The Koran is also an additional historical source providing the student of Islam with even more examples of war crimes that the prophet of Islam committed. The Koran says that oppression is worse than slaughter. Indeed, the historical context behind this verse unsurprisingly was said to have been revealed to Muhammad to justify the killing of two unarmed Meccan merchants during a jihad raid targeting Mecca's prosperous, yet fragile, trade economy - apparently, murdering two unarmed caravan drivers in an unprovoked attack for booty can be justified if the Muslims say they are oppressed (raise your hands if you've heard Muslims today justify slaughter because they're 'oppressed').
After all, as a city in the middle of a desert, Mecca depended on trade for its survival. And hampering with Mecca's trade was an affront to every Meccan citizen - a serious offense, no less. Gradually, Muhammad's jihad continued subsuming many weaker and smaller tribes that did not voluntarily fall into an alliance with Islam (Islam did not, and does not, offer 'fence-sitters' a choice). Now, it was Mecca's turn to experience the wrath of Muhammad's jihad.
During Muhammad's conquest of Mecca, several individuals were sought after by the Muslims to be executed for their activities during Muhammad's conflict with his native city. Most of the people to be rounded up and executed committed such crimes as writing poetry against Muhammad or rejecting Islam.
However, the Koran provides us with another piece of information that the biographies I have read leaves out. According to the Koran, when the Muslims took Mecca, the center of worship for the Pagan Meccans, what the Koran refers to as the 'Sacred Mosque' was now under the control of a militant religion that views all other religions as inferior and worthy of contempt. Indeed, members of other religions are ridiculed as 'filthy' and the lowest of Allah's created beings who will be tortured in the fires of hell for an eternity if disbelievers do not convert to Islam.
Now, with all of this kept in mind, could we expect that Islam and its prophet would reach out to the Pagans and allow them to worship in *their* own holy place? Of course not! So, of course, Allah sends down another convenient verse instructing Muslims that the Pagans are prohibited, yes barred, from worshiping at the site that their forefathers offered their sacrifices to the various gods.
Koran 9:17 and 9:19 says:
The idolaters have no right to visit the mosques of Allah while bearing witness to unbelief against themselves, these it is whose doings are null, and in the fire shall they abide.
Do you reckon the giving of water to pilgrims and the inhabiting of the Holy Mosque as the same as one who believes in God and the Last Day and struggles in the way of God? Not equal are they in God's sight; and God guides not the people of the evildoers.
The 'Holy' Mosque, of course, refers to the site of the ancient meteorite and surrounding house of worship that the ancient pagans traveled to throughout Arabia to worship at. When the Muslims took Mecca, the pagan house of worship suddenly became a Muslim house of worship. And with this sudden transformation, the pagans of Mecca and Arabia were now forbidden from stepping foot inside of the house of worship that they had used no later than a few hours before the Muslim conquest of their city.
With the conquest of Mecca, forever was lost the rights to freedom of religion for Arabia's pagan population and the Pagans were the ones now oppressed by militant Islam - the pure Islam of prophet Muhammad.
In this thread, I join any Muslims who will also join me in condemning the war crime that the Koran clearly records Muslims of carrying out - the prohibition of Pagans from using their own house of worship and taking the pagan shrine and house of worship over exclusively for Muslim use.
