JESUS & MOHAMMED COMPARED
JESUS was a Religious leader
JESUS never killed anyone.
JESUS never owned slaves.
JESUS never married.
JESUS never forced followers to believe.
JESUS never allowed his disciples to lie.
JESUS never avenged insults, saying
“Father, forgive them.”
JESUS never allowed disciples to rape
anyone.
JESUS never tortured anyone.
JESUS never led armies, nor did his
apostles. Christianity spread throughout the
Roman Empire for three centuries by
loving their enemies and surrendering their
lives for their faith.
JESUS did not retaliate when violence was
committed against him, but was crucified.
MOHAMMED was a Religious, Political, and
Military leader
MOHAMMED killed an estimated 3,000
people, including beheading 700 Jews in
Medina.
MOHAMMED received a fifth of the slaves
taken in battle, including African slaves, as he
was Arab.
MOHAMMED had at least 11 wives, plus
concubines and women taken in battle. Aisha
was married at age 6, consummated at age 9.
MOHAMMED forced followers to continue
believing: “Whoever changes his Islamic
religion, kill him.” Bukhari v.9, b.84, n.57
MOHAMMED obligated followers to lie to
advance Islam. It is called “Taqyya” - sacred
lying, holy deceit, and “Hudna” – when weak
make treaties until you get strong enough to
disregard them.
MOHAMMED avenged insults, ordering Ibn
Khatal and his slave girls killed for writing
poems which insulted him.
MOHAMMED permitted followers to rape
infidel women taken in battle.
MOHAMMED had the chief of Khaybar
stretched out on the ground and kindled a fire
upon his chest because he would not tell where
tribe’s treasure was hidden.
MOHAMMED fought in 66 battles and raids,
leading 27 of them, and all of Islam’s “Rightly
Guided” Caliphs and Sultans commanded
armies, conquering from Arabia to France.
MOHAMMED retaliated when violence was
committed against him and ordered enemies to
be killed.
JEWISH/CHRISTIAN concept of a martyr
is one who would die for their faith while
forgiving their enemies.
JESUS – The first 300 years of
Christianity, there were 10 major Roman
persecutions resulting in thousands of
Christians killed in the Coliseum and fed to
the lions. During this time, never once did
Christians lead an armed resistance.
JESUS taught equality, that all men and
women were made in God’s image. Matt
22:20, ref. Gen. 1:26-27, 9:6
JESUS taught consistently in all four
Gospels to love and he never advocated
violence.
JESUS taught: “Love your enemies, bless
them that curse you, do good to them that
hate you, pray for them which despitefully
use you.” Matt. 5:44
JESUS taught: “Treat others the way you
want to be treated.” Luke 6:27-36
JESUS taught to help disbelievers, “If ye
do good to them which do good to you,
what thank have ye? for sinners also do
even the same.” Luke 6:33; Parable of
Good Samaritan; “Feed the hungry, clothe
the naked, visit the sick, whatever you do
to the very least you have done unto me.”
Mat 25:40
JESUS taught “Forgive us our trespasses as
we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Mat. 6:10-15
JESUS taught: “If someone strikes you on
one cheek, turn to them the other.” Mat.
5:39
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ISLAMIC concept of martyr is one who
would die for their faith while killing infidel
enemies of Islam.
MOHAMMED – The first 300 years of Islam,
Muslim armies conquered Arabia, Persia, the
Holy Land, North Africa, Spain, Southern
France, Central Africa, and invaded vast areas
of Northern India, Asia and Asia Minor.
MOHAMMED did not teach equality, that
Allah has no image, and that unbelievers are
not equal to believing Muslims, and women
are not equal to men. Sura 42:11, Sura 112:4
MOHAMMED taught in the early verses he
received while living in Mecca that there was
“no compulsion in religion,” but these verses
were abrogated and abolished by later verses
received in Medina which advocated violence
toward apostates, unbelievers and those who
offended the prophet.
MOHAMMED taught: “Infidels are your
sworn enemies.” Sura 4:101
MOHAMMED taught: “Kill the disbelievers
wherever we find them.” Sura 2:191
MOHAMMED taught: “Never help the
disbelievers,” Sura 28:86, and “Take neither
the Jews nor the Christians for your friends.”
Sura 5:51, 60:13
MOHAMMED taught to avenge trespasses
and insults committed against you, your
family or your religion in order to restore your
honor.
MOHAMMED taught: “Strike off the heads of
infidels in battle.” Sura 47:4
 JESUS taught: “Judge not, that ye be not
judged.” Mat. 7:1
JESUS taught: “Resist not evil.” Mat. 5:39
JESUS taught: “Ye have heard that it was
said, Thou shalt not kill, but I say whoever
is angry with his brother is in danger of the
judgment.” Mat. 5:21-22
JESUS taught: “Forgive and you shall be
forgiven.” Mat. 6:14
JESUS taught “Blessed are the merciful, for
they shall obtain mercy” and “Blessed are
the peacemakers.” Mat 5:7, 9
JESUS taught: “If someone takes your coat,
give them your shirt.” Mat. 5:40
JESUS taught God was “Our Father” and
that all are all “children of God.” Mat. 6:10
JESUS taught that true religion is from the
inside out, voluntary, with a God of love
wanting a relationship with each person.
JESUS taught to offer peace, if they refuse,
“let your peace return to you...depart out of
that city, shake off the dust of your feet.”
Mat. 10:14
JESUS taught he was the Son of God,
“Again the high priest asked him...Art thou
the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And
Jesus said, I am.” Mark 14:61-62, and
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the
Truth and the Life. No man comes to the
Father but by me.”John 14:6
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MOHAMMED taught: “If someone stops
believing in Allah, kill him.” Bukhari 9:84:57
MOHAMMED taught: “Fight those who
believe not in Allah nor the Last Day.” Sura
9:29
MOHAMMED taught: “No Muslim should be
killed for killing an infidel.” Bukhari 1:3:111
MOHAMMED taught: “The only reward of
those who make war upon Allah and His
messenger will be that they will be killed or
crucified, or have their hands and feet on
alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out
of the land.” Sura 5:33
MOHAMMED taught: “Be ruthless to the
infidels.” Sura 48:29
MOHAMMED taught: “Make war on the
infidels who dwell around you.” Sura 9:123,
66:9
MOHAMMED taught it is blasphemy to call
Allah your father, as Allah took no wife and
has no children. Sura 5:18
MOHAMMED taught that religion could be
forced from the outside in, with fear of an
impersonal Allah who demanded strict
obedience.
MOHAMMED taught to offer peace to those
who submit to Allah; if they refuse, fight to
make them submit.
MOHAMMED taught that believing Jesus
was the Son of God was an unforgivable sin
called ‘shirk’ which condemns Muslims to
hell.
 U.S. Minister to Spain Washington Irving wrote in Mohammed and His Successors (1850, ch. 16):

THE SWORD ANNOUNCED AS THE INSTRUMENT OF FAITH—FIRST FORAY AGAINST THE

KOREISHITES—SURPRISAL OF A CARAVAN.
We come now to an important era in the career of Mohammed. Hitherto he had relied on argument and
persuasion to make proselytes, enjoining the same on his disciples. His exhortations to them to bear with
patience and long-suffering the violence of their enemies, almost emulated the meek precept of our Saviour, “if
they smite thee on the one cheek, turn to them the other also.”
He now arrived at a point where he completely diverged from the celestial spirit of the Christian
doctrines, and stamped his religion with the alloy of fallible mortality. His human nature was not capable of
maintaining the sublime forbearance he had hitherto inculcated. Thirteen years of meek endurance had been
rewarded by nothing but aggravated injury and insult. His greatest persecutors had been those of his own tribe,
the Koreishites, especially those of the rival line of Abd Schems, whose vindictive chief, Abu Sofian, had now
the sway of Mecca. By their virulent hostility his fortunes had been blasted; his family degraded, impoverished,
and dispersed, and he himself driven into exile. All this he might have continued to bear with involuntary
meekness, had not the means of retaliation unexpectedly sprung up within his reach.
He had come to Medina a fugitive seeking an asylum, and craving merely a quiet home. In a little while,
and probably to his own surprise, he found an army at his command: for among the many converts daily made
in Medina, the fugitives flocking to him from Mecca, and proselytes from the tribes of the desert, were men of
resolute spirit, skilled in the use of arms, and fond of partisan warfare.
Human passions and mortal resentments were awakened by this sudden accession of power. They
mingled with that zeal for religious reform, which was still his predominant motive. In the exaltations of his
enthusiastic spirit he endeavored to persuade himself, and perhaps did so effectually, that the power thus placed
within his reach was intended as a means of effecting his great purpose, and that he was called upon by divine
command to use it. Such at least is the purport of the memorable manifesto which he issued at this epoch, and
which changed the whole tone and fortunes of his faith.
“Different prophets,” said he, “have been sent by God to illustrate his different attributes:
“Moses his clemency and providence;
“Solomon his wisdom, majesty, and glory;
“Jesus Christ his righteousness, omniscience, and power—his righteousness by purity of conduct; his
omniscience by the knowledge he displayed of the secrets of all hearts; his power by the miracles he wrought.
“None of these attributes, however, have been sufficient to enforce conviction, and even the miracles of
Moses and Jesus have been treated with unbelief. I, therefore, the last of the prophets, am sent with the sword!
Let those who promulgate my faith enter into no argument nor discussion, but slay all who refuse obedience to
the law. Whoever fights for the true faith, whether he fall or conquer, will assuredly receive a glorious reward.”
“The sword,” added he, “is the key of heaven and hell; all who draw it in the cause of the faith will be
rewarded with temporal advantages; every drop shed of their blood, every peril and hardship endured by them,
will be registered on high as more meritorious than even fasting or praying.
“If they fall in battle their sins will at once be blotted out, and they will be transported to paradise, there
to revel in eternal pleasures in the arms of black-eyed houris.”
Predestination was brought to aid these belligerent doctrines. Every event, according to the Koran, was
predestined from eternity, and could not be avoided. No man could die sooner or later than his allotted hour, and
when it arrived it would be the same, whether the angel of death should find him in the quiet of his bed, or amid
the storm of battle. Such were the doctrines and revelations which converted Islamism of a sudden from a
religion of meekness and philanthropy, to one of violence and the sword. They were peculiarly acceptable to the
Arabs, harmonizing with their habits, and encouraging their predatory propensities. Virtually pirates of the
desert, it is not to be wondered at that, after this open promulgation of the Religion of the Sword, they should
flock in crowds to the standard of the prophet. Still no violence was authorized by Mohammed against those
who should persist in unbelief, provided they should readily submit to his temporal sway, and agree to pay
tribute; and here we see the first indication of worldly ambition and a desire for temporal dominion dawning
upon his mind.
Still it will be found that the tribute thus exacted was subsidiary to his ruling passion, and mainly
expended by him in the extension of the faith. The first warlike enterprises of Mohammed betray the lurking
resentment we have noted. They were directed against the caravans of Mecca, belonging to his implacable
enemies the Koreishites. The three first were headed by Mohammed in person, but without any material result.
The fourth was confided to a Moslem, named Abdallah Ibn Jasch; who was sent out with eight or ten
resolute followers on the road toward South Arabia. As it was now the holy month of Radjab, sacred from
violence and rapine, Abdallah had sealed orders, not to be opened until the third day. These orders were vaguely
yet significantly worded. Abdallah was to repair to the valley of Naklah, between Mecca and Tayef (the same in
which Mohammed had the revelation of the Genii), where he was to watch for an expected caravan of the
Koreishites. “Perhaps,” added the letter of instructions, shrewdly—“perhaps thou mayest be able to bring us
some tidings of it.” Abdallah understood the true meaning of the letter, and acted up to it. Arriving in the valley
of Naklah, he descried the caravan, consisting of several camels laden with merchandise, and conducted by four
men.
Following it at a distance, he sent one of his men, disguised as a pilgrim, to overtake it. From the words
of the latter, the Koreishites supposed his companions to be like himself, pilgrims bound to Mecca. Besides, it
was the month of Radjah, when the desert might be travelled in security. Scarce had they come to a halt,
however, when Abdallah and his comrades fell on them, killed one, and took two prisoners; the fourth escaped.
The victors then returned to Medina with their prisoners and booty. All Medina was scandalized at this breach
of the holy month. Mohammed, finding that he had ventured too far, pretended to be angry with Abdallah, and
refused to take the share of the booty offered to him. Confiding in the vagueness of his instructions, he insisted
that he had not commanded Abdallah to shed blood, or commit any violence during the holy month. The clamor
still continuing, and being echoed by the Koreishites of Mecca, produced the following passage of the Koran:
“They will ask thee concerning the sacred month, whether they may make war therein. Answer: To war
therein is grievous; but to deny God, to bar the path of God against his people, to drive true believers from his
holy temple, and to worship idols, are sins far more grievous than to kill in the holy months.”
Having thus proclaimed divine sanction for the deed, Mohammed no longer hesitated to take his share of
the booty. He delivered one of the prisoners on ransom; the other embraced Islamism. The above passage of the
Koran, however satisfactory it may have been to devout Moslems, will scarcely serve to exculpate their prophet
in the eyes of the profane.
The expedition of Abdallah Ibn Jasch was a sad practical illustration of the new religion of the sword. It
contemplated not merely an act of plunder and revenge, a venial act in the eyes of Arabs, and justified by the
new doctrines by being exercised against the enemies of the faith, but an outrage also on the holy month, that
period sacred from time immemorial against violence and bloodshed, and which Mohammed himself professed
to hold in reverence.
The craft and secrecy also with which the whole was devised and conducted, the sealed letter of
instructions to Abdallah, to be opened only at the end of three days, at the scene of projected outrage, and
couched in language vague, equivocal, yet sufficiently significant to the agent—all were in direct opposition to
the conduct of Mohammed in the earlier part of his career, when he dared openly to pursue the path of duty,
“though the sun should be arrayed against him on the right hand, and the moon on the left;” all showed that he
was conscious of the turpitude of the act he was authorizing.
His disavowal of the violence committed by Abdallah, yet his bringing the Koran to his aid to enable
him to profit by it with impunity, give still darker shades to this transaction; which altogether shows how
immediately and widely he went wrong the moment he departed from the benevolent spirit of Christianity,
which he at first endeavored to emulate. Worldly passions and worldly interests were fast getting the
ascendency over that religious enthusiasm which first inspired him.
As has well been observed, “the first drop of blood shed in his name in the Holy Week displayed him a
man in whom the slime of earth had quenched the holy flame of prophecy.”

*Please ask local mosques, imams, Islamic Schools, and Islamic organizations to clearly,
unambiguously and publicly denounce: Apostates killing; Beating women and stoning women to death for
adultery; Calling Jews pigs and monkeys; Declaring war on non-Muslims to spread Islam after offering them
three options – subjugate to Islam, pay ‘jizia’ (humiliating tax), or be killed; Enslavement of other human
beings; Fighting and killing Jews before the “End of Days”; and Gay killing.

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