660 Muslims teach that Mohammed was used by Allah to deliver the Quran, which they 02:06.660 --> 02:07.840 believe is the word of God. 02:09.640 --> 02:15.520 Mohammed was an Arab, born in the city of Mecca, on the Arabian Peninsula. 02:17.220 --> 02:19.520 His mother's name was Amina. 02:20.140 --> 02:22.000 His father's name, Abdullah. 02:22.780 --> 02:25.620 His father died while his mother was still pregnant. 02:26.360 --> 02:29.080 When he was six years old, his mother died. 02:29.640 --> 02:33.460 He lived with his grandfather for two years, and then his grandfather died. 02:34.240 --> 02:38.000 At eight years old, Mohammed was an orphan. 02:39.220 --> 02:43.960 His uncle, Abu Talib, took him in and raised him. 02:44.720 --> 02:48.240 In his twenties, he worked for a woman named Khadija. 02:48.760 --> 02:51.580 She was older than him, wealthy, and respected. 02:52.340 --> 02:57.200 Khadija proposed marriage to Mohammed, saying that he was hardworking and that 02:57.200 --> 02:58.860 his clan spoke highly of him. 03:00.060 --> 03:01.720 They married when he was 25. 03:02.320 --> 03:05.620 They had seven children, three boys and four girls. 03:06.280 --> 03:08.460 All of his sons died in childhood. 03:09.120 --> 03:11.580 All of his daughters lived to adulthood. 03:11.580 --> 03:14.320 The most famous was Fatima. 03:15.360 --> 03:21.080 In his thirties, every year, he secluded himself in a cave for a month to pray to 03:21.080 --> 03:22.480 the God of Abraham. 03:23.020 --> 03:27.260 When he was 40, Mohammed said he began to have visions. 03:28.080 --> 03:29.620 Ibn Ishaq reports. 03:30.780 --> 03:35.880 When it was the night on which God honored him with his mission, Gabriel brought him 03:35.880 --> 03:37.040 the command of God. 03:38.020 --> 03:44.760 Mohammed said, The angel caught me forcefully and pressed me so hard that I 03:44.760 --> 03:46.320 could not bear it anymore. 03:47.060 --> 03:50.940 He then released me and again asked me to read. 03:51.260 --> 03:55.020 And I replied, I do not know how to read. 03:55.680 --> 03:57.900 This happened three times. 03:58.280 --> 04:02.620 And on the third time, Mohammed said Gabriel told him to recite. 04:02.620 --> 04:10.120 Read in the name of your Lord who has created, created man from a clot. 04:11.240 --> 04:14.360 Recite and your Lord is the most generous. 04:15.200 --> 04:17.640 He went to his wife and told her what happened. 04:18.140 --> 04:21.560 He was afraid he was going crazy or had seen a demon. 04:22.340 --> 04:23.740 She assured him he was not. 04:24.960 --> 04:29.960 Khadijah was the first person to accept Mohammed's new religion, Islam. 04:30.960 --> 04:36.380 Mohammed's ten-year-old cousin, Ali, was the first male to accept Islam. 04:36.880 --> 04:43.500 Mohammed soon declared Ali his heir and later gave Ali his daughter Fatima as his 04:43.500 --> 04:47.420 wife, which has enormous impact in Muslim history. 04:48.320 --> 04:54.380 For the first three years, Mohammed shared his message secretly with relatives or 04:54.380 --> 04:55.220 trusted friends. 04:55.220 --> 05:01.020 After three years, Mohammed said that the angel Gabriel told him to preach his 05:01.020 --> 05:04.840 message publicly, beginning with his clan. 05:05.380 --> 05:07.900 He called his relatives together. 05:08.580 --> 05:12.740 I am a warner to you in the face of a terrible doom. 05:13.840 --> 05:18.180 I summon you to God and warn you of his punishment. 05:19.260 --> 05:21.860 Save yourself from hellfire. 05:21.860 --> 05:24.840 His uncle, Lahab, cursed him. 05:25.700 --> 05:26.340 Damn you. 05:26.840 --> 05:28.460 May your hands perish this day. 05:29.120 --> 05:30.960 Did you only bring us together for this? 05:32.680 --> 05:34.600 Mohammed's troubles began. 05:35.440 --> 05:38.360 His message enraged the pagan leaders. 05:38.860 --> 05:41.680 He endured insults and persecution. 05:42.220 --> 05:47.160 But because Mohammed's uncle, Abu Talib, was the head of his clan and a very 05:47.160 --> 05:51.820 powerful man in Mecca, Mohammed preached under his uncle's protection. 05:52.600 --> 05:57.520 The leaders of Mecca were so outraged at Mohammed's message, they sought his 05:57.520 --> 05:59.720 uncle's permission to kill him. 06:00.700 --> 06:05.840 Your nephew has cursed our gods, insulted our religion, mocked our way of 06:05.840 --> 06:08.600 life, and accused our forefathers of error. 06:09.560 --> 06:13.260 Either you must stop him or let us get at him to kill him. 06:14.020 --> 06:16.460 Abu Talib repeatedly said no. 06:16.460 --> 06:18.900 In spite of the growing tension. 06:20.020 --> 06:26.040 Mecca was home to hundreds of idols, as well as the Kaaba, that Muslims believe 06:26.040 --> 06:32.840 was built by Abraham and Ishmael, and the Black Stone that fell from the 06:32.840 --> 06:33.280 sky. 06:34.360 --> 06:38.020 Pagans came from hundreds of miles to worship these idols. 06:38.020 --> 06:46.020 Mohammed's condemnation of idolatry was a threat to Mecca's prestige and a threat to 06:46.020 --> 06:47.560 the wealthy and the powerful. 06:48.680 --> 06:53.080 On one occasion, some of the elders were mocking Mohammed while he prayed. 06:53.800 --> 07:00.740 They instigated a man named Uqba to put sheep intestines on Mohammed's back while 07:00.740 --> 07:01.980 he was bowed down in prayer. 07:02.740 --> 07:06.460 Mohammed's daughter, Fatima, came and took the guts off his back. 07:06.460 --> 07:11.800 Mohammed rose and cursed the leaders who stood by laughing. 07:25.040 --> 07:31.120 That curse plays a huge role in Mohammed's story. 07:32.560 --> 07:36.280 Mohammed then received two severe personal blows. 07:36.800 --> 07:42.740 His uncle and protector, Abu Talib, and his wife Khadijah, both died within 07:42.740 --> 07:43.640 weeks of each other. 07:44.400 --> 07:48.040 Abu Talib's death was catastrophic for Mohammed. 07:48.820 --> 07:54.680 Ibn Ishaq said, With the death of Abu Talib, he lost his strength and stay in 07:54.680 --> 07:58.440 his personal life, and the defense and protection against his tribe. 07:58.440 --> 08:02.740 The Quraysh began to treat him in an offensive way which they would not have 08:02.740 --> 08:04.720 dared to follow in his uncle's lifetime. 08:06.300 --> 08:11.820 So for the next two years, he spoke to every tribe that arrived in Mecca on 08:11.820 --> 08:18.000 pilgrimage, saying, I am God's messenger to you, commanding you to worship God, 08:18.400 --> 08:24.480 to cast off whatever idols you worship other than Him, to believe in me and the 08:24.480 --> 08:30.520 truth of my message, and to defend me so that I may make manifest the message of 08:30.520 --> 08:32.940 God I have been sent to convey. 08:34.020 --> 08:38.020 Finally, a small group of men from Medina responded to him. 08:38.580 --> 08:43.500 They agreed to follow his new religion and allow him to settle disputes among them. 08:43.500 --> 08:48.800 Then a second larger group of men came from Medina, including some of their 08:48.800 --> 08:55.020 leaders, who pledged to follow Mohammed's new religion and to defend him and his 08:55.020 --> 08:59.560 followers with the sword if they would relocate to Medina. 09:00.820 --> 09:06.680 Mohammed ordered his followers to emigrate to Medina, some 300 miles to the north. 09:06.680 --> 09:12.680 Every Muslim left Mecca for Medina, with the exception of Mohammed, 09:12.980 --> 09:18.540 his cousin Ali, a few Muslim women, and his father-in-law, Abu Bakr, 09:19.060 --> 09:24.120 the father of Mohammed's child bride, Aisha, who was about eight years old at 09:24.120 --> 09:24.620 that time. 09:25.500 --> 09:31.180 As the Muslims were leaving, Meccan leaders grew fearful that Mohammed might 09:31.180 --> 09:36.560 use his new position of strength in Medina to launch an attack against them. 09:36.680 --> 09:43.360 So, a plot was conceived to kill Mohammed before he left. 09:44.560 --> 09:50.280 Mohammed learned of their plans and he and Abu Bakr escaped to a cave outside the 09:50.280 --> 09:50.500 city. 09:51.440 --> 09:56.140 Ultimately, Mohammed, Abu Bakr, Ali, and the remaining Muslim women 09:56.140 --> 09:59.020 reached Medina in safety. 09:59.800 --> 10:04.460 This departure from Mecca actually begins the Muslim calendar. 10:05.260 --> 10:06.840 It's called the Hijra. 10:07.860 --> 10:13.080 If the story ended here, Mohammed preaching in Mecca, the Muslims being 10:13.080 --> 10:18.840 persecuted, then fleeing to another city to practice their religion, if that was 10:18.840 --> 10:23.660 the end, this story would have been like many stories of persecuted religious 10:23.660 --> 10:25.280 minorities emigrating. 10:25.280 --> 10:28.520 But that's not the end with Mohammed. 10:29.860 --> 10:34.200 Once the Muslims got settled in Medina, Mohammed sent some of his men on a 10:34.200 --> 10:34.440 mission. 10:35.000 --> 10:40.000 The mission was to steal a Meccan caravan during a holy month. 10:41.040 --> 10:44.060 Mohammed's men found the caravan and stole it. 10:44.680 --> 10:50.540 In the process, they killed one of the men leading it and took two hostages. 10:52.260 --> 10:55.180 One other man escaped back to Mecca. 10:56.620 --> 11:01.200 Mohammed's men brought all the stolen goods and hostages back to him and told 11:01.200 --> 11:02.060 him what they did. 11:02.860 --> 11:04.660 Mohammed rebuked them. 11:11.980 --> 11:16.800 Then, Mohammed said he got a revelation from God. 11:20.540 --> 11:25.960 About fighting therein, say, fighting therein is great sin. 11:26.920 --> 11:32.720 But averting people from the way of Allah and disbelieve in Him and preventing 11:32.720 --> 11:38.520 access to the sacred mosque and the explosion of its people from there are 11:38.520 --> 11:40.920 greater evil in the sight of Allah. 11:41.620 --> 11:44.700 Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. 11:45.960 --> 11:52.080 Mohammed then learned that a huge Meccan caravan with over 30 armed guards was 11:52.080 --> 11:55.920 traveling from Syria, dwarfing the caravan they stole earlier. 11:56.480 --> 11:57.920 He told his men, 12:07.020 --> 12:09.940 Mohammed himself led the expedition. 12:10.740 --> 12:13.460 This was an act of war. 12:13.460 --> 12:15.520 His biographers say, 12:25.020 --> 12:30.960 After more than a decade preaching in Mecca and over a year of preaching in 12:30.960 --> 12:37.640 Medina, his followers did not know that Mohammed would make war. 12:37.640 --> 12:43.400 They thought he was a man of peace, that Islam would be spread by peaceful 12:43.400 --> 12:43.800 preaching. 12:44.640 --> 12:46.400 Up till then, that was true. 12:47.200 --> 12:50.340 But everything was about to change. 12:51.480 --> 12:52.720 Ibn Kathir states, 12:57.320 --> 13:02.480 The battle took place at a small desert oasis named Badr. 13:03.220 --> 13:09.760 The story of the Battle of Badr is told over and over again in mosques across the 13:09.760 --> 13:10.060 world. 13:10.780 --> 13:17.320 As we'll see, this battle was the turning point where Mohammed began using force to 13:17.320 --> 13:18.480 spread his religion. 13:21.950 --> 13:26.410 The Meccans learned of Mohammed's plans to steal their caravan and quickly marshaled 13:26.410 --> 13:27.550 an army to protect it. 13:28.110 --> 13:32.550 They had around 1,000 men and 200 horses for their cavalry. 13:32.550 --> 13:38.090 Many of the leaders of Mecca who had mocked Mohammed went out to fight. 13:39.010 --> 13:44.730 Mohammed had just over 300 men, 70 camels, and only two horses. 13:45.330 --> 13:48.710 Mohammed's men did not come out to fight an army. 13:49.510 --> 13:51.830 They came to steal a wealthy caravan. 13:52.630 --> 13:58.530 But the caravan had escaped, and now Mohammed's men faced an army triple their 13:58.530 --> 13:59.030 size. 13:59.750 --> 14:03.050 Mohammed did something brand new. 14:04.030 --> 14:12.090 He incited his men to war, Muslims call it jihad, by promising them if they died in 14:12.090 --> 14:15.590 battle, they would go to paradise. 14:17.670 --> 14:24.650 By God, in whose hand is the soul of Mohammed, no man will be slain this day 14:24.650 --> 14:30.550 fighting against them with steadfast courage, advancing not retreating, 14:30.830 --> 14:33.210 but God will cause him to enter paradise. 14:34.650 --> 14:40.430 Prior to this moment, Mohammed never made a connection between fighting and dying in 14:40.430 --> 14:43.310 jihad and getting paradise as the reward. 14:43.310 --> 14:46.910 Prior to this, heaven came by believing in his message. 14:47.370 --> 14:53.590 The promise of gaining paradise through death in battle was new and proved highly 14:53.590 --> 14:54.330 successful. 14:55.450 --> 14:59.810 A man named Umair said, Fine, fine. 15:00.350 --> 15:05.210 Is there nothing between me and my entering paradise save to be killed by 15:05.210 --> 15:05.850 these men? 15:06.430 --> 15:10.670 He seized his sword and fought against them till he was slain. 15:10.670 --> 15:18.150 A man named Auf asked, O apostle of God, what makes the Lord laugh with joy at his 15:18.150 --> 15:18.530 servant? 15:19.190 --> 15:24.630 Mohammed answered, When he plunges into the midst of the enemy without mail. 15:25.370 --> 15:29.050 So Auf drew off the mail coat that was on him and threw it away. 15:29.810 --> 15:33.850 Then he seized his sword and fought the enemy till he was slain. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.580 The battle of Badr raged. 15:40.580 --> 15:44.340 Mohammed's men fought fiercely and won. 15:45.160 --> 15:48.460 300 Muslims routed 1,000 Meccans. 15:49.240 --> 15:50.540 70 Meccans were killed. 15:51.200 --> 15:52.800 70 were taken as hostages. 15:53.180 --> 15:55.100 The rest fled back to Mecca. 15:55.660 --> 15:59.240 Only 14 Muslims were killed and none were taken hostage. 15:59.780 --> 16:04.540 The battle of Badr was the turning point for Mohammed and the Muslims. 16:04.540 --> 16:13.160 They viewed this victory as a miraculous sign from Allah himself that Mohammed was 16:13.160 --> 16:15.260 the prophet of Allah. 16:16.280 --> 16:22.620 And Allah has already made you victorious at Badr when you were a weak little force. 16:23.320 --> 16:28.740 And here has already been a sign for you in the two armies that met. 16:28.740 --> 16:34.780 All but one of the elders that Mohammed cursed years earlier in Mecca died in 16:34.780 --> 16:36.080 battle at Badr. 16:36.700 --> 16:41.900 This was yet another sign to Mohammed's followers that he was Allah's apostle. 16:42.800 --> 16:49.260 Their dead bodies were thrown into a dried out well that was filled with refuse. 16:49.840 --> 16:53.360 Mohammed stood over their dead bodies, taunting them. 16:54.200 --> 16:59.960 O people of the well, you were evil fellow tribesmen to your prophet. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.700 Have you found what your Lord promised you to be true? 17:05.540 --> 17:09.340 For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true. 17:10.440 --> 17:15.920 The leader of Mohammed's enemies in Mecca, Abu Jal, was killed in battle. 17:16.260 --> 17:21.080 As he was dying, his head was cut off and brought to Mohammed. 17:21.080 --> 17:27.440 Mohammed bowed down to the ground, saying, Praise be to God. 17:28.160 --> 17:34.940 The hadith records, The prophet and his companions used to forgive the pagans and 17:34.940 --> 17:40.140 the people of scripture as Allah had ordered them, and they used to put up with 17:40.140 --> 17:41.400 their mischief with patience. 17:41.940 --> 17:46.180 So the prophet used to stick to the principle of forgiveness for them as long 17:46.180 --> 17:51.320 as Allah ordered him to do so, till Allah permitted fighting them. 17:51.580 --> 17:56.780 The hadith finishes, So when Allah's apostle fought the battle of Badr, 17:56.980 --> 18:01.840 and Allah killed the nobles of Quraysh infidels through him, many pagans became 18:01.840 --> 18:02.320 Muslims. 18:02.820 --> 18:08.060 Before Badr, Mohammed and his companions forgave those who did not believe. 18:08.940 --> 18:12.720 At Badr, Allah permitted fighting the unbelievers. 18:12.720 --> 18:19.660 At Badr, Muslims claim Allah killed the unbelievers through Mohammed and his men. 18:20.860 --> 18:26.440 To this very day, Muslim children and adults are told that the battle of Badr 18:26.440 --> 18:29.480 was the victory of truth over error. 18:29.680 --> 18:35.440 It was a miraculous outcome that testified that Mohammed was Allah's prophet and 18:35.440 --> 18:36.740 confirmed his message. 18:36.740 --> 18:41.860 From Badr forward, it redefined Mohammed and his message. 18:42.800 --> 18:50.220 All Muslims who died in jihad were then referred to as martyrs who go to paradise. 18:50.880 --> 18:56.780 Mohammed told a mother, grieving her son's death at Badr, Have you gone crazy? 18:57.660 --> 19:03.140 There are eight gardens there, and your son has earned the very highest 19:03.140 --> 19:03.940 of paradise. 19:04.840 --> 19:11.640 Dozens of poems were written eulogizing those who fought and died at Badr. 19:12.440 --> 19:17.100 Mohammed knew that this battle raised him to a new status. 19:17.900 --> 19:19.600 His enemies feared him more than ever. 19:20.320 --> 19:27.280 He compared his victory at Badr to God destroying Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea. 19:28.540 --> 19:33.500 After Badr, Mohammed said Gabriel gave him chapter 8 of the Quran. 19:34.000 --> 19:38.500 When your Lord revealed to the angels, I am with you. 19:38.920 --> 19:41.220 Therefore make firm those who believe. 19:41.720 --> 19:46.040 I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. 19:46.400 --> 19:51.960 Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. 19:51.960 --> 19:56.000 That is because they opposed Allah and his messenger. 19:56.600 --> 20:03.040 Whose opposeth Allah and his messenger for him, lo Allah is severe in punishment. 20:14.020 --> 20:19.020 Indeed, in the messenger of Allah, you have a good example to follow. 20:20.720 --> 20:24.700 He who obeys the messenger has obeyed Allah. 20:26.860 --> 20:32.540 Most of us in non-Muslim nations know nothing about Mohammed. 20:33.240 --> 20:39.600 Nothing about his life, his words, his example, and his companions. 20:40.700 --> 20:47.360 And the history of Mohammed's life, while foreign to us, is central to all of 20:47.360 --> 20:47.760 Islam. 20:48.680 --> 20:54.560 In Islamic writings, Mohammed's example is known as the Traditions of the Prophet. 20:55.280 --> 20:59.380 Another word Muslims use for Mohammed's traditions is sunnah. 21:00.080 --> 21:04.660 Sunnah means a way of life, a behavior that is followed or to be imitated. 21:05.340 --> 21:09.920 And the written record of Mohammed's traditions and sunnah is called the 21:09.920 --> 21:10.540 Hadith. 21:11.220 --> 21:18.580 So, the Traditions of the Prophet, the Sunnah, and the Hadith are used 21:18.580 --> 21:24.880 together to focus on Mohammed's words and example, which in Islamic thought is the 21:24.880 --> 21:27.260 model for a Muslim's behavior. 21:28.520 --> 21:34.300 Mohammed's life has a narrative, multiple stories, but most of those 21:34.300 --> 21:37.840 stories about Mohammed and his traditions, they're not in the Quran. 21:38.770 --> 21:43.900 One mistake that non-Muslims often make is we think we can read the Quran and 21:43.900 --> 21:44.760 understand Islam. 21:45.840 --> 21:46.160 No. 21:47.060 --> 21:51.780 The record of Mohammed's life, his sunnah, his traditions, his words and 21:51.780 --> 21:59.320 deeds, is in scores of large volumes, literally millions of words that are not 21:59.320 --> 22:00.440 in the Quran. 22:01.440 --> 22:08.380 To study Mohammed, we must turn to those sources, books that Muslims hold as sacred 22:08.380 --> 22:15.640 records of Mohammed's words and his example, such as Sahih Bukhari and Sahih 22:15.640 --> 22:16.300 Muslim. 22:17.520 --> 22:24.380 They also turn to the ancient biographies on Mohammed, The Life of Mohammed by Ibn 22:24.380 --> 22:31.280 Ishaq, The History of Al-Tabari, and The Life of the Prophet Mohammed by 22:31.280 --> 22:32.200 Ibn Kathir. 22:33.240 --> 22:37.940 Everything we'll examine about Mohammed will come from ancient Islamic sources. 22:38.560 --> 22:43.520 We'll study their words, their history, their heroes. 22:44.000 --> 22:48.960 We will not alter one fact about Mohammed as they tell it. 22:48.960 --> 22:54.160 We will let Muslim literature and the testimony of their historians and their 22:54.160 --> 22:59.180 theologians answer the question, What would Mohammed do? 23:05.380 --> 23:10.300 After Mohammed's victory at Badr, he had 70 hostages from Mecca. 23:10.940 --> 23:16.980 Mohammed singled out two captives, both of them nobles of Mecca, Al-Nadir and 23:16.980 --> 23:17.540 Uqba. 23:18.160 --> 23:21.540 Al-Nadir used to listen to Mohammed preach in Mecca. 23:21.540 --> 23:24.800 He would then argue with Mohammed or insult him. 23:24.980 --> 23:29.800 I swear by God, Mohammed is no better a storyteller than me. 23:30.640 --> 23:35.240 His talk is only of ancient legends from which he borrows, just as I do. 23:36.040 --> 23:37.500 He taunted Mohammed. 23:38.020 --> 23:39.920 I can tell a better story than he. 23:40.540 --> 23:41.120 Come to me. 23:42.820 --> 23:49.300 Mohammed had Al-Nadir brought before him and sentenced him to death, saying it was 23:49.300 --> 23:52.380 because he had insulted him when they were in Mecca. 23:53.260 --> 23:55.200 No trial, no mercy. 23:56.000 --> 24:00.680 He ordered his young cousin Ali to cut off his head. 24:01.860 --> 24:08.320 Ali obeyed and severed Al-Nadir's head from his body while Mohammed looked on 24:08.320 --> 24:09.320 stoically. 24:09.940 --> 24:14.160 Mohammed then ordered Uqba, the man who put sheep guts on his back in Mecca, 24:14.160 --> 24:21.040 to stand before him and said to his men, Do you know how this man treated me? 24:21.980 --> 24:28.420 He came up while I was prostrate in prayer, placed his foot on the back of my 24:28.420 --> 24:30.920 neck and pressed down on it. 24:31.400 --> 24:37.520 I thought my eyes were going to come out before he lifted up his foot. 24:39.460 --> 24:42.460 Mohammed sentenced Uqba to death. 24:42.460 --> 24:44.620 Uqba plead for his life. 24:45.100 --> 24:48.720 Am I to be killed while the other hostages are not? 24:50.060 --> 24:52.260 Mohammed was unmoved. 24:52.960 --> 24:54.720 Uqba begged for mercy. 24:56.120 --> 24:57.880 Who will take care of my children? 24:59.400 --> 25:01.800 Mohammed said, Hellfire. 25:03.040 --> 25:04.800 And had him decapitated. 25:06.120 --> 25:08.060 Mohammed let all the other hostages live. 25:08.060 --> 25:15.180 But by his own testimony, he had these two men decapitated in his presence because 25:15.180 --> 25:18.200 they had insulted him back in Mecca. 25:19.920 --> 25:29.220 From Badr forward, if any man or woman insulted, mocked, or satirized Mohammed in 25:29.220 --> 25:35.380 song or poetry, they were executed or assassinated at Mohammed's command. 25:35.380 --> 25:42.080 The defeat of the Meccans and death of so many nobles at Badr shook the region. 25:42.840 --> 25:47.040 Many poets lamented the battle's outcome and criticized Mohammed. 25:47.860 --> 25:52.000 One such poet was Ka'b ibn Ashraf. 25:52.760 --> 25:56.480 The Muslims called him the enemy of God. 25:57.120 --> 25:59.280 He was part Jewish, part Arab. 26:00.420 --> 26:06.640 After the Meccan loss at Badr, the enemy of God began to invade against 26:06.640 --> 26:11.360 the apostle and recite verses bewailing the nobles killed at Badr. 26:12.220 --> 26:16.900 He composed verses that were suggestive about Muslim women and critical of the 26:16.900 --> 26:18.180 prophet and his followers. 26:19.120 --> 26:22.420 Ka'b urged Mohammed's followers to forsake him. 26:22.800 --> 26:27.420 Drive off that fool of yours that you may be safe from talk that has no sense. 26:28.700 --> 26:35.780 Mohammed asked a group of his men, Who will rid me of Ka'b, the son of 26:35.780 --> 26:36.280 Ashraf? 26:37.140 --> 26:42.380 Mohammed bin Muslama said, I will deal with him for you. 26:43.200 --> 26:46.920 O apostle of God, I will kill him. 26:47.740 --> 26:51.920 Mohammed said, Do so if you can. 26:51.920 --> 26:57.580 The assassin recruited two other Muslims, including Ka'b's foster brother, 26:57.800 --> 26:59.400 who had recently become a Muslim. 27:00.020 --> 27:03.900 Ka'b didn't know that his foster brother was following Mohammed. 27:04.720 --> 27:11.360 Mohammed personally walked the three assassins to the edge of town at night to 27:11.360 --> 27:14.660 set out on their journey to commit murder. 27:15.460 --> 27:18.980 Mohammed prayed, Go in God's name. 27:19.540 --> 27:21.240 O God, help them. 27:22.480 --> 27:29.120 The three assassins successfully deceived Ka'b by a false business deal. 27:29.500 --> 27:34.120 They lured him out for a night stroll and then murdered him. 27:35.180 --> 27:42.380 I plunged the dagger into his breast and pressed upon it so heavily that it reached 27:42.380 --> 27:43.480 his genitals. 27:44.360 --> 27:46.720 And the enemy of God fell. 27:47.820 --> 27:54.080 They returned to Mohammed and reported, We have killed the enemy of God. 27:55.340 --> 28:01.020 A woman named Asma, the daughter of Marwan, wrote verses against Mohammed. 28:01.620 --> 28:06.140 Do you expect good from him after the killing of your chiefs, like a hungry man 28:06.140 --> 28:07.500 waiting for a cook's broth? 28:07.500 --> 28:12.440 Is there no man of pride who would attack him by surprise and cut off the hopes of 28:12.440 --> 28:13.920 those who expect ought from him? 28:15.260 --> 28:20.340 Ibn Ishaq records these words, When the apostle heard what she had said, 28:20.700 --> 28:24.060 he said, Who will rid me of Marwan's daughter? 28:25.100 --> 28:30.240 Umair, who was with him, heard him, and that very night he went to her house 28:30.240 --> 28:31.560 and killed her. 28:32.240 --> 28:36.080 In the morning he came to the apostle and told him what he had done. 28:37.080 --> 28:42.080 You have held God and his apostle, Umair. 28:43.880 --> 28:52.140 Asma was murdered in her bed while she held her baby at Mohammed's order and with 28:52.140 --> 28:56.260 his congratulations, because she had insulted Mohammed. 28:59.100 --> 29:03.340 From Badr forward, Mohammed had people killed for mocking him. 29:03.340 --> 29:08.080 Even people who had insulted him a decade earlier in Mecca. 29:08.520 --> 29:12.820 Mohammed ultimately conquered Mecca, but before he entered the city at the head 29:12.820 --> 29:18.900 of a massive army, he named seven men and women who were to be summarily killed if 29:18.900 --> 29:19.480 they were found. 29:20.240 --> 29:26.440 One of the apostates had two female singers who would sing songs mocking the 29:26.440 --> 29:28.180 messenger of God and the Muslims. 29:28.840 --> 29:33.400 This is why the messenger of God condemned him and the two singers to death. 29:34.740 --> 29:36.980 Also he condemned Al-Huwairith. 29:37.800 --> 29:41.500 He had been one of those who insulted the messenger of God in Mecca. 29:42.160 --> 29:47.160 Then there was Sarah, who was also executed, because she used to insult the 29:47.160 --> 29:49.600 messenger of God while he was in Mecca. 29:50.860 --> 29:56.480 Mohammed executed people for insults that were ten years old. 29:56.480 --> 29:59.560 The new message of Islam was clear. 30:00.180 --> 30:05.780 There is no God but Allah, Mohammed is his messenger, and do not criticize or mock 30:05.780 --> 30:07.480 Mohammed, because you will be killed. 30:18.710 --> 30:24.310 The apostles said, kill any Jew that falls into your power. 30:27.230 --> 30:33.250 Our attacks upon God's enemy cast terror among the Jews, and there was no Jew in 30:33.250 --> 30:35.710 Medina that did not fear for his life. 30:37.890 --> 30:45.110 The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews, 30:45.350 --> 30:53.010 and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone 30:53.010 --> 31:01.070 or tree, and the stone or tree would say, Muslim, or the servant of Allah, 31:01.070 --> 31:06.410 there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. 31:08.810 --> 31:14.310 His conflict with the Jews began in earnest after the Battle of Badr. 31:15.050 --> 31:19.590 He gathered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qainuqa in the market of Medina, 31:20.070 --> 31:24.230 and warned them to accept him as their prophet. 31:25.350 --> 31:31.850 Beware lest God bring on you the like of the retribution which he brought on the 31:31.850 --> 31:33.310 Meccans, Quraysh. 31:34.170 --> 31:39.270 Accept Islam, for you know that I am a prophet sent by God. 31:39.770 --> 31:45.450 You will find this in your scriptures and in God's covenant with you. 31:46.190 --> 31:51.070 They scoffed, accusing him of being deluded. 31:51.070 --> 31:54.910 Muhammad, do you think that we are like your people? 31:55.890 --> 32:00.610 Do not be diluted by the fact that you met a people with no knowledge of war, 32:01.070 --> 32:03.510 and that you made good use of your opportunity. 32:04.330 --> 32:08.290 By God, if you fight us, you will know that we are real men. 32:09.870 --> 32:14.130 As far as the Jews were concerned, there was nothing supernatural about 32:14.130 --> 32:15.970 Muhammad's victory at Badr. 32:15.970 --> 32:22.350 It was certainly not a sign from God that he was a prophet in the line of Noah and 32:22.350 --> 32:24.110 Abraham and Moses. 32:25.270 --> 32:27.650 Muhammad had simply won a desert battle. 32:28.690 --> 32:35.830 Muhammad would not tolerate Jews undermining his claim that his victory at 32:35.830 --> 32:37.810 Badr was a miracle. 32:38.630 --> 32:43.930 He gathered his armed men and laid siege to their homes and their neighborhoods. 32:43.930 --> 32:48.270 After 15 days, the Jews surrendered. 32:48.890 --> 32:51.150 They were fettered and he wanted to kill them. 32:52.730 --> 32:58.770 One of Muhammad's recent converts named Abdullah grabbed Muhammad's shoulder and 32:58.770 --> 33:01.190 kept urging Muhammad to spare the Jews. 33:01.830 --> 33:03.350 Treat my friends well! 33:05.010 --> 33:10.390 The chained Jews and the Muslim crowd fixed their eyes on Muhammad. 33:11.190 --> 33:13.390 Muhammad's face was black with rage. 33:14.430 --> 33:15.350 Confound you! 33:15.950 --> 33:16.670 Let me go! 33:17.250 --> 33:23.090 The man replied, No, by God, I will not let you go until you treat my friends 33:23.090 --> 33:23.470 well. 33:23.970 --> 33:31.010 400 men without armor and 300 with coats of mail who defended me from the Arab and 33:31.010 --> 33:32.250 the non-Arab alike. 33:32.690 --> 33:35.450 And you would mow them down in a single morning? 33:36.210 --> 33:40.710 So the messenger of God said, They are yours. 33:41.650 --> 33:42.810 Let them go. 33:43.630 --> 33:45.050 May God curse them. 33:45.790 --> 33:48.130 And may he curse Abdullah with them. 33:49.050 --> 33:53.510 Then the messenger gave orders to expel them and God gave their property as booty 33:53.510 --> 33:55.450 to his messengers and the Muslims. 33:56.070 --> 33:59.970 The Banu Qaynuqa did not have any land as they were goldsmiths. 34:00.410 --> 34:04.510 The messenger of God took many weapons belonging to them and the tools of their 34:04.510 --> 34:04.850 trade. 34:05.610 --> 34:07.230 They were driven out of Medina. 34:07.230 --> 34:09.130 Most of them fled to Syria. 34:10.130 --> 34:15.250 Muhammad and some of his followers became wealthy with the spoils of this 34:15.250 --> 34:15.990 confrontation. 34:17.650 --> 34:20.710 The purging of the Jews from Medina continued. 34:21.450 --> 34:25.970 One year later, Muhammad was returning from a standoff with the Meccans known as 34:25.970 --> 34:29.490 the Battle of the Trench in which no major fighting occurred. 34:30.010 --> 34:33.110 He said that the angel Gabriel stopped him. 34:33.750 --> 34:36.730 Have you laid down your arms, messenger of God? 34:36.730 --> 34:38.670 Yes, he replied. 34:39.230 --> 34:41.150 The angels have not laid down their arms. 34:41.650 --> 34:44.310 God commands you, Muhammad, to go to Banu Qurayza. 34:44.830 --> 34:47.750 I am about to go to them to shake their strongholds. 34:47.950 --> 34:51.050 The Banu Qurayza was another Jewish clan. 34:51.790 --> 34:52.870 Muhammad told his men. 34:53.650 --> 35:00.490 That was Gabriel who has been sent to Banu Qurayza to shake their castle and strike 35:00.490 --> 35:02.130 terror to their hearts. 35:04.330 --> 35:12.570 The apostle besieged them for 25 nights until they were sore pressed and God cast 35:12.570 --> 35:14.210 terror into their hearts. 35:14.690 --> 35:19.570 Rather than fight, the Jews decided to submit to Muhammad's terms. 35:20.430 --> 35:25.410 Rather than issue a judgment himself, Muhammad handpicked a judge from Medina, 35:26.230 --> 35:28.290 Sa'd bin Mu'ad. 35:28.290 --> 35:33.170 On the day of the battle of Badr, Sa'd told Muhammad. 35:34.590 --> 35:40.570 O prophet of God, extensive killing is dearer to me than sparing men's lives. 35:41.510 --> 35:46.630 With no Jews present, Sa'd issued his judgment. 35:47.630 --> 35:54.930 I pass judgment that the men shall be killed, the property divided, and the 35:54.930 --> 35:58.390 women and children taken as captives. 35:59.110 --> 36:01.690 Many of the Muslims were shocked. 36:02.330 --> 36:06.130 Muhammad immediately affirmed Sa'd's genocidal verdict. 36:07.550 --> 36:13.750 You have passed judgment on them with the judgment of God and the judgment of his 36:13.750 --> 36:14.230 messenger. 36:18.150 --> 36:23.170 Then the apostle went out to the market of Medina and dug trenches in it. 36:24.030 --> 36:28.190 Then he sent for them and struck off their heads in those trenches as they were 36:28.190 --> 36:29.970 brought out to him in batches. 36:30.850 --> 36:33.810 There were 600 or 700 in all. 36:34.590 --> 36:41.790 Though some put the figure as high as 800 or 900, this went on until the apostle 36:41.790 --> 36:43.190 made an end of them. 36:48.100 --> 36:54.680 Muhammad and his men again increased their wealth from the spoils of the debt. 36:55.720 --> 37:00.400 Then the apostle divided the property, wives, and children of Banu Qurayza among 37:00.400 --> 37:01.100 the Muslims. 37:03.460 --> 37:08.360 The apostle sent some of the captive women of Banu Qurayza in the city of Nadaj, 37:08.780 --> 37:11.380 and he sold them for horses and weapons. 37:11.380 --> 37:17.440 The apostle had chosen one of their women for himself, Rayanima, and she remained 37:17.440 --> 37:19.540 with him until she died in his power. 37:20.780 --> 37:26.020 This slaughter put an end to the Jews in Medina. 37:27.920 --> 37:32.080 Then he killed their men and distributed their women, children, and properties 37:32.080 --> 37:32.920 among the Muslims. 37:33.460 --> 37:38.540 The messenger of Allah turned out all the Jews of Medina, Banu Qurayza, and the Jews 37:38.540 --> 37:41.940 of Banu Qurayza, and every other Jew who was in Medina. 37:46.120 --> 37:53.040 Muhammad and his men journeyed to Khaybar, about 110 miles from Medina, to launch an 37:53.040 --> 37:55.160 unprovoked attack. 37:56.040 --> 38:01.700 Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, asked Muhammad, Allah's messenger, on what issue 38:01.700 --> 38:03.160 should I fight with the people? 38:03.700 --> 38:10.860 Thereupon he said, Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there 38:10.860 --> 38:14.820 is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger. 38:15.580 --> 38:18.180 Muhammad knew they were not going to convert. 38:18.900 --> 38:23.900 So without warning, and without justification, Muhammad and his men 38:23.900 --> 38:24.980 arrived. 38:25.760 --> 38:29.320 Muhammad cried out, Allahu Akbar! 38:30.100 --> 38:31.880 Khaybar is destroyed! 38:32.220 --> 38:38.460 The apostle seized the property piece by piece, and conquered the forts one by one, 38:38.940 --> 38:40.120 as he came to them. 38:40.680 --> 38:44.720 The apostle took captives from them, among whom was Safiyya. 38:44.980 --> 38:48.560 The apostle chose Safiyya for himself. 38:49.560 --> 38:54.380 Safiyya was married to Kinana, one of the chiefs of Khaybar, who was the 38:54.380 --> 38:55.260 tribe's treasurer. 38:55.260 --> 38:58.460 Kinana was dragged before Muhammad. 38:58.840 --> 39:01.160 Muhammad demanded the gold. 39:01.800 --> 39:03.960 Kinana told him there was none to be had. 39:04.780 --> 39:10.740 Sadly, another Jew informed Muhammad that Kinana was hiding the wealth at a nearby 39:10.740 --> 39:11.140 ruin. 39:12.000 --> 39:18.720 Muhammad told Kinana, You know that if we find it in your position, I shall kill 39:18.720 --> 39:19.080 you. 39:20.200 --> 39:23.720 Kinana said yes, and prepared to die. 39:23.720 --> 39:26.360 Muhammad's men found some of the gold. 39:26.980 --> 39:29.080 Muhammad demanded Kinana surrender the rest. 39:29.720 --> 39:32.940 Again, Kinana bravely refused. 39:33.560 --> 39:40.520 So Muhammad gave orders to his men, Torture him until you extract what he has. 39:40.860 --> 39:46.760 So he kindled a fire with flint, and steel on his chest until he was nearly 39:46.760 --> 39:47.240 dead. 39:47.930 --> 39:54.380 The apostle delivered him to Muhammad, son of Maslama, and he struck off his 39:54.380 --> 39:54.660 head. 39:55.740 --> 40:02.180 After Kinana was dead, Muhammad took the man's beautiful young bride, Safiyya, 40:02.640 --> 40:04.280 for a sex slave. 40:14.640 --> 40:19.460 Muhammad and his men conquered the predominantly Jewish city of Khaybar. 40:20.300 --> 40:27.300 After the victory, he told his men the terms under which they could rape the 40:27.300 --> 40:27.660 women. 40:29.020 --> 40:35.020 It's not lawful for a man who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mingle his seed 40:35.020 --> 40:40.000 with another man's, meaning to approach carnally a pregnant woman among the 40:40.000 --> 40:46.140 captives, nor is it lawful for him to take her until he has made sure that she is in 40:46.140 --> 40:47.500 a state of cleanness. 40:49.680 --> 40:56.200 Being in a state of cleanness means that she had her menstrual cycle, ensuring that 40:56.200 --> 40:57.160 she was not pregnant. 40:58.200 --> 41:04.760 After the battle of Khaybar, Muhammad took for himself a sex slave, the beautiful 41:04.760 --> 41:06.360 teenager Safiyya. 41:06.840 --> 41:11.220 The prophet then brought Safiyya, whom he had won from the war booty. 41:12.840 --> 41:16.640 The Muslims said among themselves, will she, Safiyya, be one of the mothers 41:16.640 --> 41:21.980 of the believers, one of the wives of a prophet or just a lady captive of what his 41:21.980 --> 41:23.220 right hand possesses? 41:24.080 --> 41:28.560 Some of them said, if the prophet makes her observe the veil, then she will be one 41:28.560 --> 41:33.880 of the mothers of the believers, one of the prophet's wives, and if he does 41:33.880 --> 41:37.700 not make her observe the veil, then she will be his lady slave. 41:38.660 --> 41:43.900 When he departed, he made a place for her behind him and made her observe the veil. 41:45.920 --> 41:53.440 The Quran has several passages that teach that a Muslim may have lawful sex with his 41:53.440 --> 42:01.080 wives, up to four of them, and with his female slaves captured in war. 42:01.720 --> 42:08.040 A slave, in Islamic and Quranic terminology, is referred to as what thy 42:08.040 --> 42:10.080 right hand possesses. 42:11.240 --> 42:19.600 O Prophet, we have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast bade their dowers, 42:20.160 --> 42:27.240 and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has 42:27.240 --> 42:28.600 assigned to thee. 42:29.800 --> 42:35.460 And those who guard their chastity except with their wives and their captives whom 42:35.460 --> 42:39.620 their right hands possess, for then they are not to be blamed. 42:42.180 --> 42:48.200 Raihana was one of Muhammad's sex slaves that Muslim historians refer to. 42:49.560 --> 42:54.060 On account of the messenger of God's slave concubines, they were Maryabiti, 42:54.780 --> 42:58.640 Sham-un-Durgub, and Raihana from Banu Qurayza. 42:59.840 --> 43:06.240 The apostle had chosen one of their women for himself, Raihana, and she remained 43:06.240 --> 43:08.940 with him until she died in his power. 43:11.100 --> 43:16.820 And again, Al-Tabari discusses her sexual slavery in a very spiritual fashion. 43:17.280 --> 43:22.880 God granted Raihana of the Banu Qurayza to his messenger as Buti. 43:25.040 --> 43:33.560 Raihana was Buti to Muhammad, a prize of war from Allah, a sexual slave, 43:34.020 --> 43:34.860 not a wife. 43:35.880 --> 43:40.220 Likewise, Maria, the Coptic Christian, was a sexual slave. 43:41.220 --> 43:44.720 In another account of Muhammad's brutality toward women captured in battle, 43:45.180 --> 43:46.040 we read this. 44:03.880 --> 44:06.500 Usually, Muslims killed all the husbands. 44:07.060 --> 44:09.900 However, on this occasion, the husbands were still alive. 44:10.460 --> 44:15.860 Muhammad's men didn't know what to do, so they asked Muhammad if it was legal to 44:15.860 --> 44:19.560 rape these married women while their husbands yet lived. 44:19.560 --> 44:23.440 Muhammad said he got a revelation from God. 44:24.200 --> 44:31.100 Muslims were forbidden to have sex with married women unless they were slaves or 44:31.100 --> 44:36.520 captives of war, such as the women they had just captured. 44:37.300 --> 44:43.060 Also forbidden are women already married except those captives and slaves whom your 44:43.060 --> 44:44.280 right hands possess. 44:44.280 --> 44:50.620 With Muhammad's approval and a Quranic revelation to justify their detestable 44:50.620 --> 44:58.840 crimes, his men proceeded to rape their female captives, young and old, 44:59.500 --> 45:01.060 virgins and the married. 45:01.680 --> 45:06.480 Those of Muhammad's men who raped married women could not be accused of adultery 45:06.480 --> 45:09.820 because all their marriages were annulled. 45:09.820 --> 45:15.500 They could not be accused of rape because the women were slaves. 45:16.740 --> 45:24.440 Based on these words and actions of Muhammad, Islamic Sharia law states, 45:24.960 --> 45:30.420 When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, 45:30.980 --> 45:34.700 and the woman's previous marriage is immediately annulled. 45:34.700 --> 45:39.380 Here is yet another example from Muhammad's life. 46:11.720 --> 46:19.040 It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to 46:19.040 --> 46:21.220 the day of resurrection will be born. 46:23.220 --> 46:28.980 Note that Muhammad did not rebuke his men for raping the women. 46:30.320 --> 46:34.960 These particular men did not want children from their captives. 46:35.400 --> 46:36.820 That's all Muhammad addressed. 46:37.540 --> 46:44.620 However, capturing sex slaves for the purpose of bearing children was a practice 46:44.620 --> 46:45.760 of Muhammad's companions. 46:46.380 --> 46:52.300 For example, one of Muhammad's young warriors said, I wanted Muhammad to win 46:52.300 --> 46:58.980 this battle so that I might get a girl whom I might tread so that she might bear 46:58.980 --> 46:59.800 me a son. 47:00.700 --> 47:05.160 For taqif are a people who produce intelligent children. 47:06.080 --> 47:10.640 Muhammad spoke with one of his followers who was in a hurry to return home from an 47:10.640 --> 47:11.120 expedition. 47:11.860 --> 47:14.660 The man recounted Muhammad's words. 47:15.420 --> 47:19.100 He said to me, What makes you in such a hurry? 47:19.900 --> 47:23.420 I replied, I am newly married, he said. 47:23.780 --> 47:26.260 Did you marry a virgin or a matron? 47:26.800 --> 47:27.540 A matron. 47:28.500 --> 47:34.260 Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you may play with her and she with you? 47:35.260 --> 47:40.280 Muhammad also had a child bride, Aisha. 47:40.280 --> 47:46.360 In a hadith, she recounts the day Muhammad consummated his marriage with her when she 47:46.360 --> 47:48.620 was nine years old. 47:49.400 --> 47:52.900 My mother came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girlfriends. 47:53.700 --> 47:57.300 She called me and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. 47:57.760 --> 48:00.820 She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. 48:01.560 --> 48:05.640 I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some 48:05.640 --> 48:08.020 water and rubbed my face and head with it. 48:08.020 --> 48:13.720 There in the house, I saw some Ansari women who said, best wishes and Allah's 48:13.720 --> 48:14.880 blessing and good luck. 48:15.520 --> 48:19.100 Then she entrusted me to them, and they prepared me for the marriage. 48:20.680 --> 48:24.880 Unexpectedly, Allah's apostle came to me in the forenoon, and my mother handed me 48:24.880 --> 48:25.560 over to him. 48:25.940 --> 48:28.900 And at that time, I was a girl of nine years of age. 48:32.270 --> 48:35.970 The apostle of Allah married me when I was seven or six. 48:35.970 --> 48:40.190 When we came to Medina, some women came to me when I was swinging. 48:40.730 --> 48:43.730 They took me, made me prepare, and decorated me. 48:44.250 --> 48:48.870 I was then brought to the apostle of Allah, and he took up cohabitation with me 48:48.870 --> 48:49.770 when I was nine. 48:50.870 --> 48:53.610 Yet another hadith says it bluntly. 48:55.670 --> 49:00.910 He married Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consummated that 49:00.910 --> 49:03.070 marriage when she was nine years old. 49:03.950 --> 49:07.070 Muhammad clearly favored the young child, Aisha. 49:08.030 --> 49:12.210 Historians record that she was the only virgin he ever married. 49:24.440 --> 49:29.840 Jihad, holy fighting in Allah's cause, is ordained for you Muslims, though you 49:29.840 --> 49:30.700 dislike it. 49:30.920 --> 49:35.700 And it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you like a 49:35.700 --> 49:37.200 thing which is bad for you. 49:37.620 --> 49:39.500 Allah knows, but you do not know. 49:40.340 --> 49:46.520 Literally hundreds of hadith quote Muhammad extolling the glories of jihad. 49:47.180 --> 49:55.900 For example, A man came to Allah's apostle and said, Instruct me as to such a deed as 49:55.900 --> 49:58.280 equals jihad in reward. 49:58.780 --> 50:01.700 He replied, I do not find such a deed. 50:02.700 --> 50:09.440 One who died but did not fight in the way of Allah, nor did he express any desire or 50:09.440 --> 50:13.580 determination for jihad, died the death of a hypocrite. 50:14.320 --> 50:20.180 This is what Sharia law states about jihad, based on the Quran and Muhammad's 50:20.180 --> 50:20.820 example. 50:21.980 --> 50:29.720 Jihad is a communal obligation for every able-bodied male who has reached puberty. 50:29.720 --> 50:35.380 If none of those concerned perform jihad, and it does not happen at all, 50:36.040 --> 50:41.920 then everyone who is aware that it is obligatory is guilty of sin, if there was 50:41.920 --> 50:44.120 a possibility of having performed it. 50:45.260 --> 50:50.580 Guilty of sin for not having fought in jihad. 50:51.940 --> 50:58.680 Muhammad made clear the main purpose of jihad was forced conversion to Islam. 50:58.680 --> 51:05.620 He said, I have been commanded to fight people until they testify that there is no 51:05.620 --> 51:09.800 God but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. 51:10.140 --> 51:14.980 If they say it, they have saved their blood and positions from me. 51:17.560 --> 51:22.400 Converting non-Muslims was more important to Muhammad than killing them or robbing 51:22.400 --> 51:22.620 them. 51:22.620 --> 51:26.260 If they converted, they became his obedient subjects. 51:26.760 --> 51:30.420 He would have their lives and possessions at his disposal. 51:31.000 --> 51:35.220 But if they would not convert, he would kill them and seize their 51:35.220 --> 51:35.700 belongings. 51:36.680 --> 51:42.540 Abu Bakr, Muhammad's first caliph, affirmed Muhammad's use of terror and 51:42.540 --> 51:46.010 jihad to convert non-Muslims. 51:46.870 --> 51:51.010 Allah then guided by the truth, whoever answered him. 51:51.690 --> 51:55.950 And the Prophet struck and fought those who turned away from him by his permission 51:55.950 --> 52:02.050 until they entered Islam, either willingly or grudgingly. 52:03.110 --> 52:09.470 In the Quran, Muhammad was very specific about jihad for the purpose of converting 52:09.470 --> 52:11.010 non-Muslims. 52:11.010 --> 52:16.250 So, when you meet and fight jihad in Allah's cause, those who disbelieve, 52:16.690 --> 52:20.910 smite their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, 52:21.470 --> 52:25.450 then bind a bond firmly on them, take them as captives. 52:25.450 --> 52:31.070 Thus, you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out jihad against the 52:31.070 --> 52:36.250 disbelievers till they embrace Islam and are saved from the punishment in the 52:36.250 --> 52:39.650 hellfire, or at least come under your protection. 52:41.310 --> 52:45.750 Sharia law clearly states the objectives of jihad. 52:45.750 --> 52:52.030 The caliph, Muhammad's successor, makes war upon Jews, Christians, 52:52.650 --> 52:58.110 and Zoroastrians until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax. 52:58.870 --> 53:04.010 The caliph fights all other peoples until they become Muslims. 53:06.530 --> 53:10.990 While converting people through force might have been Muhammad's top priority, 53:11.730 --> 53:16.330 risking their lives in battle to evangelize non-Muslims might not have been 53:16.330 --> 53:20.290 a top priority for some of Muhammad's followers, even the most devout. 53:21.270 --> 53:28.870 So, he gave them added incentives, spoils if they lived, paradise if they 53:28.870 --> 53:29.350 died. 53:30.130 --> 53:31.130 Muhammad said, 53:47.950 --> 53:50.290 Let's begin with the spoils of war. 53:51.090 --> 53:55.610 Dividing the booty, the spoils of battle, was a part of every victorious battle. 53:55.610 --> 54:00.850 Specific rules were laid down by Muhammad regarding the portion a jihadist would 54:00.850 --> 54:05.570 receive, based in part as to whether he was a foot soldier, or on a horse, 54:05.770 --> 54:06.470 or a camel. 54:07.190 --> 54:13.470 Houses, lands, weapons, horses, down to the smallest items, such as 54:13.470 --> 54:19.110 sandals and leather straps, were divided among the Muslims who survived jihad. 54:19.970 --> 54:27.030 The distribution of women as sex slaves was constantly given special note and 54:27.030 --> 54:29.670 great detail by Muslim historians. 54:30.370 --> 54:35.790 This is partly due to the fact that many of these sex slaves bore children to some 54:35.790 --> 54:39.410 of the most famous of Muhammad's companions, starting with his 54:39.410 --> 54:44.550 father-in-law, Abu Bakr, and his son-in-law, Ali, who took or distributed 54:44.550 --> 54:46.930 women as sex slaves. 54:47.910 --> 54:51.450 Abu Bakr rewarded a Muslim warrior. 54:52.130 --> 54:57.670 Abu Bakr commanded that he be given a girl from among those captives, and she 54:57.670 --> 54:59.990 subsequently bore him a child. 55:02.770 --> 55:07.150 Ali bought the daughter of Rabia, taking her for himself. 55:07.850 --> 55:10.290 She bore him Umar and Ruqayya. 55:11.650 --> 55:17.730 Ali purchased the daughter of Ali, Judy, whose beauty was extolled. 55:18.430 --> 55:21.650 These were Muhammad's closest friends and family. 55:22.170 --> 55:23.990 These were his successors. 55:24.710 --> 55:29.970 These are the men who spread Islam and Sharia law with the sword, not by 55:29.970 --> 55:30.350 preaching. 55:30.350 --> 55:38.910 As an even deeper incentive, Muhammad promised jihadists eternal life for 55:38.910 --> 55:44.610 themselves and their family if they died in battle while attempting to kill 55:44.610 --> 55:46.770 non-Muslims. 55:46.770 --> 55:51.390 Truly the martyr is given by Allah Almighty six things. 55:51.850 --> 55:56.090 Forgiveness of sins from the first drop of his blood to be shed. 55:56.910 --> 55:59.330 Protection from the torment of the grave. 56:00.030 --> 56:03.410 Safety from the greatest fear, the day of judgment. 56:03.970 --> 56:09.190 Receiving the crown of veneration, a single sapphire of which is worth more 56:09.190 --> 56:15.270 than the whole world and its contents, merged to 72 of the wide-eyed virgins. 56:16.050 --> 56:18.890 Intercession on behalf of 70 of his relatives. 56:20.890 --> 56:26.670 In another hadith, Muhammad promised musk for the dead jihadist. 56:27.730 --> 56:32.690 If a person gets wounded in the way of Allah, he will come on the day of judgment 56:32.690 --> 56:37.950 with his wound in the same condition as it was when it was first inflicted, 56:38.410 --> 56:43.570 its color being the color of blood, but its smell will be the smell of musk. 56:44.910 --> 56:52.130 Musk was an aphrodisiac, a sex stimulant used to make women more welcoming to 56:52.130 --> 56:52.770 copulation. 56:53.910 --> 56:59.490 Note how lucrative and sensual the earthly and heavenly promises are. 57:00.010 --> 57:02.850 If the jihadist lives, he divides the spoils. 57:03.210 --> 57:07.390 If he dies, he gets a sapphire worth more than all the contents of the world. 57:07.390 --> 57:11.310 If he lives, he may come home with a sex slave. 57:11.590 --> 57:15.810 If he dies, he will have 72 sex slaves in paradise. 57:16.750 --> 57:25.010 Wealth and sex slaves on earth or wealth and sex slaves in paradise with musk to 57:25.010 --> 57:26.290 stimulate lust. 57:26.990 --> 57:33.130 And of course, there is the promise of eternal life free of hellfire for the 57:33.130 --> 57:37.070 jihadist as well as 70 of his relatives. 57:38.030 --> 57:43.910 These incentives, houses, lands, horses, camels, armor, sex slaves or 57:43.910 --> 57:49.430 eternal paradise with 72 sex slaves, streams of water, perpetual feasts. 57:49.430 --> 57:56.290 These promises coupled with the promise of eternal life for the jihadist and his 57:56.290 --> 58:02.630 family were all it took to create a maniacal terrorist force that routed 58:02.630 --> 58:09.750 armies, seized property and converted or enslaved the people of the Middle East or 58:09.750 --> 58:12.090 who were willing to die in the effort. 58:21.060 --> 58:27.240 Conversion at the point of the sword is exactly what happened in Mohammed's day 58:27.240 --> 58:29.480 over and over. 58:30.240 --> 58:35.560 For example, we reported on Asma, the woman who was murdered in her bed at 58:35.560 --> 58:38.860 Mohammed's order for composing poems against him. 58:39.700 --> 58:43.600 Her assassination resulted in conversions. 58:44.420 --> 58:48.440 Now there was a great commotion amongst the tribe of Khatama that day about her 58:48.440 --> 58:49.140 affair with Asma. 58:49.780 --> 58:50.660 She had five sons. 58:51.240 --> 58:56.120 And when Amir went to them from the apostle, he said, I have killed Asma, 58:56.440 --> 58:57.700 all sons of Khatma. 58:58.280 --> 58:59.680 Withstand me if you can. 59:00.120 --> 59:01.320 Don't keep me waiting. 59:02.140 --> 59:05.940 That was the first day that Islam became powerful amongst the tribe of Khatma. 59:06.640 --> 59:11.140 That day after Asma was killed, the men of Khatma became Muslim because 59:11.140 --> 59:12.460 they saw the power of Islam. 59:12.460 --> 59:18.540 The power of Islam, which inspired the men of that village to become Muslims, 59:19.220 --> 59:24.740 was Mohammed's ability to order the assassination of someone who did not 59:24.740 --> 59:28.880 believe in him and for the killer to defy justice. 59:30.120 --> 59:36.640 We reported about the command of Mohammed, kill any Jew that falls under your power. 59:37.780 --> 59:43.840 One of Mohammed's followers who obeyed Mohammed's order murdered a Jewish man who 59:43.840 --> 59:46.500 was his business associate and a friend. 59:47.580 --> 59:51.100 The murderer had an older brother who was not yet a Muslim. 59:52.340 --> 59:56.480 When he heard that his younger brother had murdered his Jewish friend, he began to 59:56.480 --> 59:57.220 beat him. 59:57.620 --> 01:00:02.700 You enemy of God, did you kill him when much of the fat on your belly comes from 01:00:02.700 --> 01:00:03.260 his wealth? 01:00:03.260 --> 01:00:10.860 The murderer replied angrily, had the one who ordered me to kill him ordered me to 01:00:10.860 --> 01:00:13.440 kill you, I would have cut your head off. 01:00:14.080 --> 01:00:18.700 By God, if Mohammed had ordered you to kill me, would you have killed me? 01:00:19.460 --> 01:00:24.680 Yes, by God, had you ordered me to cut off your head, I would have done so. 01:00:25.420 --> 01:00:31.600 The older brother realized that if his own brother would kill him at Mohammed's 01:00:31.600 --> 01:00:33.660 command, he could be next. 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:41.340 So he said, by God, a religion which can bring you to this is marvelous. 01:00:41.960 --> 01:00:44.220 And he became a Muslim. 01:00:45.220 --> 01:00:51.700 He converted because if he didn't, he knew that he could be killed by his own 01:00:51.700 --> 01:00:53.700 brother at Mohammed's command. 01:00:54.680 --> 01:01:00.800 On another occasion, Abu Safiyan, an enemy of Mohammed's, who Mohammed had 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:05.200 already attempted to assassinate, was brought before Mohammed under the 01:01:05.200 --> 01:01:06.640 promise of safe passage. 01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:13.500 Mohammed held the man's life in his hand and said, isn't it time that you should 01:01:13.500 --> 01:01:16.180 recognize that there is no God but Allah? 01:01:17.140 --> 01:01:22.420 Woe to you, isn't it time that you recognize that I am God's apostle? 01:01:22.420 --> 01:01:28.100 Abu Safiyan answered honestly, as to that I still have some doubt. 01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:33.160 A Muslim standing by warned him that death was imminent. 01:01:33.660 --> 01:01:39.080 Submit and testify that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is the apostle 01:01:39.080 --> 01:01:41.260 of God before you lose your head. 01:01:41.740 --> 01:01:46.340 Before the blade found Abu Safiyan's neck, he pledged his allegiance. 01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:50.840 There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger. 01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:57.000 He converted with a sword at his throat, which Mohammed accepted. 01:01:57.680 --> 01:02:03.200 Abu Safiyan went on to be a general in Mohammed's army, converting or killing 01:02:03.200 --> 01:02:05.200 others in the same way. 01:02:06.120 --> 01:02:13.620 Coercion and fear of death was a standard tool for converting non-Muslims to 01:02:13.620 --> 01:02:14.040 Mohammed. 01:02:14.860 --> 01:02:15.700 Mohammed said, 01:02:34.100 --> 01:02:37.800 But Mohammed did not start his mission this way. 01:02:38.580 --> 01:02:44.720 When he fled for his life to Medina, he had 200 converts after 10 years of 01:02:44.720 --> 01:02:46.480 peaceful preaching in Mecca. 01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:52.160 But after the battle of Badr, when Mohammed said that Allah wanted killing 01:02:52.160 --> 01:02:58.760 and terror and decapitations to spread Islam, Mohammed inspired mass conversions. 01:02:59.460 --> 01:03:04.520 Many of the men with Mohammed at the battle of Badr were pagan natives of 01:03:04.520 --> 01:03:07.860 Medina who had not yet even converted to Islam. 01:03:08.440 --> 01:03:12.340 They joined Mohammed's army to steal the wealth of a caravan. 01:03:13.220 --> 01:03:18.900 But the drama of that battle and Mohammed's claims that the fight was 01:03:18.900 --> 01:03:23.240 between truth and error, that was enough proof to induce these thieves and 01:03:23.240 --> 01:03:26.220 idolaters to believe that Mohammed was a prophet. 01:03:26.220 --> 01:03:28.600 They became Muslims. 01:03:29.700 --> 01:03:35.220 So when Allah's apostle fought the battle of Badr, and Allah killed the nobles of 01:03:35.220 --> 01:03:40.800 Quraysh infidels through him, the pagans and idolaters who were with him said, 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:45.500 This matter, Islam, has become victorious. 01:03:46.300 --> 01:03:51.920 So they gave the pledge of allegiance for embracing Islam to Allah's apostle and 01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:52.980 became Muslims. 01:03:54.260 --> 01:03:58.560 Sometimes Mohammed's enemies were slain in battle or brutally murdered. 01:03:59.140 --> 01:04:00.680 Sometimes they were enslaved. 01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:05.960 Other times they were captured, then sold, traded, or released. 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:14.020 Sharia law declares, When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the 01:04:14.020 --> 01:04:18.960 interests of Islam in the Muslims and decides between the prisoner's death, 01:04:19.700 --> 01:04:26.340 slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money 01:04:26.340 --> 01:04:29.380 or for a Muslim captive held by the enemy. 01:04:29.740 --> 01:04:35.520 If the prisoner becomes a Muslim, then he may not be killed and one of the 01:04:35.520 --> 01:04:38.040 other three alternatives is chosen. 01:04:40.420 --> 01:04:48.700 Mohammed knew enough about true prophets like Noah, Abraham, and Moses to know that 01:04:48.700 --> 01:04:53.160 none of them used terror and slaughter to call men to God. 01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:58.480 None of them used theft and extortion to found their religion. 01:04:59.720 --> 01:05:06.740 So Mohammed said his use of terror and the spoils of war was a special gift from 01:05:06.740 --> 01:05:07.220 Allah. 01:05:08.460 --> 01:05:12.340 I have been given superiority over the other prophets. 01:05:12.780 --> 01:05:17.360 I have been made victorious with terror cast in hearts of the enemy. 01:05:18.100 --> 01:05:23.720 Spoils have been made lawful to me, and the line of prophets is closed with 01:05:23.720 --> 01:05:24.080 me. 01:05:24.660 --> 01:05:29.920 And while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me 01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:31.420 and put in my hand. 01:05:31.420 --> 01:05:38.220 Mohammed's ultimate goal in the use of terror was to establish Islam. 01:05:39.420 --> 01:05:45.840 He ordered his generals, Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. 01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:49.320 Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. 01:05:50.120 --> 01:05:51.620 Make a holy war. 01:05:52.400 --> 01:05:56.840 When you meet your enemies, invite them to three courses of action. 01:05:56.840 --> 01:05:59.500 Invite them to accept Islam. 01:06:00.040 --> 01:06:05.420 If they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against 01:06:05.420 --> 01:06:05.800 them. 01:06:06.520 --> 01:06:12.340 If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the non-Muslim tax. 01:06:12.860 --> 01:06:17.900 If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. 01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:23.740 If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them. 01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:31.760 Against them, make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds 01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:37.780 of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies 01:06:37.780 --> 01:06:43.800 and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. 01:06:44.300 --> 01:06:49.900 The goal of the terror was the victory of Islam over the entire world. 01:06:49.900 --> 01:06:56.440 Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden 01:06:56.440 --> 01:07:02.140 which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of 01:07:02.140 --> 01:07:08.260 truth, even if they are of the people of the Book, the Bible, until they pay the 01:07:08.260 --> 01:07:12.220 tax with willing submission and feel themselves subdued. 01:07:12.220 --> 01:07:18.540 In one of Muhammad's battles, he conquered the tribe of al-Mustalik. 01:07:19.160 --> 01:07:22.960 Death and fear produced many converts. 01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:28.760 God put the enemy to flight and killed some of them and gave the apostle their 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.900 wives, children, and property as booty. 01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:38.000 When the apostle distributed the captives, the daughter of one of the chiefs, 01:07:38.060 --> 01:07:42.300 Geraria, fell to the lot of Thabit to become his slave. 01:07:44.640 --> 01:07:47.480 Aisha said, She was a most beautiful woman. 01:07:47.900 --> 01:07:50.200 She captivated every man who saw her. 01:07:50.520 --> 01:07:53.420 She came to the apostle to ask his help in the matter. 01:07:54.020 --> 01:07:59.940 By God, as soon as I saw her, I hated her for coming to the prophet, for I knew he 01:07:59.940 --> 01:08:01.300 would see her as I did. 01:08:01.900 --> 01:08:04.200 She went in and told him who she was. 01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:07.800 You can see what misfortune has befallen me. 01:08:08.120 --> 01:08:10.840 I have come to you to ask your aid for my ransom. 01:08:11.640 --> 01:08:15.780 Muhammad said to her, Would you like something better than that? 01:08:16.300 --> 01:08:19.140 She said, What is it, messenger of God? 01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:22.360 I will pay your ransom and marry you. 01:08:23.100 --> 01:08:26.440 She said, Yes, messenger of God. 01:08:27.220 --> 01:08:30.100 And he said, I do so. 01:08:33.200 --> 01:08:37.740 When the news got out to the people that the messenger of God had married Geraria, 01:08:38.180 --> 01:08:42.200 they said, They are relatives by the marriage of the messenger of God, 01:08:42.500 --> 01:08:44.680 and they set free those in their possession. 01:08:45.200 --> 01:08:48.240 When he married her, one hundred families were freed. 01:08:48.700 --> 01:08:52.840 I know of no woman who was a greater blessing to her people than she. 01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:59.300 After her people's bloody defeat and capture, she became a Muslim, married 01:08:59.300 --> 01:09:05.740 Muhammad, and then one hundred families were set free to become Muslims. 01:09:06.980 --> 01:09:13.220 The most successful general of that era was the brutal Khalid ibn Walid. 01:09:14.100 --> 01:09:18.640 He had a standard speech he would give when he was about to conquer a city. 01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:22.140 I call you to God and to Islam. 01:09:22.860 --> 01:09:26.280 If you responded to the call, then you are Muslims. 01:09:27.360 --> 01:09:33.200 You obtain the benefits they enjoy and take up the responsibilities they bear. 01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:38.100 If you refuse, then you must pay the jizya tax. 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:44.820 If you refuse the tax, I will bring against your tribes of people who are more 01:09:44.820 --> 01:09:47.020 eager for death than you are for life. 01:09:48.020 --> 01:09:55.200 Embrace Islam or face an army of men who love death more than you love life. 01:09:56.060 --> 01:10:02.620 The most striking example of force and terror being used by Muhammad for mass 01:10:02.620 --> 01:10:06.120 conversion is his conquest of Mecca. 01:10:06.740 --> 01:10:12.820 Mecca, the city that had mocked and expelled him, the city whose leaders tried 01:10:12.820 --> 01:10:13.700 to kill him. 01:10:14.480 --> 01:10:20.620 Eight years after fleeing from Mecca, Muhammad had built an army of 10,000 men. 01:10:21.380 --> 01:10:25.880 The time was right to capture Mecca, the most important city of the Arabian 01:10:25.880 --> 01:10:31.460 Peninsula, the center of pagan idolatry and the base of his opposition. 01:10:32.360 --> 01:10:37.680 As he approached the city, he instructed his generals to only kill those that 01:10:37.680 --> 01:10:42.460 resisted as well as the people who had left Islam or mocked him in poetry and 01:10:42.460 --> 01:10:42.720 song. 01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:49.440 He sent messengers to the city to promise that anyone who remained in his house 01:10:49.440 --> 01:10:51.820 would not be killed. 01:10:52.220 --> 01:10:57.280 Muhammad and his army marched in, finding only small pockets of resistance 01:10:57.280 --> 01:11:01.840 that were quickly dispatched and proceeded to go to the Kaaba. 01:11:04.020 --> 01:11:09.340 He and his men toppled and burned every single idol. 01:11:09.340 --> 01:11:14.680 The icons of Jesus and Mary were either painted over or removed. 01:11:15.240 --> 01:11:22.200 He announced to all Meccans that their lives would be spared if they swore 01:11:22.200 --> 01:11:26.980 allegiance to him, to his religion, and to his rule. 01:11:28.500 --> 01:11:34.540 With their idols in smoldering ash heaps and Muhammad's sword at their throats, 01:11:35.260 --> 01:11:40.600 they submitted and gave their allegiance to the man that, a week earlier, 01:11:41.120 --> 01:11:43.100 they were still hoping to kill. 01:11:44.080 --> 01:11:50.980 One at a time, each man and woman approached him and declared, There is no 01:11:50.980 --> 01:11:55.340 god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger. 01:11:56.400 --> 01:11:57.920 Mecca converted. 01:11:59.620 --> 01:12:05.520 Muhammad then declared Mecca to be the most sacred city of Islam. 01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:13.220 Mecca, the city that rejected Muhammad when it was free, was converted by force, 01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:21.080 bloodshed, and terror, and then forced to become the center of his new religion. 01:12:22.340 --> 01:12:28.280 In ten years of peaceful preaching in Mecca, Muhammad only had about 200 01:12:28.280 --> 01:12:28.860 converts. 01:12:29.600 --> 01:12:36.260 In ten years of violent war launched from Medina, Muhammad had converted most of the 01:12:36.260 --> 01:12:40.220 Arabian Peninsula and killed thousands who would not convert. 01:12:40.220 --> 01:12:46.820 And in the ten years after Muhammad's death, his companions, using these same 01:12:46.820 --> 01:12:53.540 bloody tactics, had conquered all of modern Jordan, Israel, Palestine, 01:12:54.060 --> 01:12:54.660 and Syria. 01:12:54.660 --> 01:13:01.400 In those first ten years after Muhammad's death, his raping and slaughtering armies 01:13:01.400 --> 01:13:08.160 also conquered huge parts of modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, 01:13:08.700 --> 01:13:14.120 Turkey, Egypt, and North Africa, leaving hundreds of thousands dead, 01:13:14.600 --> 01:13:19.400 hundreds of thousands of women and children in slavery, cities in ruins, 01:13:19.860 --> 01:13:24.800 churches and synagogues in ashes, or stolen and turned into mosques. 01:13:25.500 --> 01:13:32.160 This is how Muhammad's armies spread the religion of Islam after Muhammad's death. 01:13:41.490 --> 01:13:47.130 One can understand how those who had sworn an oath of loyalty to Muhammad with a 01:13:47.130 --> 01:13:52.590 sword at their throats might be tempted to leave Islam once Muhammad was dead. 01:13:53.450 --> 01:13:55.690 This is exactly what happened. 01:13:56.370 --> 01:14:03.070 When Muhammad died in 632, tens of thousands of Muslims in Arabia abandoned 01:14:03.070 --> 01:14:03.470 Islam. 01:14:04.470 --> 01:14:07.350 This is known as the Great Apostasy. 01:14:07.350 --> 01:14:13.930 With Muhammad barely in the grave, Abu Bakr, the first caliph, faced a 01:14:13.930 --> 01:14:14.390 crisis. 01:14:15.190 --> 01:14:17.610 What would he do to save Islam? 01:14:18.150 --> 01:14:20.090 Abu Bakr was Muhammad's closest friend. 01:14:20.690 --> 01:14:23.610 He was his father-in-law, father of Muhammad's child, Brad Aisha. 01:14:24.290 --> 01:14:31.590 Keeping the Muslim community intact and Islam alive depended on his swift and 01:14:31.590 --> 01:14:32.830 decisive actions. 01:14:32.830 --> 01:14:34.450 He knew what to do. 01:14:35.170 --> 01:14:38.170 Muhammad's command rang in his ears. 01:14:39.870 --> 01:14:43.330 Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him. 01:14:44.630 --> 01:14:49.270 Anyone who made the profession of faith, there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is 01:14:49.270 --> 01:14:54.690 his messenger, and then turned away from Islam, must be killed. 01:14:55.670 --> 01:14:59.310 Muhammad had personally ordered the execution of those who left Islam. 01:15:00.070 --> 01:15:02.990 Abu Bakr contrived a plan. 01:15:04.090 --> 01:15:07.010 The majority of Arabians came to Islam by force. 01:15:07.670 --> 01:15:12.530 They would be brought back and made to stay in Islam by force. 01:15:13.090 --> 01:15:18.270 They would be given a short opportunity to repent of their apostasy or they would be 01:15:18.270 --> 01:15:18.570 killed. 01:15:19.550 --> 01:15:26.170 He sent Khalid ibn Walid at the head of a fierce army to march on the renegade 01:15:26.170 --> 01:15:26.590 cities. 01:15:26.590 --> 01:15:30.750 Walid would offer one chance to come back. 01:15:31.230 --> 01:15:35.030 If they refused, he would kill them, as Muhammad commanded. 01:15:35.970 --> 01:15:39.430 Abu Bakr wrote the following letter to those who had left Islam. 01:15:40.210 --> 01:15:47.610 In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, from Abu Bakr, Caliph of the 01:15:47.610 --> 01:15:53.810 Apostle of God, I have sent you Khalid ibn Walid at the head of my army. 01:15:53.810 --> 01:16:01.670 I ordered him not to fight anyone or to kill anyone until he has called him to the 01:16:01.670 --> 01:16:07.930 cause of God, so that those who respond to him and acknowledge Allah and renounce 01:16:07.930 --> 01:16:16.210 unbelief and do good works, my envoy shall accept him and help him to do right. 01:16:16.210 --> 01:16:24.110 But I have ordered him to fight those who deny him for that reason, so he will not 01:16:24.110 --> 01:16:26.050 spare any one of them. 01:16:26.670 --> 01:16:32.710 He can gain mastery over, but may burn them with fire, slaughter them by any 01:16:32.710 --> 01:16:38.130 means, and take women and children captive, nor shall he accept from anyone 01:16:38.130 --> 01:16:40.370 anything except Islam. 01:16:41.150 --> 01:16:45.110 Abu Bakr unleashed the wars of apostasy. 01:16:46.210 --> 01:16:48.290 The apostasy wars were as brutal as he threatened. 01:16:48.970 --> 01:16:50.850 Thousands of men were slaughtered. 01:16:51.050 --> 01:16:53.510 Apostates were burned alive. 01:16:53.970 --> 01:16:55.810 Women and children were enslaved. 01:16:56.230 --> 01:16:59.070 But thousands more repented of their apostasy. 01:16:59.070 --> 01:17:05.250 Again made their profession of faith in Muhammad and agreed to obey every detail 01:17:05.250 --> 01:17:08.970 and pay every tax demanded under Sharia law. 01:17:09.450 --> 01:17:11.670 Thus, they saved their lives. 01:17:12.390 --> 01:17:15.370 And Abu Bakr saved Islam. 01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:24.010 Without the coercion of the apostasy laws and the terror of the apostasy wars, 01:17:24.730 --> 01:17:28.170 Islam would have died with Muhammad. 01:17:29.070 --> 01:17:35.290 But beyond that, it's likely that the apostasy laws, kill all apostates, 01:17:35.750 --> 01:17:43.410 might be the most important tool to have kept Islam alive for over 1400 years. 01:17:44.070 --> 01:17:47.360 Muslim Brotherhood theologian Yusuf Qaradawi explains. 01:17:48.260 --> 01:17:52.580 If they had left apostasy, there would have been no Islam. 01:17:53.520 --> 01:17:57.060 Islam would have ended since the death of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon 01:17:57.060 --> 01:17:57.060 him. 01:17:57.720 --> 01:18:01.440 So, standing before apostasy is what kept Islam alive. 01:18:01.940 --> 01:18:06.920 Yusuf Qaradawi is a widely respected Muslim scholar in some circles. 01:18:07.440 --> 01:18:09.640 He's a proponent of Islamic terrorism. 01:18:10.240 --> 01:18:15.540 He's personally responsible for the death of Allied soldiers and civilians in Iraq. 01:18:15.540 --> 01:18:17.840 And he states it clearly. 01:18:18.420 --> 01:18:24.860 If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam would not exist today. 01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:28.180 The apostasy laws crush dissent. 01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:33.800 If a thinking person says, maybe Muhammad was not a real prophet of God, 01:18:34.320 --> 01:18:41.180 or even maybe what he did to women was immoral, these statements are regarded as 01:18:41.180 --> 01:18:41.840 apostasy. 01:18:41.840 --> 01:18:47.160 The person who says those things has signed their own death warrant in many 01:18:47.160 --> 01:18:48.120 parts of the world. 01:18:49.200 --> 01:18:54.940 For example, if a Muslim leaves Islam in Saudi Arabia or in Pakistan, they can be 01:18:54.940 --> 01:18:55.460 executed. 01:18:56.480 --> 01:19:05.060 But worse than that, Muhammad promised a heavenly reward to anyone who kills 01:19:05.060 --> 01:19:06.160 apostates. 01:19:06.160 --> 01:19:13.040 So, wherever you find them, kill them, for whoever kills them shall have reward 01:19:13.040 --> 01:19:14.280 on the day of resurrection. 01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:24.860 As Muslim armies swept across the Middle East, conversions to Islam under threat of 01:19:24.860 --> 01:19:25.760 death were common. 01:19:26.640 --> 01:19:31.520 However, many of the Christians who converted to Islam came to their senses 01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:33.380 and renounced Islam. 01:19:33.380 --> 01:19:39.560 This repudiation of their new Islamic faith resulted in death. 01:19:40.980 --> 01:19:43.940 One Christian's account is recorded by Muslim historians. 01:19:44.840 --> 01:19:50.240 By God, our religion from which we have departed is better and more correct than 01:19:50.240 --> 01:19:52.220 that which these people follow. 01:19:52.740 --> 01:19:57.280 The religion does not stop them from shedding blood, terrifying the roads, 01:19:57.700 --> 01:19:58.800 and seizing properties. 01:19:59.600 --> 01:20:01.960 And they returned to their former religion. 01:20:02.820 --> 01:20:06.600 Al-Kharit met them and said to them, Woe unto you! 01:20:06.980 --> 01:20:11.920 Do you know the precept of Ali regarding any Christian who accepts Islam and then 01:20:11.920 --> 01:20:13.200 reverts to Christianity? 01:20:14.020 --> 01:20:17.120 By God, he will not hear anything they say. 01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:19.920 He will not consider any excuse. 01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:22.600 He will not accept any repentance. 01:20:23.200 --> 01:20:24.920 And he will not summon them to it. 01:20:24.920 --> 01:20:30.660 His precept regarding them is immediate, cutting off of the head when he gets a 01:20:30.660 --> 01:20:31.220 hold of them. 01:20:31.960 --> 01:20:35.780 He said to them, Accept Islam, but they refused. 01:20:36.460 --> 01:20:42.360 He said to his men, When I rub my head three times, attack them and kill the 01:20:42.360 --> 01:20:45.220 fighting men and make captive the dependents. 01:20:46.500 --> 01:20:52.080 There was an old man among the Christians named al-Rumahis bin Mansur. 01:20:52.080 --> 01:20:55.860 Before he was killed, he made this statement. 01:20:56.540 --> 01:21:01.360 By God, the only error I have made since attaining reason was abandoning my 01:21:01.360 --> 01:21:06.960 religion, the religion of truth, for yours, the religion of wickedness. 01:21:07.540 --> 01:21:14.060 No, by God, I will not leave my religion, and I will not accept yours so long as I 01:21:14.060 --> 01:21:14.420 live. 01:21:15.100 --> 01:21:18.140 My quill brought him forward and cut off his head. 01:21:42.390 --> 01:21:47.770 The person who participates in holy battles in Allah's cause, and nothing 01:21:47.770 --> 01:21:52.730 compels him to do so except belief in Allah and his apostles, will be 01:21:52.730 --> 01:21:57.270 recompensed by Allah either with a reward or booty if he survives, 01:22:09.220 --> 01:22:14.300 or will be admitted to Paradise if he is killed in a battle as a martyr. 01:22:31.230 --> 01:22:36.890 Had I not found it difficult for my followers, then I would not remain behind 01:22:36.890 --> 01:22:41.930 any army unit going for jihad, and I would have loved to be martyred in 01:22:41.930 --> 01:22:42.730 Allah's cause, 01:22:47.250 --> 01:22:53.970 and then made alive, and then martyred, and then made alive, and then again 01:22:53.970 --> 01:22:55.570 martyred in His cause. 01:23:01.030 --> 01:23:07.330 These seductive words of Muhammad, with all of the promises, are used to 01:23:07.330 --> 01:23:13.390 recruit young men to fight in jihad, and to commit acts of terror in which they 01:23:13.390 --> 01:23:17.250 are sure to die while they kill non-Muslims. 01:23:18.830 --> 01:23:21.810 These are not stories taken out of context. 01:23:22.990 --> 01:23:27.870 Sadly, Muhammad repeatedly authorized sexual crimes against women. 01:23:28.550 --> 01:23:32.450 He ordered the assassination of multiple people who satirized him. 01:23:32.810 --> 01:23:34.590 He repeatedly slaughtered Jews. 01:23:35.010 --> 01:23:38.530 He ordered the decapitation of hundreds of hostages. 01:23:38.530 --> 01:23:46.190 Muhammad's actions provide the guidance for Muslim terrorists who want to please 01:23:46.190 --> 01:23:49.550 Allah by following Muhammad's example. 01:23:50.370 --> 01:23:57.090 They believe Muhammad was the ultimate prophet of God, the messenger of Allah, 01:23:57.410 --> 01:24:00.630 and following his example is their duty. 01:24:01.190 --> 01:24:03.030 They declare their faith every day. 01:24:03.030 --> 01:24:08.290 There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger. 01:24:09.370 --> 01:24:14.530 And they're following the clear record of his example, found in the most respected 01:24:14.530 --> 01:24:15.770 Muslim sources. 01:24:18.950 --> 01:24:25.030 Muslim terrorists believe that their brutal actions are Allah's will. 01:24:25.830 --> 01:24:31.790 Whether cutting off the heads of civilians in Iraq or Oklahoma, or murdering American 01:24:31.790 --> 01:24:37.910 servicemen in Chattanooga, or raping women in Syria, or selling girls as sex slaves 01:24:37.910 --> 01:24:43.230 in Iraq and Nigeria, or killing co-workers at a Christmas party in San Bernardino, 01:24:43.330 --> 01:24:48.870 or murdering thousands in Paris or New York or London or Brussels or Madrid, 01:24:49.570 --> 01:24:57.030 because they are mimicking what Muhammad and his companions did 1,400 years ago. 01:24:57.830 --> 01:25:04.630 Muslim jihadists, following the example of Muhammad and his companions, are still 01:25:04.630 --> 01:25:12.710 using terror in the hopes that non-Muslims will convert or at least submit to Sharia 01:25:12.710 --> 01:25:13.030 law. 01:25:13.030 --> 01:25:20.230 They believe that this battle plan is chosen by Allah, because it was 01:25:20.230 --> 01:25:23.730 exemplified in Muhammad and his companions. 01:25:24.510 --> 01:25:31.410 They believe this battle plan is destined to make Islam victorious over the whole 01:25:31.410 --> 01:25:32.010 earth. 01:25:32.930 --> 01:25:39.710 In spite of this overwhelming historic evidence, and the freshly spilt blood in 01:25:39.710 --> 01:25:45.110 cities across the world, media personalities and Western leaders tell us 01:25:45.110 --> 01:25:52.370 that Muhammad was a man of peace, and that Islam is a religion of peace. 01:25:53.270 --> 01:26:00.410 ISIS responded to this absurdity with a lengthy article, Islam is the religion of 01:26:00.410 --> 01:26:02.270 the sword, not pacifism. 01:26:03.130 --> 01:26:08.450 The article opens with a rebuke to deceitful Muslims. 01:26:08.450 --> 01:26:15.130 There is a slogan repeated continuously by apologetic Muslims when flirting with the 01:26:15.130 --> 01:26:17.410 West, and that is their statement. 01:26:17.990 --> 01:26:23.390 Islam is the religion of peace, and they mean pacifism by the word peace. 01:26:23.990 --> 01:26:29.250 They have repeated this slogan so much to the extent that some of them allege that 01:26:29.250 --> 01:26:32.430 Islam calls to permanent peace with infidels. 01:26:33.030 --> 01:26:35.390 How far is their claim from the truth? 01:26:35.390 --> 01:26:41.370 For Allah has revealed Islam to be the religion of the sword, and the evidence 01:26:41.370 --> 01:26:45.470 for this is so profuse that only a heretic would argue otherwise. 01:26:46.370 --> 01:26:51.830 This ISIS author gives a historic overview of Islam as founded in practice by 01:26:51.830 --> 01:26:56.270 Muhammad, showing that Islam was and is a religion of the sword. 01:26:57.030 --> 01:27:01.870 ISIS quotes Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law, one of his successors who repeatedly 01:27:01.870 --> 01:27:03.970 carried out Muhammad's orders to kill people. 01:27:03.970 --> 01:27:11.190 Ali said, in summary, Allah's messenger was sent with five swords, a sword for the 01:27:11.190 --> 01:27:17.610 polytheists, a sword for Christians and Jews, a sword for hypocrites, a sword for 01:27:17.610 --> 01:27:20.890 rebels, and a sword for apostates. 01:27:22.770 --> 01:27:29.250 The Quran, Muhammad's life, the Hadith, and Sharia law are clear. 01:27:29.250 --> 01:27:36.970 Jihad, terrorism, killing and battle, and the threat to kill anyone who leaves 01:27:36.970 --> 01:27:47.370 Islam was and is the key means used to spread and sustain Islam since the life of 01:27:47.370 --> 01:27:47.850 Muhammad. 01:27:52.000 --> 01:27:58.420 In addition to acts of terror, there are other insidious plots under the 01:27:58.420 --> 01:28:05.260 radar to seduce and then intimidate non-Muslims into submitting to Islamic 01:28:05.260 --> 01:28:06.640 Sharia law. 01:28:07.500 --> 01:28:07.780 How? 01:28:08.640 --> 01:28:11.240 Infiltration, then domination. 01:28:12.440 --> 01:28:17.820 Muslims following Muhammad's mission are steadily infiltrating the realms of 01:28:17.820 --> 01:28:24.560 finance, banking, the judiciary, law enforcement, childcare, entertainment, 01:28:25.220 --> 01:28:32.560 education, politics, elected office, real estate acquisitions, and even our 01:28:32.560 --> 01:28:40.040 churches with a false ecumenical dialogue, all with the ultimate goal of dominating 01:28:40.040 --> 01:28:43.380 every aspect of American life. 01:28:43.380 --> 01:28:45.260 But this message is not here to integrate. 01:28:46.260 --> 01:28:47.300 It's here to dominate. 01:28:48.140 --> 01:28:49.860 Islam is here to dominate. 01:28:51.200 --> 01:28:56.400 Wealthy foreign Muslims are funding this subversion with oil money. 01:28:57.520 --> 01:29:01.500 Tens of millions of dollars have been given by the Saudis to American 01:29:01.500 --> 01:29:07.440 universities to ensure that Islam is portrayed in a positive light and to 01:29:07.440 --> 01:29:11.500 suppress any criticism of Muhammad or Islam. 01:29:12.480 --> 01:29:17.900 Textbooks in American Muslim schools for children, again paid for with Islamic oil 01:29:17.900 --> 01:29:23.580 money, teach Muslim children they can kill Christians and Jews. 01:29:24.480 --> 01:29:31.160 Billions of dollars have been poured into America to build and fund lavish mosques 01:29:31.160 --> 01:29:37.720 and Muslim community centers, many of which are outposts of evil, training 01:29:37.720 --> 01:29:43.400 grounds that inspire Muslims to acts of terror that teach them to hate American 01:29:43.400 --> 01:29:47.400 freedoms and to strive to overthrow the U .S. 01:29:47.540 --> 01:29:48.300 Constitution. 01:29:49.560 --> 01:29:55.900 A recent Pew poll showed that 13% of Muslims in America believe that suicide 01:29:55.900 --> 01:30:02.680 bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in 01:30:02.680 --> 01:30:05.880 order to defend Islam from its enemies. 01:30:05.880 --> 01:30:12.980 A CSP poll found that 25% of Muslims in America believe that violence against 01:30:12.980 --> 01:30:18.460 Americans can be justified as a part of the global Jihad. 01:30:19.160 --> 01:30:26.100 29% of Muslims in America believe that Americans who criticize Muhammad or Islam 01:30:26.100 --> 01:30:34.400 should be violently punished and that over half of Muslims in America would rather be 01:30:34.400 --> 01:30:39.040 governed by Islamic Sharia law than the U .S. 01:30:39.460 --> 01:30:40.040 Constitution. 01:30:41.140 --> 01:30:46.120 Sharia law would destroy freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the 01:30:46.120 --> 01:30:51.140 freedom of the press and be the end of America as we know it. 01:30:52.140 --> 01:30:58.520 Our oil and energy policy, our immigration policy, and our misguided trust of Islamic 01:30:58.520 --> 01:31:05.260 militants mobilizing in our midst under the pretense of freedom of religion are a 01:31:05.260 --> 01:31:07.780 matter of life and death. 01:31:08.980 --> 01:31:15.380 Christians in particular must understand that Islam's goal, as clearly stated by 01:31:15.380 --> 01:31:22.120 Muhammad, is to enslave or eliminate Christianity from the face of the earth. 01:31:23.100 --> 01:31:25.820 Study what Muslim armies did in the Middle East. 01:31:26.660 --> 01:31:31.780 Look at Constantinople, look at Ephesus and Galatia, the very cradle of 01:31:31.780 --> 01:31:34.200 Christianity, and be warned. 01:31:35.260 --> 01:31:42.400 Historic churches lie in ruins or have been stolen and forcibly turned into 01:31:42.400 --> 01:31:43.020 mosques. 01:31:43.020 --> 01:31:49.480 Christianity has been enslaved or wiped out. 01:31:51.120 --> 01:31:53.680 Millions of Christian women were raped. 01:31:54.420 --> 01:31:59.460 Their sons were kidnapped and forcibly raised to be Muslim warriors. 01:32:00.380 --> 01:32:03.140 Others were enslaved or slaughtered. 01:32:03.460 --> 01:32:07.320 And these crimes continue to this very day. 01:32:07.320 --> 01:32:13.700 If we don't face the danger we're in, if we refuse to push back against Islamic 01:32:13.700 --> 01:32:19.600 infiltration and domination, we may find that Islamic militants use our freedoms 01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:25.920 and our laws in our country to overthrow our freedoms and laws and destroy our 01:32:25.920 --> 01:32:26.320 country. 01:32:26.320 --> 01:32:36.180 Total domination is the goal of Islam, as was clearly stated by Muhammad in his 01:32:36.180 --> 01:32:37.740 own words. 01:32:56.320 --> 01:33:01.900 I condemn those who disobey my orders to servility and humiliation.