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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (176598)	10/14/2003 5:48:42 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577098

By the way, is it true that the Koran can be divided into two chronological parts? According to someone I talked to, the first part is when Mohammed was ready to take his new ideals and beliefs to the existing religions of the time. This is the peaceful, nice part. The second is when Mohammed was rejected by those existing religions, and that's when he turned more radical and extreme. I don't know. I have not read the Koran. However, there is some correlation. Once Mohammad had spoken to the Angel Gabriel.....yeah, the same Gabriel of the Bible; apparently he got around....... and started to spout the verses of the Koran so they could be enscribed, opposition began to grow to Islam. Eventually, Mohammad was forced out of Mecca and went to Medina to settle a dispute......btw he was known as a mediator of disputes. After a while, the Meccans went after him. Against all odds, the Meccans were defeated by Muhammad and his followers who had grown over the three year war, and he returned to Mecca triumphant. It was then believed he would seek revenge on the Meccans. However, instead, he spared their lives. So while he became violent, he was still compassionate. Whether the Koran became more violent during the war years......I don't know. Everything I have read so far says that Muhammad was the messenger of peace and Islam is a religion of peace. Another possibility......there was an incident that led to estrangement between Muhammad and the Jews of Medina. That incident caused Muhammad to change the direction in which Muslims were to pray. Prior to the estrangement, he had the Muslims pray towards Jerusalem; after, towards Mecca. The portrayal of Muhammad and his teachings very much invokes the feeling of Jesus. He pulled a Jesus when he went into the ca'ba (a church like structure built by Abraham) in Mecca and destroyed all the idols. His message to the Arabs, a controversial one at that time, was that there was only one God. BTW Muhammad could not read or write. He also refused to name a successor and did not want anyone to know where he was buried because he did not want people worshiping him or his burial site but rather the one God. Unfortunately, his failure to name a successor led to disagreement over his successors and resulted in the development of the two main sects: the Sunis vs the Shias. :~( I have no way of verifying this account. Well, actually I do, but it's never been high on my list of things-to-do. I will try to find out more. ted