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Understanding Muhammad [Paperback]

Ali Sina
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1 May 2008
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What causes Muslims to be violent? What spurs them to riot and murder over the silliest things? 

To understand Muslims, one must understand their prophet. This psychobiography seeks to unveil the mystery of Muhammad. 

Historians tell us he used to withdraw to a cave, spending days wrapped in his thoughts. He heard bells ringing and had ghostly visions. He thought he had become demon possessed, but his wife reassured him he had become a prophet. 

Convinced of his superior status, Muhammad was intolerant of those who rejected him, assassinated those who criticized him, raided, looted, and massacred entire populations. He reduced thousands to slavery, raped, and allowed his men to rape female captives. All of this, he did with a clear conscience and a sense of entitlement. 

He was magnanimous to those who admired him, but vengeful to those who did not. Not only he believed he was the most perfect human creation, but the universe's raison d'être. 

Muhammad was no ordinary man. This book ventures beyond the stories. Focusing on the why rather than the what, it unravels the mystique of the most influential and yet most enigmatic man in history. 

Islam is Muhammadanism. Muslims worship Muhammad. Allah is Muhammad’s alter ego. Only by understanding him can one know what makes them tick.  Understanding Muhammad, will end Islam.



Product details

  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: Felibri (1 May 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0980994802
  • ISBN-13: 978-0980994803
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 828,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The founder and the faithful 13 May 2009
By Pieter Uys HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER
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In this remarkably straightforward book Sina investigates the moral psychology of Islam's founder as revealed in traditional sources like the work of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Said, Al-Bukhari and the Hadith & Sira literature in order to reconstruct the personality of the prophet. He shows how the mind and behavior of its founder have shaped the religion to the present day. To understand the followers, one must understand the teacher. Each of the chapters examines some facet of his life and teaching.

Sina argues that monotheism was not the original message; it was that he had been appointed as divine messenger and that people had to believe him. Sina considers Allah & his prophet as the same personality. The commonsensical distinction between good and evil was replaced by the concepts halal (permitted) and haraam (forbidden) so that the ends always justify the means. In the Medina phase, his followers turned violent by committing assassinations to foster a climate of terror. That is the same modus operandi employed today. Terrorists follow this example by seeking supremacy through terror. There is no doubt in the minds of the perpetrators that the strategy works.

Due to the precedents set by the founder and his ideological heirs, extremists believe that terror tactics will prevail everywhere. Before and during World War II, the Mufti of Jerusalem was a supporter of Hitler. Afterwards, many Middle Eastern regimes aligned themselves with the USSR. Later, the Italian translator and the Norwegian editor of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses survived assassination attempts whilst the Japanese translator and the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh were less lucky.
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5.0 out of 5 stars timely reminder 14 Aug 2008
By Mosfar
Format:Paperback
Ali Sina is more well known for his website faithfreedom.org. He presents all his facts about Muhammad backed up by evidence. Muhammad is a revered personality for over a billion muslims. All what Ali Sina writes about him is easily available in Islams own revered scriptures, ie Siratunnabi, compilaton of Ahadiths and of course the Quran. Nothing is out of context. Anybody who claims that, is not familiar with those scriptures. If one finds abhorrent what Sina writes, remember, he is just the messenger. If you want to learn about Islam then you can either read the 3 main scriptures which I mentioned above or you can read Sina's book. The only difference will be the saving of time by reading Ali Sina's book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truth stands clear from error 25 July 2008
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Having just read the two reviews that give this book a poor rating,I am hear to tell all that this book needs to be read by all who are concerned with the peaceful co-existance of humanity on this planet.Make no mistake this is a brilliant,well researched,well written book.It hits the target right on the nail,it explains in full why Muslim people are so "rigid"with fear,even to question their faith.It explains what damage brainwashed indoctrination for evil intent can lead to,and it explains how we as Non Muslims should bring the teachings of this belief system to the fore, to lay bare the connection between the hatred and intolerance shown in Islamic teachings,culminating to commit such heinous attrocities,as witnessed in recent history.

This book is a must read for all who love democracy and freedom within the law,we all have a common interest to live in peace and security whilst sharing this fragile earth, in the limited time we have,any ideology that jeopodises this concept has to be thoroughly questioned,exposed and defeated,not to do otherwise will lead us right back to live by 7th century barbaric rules,something I'm not prepared to do,ARE YOU??
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5.0 out of 5 stars Blood, Sex and Epilepsy 12 April 2011
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The experts love to say that St Paul had a massive epileptic seizure and this `trip' caused auditory visions in Saul's head. Epileptics today suffer from ecstatic hallucinations very similar to those reported in scripture. It is worth checking out an illuminating video on You Tube on this subject; just type `Ramachandran, the Temporal Lobes and God'. Now this is hardcore science we have here and so the experts are fond of pointing out that Moses and all the other seers and prophets of old had either a medical condition or were partying on some type of psychedelic drug!
The Discovery Channel and the BBC are forever ramming this scientific fact home, are they not? This is the world we live in. Now if you read the Muhammad story, then you will suspect this explanation, I think.

The fascinating thing about Muhammad, you see, is the fact that he was born in the 'clear light of history'. Muslims are very proud of this fact; it is their unique selling point. So He really existed, and no other religion can claim the seal of historical certainty, and so vigorously sit on the throne of truth, like Muhammad can. The downside to all this breast beating is that modern psychologists can examine the events and come to a diagnosis.

If you read the Qur'an it does seem much scarred and confuse, with ecstatic mannerisms and a glimpse of divinity. Now if we take Sina's epileptic idea on board our amateur psychoanalytical train, then the book can be read as a psychological dialogue with the prophet and his own personal logos or sock puppet!

Muslims are oft to say that the other religious big-wigs existed in the foggy confusion of pre-history, and this makes the divinity you follow a vapour in the historical fog.
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