“Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet”
Syed Kamran Mirza
Wednesday December 18, 2002 at 9 P.M. PBS has
broadcast the above documentary program. This program was designed to give
the people (perhaps mainly to the westerners) an “honest portrait” of
Muhammad. Now, was this
program an “honest” historical evaluation? We shall examine this
question later in this write-up.
Most surprising and painful to watch was the super
dominant role of the infidel Karen Armstrong. In the entire show of two
hours—Karen Armstrong was the main player of this one-sided propaganda
ordeal of Islam. She was the “Pope
of Islam” in this program of damage control for Islam. Viewers
undoubtedly were sick and tired of watching the same rudely-faced western
infidel Karen Armstrong (with
glowing smile) again and again in the TV screen. As if in the whole
world—Karen Armstrong is the only expert in Islamic history, and there
was no other Muslim Islamic scholars who could up-hold the good face of
Islam! I wonder where are those Muslim Islamic thinkers/scholars? Why
can’t there be any Muslim scholar who could do the role of Karen
Armstrong? Of course, undoubtedly it was simply ‘A Karen Armstrong show’ to say the least.
I wonder will it be ever possible that some Muslim
pundit will be the supreme narrator for Christian, Hinduism or
Buddhism’s propaganda. How it will look like if a Muslim Mullah was the
narrator of all goodies of Christianity or Hinduism? It is mystery to me,
as to, why always Muslims need the help of a non-Muslim western infidel
(again must be a white infidel) to flash the hidden glory of Islam! I
wonder why this hilarious rather obnoxious mentality of Mullahs? Could it
be because of that old Bengali adage: “Raja
bolche shaalar bhai, khushir aar shima nei”? May be so! Muslims
needed two western greedy infidels (Maurice and Moore) to discover plenty
of hidden science in Quran, even though fact of the matter is Quran has no
science at all. Now Muslims need another western infidel Karen Armstrong to make inherently intolerant Islam into a peaceful
religion! It’s really shameful situation that one western infidel
Armstrong was the main flatterer or main spokesperson to save the face of
Islam! Most prudent question remains to be answered is—if Islam is so
good a religion then why Karen Armstrong is not converting herself into
Islam? Or, is it the same story like Maurice Bucaille and Prof. Moore who
did the same job only to rip Millions? Who knows!
Another question I would like to ask is—what
exactly making Karen Armstrong a super versatile expert in Islam that she
is the only “pundit or Islamic Guru” who can uphold Islam? Is it
because she hypocritically wrote some sanitized history of Islam just to
appease the Mullahs and to earn some easy bucks? How is it possible that
anybody who writes some positive things about Islam immediately becomes an
Islamic pundit? This is really very mysterious indeed!
However, the contents of the program was the same old
tablet (story) of Islam which was prepared carefully (by pick and choose
method) by Mullahs centuries ago and it is the same old tablet which is
used to brainwash millions of young Muslim children throughout the Muslim
world. Nothing new, every son of Muslim knows the story. But it was done
by so much of deceptive tactics and misinformation that they even did not
cover 20% of the actual Islamic history. They only used 2 or 3 soft
Quranic verses or 3 or 4 hadiths—leaving aside hundreds of harsh and
hateful Quarnic verses and thousands of Sahi hadiths which carry the
ultimate weights of the Islamic history today.
Entire story was dedicated to portray Prophet Muhammad an innocent,
illiterate, merciful human being who was constantly oppressed by Arab
pagans! Many sugar-coated goodies were told about the Islam and it’s
Prophet by not citing any prudent example or reference. No particular good
deeds by the prophet was demonstrated with the real historical episode,
rather narrators were constantly claiming good/honest character of the
Prophet by his success (randomly) in the wars with Pagans and by his
success in the spread of Islam in the Arabian peninsula. As Karen
Armstrong said: “People liked the Quran very much for not it’s contents but for it’s
beauty”. Only Karen Armstrong knows what beauty she was pointing
to! Quran is littered with verses which dictate believers to kill all the
infidels, kill all the Jews and Christians and promises fantastically
lucrative heaven as the reward for the killings of infidels. Quranic
verses dictate to subjugate and punish women for the breach of discipline;
verses dictate to have sex with the slave girls, and Merciful Allah
repeatedly/plentifully threaten all the transgressors/kaffirs by dreadful
hell fires. Are these some of the beauty Karen Armstrong was pointing to?
Neither Karen Armstrong nor any other narrators told
the people why a divine prophet like Muhammad had to fight and shed bloods
for a period of long 23 years, yet Islam was very peaceful! And how those
wars were fought and what was the implication and casualty of wars. They
never said how prophet was systematically eliminating all other religions
and tribes from the Arabian soil. Never touched any history of Prophet’s
raids of Arab caravans or so many preemptive attacks (Gazzowa) to the
pagans by Islamic forces. They always tried to portray prophet and his
companions as the victims and Arab Pagans as the oppressors. No negative
history of Islam and everything were so ‘hunky-dory’ in the real
Islam. They also did not fail to narrate some superstitious (Gaza
khuri stories) episodes like: Prophet’s journey to the 7th
heaven riding a winged horse and Angels took part with Muslims in the wars
against pagans.
Surprisingly, at the middle of the program one
erudite Islamist very proudly told the listeners that Merciful Muhammad
killed (beheaded) 700 hundred unruly Jews after enslaving
their women and children in the battle with Banu Qurayza tribe.
But they never mentioned that in that same war—Prophet Muhammad
also took young and beautiful Reyhanna (a 17 year old Jewish girl) as his
concubine whom he married later. And they never mentioned that Islamic
warriors used to take “war booty”, and they not only used to enslave
women and Children but also used to rape randomly, and also later sell
those enslaved young women by the consent of prophet himself and by the
dictum of Qur’an!
What a divine insult or situation for Prophet
Muhammad! Nobody ever thought about how this incident (of Banu Quryza)
will be taken/swallowed by the westerners! Killing
by beheading and enslaving women and children—how they sound
these days of 21st century? I must be thankful to the scripture
writers for keeping at least a small fraction of the truth in the
sanitized version of Islam.
Karen Armstrong very shamelessly tried to justify
that Muhammad was the last prophet that is why unlike Prophet Jesus and
Buddha (who was only a spiritual Guru and true peaceful human beings)
Muhammad was a spiritual, ruler and a military commander for the Muslims.
She also mentioned that Prophet Muhammad did not like any image of himself
and that is why the film will show no picture of Prophet Muhammad. But on
the contrary, during the entire two hour show—hundreds of hand-drawing
pictures of bearded 7th century Arab Bedouins with naked swords
were frequently seen in the screen. I don’t know why they showed all
those unidentified bearded pictures! Only
Allah knows how those war monger bearded Muslims with naked waving swords
could be the sign of peace and merci of Islam!
It was not understood by this one sided historical
propaganda how this film will affect and change the mindsets of tens of
thousands of Muslim jihadi youngsters (like Osama and his followers al-Qaeda
Islamists and other Islamic jihadi groups) throughout the Muslim world.
Also not clear how those fanatic Islamists will take the teachings of this
film and how this film will change hundreds of Islamic dictums (Quranic
and Hadiths) which will continue to incite young Muslim fanatics to kill
the infidels!
This documentary only pointed out that the so-called
real Islam and real Jihad was hijacked by some terrorists like Osama bin
Laden. But never told how this might change the mindsets of Islamic
terrorists. This documentary may confuse temporarily some gullible
westerners, or it may give some comforts or solace to those western
residing myopic tunnel visioned Muslims,
but it will not change the Jihadi mindsets of any Islamic terrorists. I
can bet my bottom dollars!
It is quite obvious that all the Islamic terrorists (pukka
Muslims) will never take the lessons from this distorted documentary
of PBS, rather they will take the lesson from the myriad of hateful
Quranic dictums and will continue to hunt and kill the western infidels. We
must understand that the unseen dream of Akherat (after-life
lusts) is so powerful that it can very easily turn a peaceful innocent
looking Allah-fearing Muslim into a dreadful killer machine. This
was the ultimate driving force behind the 9/11
tragedy. Islamic
Jinni is out at large. Until and unless we put the Islamic Jinni inside
the bottle again, nothing going to change.
Whether this PBS documentary program was able to wash
out the myriad of stains from the fore head of Islam and Prophet Muhammad
is a sixty-four thousands dollar question to everybody. But one thing is
very real that this 7th century Arab Bedouin imperialism in the
garb of religion Islam not only continues to shape the lives of billions
of Muslims, but will continue to create more and more problems and threats
for the civilization of the entire world. And, as a result innocent
Muslim-born human beings will continue to suffer and will be harassed in
the western world.
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