Understanding Muhammad

After revising, adding to and editing Understanding Muhammad since its first release in 2008, I am now happy with the final result and will not alter it again.   The sixth edition will be going to print and will be available from any bookstore in North America.  Meanwhile, I have stopped the sale of the fifth edition.  The new edition should be released in the fall of 2012.   I would like also to thank all the friends who commented on the book and gave me constructive criticism.

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Since September 11, 2001, there have been over 18,000 terrorist attacks, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and a lot more injuries, throughout the world. The perpetrators of these crimes were not monsters; they were Muslims. They were pious 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.  The prophet of Islam bragged, “I have been made victorious with terror“.  [Bukhari: 4.52. 220]  Since the day Muhammad set foot in Medina, he started his campaign of terror.  His followers have been doing the same ever since.

Muslims are intolerant, supremacist, bullying, and violent.  They are highly inflammable and can explode if they are not treated preferentially and with respect.  At the same time, they abuse others.  This is psychopathology.

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.  Historians tell us that Muhammad used to withdraw to a cave, spending days wrapped in his thoughts.  He heard bells ringing and had ghostly visions.  He thought he had become demon possessed, but his wife reassured him that 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 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 to those who admired him, but vengeful to 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 psychopathic narcissist.

Understanding Muhammad, ventures beyond the stories.  Focusing on the “why” rather than the “what,” it unravels the mystique of the most influential and yet enigmatic man in history.

Muhammad believed in his own cause.  He was so certain of the reality of his hallucinations that he expected everyone to believe in them too.   He would make 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?  Wasn’t it up to him to prove what he saw was real?  Only a psychopathic 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 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 which 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 fixation on numbers, rituals and stringent rules.  OCD explains why he lived such an austere life and why his religion is filled with so many absurd rules.

In late 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 the patient in his early 60s.  It causes impotence, while TLE increases libido.  This explains Muhammad’s sexual vagaries in his old age and why he had such an insatiable craving for sex.  He would visit all his 9 wives in one night to touch and fondle them, without having intercourse.  His impotence explains his insecurity, paranoia, and intense jealousy for his young wives. He ordered them to cover themselves, lest other men 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 the 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 leave Islam, leave 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 worldwide totalitarian regime.  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.

Reviews of Understanding Muhammad

1 FJordman

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/10/fjordman-reviews-ali-sinas-understanding-muhammad.html

http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/2008/10/fjordman-book-review-understanding.html

2-  Sujit Das

http://islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2436&catid=214

http://voi.org/28jun2009/sourced/faithfreedom/bookreview:understandingmuhammadapsychobiography.html

http://thewestislamandsharia.blogspot.com/2010/04/book-review-understanding-muhammad.html

3- Mahesh Prabhu

http://www.faithfreedom.org/features/book-review/understanding-muhammad-a-psychobiography-of-allah’s-prophet/

http://indiamahesh.folks.co.in/2010/07/an-impeccable-reassessment-of-islam’s-only-prophet/

4- Tamilian ex-Muslim

http://www.islam-watch.org/Library/Understanding-Muhammad-Tamil.htm

http://www.faithfreedom.org/op-ed/review-of-tamil-edition-of-understanding-muhammad/

And here is a negative review by a Muslim

http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archives/2009/ali-sina-understanding-muhammad-a-psychobiography/

http://www.bibliaholic.com/review-of-understanding-muhammad-a-psychobiography-by-ali-sina/

Note that the author of this negative review, is Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi, the man who said Ali Sina must be killed.  He has not read the book. He has not addressed any of the arguments presented in the book.  He rehashes the same tired logical fallacies that Muslims make.   No Muslim who reads this book will remain a Muslim, not even MENJ.  Or maybe he will, after all he is a man of hate who loves violence and unabashedly advocates for Islamic supremacy.

I challenge Muslims to read the book and see if you can still write a rebuttal to it.  I will publish your rebuttal, and should you prove me wrong I will give you $50,000 in reward and announce my defeat.

Buy the sixth edition, which is a lot more complete than previous ones. However, if for any reason you can’t buy it, ask me and I will send you a PDF version of the fourth edition. It’s not as complete but still good enough to make the point.

If you want me to publish your rebuttal, you should first meet me in Gchat where I will quiz you to make sure you have read the book.  This is neccessary because Muslims hate to read anything written against Islam but still want to prove it wrong, without knowing its content.