Assassination of Muhammad's enemies:


No. 369 of Al-Bakari Hadith, vol. 5
--A Muslim kills a Jewish merchant on Muhammad's orders. His older brother attacks him for this, since the merchant was their business partner. The younger brother tells him that he had been ordered to do so. He asks his younger brother would he have killed him instead if Muhammad had ordered him to.

The younger replies, "yes, by God, if he had ordered me to cut off your head I would have done so."

The older brother was greatly impressed by a religion that could affect anyone so deeply and converted to Islam shortly thereafter.



Sahr, a scribe who claimed to have had a hand in composing the Quran, had been ordered killed by Muhammad. When Mecca was conquered Sahr was discovered hiding behind his half-brother, a very powerful man. Muhammad promised him not to kill Sahr, but when his brother left he had him killed anyway.



Historical Inaccuracies in the Quran:

In Sura 7:120 Pharaoh threatens to kill his councilors by cutting off their hands and feet and crucifying them. Crucifixion wasn't used as a punishment until the Roman Republic and amputation of the extremities was popular in Muhammad's day. Neither one was used in ancient Egypt.

The Quran also gives Pharaoh a sinister minion named Haman. Haman is originally found in the Old Testament, where he is an evil minister of a Persian king in the 5th century during the Babylonian captivity, about a thousand years after Exodus.