Oh now we’re getting into some of the juicy stuff
Mohammed was invading lands...
Who are we talking about here exactly? There’s tons of lands that were invaded, but not without provocation first. It’s important to preface first that the murder of a messenger, especially back then, was an act of war. Even today, it still is too. With that being said, we know that Muhammad sent emmissaries/missionaries/ambassadors all over the place, telling the surrounding areas about Islam. These were the results:
- Heraclius initially had declined to accept Islam, and had given some gifts to the emissary/emissaries and sent him/them on their way.
- Ghassanids, who were Christian, executed one of the emissaries. This, as previously mentioned, was an act of war. Because of that, the Muslims rallied against them. However, because the Ghassanids were Christian, the Byzantines had decided to help support the Ghassanids against the Muslims (and also because of disingenuous political/religious reasons too). This is also how the fighting between the Byzantines and Muslims began.
- Persia/Sassanids were sent I believe 7 emissaries (maybe it was 10 though, I could be wrong) with a letter inviting them to Islam. The emperor ripped up the letter, and behead all of the emissaries, except for one. {Just as a side note: when Muhammad learned of this, he said, “May God rip his empire like he ripped that letter”. Coincidentally, the Sassanids started to face economic issues, political unrest and corruption, a massive plague that took out a huge percentage of their population, civil sedition/uprising, and declining military prowess due to wars with the Byzantines).
The initial raids against the caravans of Quraysh after Hijra were because the Muslims had been persecuted out of Mecca and as such had left most of their belongings there. Because of this, the Quraysh sought to sell the Muslims’ belongings for a profit in Syria. They had essentially raided the caravan and taken back what was already theirs. This was despite initial hesitance by Muhammad to do so (until that one verse came about anyway).
Killing both men and boys as young as 12 or upon reaching puberty.
Children were always spared. That’s a rule. Only men who fought against them were killed and that was during battle. The few times some were killed after surrendering were due to either breaking of treaties or because they were criminally-minded and were just ****ty people by standard human metrics of ethics.
The rest he took as slaves and sold them...
Only of those who fought against them and had surrendered. Plus, slavery in Islam is nowhere near Christian/European slavery. It’s a mixture of being a butler/nanny, indentured servant, and adopted child. You can’t beat the slave, or else you must free them, and then you’ll be punished in the same way you hurt your slave. You have to feed them with the same quality food you eat and clothed them with the same quality clothing you wear. They can still have autonomy outside of you, and get their own freedom if they really desired. That’s why there were entire armies who were ‘slaves’ with generals/emirs who were ‘slaves’ too, and even generations of kings who were technically ‘slaves’; it’s not even remotely the same. Not to mention, they can still buy their freedom if they wanted to.
With the system that ‘slavery’ was set up in Islam, slavery would have naturally have disappeared ~100 years after Muhammad’s death. It’s just that the rules pertaining to it weren’t followed.
But of course he and his army rapes them 1st.
It’s not like the rest of the world is much better lol. They’re still doing that today, pretty sure Epic Days might’ve raped a couple people himself when he was in the military overseas.
I currently have a book called
Slavery & Islam by Jonathon A.C. Brown. I haven’t finished reading it, but it goes over everything you’re talking about in regards to these sorts of things. Check it out.
Of course he gives them a chance to convert 1st before beheading.
Answered in previous response.
It's after all in the Quran.
Don't tell me the Quran is lying too?
Don’t mock me. Firstly, you and I both know that pretty much all of the stuff you’re talking about is solely in the ahadith, not the Qur’an. And secondly, u should know by now that I’m too smart and too much of an ******* to just accept something for no reason. How else do you think I was driven to come to this website at a younger age than everyone else?
