The Achtiname of Muhammad – 626 AD
They may have a profitable business model, but ISIS and other Muslim extremists who persecute Christians are disobeying a direct order from Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
Specifically, in 626 AD, Muhammad issued The Achtiname of Muhammad, also known as the Covenant or (Holy) Testament (Testamentum) of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Achtiname – shown above – ordered Muslims to protect and defend Christians, and condemned as sinners Muslims who mistreated Christians:
This is a letter which was issued by Mohammed, Ibn Abdullah, the Messenger, the Prophet, the Faithful, who is sent to all the people as a trust on the part of God to all His creatures, that they may have no plea against God hereafter. Verily God is the Mighty, the Wise. This letter is directed to the embracers of Islam, as a covenant given to the followers of Nazarene [i.e. Christians] in the East and West, the far and near, the Arabs and foreigners, the known and the unknown.
This letter contains the oath given unto them, and he who disobeys that which is therein will be considered a disobeyer and a transgressor to that whereunto he is commanded. He will be regarded as one who has corrupted the oath of God, disbelieved His Testament, rejected His Authority, despised His Religion, and made himself deserving of His Curse, whether he is a Sultan or any other believer of Islam. Whenever monks, devotees and pilgrims gather together, whether in a mountain or valley, or den, or frequented place, or plain, or church, or in houses of worship, verily we are [at the] back of them and shall protect them, and their properties and their morals, by Myself, by My Friends and by My Assistants, for they are of My Subjects and under My Protection.
I shall exempt them from that which may disturb them; of the burdens which are paid by others as an oath of allegiance. They must not give anything of their income but that which pleases them—they must not be offended, or disturbed, or coerced or compelled. Their judges should not be changed or prevented from accomplishing their offices, nor the monks disturbed in exercising their religious order, or the people of seclusion be stopped from dwelling in their cells.
No one is allowed to plunder the pilgrims, or destroy or spoil any of their churches, or houses of worship, or take any of the things contained within these houses and bring it to the houses of Islam. And he who takes away anything therefrom, will be one who has corrupted the oath of God, and, in truth, disobeyed His Messenger.
Poll-taxes should not be put upon their judges, monks, and those whose occupation is the worship of God; nor is any other thing to be taken from them, whether it be a fine, a tax or any unjust right. Verily I shall keep their compact, wherever they may be, in the sea or on the land, in the East or West, in the North or South, for they are under My Protection and the testament of My Safety, against all things which they abhor.
No taxes or tithes should be received from those who devote themselves to the worship of God in the mountains, or from those who cultivate the Holy Lands. No one has the right to interfere with their affairs, or bring any action against them. Verily this is for aught else and not for them; rather, in the seasons of crops, they should be given a Kadah for each Ardab of wheat (about five bushels and a half) as provision for them, and no one has the right to say to them this is too much, or ask them to pay any tax.
As to those who possess properties, the wealthy and merchants, the poll-tax to be taken from them must not exceed twelve drachmas a head per year [according to Wikipedia, about 200 modern U.S. dollars].
They shall not be imposed upon by anyone to undertake a journey, or to be forced to go to wars or to carry arms; for the Islams have to fight for them. Do no dispute or argue with them, but deal according to the verse recorded in the Koran, to wit: ‘Do not dispute or argue with the People of the Book but in that which is best’ [29:46]. Thus they will live favored and protected from everything which may offend them by the Callers to religion (Islam), wherever they may be and in any place they may dwell.
Should any Christian woman be married to a Musulman [i.e. Muslim], such marriage must not take place except after her consent, and she must not be prevented from going to her church for prayer. Their churches must be honored and they must not be withheld from building churches or repairing convents.
They must not be forced to carry arms or stones; but the Islams must protect them and defend them against others. It is positively incumbent upon every one of the Islam nation not to contradict or disobey this oath until the Day of Resurrection and the end of the world.
(This is the Haddad translation; other translations here.)
ISIS and other Islamic terrorists are not true Muslims, and they have disobeyed a direct order of Muhammad.
No wonder the majority of Muslims all over the world condemn them.
hey george, its time to write an article on the brilliance of the talmud and other enlightening christian and jewish insanity.
they can't even agree they worship the same god essentially denying their's is the only one god by claiming the other claimants to a monogod are claiming a false god. kinda like a circle jerk....not that i would ever approve of that in a church of any kind.
one god means you are all equally good and equally bad. make your choice.
There are similarities and a big difference between the stories of Jesus and Mohamed.
The similarities are:
1) both initially preached a peaceful message
2) their followers wrote down every word they said
3) TPTB at the time wanted them dead before their religion grew too big
The big difference is Jesus chose to sacrifice himself to found his religion whereas Mohamed fought a guerrila war to found his. The problem with that is Mohamed's military manual from that war got written into the religion by his followers and that military manual is consistent with (and relatively kinder in fact) than the normal practise for 7th century desert raiders. If Jesus had fought a guerrilla war instead of letting himself be crucified then the New Testament would probably have his military manual written into it as well and that would likely be consistent with (but relatively more merciful) than the standard Roman military practise of the time - which in terms of killing and enslaving was exactly the same as 7th century Arabs.
George W, you are a concern troll.
This is not to say that I don't like concern trolling now and again- I love it. It's starting to look like you actually believe your trollicious bile, however, and that is getting obnoxious. What's worse, I don't think you even realize you are a concern troll.
Telling Muslims what is and what is not Muslim is one of the greatest pass-times of the Muslim world. Just look at the specious, mind-bendingly asinine reasons for the existence of the Sunni/Shiia split.
Perhaps this evening George Washington can put his Q'uranic scholarship towards explaining why Shiia is the true way. I'm looking forward to it.
Listen to what the author and the muslims around the world say: they are NOT TRUE MUSLIMS. Sorry, but no. All this clap-trap about a "caliphate" can come straight out sites like the religion of fear. com. Anyone of us could have put it together with minimal effort.
The question is, who are they? We know about the financing, we known plenty of them are Americans, Brits, French, etc...
Mercs?
"who are they"
The foot soldiers are people who want to rape and kill without going to jail.
Hey GW, the earlier stuff written by mohammed was like as you have evidenced. However, after Mohammed gained power, things changed for the worse. This is basic life of Mohammed first grade stuff. Evidently, you failed first grade.
Wanna explain to everyone what happened to the Banu Qurayza in 627AD?
Since I think you wont, I will. Mohammed had 800 men and boys of the Banu Qurayza beheaded. Only a year after your "Hope and Change" document. Get your history correct, GW.
Grimaldus
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/History.htm
The Qurayza Massacre
By the time the Banu Qurayza met their fate, Muhammad was wealthy and powerful from his defeat of the other two tribes.
The Jews of the Banu Qurayza tasted Muhammad's wrath after their leader half-heartedly sided with the Meccan army during a siege of Medina (the Battle of the Trench). By then, Muhammad had evicted the other Jews and declared that all land at Medina belonged to him, so the original constitution of the town was no longer in effect. It is important to note that the Qurayza did not attack the Muslims, even after switching loyalties (contrary to another popular myth).
Although the Qurayza surrendered peacefully to the Muslims, Muhammad determined to have every man of the tribe executed, along with every boy that had reached the initial stages of puberty (between the ages of 12 and 14). He ordered a ditch dug outside of the town and had the victims brought to him in several groups. Each person would be forced to kneel, and their head would be cut off and then dumped along with the body into the trench.
Between 700 and 900 men and boys were slaughtered by the Muslims after their surrender.
The surviving children of the men became slaves of the Muslims, and their widows became sex slaves. This included the Jewish girl, Rayhana, who became one of Muhammad's personal concubines the very night that her husband was killed. The prophet of Islam apparently "enjoyed her pleasures" (ie. raped her) even as the very execution of her people was taking place.
The thing is the neocons are trying to use Isis as an excuse for moar war so it is understandable that people want to try and counter that but the "religion of peace" argument is not going to work on people who are self-informed because **it is not true**.
(Obviously it's mostly true in practise because most normal muslims ignore the bloodthristy bits for a quiet life but the religion itself is not peaceful (towards non-muslims) at all.)
This is going to come as news to many of Islam's warriors against Christians -- from Saladin to Baybars to Sulieman the Magnificent. No virgins for them, I guess.
George Washington No wonder the majority of Muslims all over the world condemn them.
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What a joke. George, I pray I never meet you. I want to kick you in the balls and beat the shit out of you for all your BS you have put out through the years. But you don't have any balls and it would be to easy to put you down.
to be precise, he said "islams", not muslims.
a significant grammatical error, given the subject matter. and confirmation he doesnt have a clue.
Islam means Peace.
Sayeth some other George.
What is this Tylers, clickbait?
And god fucking damn, George W, even your physics and engineering challenged contrails bullshit was more believable than this.
What's next? Pedophiles are Ohhhh Kay? Corzine is innocent and deserves and apology? Dindu Nuffins was shot in Ferguson, MO because of the Tyranny of Poverty?
The literal translation of the word "Islam" is submission or surrender.
Islam is whatever its believers say it is. If the IS Caliphate has the support of the world's Muslims, and if the Caliphate is winning on the ground, then Caliph Ibrahim is their ruler and he says what Islam is.
George, Now that you have figured that out please go to Iraq and explain that to ISIS, I'm sure that they will understand.
www.citizenwarrior.com
George Washington sounds like Al Jazeera.
Some things about the Isis situation seem self-evidently true:
1) The neocons are evil psychopaths
2) The neocons and their current Gulf allies created the Isis situation by pouring money and guns into the hands of people fighting Assad in syria
3) The neocons are now trying to use the Isis situation they created to restart Iraq 3.0
However none of those things determine how jihadist groups behave towards non-muslims (or people they consider bad muslims) when they're on the rampage.
Hey pal, the progressive obamatron assclowns are in charge. They kinda make neocons look like pikers, don't they?
Grimaldus
"the progressive obamatron assclowns are in charge"
Quite.
Which is **why** the necons who completely dominate the state department are front-running their own foreign policy using false flags and creating groups like Isis to create crisises which can then be used to bounce the country into wars.
Umm, last I checked old Lurch and Hitlery were card carrying progresive murderers running the "Worshipers Of the State Deptmartment", which has been completely taken over by neo-stalinist progressive assclowns. Neo-cons try but can't hope to compete with progresive murderering criminals infesting the FEDGOV.
Grimaldus
I'm talking about people in the state department like the Kagans and Nuland who were neocons when Bush was president and are neocons now. It's people like them who are part of the *permanent* Washington elite that I'm talking about.
(Also neocons *are* progressives. They come from a segment of the progressive coalition who broke away and infiltrated the Conservative side because they wanted a much more violent foreign policy.)
I think we are in agreement 100%
Grimaldus
Bottom line, anyone defending these murdering, intollerant, F'ing idiots is an even bigger idiot. They all must GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only religion of most people here?
Keyboard Activist
or Laptop Bombardier
I'm partial to snakes and banjo music.
GW, the letter you cite, pre-dates the writing of the Qur'an. And, as anyone who has done any reading about the Qur'an knows, if there is a conflict between one passage and another, then the last one written is the one to follow because it was given to Muhammad more recently from Allah, through Gabriel. The Qur'an is actually similar to the Bible in that there are two (2) sides. One based upon Muhammads teachings while he lived in Medina and another when he lived in Mecca. His view of Jews and the people of the book is vastly different in each. The apologists cite verses from the Medina side, but the Mecca side is more recent and more violent.
9:29 - Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
9:29 - O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination.
The reference to the Scripture is the Bible and the Jizyah is a tax.
Mecca first Medina later.
Medina is where he builds his army.
thank you very much for clearing that up. yes, the first part of the koran was the peaceful part. the latter half, not so much.
the term for the latter taking precedence over the former is abrogation, I believe.
and george is full of taqqiya. that is, lying is just fine if it advances the cause of the muslims.
Kill anyone that believes in a god. They obviously do not have the mental capaicity for rational thought and therefore should not be part of the human race, nor should they be allowed to poison other people's minds.
And while you are at it, kill everyone that believes fiat money created out of thin air can create wealth.,
Same concept. One saves the "soul". The other saves the "economy". Meanwhile, the money changers get richer off of our suffering.
I'll bet you're the Diversity Director at the local college.
Kill anybody that advocates killing anybody.
Is the author fucking retarded?
funny how it is bad when isis targets christian arabs but israel gets a pass on interfereong with easter rituals and killing christian arabs in gaza.
isis has been exposed for it's purpose. isis provides the back door to syria. wouldn't it be simpler to ask assad to take care of them for the west(uh,usa) since the syrian army has been very good at killimng them so far?
this is the transparent .gov obambam spoke of. rally the bottom half of the class with stories of scary muslims killing christians. when critical mass "killl them all" sentiment is fomented claim they will have to be chased into syria, the place the public(congress) refused to go before.
more and more death over who is the true god. . . not good...
Anybody here even met any Muslims?
Besides the Muslims here that is?
I met LOTS of Christians that would shame Christ
I have. Have you?
Think about this:
If I call myself a Martian does it mean I really came from Mars?
Do I not look like the true god????????
ISIL/ISIS listens and follows the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad about as much as the Knights Templars listened and followed the teachings of the Savior Jesus Christ.
Read it for yourself. The rules laid down about how to make war againt the infidels are quite clear. Obviously most muslims ignore that part of the Koran but it's there and that part is what makes it so easy for the CIA or the Gulf states to attack their enemies in other countries by funding and arming jihadist groups like Isis.
bullshit! the ottoman empire modified the haditha to allow the empire to become an empire. they are not much different than christin or jewish justification for murder which amounts to modifying the ten commandments entry on murder.
the abrahamics are all loony.
I dont recall any christians beheading anyone in the name of christianity for what, 1200 years?
idiot.
"Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His." -- Arnaud Amalric
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Amalric
The Church actually preferred burning at the stake to beheading for heretics because it was more painful.
they drop cluster bombs now. still following 2000 year ago story in the context of today? you r fn brilliant!
Call em Muslims that work for Obama. That way people will know the Muslim part and the Obama parts are lies.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-islamic-state-isis-and-israel-are-allies/5397522
In one episode of Tool Time, Wilson told Tim that in the Koran, women weren't given many rights. Tim pondered for a moment and then said, "Those Koreans really have it worked out." Slightly misquoted.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=487412&contrassID=2
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
By Amiram Barkat
The Jews killed The Lord, not Mohammed.
Religion needs sacrifice. Jesus chose to die.
(And the Jews being literate made them a good choice.)
I'm not knocking Jesus btw if that's what the down voters think. The religious impulse **requires** sacrifice so Jesus did what he needed to do to found the religion.