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The bridge (al-Sirat) on the road to heaven that found a certain place in the Islamic belief, is in fact inspired from the belief on the bridge (cinvat) of the old Iranian religion Zoroastianism, a monotheist one.
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Mohammed could display all the codes against women after his first wife Khatija, a very authoritative one, had died.
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Kaaba, accepted by Muslims as the home of god, has been demolished at least 15 times due to floods and wars as per historical records.
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Masjid al-Nawabi, the mosque where the tomb of Mohammed is found, have been burnt down twice, in 1256 and 1481.
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When Mohammed died, verses of Quran were in an unorganized, scattered state.
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Battle of Badr was started by Muslims attacking a polytheist trade caravan coming back home from Damascus. Thus it was Muslims, the first to start a war.
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There are no sound Islamic sources for Mohammed’s circumcision.
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Abdullah, the name of Mohammed’s father, means the ‘Slave of God (Allah)’ in Arabic, but that Al-lah comes from pre-islamic belief as a ‘moon god’ and father of the goddesses Al-Lat, Al-Uzzat and Al-Menat.
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Kaaba used to be the direction to face when praying but after the Higra (emigration: Mohammed’s flight from Mecca to Medina) it was changed to Jerusalem in order to attract Jewish people; and then back to Kaaba when the Jewish mocked with it.
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Just after the battle of Al-Khandaq, Mohammed executed 500 Jewish men and sold their wives and children in the Damascus slave bazaar since they had sided with the polytheists.
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