Kactuz wrote

>>Note also that Mohammad, a man who dedicated 10 years of his life to attacking, looting, raping, murdering and enslaving nonMuslim men women and children, is their great moral example.>>

This raises an interesting question. I used to think that unlike, say, Moses, there could be no doubt that Muhammad actually existed.

Turns out the evidence for his existence is dodgy. There may never have been such a person as Muhammad. The koran is not a reliable source and the is no contemporaneous evidence for his existence. The word "Muhammad" could simply be a title given to someone who is revered.

See:

The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into Its Early History by Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Editor), Gerd-R Puin (Editor)

http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Origins-Islam-Research-History/dp/1591026342

Islam shows every sign of being a manufactured religion like Scientology or Mormonism. The koran itself seems to be a cocktail of texts taken from the bible, the Talmud, various Christian hymns and such like with a few added bits thrown in

The ahadith range from the outrageous to the ridiculous.

Eg

Bukhari Book 041, Number 6985

>>Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.>>

Or

Sahih Muslim 5562

'>>Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) commanded the killing of geckos, and he called them little noxious creatures.>>