Understanding Muhammad

285 Pages·2008·1.8 MB·English

by  Ali Sina

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MUHAMMAD

A Psychobiography of Allâh's Prophet

Ali Sina

© 2007- 2008 Ali Sina. 2nd Edition.

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Synopsis

Since September 11, 2001, there have been over 12,000 terrorist
attacks, resulting in the deaths and injury of hundreds of thousands of civilians,
throughout the world. The perpetrators of these attacks were not monsters; they
were Muslims, people who believed and acted in accordance with their faith.
There are millions more who think like them and are ready to do the same.
If you think Islamic terrorism is a new phenomenon, think again. Islam
owes its success to terrorism. Since the day Muhammad set foot in Medina, he
started his campaign of terror. His followers have been doing the same since.
Muslims are intolerant, supremacist, bullies, and violent. They are
inflammable and can explode if contradicted or they are not treated
preferentially and with respect. At the same time, they abuse others and violate
the rights of people of other faiths.
To understand Muslims, one must understand their prophet. Muslims
worship and emulate Muhammad. Islam is Muhammadanism. Only by
understanding him can one know what makes them tick.
Understanding Muhammad is a psychobiography of Allah’s Prophet.
It seeks to unveil the mystery of that man. Historians tell us Muhammad used to
withdraw to a cave, spending days wrapped in his thoughts. He heard bells
ringing and had ghostly visions. He thought he was demon possessed, until his
wife reassured him he had become a prophet. Convinced of his status, he was
intolerant of those who rejected him, assassinated those who criticized him,
raided, looted, and massacred entire populations. He reduced thousands to
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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 toward those who admired him, but vengeful
toward those who did not. He believed he was the most perfect human creation
and the universe's raison d'être. Muhammad was no ordinary man. He was a
narcissist.
Understanding Muhammad, ventures beyond the stories. Focusing on
the "why" rather than the "what," it unravels the mystique of one of the most
enigmatic and influential men in history.
Muhammad believed in his own cause. He was so certain of the reality
of his hallucinations that he expected everyone to believe too. He made his
Allah indignantly ask “What! Do you then dispute with him [Muhammad] as to
what he saw?” (Q.53:12) This is psychopathology. Why should others believe
in what he saw? Isn't it up to him to prove what he saw was real? Only a
narcissist expects others to believe in his claims without asking for evidence.
Muhammad was an orphan. Spurned by his mother in his infancy and
left in the care of a Bedouin couple, he had a loveless childhood. He then
passed to the care of his grandfather and uncle who took pity on him and spoiled
him. Not receiving love at a time he needed unconditional love and not
receiving discipline when he needed to learn about boundaries, he developed
narcissistic personality disorder, a trait that made him a megalomaniac bereft of
conscience. He fantasized about unlimited power, expected praise and
admiration, believed he was special, and expected others to believe him and go
along with his ideas and plans. He took advantage of others, was jealous, yet
believed others were jealous of him, and was extremely hurt when rejected, even
killing those who deserted him. He lied and deceived, feeling entitled and
justified in doing so. All these are traits of narcissistic personality disorder.
Thanks to another mental illness, temporal lobe epilepsy, the prophet of
Islam had vivid hallucinations he interpreted as mystical and divine intimations.
When he claimed he heard voices, saw angels and other ghostly entities, he was
not lying. He could not distinguish reality from fantasy.
Muhammad also suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder, causing
his fixations on numbers, rituals and stringent rules. This explains why he lived
such an austere life and why his religion is filled with so many absurd rules.
In the later years of his life Muhammad was affected by acromegaly, a
disease caused by excessive production of a growth hormone, resulting in large
bones, cold and fleshy hands and feet and coarse facial features such as enlarged
lips, nose and tongue. Acromegaly occurs after the age of 40 and usually kills
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the patient in his early 60s. It causes erectile dysfunction (impotence). On the
other hand temporal lobe hyper activism increases libido. This explains
Muhammad's sexual vagaries in his old age and why in the later years of his life
he had such an insatiable craving for sex. He would visit all his 9 wives in one
night to touch and fondle them, without being satisfied. His impotence explains
his insecurity, paranoia, and intense jealousy of his young wives. He ordered
them to cover themselves, lest other men would cast a lusting eye on them.
Today, half a billion Muslim women veil themselves, because Muhammad was
impotent. Muhammad's illnesses explain a lot of mysteries of Islam.
The combination of all these psychological disorders and his unusual
physiognomy made Muhammad a phenomenon that set him apart from ordinary
people. His uneducated followers interpreted his differences as signs of his
prophethood. Like devotees of all cults, they rose to champion his cause with
dedication. By defying death and butchering others they made Islam the world's
second largest religion, now the biggest threat to world peace and the survival of
human civilization.
Why is it important to know Muhammad? Because over a billion
people try to be like him and do as he did. Consequently, the insanity of one
man is bequeathed to all his followers. It is by understanding him that we can
see through them, and be able to predict these unpredictable people.
We live in a dangerous time. When a fifth of humanity worships a
psychopath, eulogizes suicide bombing and thinks killing and martyrdom are
ultimate acts of piety, the world becomes a dangerous place. When these people
acquire atomic bomb, the earth becomes a powder keg.
Islam is a cult. It is time to wake up and realize that this cult is a threat
to mankind and there can be no co-existence with Muslims. As long as Muslims
believe in Muhammad, they are a threat to others and to themselves. Muslims
must either leave Islam, discard their culture of hate and join the rest of mankind
as fellow humans, or non-Muslims must separate themselves from them, ban
Islam, end the immigration of Muslims and send home those who plot against
democracy and refuse to integrate.
Islam is incompatible with democracy. It is a warring creed that uses
democracy to destroy it and to establish itself as a world wide dictatorship. The
only way to avert the clash between this barbarity and civilization, and a world
disaster, is to expose the fallacy of Islam and demystify it. Muslims must be
weaned from Islam for humanity to live in peace.
Understanding Muhammad is imperative for both Muslims and non-
Muslims. This book makes that task easy.
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Acknowledgment

I owe thanks to many people who helped me write this book. They corrected
my English and provided valuable criticisms. Unfortunately I can’t name them.
This would most likely put their lives in peril and I also do not know their real
names. Even though they remain anonymous, I am immensely indebted to
them.
I also would like to thank the wonderful friends who volunteered their
time to take full control of the operation of faithfreedom.org, as site
administrators, editors and moderators of its forums. This allowed me to have
time to work on this book.
The fight against Islamic terrorism is fought by unsung heroes. These
people give their time and talent to awaken the world to the danger of Islam.
They ask nothing in return and remain anonymous.

Ali Sina
April, 2008
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Preface
By Ibn Warraq

W

r. Ali Sina was born in Iran. Some of his relatives were
Ayatollahs. Like most educated Iranians he believed that
Islam was a humanistic religion that respected human
rights. But Dr. Sina was also blessed with an enquiring
mind, a rationalistic spirit that questioned, probed, and looked at the evidence
unflinchingly. What he slowly discovered about the real Islam shook him
morally and intellectually, and what is more, made him realize, long before
September 11, 2001, that unless someone spoke the truth about the faith he was
born into, the world would be faced with a system of thought and belief that
would destroy not just the West, but civilization as a whole. Since his
epiphanous moment when he discovered the inhuman nature of this religion, Dr.
Sina has dedicated his life to discussing, criticizing, exposing the unacceptable
aspects of Islam on his widely quoted website Faith Freedom International.
The West can make use of defectors, like Dr. Sina, from Islam
(apostates) in the way the West used defectors from communism.
As I wrote in Leaving Islam,1 there are very useful analogies to be
drawn between Communism and Islam, such as the ones Maxime Rodinson2 and
Bertrand Russell have pointed out between the mindset of the communists of the
1930s and the Islamists of the 1990s and 21st century. As Russell said, “Among
religions, Bolshevism [Communism] is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism
rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are
primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of
contemplation.

1 Ibn Warraq. Leaving Islam. Apostates Speak Out. Amherst: Prometheus Books. p.136
2 Maxime Rodinson: Islam et communisme, une ressemblance frappante, in Le Figaro [Paris, daily
newspaper], 28 Sep. 2001
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Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual,
concerned to win the empire of this world.”3 Hence the interest in the present
situation and its haunting parallels with the communism of the western
intellectuals in the 1930s. As Koestler said, “You hate our Cassandra cries and
resent us as allies, but when all is said, we ex-Communists are the only people
on your side who know what it’s all about.”4 As Crossman wrote in his
introduction, “Silone [an ex-Communist] was joking when he said to Togliatti
that the final battle would be between the Communists and ex-Communists. But
no one who has not wrestled with Communism as a philosophy and Communists
as political opponents can really understand the values of Western Democracy.
The Devil once lived in Heaven, and those who have not met him are unlikely to
recognize an angel when they see one.”5
Communism has been defeated, at least for the moment, Islamism has
not, and perhaps the final battle will be between Islam and Western Democracy.
And these ex-Muslims, to echo Koestler’s words, on the side of Western
Democracy, are the only ones who know what it’s all about, and we would do
well to listen to their Cassandra cries.
We who live in the free West and enjoy freedom of expression and
scientific inquiry should encourage a rational look at Islam, should encourage
Quranic criticism. Only Quranic criticism can help Muslims to look at their
Holy Scripture in a more rational and objective way, and prevent young
Muslims from being fanaticized by the Quran’s less tolerant verses. It is the
civic duty of all individuals living in the West to inform themselves about Islam.
But if they only consult the works available in the megastores, they will find
apologists of Islam. It is only by going through the meticulously documented
and impeccably argued website of Dr. Sina and his team of writers that we
would be able to obtain a more just appraisal of Islam. Now, of course, we have
Dr. Sina's book which I urge all responsible citizens whose critical faculties
have not been lulled into confusion and befuddlement by oft-repeated slogans
about Islam being a religion of peace to read carefully. Thanks to the courageous
efforts of independent scholars like Dr. Ali Sina, there can no longer be any
excuse for remaining ignorant about a religion that may annihilate all that you
cherish and hold worth defending.

Ibn Warraq is the author of Leaving Islam, What the Koran Really
Says, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, The Origins of the Koran and
Why I Am "ot a Muslim, the book that inspired many Muslims to awake and
question their cherished faith.

3 B.Russell, Theory and Practice of Bolshevism, London, 1921 pp .5, 29, 114
4 A.Koestler, et al, The God That Failed, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1950, p.7
5 Ibid. p16
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