In June 2020, Dr. Craig Considine, a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Rice University, produced a video titled “Who Is the First Anti-Racist in Human History?” In this video Considine identified Muhammad as that “First Anti-Racist.” Considine noted:
Arguably, Prophet Muhammad was the first person in human history to declare, in no uncertain terms, that no person is above another by virtue of race or ethnicity. This declaration is crystallized in one of the Prophet’s notable speeches: His Last Sermon, as it is known, which was delivered on Mount Arafat in 632 A.D. In that sermon, the Prophet Muhammad unequivocally condemned racism when he said: “All mankind is descended from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab. And a non-Arab has no superiority over an Arab. A white person has no superiority over a black person, nor a black person has any superiority over a white person, except by piety and good action.”
Ever since then, Prophet Muhammad’s teachings on racial equality have inspired human beings to strive for racial equality and justice for all.[1]
Considine’s video and its transcript, along with numerous other articles that include variations of Muhammad’s statement about Arabs and non-Arabs, and whites and blacks, populate the internet. And Muhammad is lauded as a man who was centuries ahead of his times in terms of race relations.
Did Muhammad really make such a statement during his “Last Sermon”? Strangely, this statement is not found in early classical works by authoritative Muslim scholars where the “Last Sermon” is mentioned.[2] It is also not found in popular modern works where the “Last Sermon” is mentioned; included with these modern works is The Sealed Nectar, which was awarded First Prize in 1979 by The Muslim World League (Mecca) in a worldwide competition for a new biography of Muhammad.[3]
It is found in neither the six authoritative hadith collections nor in Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas.[4]
It is found in only one hadith collection: Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal, collected by Imam Bin Hanbal (780-855 AD), the founder of the Hanbali School of Islamic Sacred Law. Only four of the 15 volumes of the Musnad have been translated into English and these four do not mention that particular statement of Muhammad. Consequently, I have relied on the following translation of Muhammad’s statement as reportedly found in another part of the Musnad:
From Abi Nadrah al-Mundhir Ibn Malik Ibn Qut’ah…[Muhammad said] Indeed an Arab has no excellence over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any excellence over an Arab, nor does a white person have any excellence over a black one, nor does a black person have any excellence over a white one, except through taqwa.[5]
It would appear that Muhammad was indeed a pioneer in the condemnation of racism, especially between whites and blacks.
However, there is a problem here. There were numerous reports that Muhammad was “white”;[6] and lest there would be any confusion about that matter, an early Muslim scholar stated that anyone who claimed that Muhammad was black should be killed.[7]
And the white Muhammad owned black slaves. Muhammad:
- Had a black slave boy named Mid’am.[8]
- Had a black male slave camel driver named Anjasha.[9]
- Had a black male slave as a doorman.[10]
- Had black slave girls. One of these slave girls committed fornication and Muhammad ordered that she be given 50 lashes after her postpartum bleeding had ended.[11] And a black slave girl played a drum for Muhammad’s entertainment.[12]
- Used two of his black slaves to purchase another slave.[13]
So how can the white Muhammad be considered the “first anti-racist” when he owned black slaves? How could he state that whites and blacks had no superiority over the other when he was obviously superior to his black slaves?
The answer is found in the final part of Muhammad’s statement where he says that whites and blacks have no superiority over each other “except through taqwa.”
In looking at different versions of Muhammad’s statement, especially when it is quoted by non-Muslims, the word taqwa is often replaced by general phrases such as “piety and good action,” and “personal piety and righteousness.”
However, the word taqwa has nothing to do with such ecumenical generalities. It rather means obeying the Muslim god Allah:
The reality [haqiqa] of pious devotion [taqwa] is doing what Allah (Almighty and Glorious is He) has commanded you to do, forsaking what He has forbidden you to do, and being patient with His workings…His decrees of destiny…and all the rest of His trials and tribulations.[14]
It also means fearing Allah:
Taqwa is defined as fearing Allah when a person fears from Almighty Allah then he will not commit sins. Taqwa incorporates consciousness and fear of Allah as well as piety. Piety is basically righteousness that can be only obtained by the obedience of Almighty Allah and refrain from His prohibitions… In Holy Quran and Sunnah Taqwa is define [sic] as the concept of protecting oneself from the Hellfire by following the orders of Allah Almighty, by doing what He (SWT) has commanded and by avoiding what He (SWT) has forbidden…[15]
Taqwa means fearing and acting on the commands of Allah,[16] and Muhammad spoke frequently about the “taqwa of Allah.”[17]
Here it is important to emphasize that Allah, the god of Islam, is not the same as the God of Christians and Jews. Consider this from a Muslim website:
But what the Muslim should use in his worship… and all other circumstances when referring to Allah, may He be exalted and glorified, is the word “Allah” as it is, because that has become a symbol for the Muslims and something that distinguishes them, and it helps to avoid any confusion between what they mean and what others mean when they say “God” [my emphasis], as others may sometimes be referring to Allah, but sometimes they may be referring to something else…[18]
The Koran and the teachings of Muhammad make it abundantly clear that Allah is not the same as the God of Christians and Jews.[19] And when Muslims refer to “believers” they are referring only to Muslims; Christians and Jews in particular are not considered to be “believers.”[20]
So the word taqwa is used exclusively to refer to Allah, the god of Islam, and it is only the worship and fear of Allah that determines excellence and superiority among people. As Dr. ‘Abd al-Salam Ibn Burjis noted about Muhammad’s statement:
And in this hadith, excellence is confined to taqwa and it is negated in anything other than taqwa.[21]
This means that Muslims are inherently superior to non-Muslims.[22]
Conclusion
Muhammad’s statement is commonly understood as proclaiming that no person is superior to another by virtue of race or ethnicity. But that is not what Muhammad said.
As we have seen, taqwa means following the commands of Allah, the god of Islam. So in reality, Muhammad said that excellence/superiority is determined by one’s belief in, and adherence to the commands of Allah. By virtue of that fact, Muslims are inherently superior to non-Muslims, who by definition do not believe in the Muslim god Allah. Consequently, the white Muhammad could have as many non-Muslim black slaves (and any other color of such slaves) as he wanted.[23]
The significance of the word taqwa is also important to understanding Koran 49:13:
O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you with Allah is that (believer) who has At-Taqwa. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, Well-Acquainted.
This Koran verse is often used to support the claim that Islam teaches that people of various countries and ethnicities are all equal and should learn to know each other and get along in peace. In reality, the focus of 49:13 has nothing to do with different people being equal and learning to live together in peace; this verse simply states that of all the people created, the Muslims, who have taqwa, are the “most honourable” in the eyes of Allah.
So the use of the word taqwa means that in the above hadith Muhammad said nothing about “racial equality and justice for all.” Muhammad simply pointed out that only fear and worship of Allah were what determined excellence and superiority; those who did not have taqwa, non-Muslims, were by virtue of that fact no better than any other non-Muslim.
Muhammad was an “anti-racist” only in the fact that he divided all people into two, non-racial categories; he said:
One is only a righteous believer [Muslim] or a doomed evildoer.[24]
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.
[1] Dr. Craig Considine, “Who Is the First Anti-Racist in Human History?,” New Muslim, June 11, 2020, https://www.newmuslim.net/featured/who-is-the-first-anti-racist-in-human-history/.
[2] From the 8th – 18th Centuries:
Muhammad ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad (Sirat Rasul Allah), trans. Alfred Guillaume (Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 649-652.
Muhammad b. ‘Umar al-Waqidi, The Life of Muhammad: Al-Waqidi’s Kitab al-Maghazi, trans. Rizwi Faizer, Amal Ismail, and AbdulKader Tayob, ed. Rizwi Faizer (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 539-541, and 543-545.
Abu Ja’far Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari: The Last Years of the Prophet, Vol. IX, trans. and annotated Ismail K. Poonawala (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1990), pp. 109-115.
Abu ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Sa’d ibn Mani’ al-Zuhri al-Basri, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, Vol. 2, trans. S. Moinul Haq (New Delhi, India: Kitab Bhavan, 2009), pp. 213-235.
‘Imaduddeen Isma’eel ibn Katheer al-Qurashi, Winning the Hearts and Souls: Expeditions and Delegations in the Lifetime of Prophet Muhammad, trans. Research Department of Darussalam (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2010), pp. 239-357.
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab at-Tamimi, Abridged Biography of Prophet Muhammad, ed. ‘Abdur-Rahman bin Nasir Al-Barrak, ‘Abdul ‘Azeez bin ‘Abdullah Ar-Rajihi, and Muhammad Al-‘Ali Al-Barrak (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2003), pp. 309-310.
[3] Modern works:
Karen Armstrong, Muhammad, A Biography of the Prophet (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 252-254.
Robert Spencer, The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing Company, 2006), pp. 160-161.
Martin Lings, Muhammad, His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2006), pp. 348-351.
Karen Armstrong, Muhammad, A Prophet for our Time (New York: HarperOne, 2007), pp. 193-194.
Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2008), pp. 538-546.
Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, When the Moon Split, A Biography of the Prophet Muhammad (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2009), pp. 390-397.
Abu ‘Eisa Mohammad ibn ‘Eisa at-Tirmidhi, Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, trans. Abu Khaliyl, 6 Volumes (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007)
Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, 9 Volumes (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997)
Abu’l Hussain ‘Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, Sahih Muslim, trans. ‘Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, 8 Volumes (New Delhi, India: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008)
Abu Dawud Sulaiman bin al-Ash’ath bin Ishaq, Sunan Abu Dawud, trans. Yaser Qadhi, 5 Volumes (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2008)
Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman Ahmad bin Shu’aib bin ‘Ali bin Sinan bin Bahr An-Nasa’i, Sunan An-Nasa’i, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab, 6 Volumes (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007)
Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah al-Qazwini, Sunan Ibn Majah, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab, 5 Volumes (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007)
Malik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn Abi ‘Amir al-Asbahi, Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Formulation of Islamic Law, trans. Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (Inverness, Scotland: Madinah Press, 2004)
[5] Dr. ‘Abd al-Salam Ibn Burjis Ibn Nasir Al-Abd al-Karim, Prophetic Ahadith in Condemnation of Racism (Grand Rapids, MI: Sunnah Publishing, 2012), p. 28.
[6] For example: Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 1, Book 3, No. 63, p. 92; Sahih Muslim, Vol. 7, No. 2340, p. 44; Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 1, No. 486, p. 294; and Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal ash-Shaibani, Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2012),Vol. 1, No. 1300, p. 587.
[7] Qadi ‘Iyad ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, Muhammad, Messenger of Allah: Ash-Shifa of Qadi ‘Iyad, trans. Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley (Norwich, UK: Diwan Press, 2011), p. 387.
[8] Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas, 21.13.25, p. 179; Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 3, No. 2711, p. 323; and Sunan An-Nasa’i, Vol. 4, Nol. 3858, p. 449.
[9] Sahih Muslim, Vol. 7, No. 2323, p. 38; and Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 8, Book 78, No. 6161, p. 106.
[10] Jami At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 6, No. 3318, p. 50; Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 3, Book 46, No. 2468, p. 376; Vol. 6, Book 65, No. 4913, p. 363; and Vol. 9, Book 95, No. 7263, p. 227; Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal, Vol. 1, No. 222, p. 144.
[11] Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 1, No. 332, p. 212; and Musnad Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal, Vol. 1, No. 1142, p. 530.
[12] Jami At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 6, No. 3690, p. 368. Abu Hurairah, a close companion of Muhammad, also had at least one black slave girl: Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 2, No. 2174, p. 566.
[13] Sunan An-Nasa’i, Vol. 5, No. 4189, p. 126; Sunan Ibn Majah, Vol. 4, No. 2869, p. 107; and Jami At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 3, No. 1239, p. 49, and No. 1596, p. 360.
[14] Shaikh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, The Sublime Revelation: Al-Fath ar-Rabbani, Trans. Muhtar Holland (Fort Lauderdale, FL: Al-Baz Publishing, Inc. Kindle Edition), p. 358.
[15] “Importance of Taqwa in Islam and its Benefits from Quran,” Quran Reading, January 2, 2018, http://www.quranreading.com/blog/importance-of-taqwa-in-islam-and-its-benefits-from-quran/.
[16] For additional examples of taqwa referring specifically to Allah, see: Prophetic Ahadith in Condemnation of Racism, p. 81; Sunan Ibn Majah, Vol. 5, p. 527; Sunan An-Nasa’i, Vol. 6, p. 480; Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 5, p. 588; Jami’ At Tirmidhi, Vol 6, p. 640; Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ansari al-Qurtubi, Tafsir Al-Qurtubi: Classical Commentary of the Holy Qur’an, Vol. 1, trans. Aisha Bewley (London: Dar Al Taqwa Ltd., 2003), p. 780; and Jalalu’d-Din al-Mahalli and Jalalu’d-Din as-Suyuti, Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, trans. Aisha Bewley (London: Dar Al Taqwa Ltd., 2007), p. 1369.
[17] For example: Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 3, No. 3124, p. 570; Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 6, No. 3445, p. 172; and Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas, 18.5.13, p. 113.
[18] “Translating the names and attributes of Allah into other languages and swearing by them,” Islam Question & Answer, April 16, 2012, https://islamqa.info/en/answers/171528/translating-the-names-and-attributes-of-allah-into-other-languages-and-swearing-by-them.
[19] Stephen M. Kirby, “Do We All Believe in the Same God?” FrontPage Mag, December 22, 2014, https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/do-we-all-believe-same-god-dr-stephen-m-kirby/.
[20] Stephen M. Kirby, “The Fantasy Islam of the University of Chicago’s Fred Donner (Part 1),” Jihad Watch, January 30, 2019, https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/the-fantasy-islam-of-the-university-of-chicagos-fred-donner-part-1.
[21] Prophetic Ahadith in Condemnation of Racism, p. 29.
[22] The inherent superiority of Muslims over non-Muslims is stated in Koran verses such as 3:110, 98:6 and 98:7.
[23] For more information about Muhammad’s involvement with slavery go to The Perfect Man Truth at http://perfectmantruth.com/slaves.php.
[24] Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 5, No. 5116, p. 419.
mortimer says
Proof that Islam is systemically racist …
-“The Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Negroes) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of the dumb animals.” – Ibn Khaldun, “The Muqaddimah,” 117 (The Sheikh of Islam)
-Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.” [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.’”
-Ishaq:144 “A rock was put on a slave’s chest. When Abu Bakr complained, they said, ‘You are the one who corrupted him, so save him from his plight.’ I will do so,’ said Bakr. ‘I have a black slave, tougher and stronger than Bilal, who is a heathen. I will exchange him. The transaction was carried out.”
-Qur’an 9:97 “The Arabs of the desert are the worst in unbelief and hypocrisy, and most fitted to be in ignorance of the command which Allah hath sent down to His Messenger.”
-Tabari II:11 “Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks; Ham was the father of the Black Africans; and Japheth was the father of the Turks and of Gog and Magog who were cousins of the Turks. Noah prayed that the prophets and apostles would be descended from Shem and kings would be from Japheth. He prayed that the African’s color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks.”
-Tabari II:21 “Ham [Africans] begat all those who are black and curly-haired, while Japheth [Turks] begat all those who are full-faced with small eyes, and Shem [Arabs] begat everyone who is handsome of face with beautiful hair. Noah prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his descendants met Shem’s, the latter would enslave them.”
-Tabari IX:69 “Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah’s helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in Allah’s Cause. Killing him is a small matter to us.”
-Bukhari: V9B89N256 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he is a black African slave whose head looks like a raisin.’”
Ishaq:450 “It is your folly to fight the Apostle, for Allah’s army is bound to disgrace you. We brought them to the pit. Hell was their meeting place. We collected them there, black slaves, men of no descent.”
-Ishaq:374 “The black troops and slaves of the Meccans cried out and the Muslims replied, ‘Allah destroy your sight, you impious rascals.’”
-Bukhari:V4B52N137 “The Prophet said, ‘Let the negro slave of Dinar perish. And if he is pierced with a thorn, let him not find anyone to take it out for him…. If he [the black slave] asks for anything it shall not be granted, and if he needs intercession [to get into paradise], his intercession will be denied.’”
-“We have seen that Negroes are in general characterized by levity, excitability and great emotionalism. They are found eager to dance whenever they hear a melody. They are everywhere described as stupid.”
gravenimage says
Thank you for that grim list, Mortimer.
william carr says
Whatever Moh may have or have not said, his followers have not taken much notice of him as the Arabs/Moose limbs were the originators of the slave trade, not only in Africa but wherever they went even as far as the South Coast of Britain
gravenimage says
William, Muslims have *definitely* taken notice of what Muhammed is said to have said and done. He was a slaver who enslaved victims, engaged in slave raids, traded salves, and used slaves and sex slaves. This is *definitely* salient to what Muslims have dine throughout history to this day.
jirtu says
According to Muslim Arabs, over a number of years Mohammed went to a cave where Archangel Gabriel gave him Allah’s words in serial form. Gabriel spoke in Arabic. It’s not clear whether Allah also spoke Arabic or Gabriel translated Allah. Mohammed, over a long period, told what Gabriel had told him to his friends and relatives. Some thought he was losing his mind. They listened but didn’t take down Mohammed’s words. Years after Mohammed’s death, they wrote what they remembered what Allah had told Gabriel who had told to Mohammed who had told them. That’s the Koran. Then they took down what they remembered from Mohammed’s life and words. That is called the Haddit which means talks. I am not sure but I think Koran translations are not valid because the holy words have to be recited in Arabic. One can say that is racism. Muslims who don’t know Arabic are the overwhelming majority of Muslims. So what is one supposed to think about the Koran? A judge would say it’s a hearsay of a hearsay of a hearsay. The New Testament writers were much closer to their source (Christ), except for St. John’s Revelation. The New Testament has its share of hard-to-believe stories (virgin Mary, Holy Spirit at Christ’s baptism, Christ’s resurrection and ascension).
gravenimage says
Of course, most Muslims claim that the Qur’an is “uncreated” and existed from the beginning of time in its exact form.
Quentin Constantine says
I understood that Mhd ordered that all Jews be expelled from the Arabian peninsula, and the one group he exempted was expelled by his successor. Is that racist ?
mortimer says
Muhammad’s so-called Final Sermon has been shown to be a fraudulent, fake account by an Indian cleric who wanted to “enhance Islam”.
The text surfaced when it was translated into English by Syed F. H. Faizi in 1991, leading to its becoming very popular, while assumed to be real, despite the fact that it was not legitimately sourced. However, research by T. Omar Moros shows the origin of the writing is likely due to it being forged by an anonymous cleric in India sometime during the three centuries of British colonialism in order to “enhance Islam” to help “undermine the racial, ethnic and caste systems that oppressed them.”
Following are excerpts from Moros’ full article:
“[ Faizi’s ] version—oddly, there are more than one—is being used today to cast Islam as a universal, peaceful faith, instead of—as critics argue—a violent, deceitful, Arab-centric ideology used by powerful clerics to control the masses.”
“I was finally able to track down the origin of the translation from a cryptic ‘Faizi 145’ reference; the only one among dozens of postings I checked. … Yet, even Faizi does not provide his source. Highly unusual, considering how popular this version is with modern Muslims.”
“Faizi gives us as close to a source as he could when he describes in the introduction to Sermons how he translated and published a collection of obscure writings into English…”
“[ Faizi wrote about his translation: ] ‘… They were not available in the form of Khutbas but have been derived from various books of Ahadith and history. .. the authenticity of the texts thereof is still doubted by ulema (Islamic religious scholars).’”
Larry A. Singleton says
Do you have a link to the article about this from this Moros guy?
Larry A. Singleton says
Found it: Fraudulent Translation of Muhammad’s ‘Last Sermon’ to Make It Egalitarian by T. Omar Moros.
http://solsticewitch13.blogspot.com/2009/08/fraudulent-translation-of-muhammads.html
Jayell says
Thank you for that reference. I note this passage from the ‘fraudulent translation’:-
“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves. “
So, apparently, its actually a case of every MUSLIM is a brother (regardless of race, colour, etc.) and that ‘Nothing shall be legitimate to a MUSLIM which belongs to a fellow MUSLIM unless it was given freely and willingly’. But if one isn’t a muslim or we’re talking about a non-muslim’s property…..? That’s hardly quite the same as saying “no PERSON is above another by virtue of race or ethnicity’ (etc. etc.) – or don’t these details matter? Apparently not if you’re a modern muslim apologist.
Is this how muslims aim to make their faith more ‘relevant’ in the modern civilised world? By slightly ‘improving’ the translation so that it maybe doesn’t quite relay what their ‘Holy Prophet’ actually intended originally…but sounds a bit nicer? Or by quoting Jesus’s sayings from the New Testament (because he’s allegedly one of their ‘prophets’) but conveniently forgetting to clarify that these quotes are actually Christian and not part of islam? Or by stealing intellectual property from established Christian charities to give their own trumped-up organisations some sort of respectability? Or by cobbling together their own ‘official’ committees, councils, commissions, etc. to ‘advise’ governments with their ‘islamic wisdom’ that’s been heavily edited and amended with useful bits of plagiarised modern Western (Christian-based) philosophy – but no one notices? Then what happens when one of their ‘scholars’ suddenly decrees that this is all completely ‘unislamic’?
To slightly paraphrase that well-known rule-of-thumb – if islam were a branch of the motor trade, would you buy a used car from one of their dealers?
gravenimage says
Thanks for this expose, Mortimer and Larry.
And Solsticewitch was a long time poster here at Jihad Watch.
Edward of CT. Usa. says
Mohammed was A Public ,vile anti Semitic bigot.. The Koran FOUR times promotes sex slavery and kidnapping babies from christian mom victims ….. Mohammed MARRIED if you call it that .a Eight yr. S girl ,who was TWELVE WHEN Mohammed died .,seriously
gravenimage says
Aisha was 18 when Muhammed died, but I take your general point.
maria says
Mohamad(if he really existed) was an animal, mentally sick, both parents were mentally sick, a mass murederer and racist. He hated most the Jews, Christians and hindus, and he called the Black people devil´s children. It did not help them if they converted to islam
CogitoErgoSum says
Can anyone explain how dividing mankind into different nations and tribes helps people know one another? Seems like identifying each other by skin color and differences in language are two of the simplest and easiest ways for enemies to identify one other. Marxist are using these differences quite well right now to sow division in the United States. Also, how does the story of the Tower of Babel fit into a narrative that God wants men to know and understand one another? The good will of God is for men of good will.
All kinds of things divide people in this world and there will always be something that causes people to divide themselves into separate groups. Religion is one of those things. Does Islam teach people to discriminate against one another based upon religious beliefs and practices? YES, it most certainly does. Whether a person is killed for his skin color or for his religious beliefs that person is just as dead. Muhammad taught that it is good to kill a person based upon religion. Anything else he ever said pales in comparison …. and a man who kills others based upon religion is NOT a man of good will.
John Magne Trane says
A “religion” which calls other people monkeys and swine, dog, “worst of creatures”, is racist in my book.
Peter35 says
And most unfortunately you have loads of them in Norway, and a ‘PM’ who will always take their side over you; overweight, dyslexic, moslem-hugging cow that she is.
Fred van de Bunt says
Buddhists believe in the oneness of mankind and Buddhism was born out of the consciousness that the Indian caste system led to great inequalities. These ideas spread some 2550 years ago.
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000064300
Do not forget that Mohammed needed fighters (fight for Islam) and serving his armies, till then being a slave for example, you could be free, and receive part of the bounty.
So no racial racism, like in most armies done out of necessity, but terrible religious racism.
Brando says
About Buddhism, here is another REDPILL/BLACKPILL:
FALUN GONG is a BUDDHIST group created in 1992 in CHINA by LI HONGZHI with his FALUN DAFA or “Great Law of the Wheel of Dharma” and it is:
1.Not Political
2.Has No Economic message
3.Peaceful and Mystical.
And so became popular in CHINA with 100 MILLION followers
YET
More than 1 MILLION Falun Gong have been imprisoned,taken to concentration camps and there were KILLED and their ORGANS taken out for TRANSPLANTS. The COMMUNISTS ( of China ) are as evil as any Nazi.
DOES BIG TECH KNOWS THIS?
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Zuckerberg,etc,who own or invest and have companies IN CHINA that make:
cellphones, computers, tablets, flatscreen TVs, cars KNOW it all,yet for More Profits Continue to have their FACTORIES in China.
Giacomo Latta says
Falun Gong is a group with like-minded members and that will always be a problem for the CPC. Two couples playing mixed doubles tennis is considered to be two separate riots by the CPC. Why are we so devoted to making China rich?
gravenimage says
+1
Keith O says
It would appear Fred that Dr. Craig Considine did not consider Buddha! (pun intended).Can’t have a little gap of about 1200 years muddy the waters and screw up your BS story.
Jesper Kraul Jensen says
Does it matter?
He divided people into muslims and kuffars…
Fred van de Bunt says
It matters, because we only have to get rid of all those kuffars, and then there will be equality, oneness of mankind.
Giacomo Latta says
Until Shia and Sunni are firmly in control, then it starts all over again because there is always someone more muslim than you are.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Giacomo.
jirtu says
Is this racism fighting Moe the same Moe who married a 9-year-old girl? Just asking.
Wellington says
OK, let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that Mohammed was the “first anti-racist in human history,” even though both the author of this article, Kirby, and mortimer in his two posts above, provide copious evidence to the contrary that Mohammed was nevertheless just fine with killing a Muslim who ceased being a Muslim (e.g., Bukhari Hadith 9.84.57; Sura 4:89), condoned many people being terminated, whether it be the some 600 Qurayza tribal men beheaded in just one day, or Abu Afak, Asma bint Marwan, Kinana, et al.
Additionally, Mohammed was also completely on board with the rape of non-Muslim women as sanctioned in that unholiest of holy books, that obviously made-up work, the Koran, and as to be found in Suras 4,23,33 and 70—you know, the obnoxious rot about “what the right hand possesses.”
So, what good is an anti-racist (and it’s really a joke Mohammed was anti-racist—examples from the hadiths his calling blacks pug-nosed creatures and raisin-heads), if he is still a psychopathic killer?
Conclusion here: Considine is not only a liar and/or an ignoramus. He is an enabler of malevolency.
Actually, I hope Considine keeps averring his nonsense because truth is very stubborn and, in the final analysis, Considine has no chance against truth, though temporarily he might.
And I say to Considine, you are a facilitator of evil. Shame on you forever. Oh yes, I support your right to be such a heinous facilitator because we live in America where freedom still exists, though not on college campuses or in the MSM where it is being destroyed per the Orwellian distinction between free speech and hate speech, but if those like you have your way in America Islam will have free reign and liberty will be eradicated directly proportionally to how much this occurs.
Quite the legacy you’re building up, Considine. My God, what an utter disgrace you are—a useful idiot par excellence.
Honest Ali says
Don’t just comment here, where it is “safe”. We need to raise our voices on the YouTube video comments too. Their false narrative metastasizes because we do not speak out enough. No voice is too small.
Larry A. Singleton says
That’s my habit; Take the fight to the enemy. Usually I post the articles I read from Jihad Watch, FrontPage and Gatestone and Middle East Quarterly.
gravenimage says
Many posters here also speak out elsewhere. And besides, many more read here than comment.
Boycott Turkey says
Unfortunately There’s no free speech on YouTube Facebook Twitter all the so called safety teams are pro Islam and anti kafir but they allow Muslims to celebrate beheadings of teachers I prefer to post on here where there’s free speech and lots of people read jihad watch but don’t post I read this site for years but only started posting a few weeks ago as I was getting so fed up. I think lots of people are anti Islam but are afraid to post because of the hoax called islamophobia in some countries you get arrested and thrown in jail lose your job I don’t have Facebook Twitter or a YouTube account to be able to comment. Jihad watch is only place where I feel free to say what I like about Islam and not get censored
gravenimage says
Unfortunately so.
James Lincoln says
Any chance that Dr. Craig Considine would engage in a public debate with, say, Robert Spencer, David Wood, etc.?
Wellington says
I vote no chance, James, and which only bespeaks to what snowflakes like Considine are.
Larry A. Singleton says
damn it. Another comment that makes me wish these comments had a thumbs up feature.
somehistory says
There is no limit to the depth of stupidity for some of mankind to go.
This is really, really, beyond ignorant drivel. And he’s supposed to know enough to be a teacher of others. He’s too stupid for a farmer to put in a potato patch to break up dirt clods..
The fake ‘prophet,’ mass-murdering raper of children was one of the worst “racists” in history and his rabid followers are the same in their hatred of others they see as a different “race.”
This “professor” should be hauled out to the wood shed of the educational type and told to take a long hike on a short pier until he can come up with a rational, intelligent objective understanding of islam and its fake ‘prophet.’
This fool is full of attention-getting nonsense and should be ignored by everyone who hears or reads what he has to “contribute” to the conversation.
Sylvia Drummond says
We are all utterly sick of hearing the pronouncements of Pervy Mo on whatever subject. One thing he forgot to proclaim is that Christians are superior to mohamedans.
jirtu says
Ask a Muslim about Abuna Boheiro, the Assyrian priest who taught Mhd. about Christianity and Judaism. Once Mhd. had learned what he needed and wanted to start his religion he had Boheiro killed and tossed into a valley. He then ordered pilgrims to climb Mount Arafat and toss a stone into the valley below. It was to hide the corpse of the Assyrian priest. It’s a story I heard long ago. These days it’s hard to find a book which refers to the origins of Mhd’s Allah-given cult.
gravenimage says
Is this the reference?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahira
This is all pretty vague, and I have never heard that Muhammed had him killed (although it would certainly have been in character for him). Do you have links?
jirtu says
I had not seen the wikipedia link. As I said, I heard the story a long time ago but have been unable to find credible source to verify it. This story has been whispered for centuries among Middle East Christians Perhaps an Assyrian might know since Bouheiro was Assyrian. In these days of political correctness, no publisher would print a book about it. The business would be burned and his head could be chopped by the believers..
gravenimage says
Thanks for your reply, Jirtu.
somehistory says
When God created Adam, He put in the first man all of the possible genetic differences. Of course, none of us know what Adam looked like…coloring, build, etc.,…but he was perfectly made.
After years of man living in imperfection, Noah was born and came to have three sons…Shem, Ham and Japherh. These 3 men carried the genes that came to represent the different “races” of mankind and those lines continue today.
So would Noah have been prejudiced against one or more of his own sons?
King Solomon…a Jew, son of King David, after the Temple was built, said a prayer of dedication and asked God to “hear” and “listen” to anyone anywhere that prayed to Him, recognizing where the True worship was . **Any person, anywhere** would have a hearing before God, and King Solomon, a Jew, asked that it be that way.
Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan and instructed **all** of us to remember who really is our “neighbor.”….And His Apostle Peter was told that “God is not partial,” and that He expects those who worship Him to be the same.
To claim that this monster who began islam…worship of satan the devil the same as the ashtoreth, molech, ba’al, isis, etc… was the “first anti-racist* is blasphemy and a big fat lie that slanders all who came before the monster and had the attitude toward others that God had when He created man.
And it slanders all who are anti-islam, anti-mo, and recognize islam and its ‘prophet’ as evil.
somehistory says
And anyone reading the Bible as a book of True History, can likely recall many, many more examples of Jews who treated people of other nations with kindness and dignity.
The Jewish Prophet who healed Naaman of his leprosy…Naaman was Syrian; the Prophet who stayed with the widow of Zarephah, raised her son from the dead and made sure her flour and oil lasted through the famine; Jesus telling the Samaritan woman at the well that He is “the Christ.”His healing the child of the Greek woman and the child of the Roman soldier.
These are just a few examples of people who lived prior to the thief, liar, mass-murdering raper of children….even if this evil slime could possibly have been anti-racist. Which, of course, he was not. There were plenty of others who were.
Larry A. Singleton says
I think it might have been a related article about this Considine that cites some hadiths. I’m practically kicking over the furniture when I see these citations; “Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 1, Book 3, No. 63” because I’ve got a 9 volume set of Bukharis published by Darussalam and translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan. And the numbers cited here are completely different than what’s in my Bukharis. For example a lot of the citations for “Book 5” can be found in my volume of “Book 4”.
To add to this frustration this set and the Summarized edition have no Index. (Cue a lot of cuss words)
I talked with an imam acquaintance of mine in Los Angeles and he agreed with me that the hadiths are “a mess” in that they are not standardized like the Bible and Koran.
One of these days I’ll get around to finding a set with an index and shelling out some more money.
On my wish list is to get a set of Encyclopedia of Islam, 1st and 2nd edition. (hint, hint)
I remember talking to Robert Spencer about this a few years back and his patience of a saint as he set me straight on the hows and whyfores of these hadiths early in my studies.
Larry A. Singleton says
And oh yeah; The books start from right to left instead of left to right like normal books. Even their Koran is like that. Totally backwards.
Autar KRISHEN Gurtoo says
WOW.. EPIC ABSURDITY !!! MO, was everything but HUMAN. MUSLIME is MUSLIME not Human. Deal with this truth.
gravenimage says
Was Muhammad Really the ‘First Anti-Racist in Human History’?
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Ah…right. This slaver who sneered at Black Africans as “raisin heads”.
More blatant Taqiyya from the appalling Dr. Craig Considine.
Patricia Koenig says
That professor is ignorant of the first century Christian teaching on the oneness/equality of Believers in Christ: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)
Walter Sieruk says
On the topic of the real spirit of Islam toward black people, two Christians who are also authors revealed in the book about the prophet and founder of Islam, Muhammad, the person who all Muslims greatly admire and view and a perfect example for them to emulate was man that “He personally owned two ‘black slave…he endorsed sex slavery as a gift from Allah.. In the every next page of that same book I also informs the reader that “Islam had enslaved more people than any other culture.” [1]
Likewise , a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one the those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam ,Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.” In fact ,Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade is still thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.” Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago , almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [2]
[1] JESUS AND THE JIHADIS by Craig A. Evens and Jeremiah J Johnson , pages 125,125.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel , pages 82, 183.
OLD GUY says
Muhammad, Islam and Muslim are and always have been involved is slavery and abuse of the black people. Laying racists and slavery on America is the biggest lie and attempt to move the true source of it from the Middle East and Europe. Yes America had slavery and racism it was brought over from Europe. Slavery in America was only here for a short period of time before it was made illegal, and a continuing attempt to end racism is on going. Slavery and racism come directly from the Arab, muslim, Islamic world and still does today. It is the goal of Islam to enslave the non-islamic followers of the world.
gravenimage says
Besides hearing that Muhammed is the “first anti-racist” in history, we’ve also heard that he was the first feminist and first environmentalist. Just as ludicrous.
ajj says
Unfortunately there is no medicine for willfull ignorance
Jerry says
Let’s face reality.
The Qura’n and the Hadith were the first mass produced sources of fake news.
jirtu says
To gain credibility and respectability, the merchant Moe linked his invented “cult” to Abraham, Christ, etc. and then worried he had not made a solid connection, he rode his white (of course) horse and flew to heaven with a quick layover in Jerusalem thus claiming Jerusalem as an Islamic city.
Another of his gimmicks was the case of the Ka’aba, the piece of meteor which had landed ages earlier in Mecca and worshipped by the pagan Arabs. At first, Moe denounced Ka’aba as nonsense. Meccans didn’t like to hear that since they earned their livelihood from pilgrims who went to Mecca to pray at the meteor. Seeing which way the wind was blowing, Moe changed his mind and declared Ka’aba the holy-of holies so as to earn the support of Meccans. Since then, Muslims have prayed at the meteor and Meccans have made a good living.
gravenimage says
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