The Heart's Witness Against Muhammad: Murder of the One-Eyed Bedouin

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq.
11/6/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Jesus gave sight to the blind. Muhammad blinded those who could see

"Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. . . . To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.'" This is apparently a truth about both God and man of which Muhammad was ignorant or which he effectively squelched in quest for power and success. Either way, not very auspicious for a man who claimed to be the oracle of God and the perfect man.

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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - Ibn Ishaq, one of Muhammad's earliest Muslim biographers relates for us a story in his biography of Muhammad which raises another wart on Muhammad's soul. According to Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad sent two of his Muslim followers--Amr bin Umayya al-Damri and an-Ansari, assassins both, for Muhammad rubbed shoulders with such types--to his old home town of Mecca to kill his enemy Abu Sufyan. Unfortunately for them, the townsfolk recognized al-Damri, and the two assassins were chased out of Mecca.

From here, we shall let Ibn Ishaq tell the story:

"They got up to pursue us and I told my companion to escape, for the very thing I feared had happened, and so as to Abu Sufyan there was no means of getting at him. So we made off with all speed and climbed the mountain and went into a cave where we spent the night, having successfully eluded them so that they returned to Mecca. . . . .[My partner, an-Ansari having left], I went into a cave there taking my bow and arrows, and while I was there in came a one-eyed man of B[anu] al-Dil [i.e., the al-Dil tribe] driving a sheep of his.

When he asked who I was I told him that I was one of the B[anu] Bakr [i.e., the Bakr tribe]. He said that he was also, adding of the B[anu] al-Dil clan. Then he lay down beside me and lifting up his voice began to sing:

'I won't be a Muslim as long as I live,
Nor heed to their religion give.'

I said (to myself), 'You will soon know!' and as soon as the badu was asleep and snoring I got up and killed him in a more horrible way than any man has been killed. I put the end of my bow in his sound eye, then I bore down on it until I forced it out at the back of his neck. Then I came out like a beast of prey and took the highroad like an eagle hastening . . . .

When I got to Medina . . . [Muhammad] asked my news and when I told him what had happened he blessed me."

(Ibn Ishaq, trans. by Guillaume (2006), pp. 673-75).

Muhammad blessed the assassin al-Damri? Blessed him? Muhammad blessed al-Damri for killing a one-eyed shepherd for composing a couplet against Muslims and Islam?

And this is a man we are to take as al-insan al-kamil, a perfect being?

Any normal man would find this behavior by Muhammad which encouraged and blessed such an act shocking. The Muslim cannot. The Muslim must find it good. The Muslim cannot criticize it. Indeed, the "good" Muslim must imitate it. The Muslim must be happy that this one-eyed badu was killed in this gruesome way for saying nothing other than:

"I won't be a Muslim as long as I live,
Nor heed to their religion give."

Now observe the quandary. The natural law, the law of God writ in our heart which participates in the eternal law of God--if we allow it to tutor us--would have us follow the one-eyed Bedouin and sing with him: "I won't be a Muslim as long as I live, nor heed to their religion give." In an uncorrupt heart, that refrain would never be quieted. In this series of articles, we have already seen how Muhammad and Islam contradicted the natural law in various particulars, including polygamy, concubinage, murder of political enemies, and lying. In further articles, we shall cover yet other violations of the natural law, such as genocide and slavery.

And what? Is that law in our heart also to be put to death, like the one-eyed Bedouin in a cave near Mecca, to please the likes of Muhammad? Wouldn't we be equally blinded?

Jesus gave sight to the blind. Muhammad blinded those who could see. The difference could not be starker.

There is an ultimate tragedy, an irony, in this entire story, for it might be understood as a type of what Islam is all about. The tragic and ironic thing is that--in following a man who blessed the killing of a one-eyed Bedouin for nothing other than exercising his right to religious freedom--the Muslim has blinded himself. The Muslim becomes, in a tragic irony, the blinded one eyed Bedouin.

What al-Damri did to the one-eyed Bedouin many years ago, a Muslim who follows Allah and his alleged prophet Muhammad (and thus forcibly squelches the voice of the natural moral law within him that is based upon reason) does to his soul. He loses his one good eye of reason and enters into darkness and spiritual death. The follower of Christ, the truth, the way, and the life, on the other hand, keeps his eye of reason, but gains another: the eye of faith.

And with faith and reason he discovers the world of love, a world that would never entertain violence against a one-eyed Bedouin even if he did happen to say, "I won't be a Christian as long as I live, nor heed to their religious give."

It's true that the Christian has been armed with fourteen ...

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Mahmood Ahmad
5 months ago

And fight them until there is no persecution, and religion is freely professed for Allah. But if they desist, then remember that no hostility is allowed except against the aggressors. Al Baqarah verse 194

The Holy Qur'an is the real source about Islam. All of his followers and those who know him ( include his opponents) agree that he would never go against the Holy Qur'an. Muhammad peace be upon him suffered thirteen years of prosecution in Mecca without answering back. He migrated to Medina and his enemies waged war on him. He continuously tried for peace. He was successful in signing a peace treaty in the end to end the war.
This is an obscure tradition. There are thousands of far more authentic traditions of how he continually strived for religious freedom for Islam and other religions.

When forced into war to defend himself he followers were told to be fight honourably
'O people! I charge you with ten rules; learn them well…for your guidance in the battlefield! Do not commit treachery, or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy's flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.' Hadith
Tommy
6 months ago
@tawana

quote...a catholic source who are well respected by all Muslims....Unquote

A blatant lie but then you know that---- you cannot respect the unbeliever. in fact unbelief is worse than murder in alla's eyes
The greatest of all major sins is Shirk-- "believing that Allah has an equal or to worship something or someone other than Him".

sura 4:48 Verily, Allâh forgives not that partners should be set up with him in worship,
but He forgives except that (anything else) to whom He pleases, and whoever
sets up partners with Allâh in worship,he has indeed invented a tremendous
sin.

However you are obliged to lie if it puts one over on the non muslim

Types of lying within islam.

Taqiyaa
is defined as dissimulation about ones Muslim identity
“When it is possible to achieve an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible, and lying is obligatory if the goal is obligatory.

Tawriya
is defined as concealing, and it could be called “creative lying” for example stating
that the following verses do not mention Christians or Jews,knowing full well that
these are to whom the passage refers

Sura 1:6/7
Guide us to the Straight Way : Not of those who have earned Your anger, nor those who have gone astray---

Kitman
is characterized by someone telling only part of the truth.
quoting only the few peaceful passages from the Quran, knowing full-well that that
passage was later abrogated (replaced) by a more militant, contradictory verse

sura 22:39
Permission to fight is given to those (i.e. believers against disbelievers), who
are fighting them, (and) because they (believers) have been wronged, and
surely, Allâh is Able to give them (believers) victory

Abrogated (replaced) by

sura 9:5
Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye
find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them
each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due,
then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful

Muruna
is using “flexibility” to blend in with the enemy or the surroundings.
example- behaving like a non-Muslim so the true agenda will not be suspected.
Muslims will sometimes shave off their beards, wear western clothing, or even drink alcohol to blend in with non-Muslims.

This is the difficulty when dealing with islam,-- muhammed the "finest example for mankind to emulate" sanctioned breaking oaths and lying to achieve his goals
Andrew M. Greenwell
6 months ago
@twana: To say "this article is totally false," and "there is no record of this kind of event" is false. This story is related in the biography entitled Sirat Rasul Allah by Muḥammad ibn Isḥaq ibn Yasar ibn Khiyar (known, more commonly as Ibn Ihaq). Ibn Ishaq died in the 760s AD, and was an Arab Muslim historian and hagiographer. He wrote under the caliphate of the 'Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur, Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad, based upon oral traditions he collected and an earlier work by Ibn Hisham that is now lost, is one of the most important and earliest sources of Muhammad's life. I even gave page cites to Ibn Ishaq's text (in the translation by Guillame, which is readily available.)

What Muhammad did after he took over Mecca is irrelevant to what he did in this instance, and a "good" in not putting to death people in a city Muhammad invaded does not undo the "evil" that this deed relates. Muhammad forgave some of his enemies, but he certainly did not forgive others, and he treated them most brutally. There will be some additional examples in future articles of this brutality.

I am not spreading lies about Muhammad, unless you are suggesting Islam's own historians spread lies about Muhammad. But surely you are not saying that Muslim earliest biographies on Muhammad are lies? If so, I think I know a lot of Imams who would be upset with such a suggestion.
Stuart
6 months ago
KarlVDH, God knew it was a sin, and are outraged about it. As our Father, so are we.
We, too, recognize that David received judgement/discipline from God in his life because of it. He lost the child born of Bathsheba. His son, Absolom turned against him, stole the kingdom and his wives from him, and drove David into hiding, etc. ...And that was all AFTER David repented. After he suffered for quite some time before God restored him.

By contrast, there was no repentance (or even sorrow) from Mohammed over what was done. Instead, he praised the murder and murderer. Consequently, there is no parallel in this case. So, I fail to see your point based on the example given.
Greg
6 months ago
Dear Karl. You stick to the same question. So I stick to the same answer. First of all who cares how I feel about anything. The truth is objective regardless how one feels about something. Secondary - We are not asked to follow David. We are asked to follow Christ. And finally, David repented upon facing the truth. Would you repent too in his place? Would you cry out how sinful you are? Or you will be telling that it is okay to kill? David did not do that.
Jorge
6 months ago
KarlVDH..you are again a muslim, pretending to be a christian, trying to deviate attention from your sick twisted false prophet idol and his horrible crimes against humanity. it won't work no matter the subterfuges, the lies, the deception attempts that are typically muhammeddan. Nothing can escape the Truth, no matter how hard deceivers like you try it.Embrace Christ Jesus, and leave all the lies, all the hatred, all the violence, all falsety that are totally islamic.Your brother in Christ!
tawana
6 months ago
I am sorry this article is totally false,there is no record of this kind of event,fact is that after the fall of Mecca in the hands of Muslims, instead of taking revenge,Muhammad,announced any one who stays home of takes refuge even in his enemies houses(including Abu Sufiyan) is safe.
Even the slave who killed his uncle Hamza was forgiven including the women who sanctioned his murder( she was also forgiven)
PLEASE do not spread lies,it does not look good coming from a catholic source who are well respected by all Muslims.
ninek
6 months ago
We feel, yes, but we KNOW, Karl, that David was not Jesus. David wanted to build the Temple, but God informed him that he could not because he had too much blood on his hands. Therefore, the Temple was built by his son, Solomon. David was loved by God, but he was not the Messiah. Jesus was the Messiah.
Yebrail K. Brennan
6 months ago
David was indeed a "man after God's own heart," but he was also capable of great sin. If you read the Biblical account, Nathan the prophet used a parable to confront David with this sin. David confessed and repented, but God still required him to pay a price for the sin of murder; this is not the same as Muhammed blessing someone for murder.
KarlVDH
6 months ago
How do we feel about David- God's self proclaimed favorite- murdering a man in order to sleep with the guy's wife?

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