by Sujit Das
What a sick and disgusting imagination, distortion of reality and narcissistic manipulation! Muhammad thought that people of other religions will convert to Islam out of sheer terror of hell. However, many rational thinking people around him did not believe him realizing that he was delusional. Qur’an says,
The hypocrites and those in whose hearts there is a disease said: ‘Allah and His Messenger promised nothing but delusion’. (Q: 33.12).
Muhammad had used the device of contradistinction to sharpen the appeal of his message for arousing human instincts of pain and pleasure to secure submission of ordinary man. Islam offers nothing to men but delusion and uses fear to suppress and stupefy the common Muslim masses. It worked wonder for Muhammad by enriching and empowering him during his lifetime. Today it works wonder for the Imams, Mullahs and tyrants alike. Islam was created for one malignant Narcissist’s quest for narcissistic supply sources. It is utter foolishness to search for spirituality in Islam. In his childhood Muhammad was powerless, poor, and unloved. Therefore, his Islam was focused on power, money, and sex. His paradise reflected his wild fantasies, and his hell was a manifestation of the revenge he craved – a payment for the torment he had endured as a child. It is really sad that today more than a billion people still act like “laboratory guinea pigs” allowing a malignant Narcissist to experiment on them.
3.6.5.5: The Critics of Muhammad
Muhammad was constantly on the lookout for slights; he was hyper-vigilant. He perceived every disagreement as criticism and every critical remark as complete and humiliating rejection and a direct challenge to his mission. Gradually, his mind turned into a chaotic battlefield of paranoia. His thinking was dogmatic, rigid, and doctrinaire. He did not tolerate free thought or free speech. He demanded (and often got) complete trust and frequently dismissed his fellow Muslims from all decision-making. He was so afraid of being exposed that he ordered his followers to assassinate anyone who criticized him.
When a Narcissist feels that he is degraded by another person, typically in the form of criticism, he suffers from narcissistic injury which ultimately results in narcissistic rage. If his inflated but unstable false self is combined with his hypersensitivity to interpersonal feedback, the result may often be a tendency to hostile, aggressive, and even violent responding (Hook, 2007, p. 29). Insecure men are enraged by criticism; they will stop at nothing to silence anyone who irritates them. Often the Narcissist attempts to astonish the surroundings with apparent brilliance, bombastic announcements and the unnecessary and wrong uses of professional language. But beneath all these showmanship; he is shallow and devoid of real knowledge (Vaknin, 1999, p. 110). He is always fearful of being discovered and deceitful. Like a trapped animal, the Narcissist is forever on the lookout – was this comment a deliberate attack meant to humiliate me?
He cannot accept criticism for two reasons. First; he is simply the greatest, equal to God – the perfect being. The more he convinces himself, the better he feels. Such a person is above any type of criticism. He never admits to ignorance in any field. A Narcissist medical doctor would rather let patients die than expose his ignorance. Secondly, the Narcissist is very scared that by criticism, his true self may be accidentally discovered causing immediate collapse of the false self. This scares him to death. In this respect he is like a child. Deep down, he can be compared with a muddy shallow pond but pretending to be a deep ocean. At any cost the fantasy needs to be upheld. He does not dare confront the truth and admit it even to himself.
When he cannot handle criticism by displaying narcissistic rage, he may slip into depression – either real or pretended. He pretends depression to manipulate those around him, but when he actually experiences depression, it is usually a sign of being out of control. He may go to bed for several days (Zayn & Dibble, 2007, p. 83). In extreme cases, he may also entertain suicidal thoughts. For the same reason, he cannot share a joke which is directed to him as he cannot admit his vulnerability (Masterson, 1990, p. 96). He is dead serious about himself (Vaknin, 1999, p. 191). He likes to talk only about himself. Sometimes he may pretend to be interested to others but it is only with a potential narcissistic supply source.
The first victim of Muhammad’s narcissistic rage was Ashraf, a young talented poet and a chief of the Jews tribe Banu Nadir. In an illiterate society, poets were the journalists of their day; their words swayed public opinion. Soon after Muhammad banished the Qainuka, Ashraf became concerned about his own people’s security and visited Mecca to seek protection. He was courageous, and composed poems by praising the Meccans for their bravery and honor. When Muhammad heard about this, he assigned the job of killing Ashraf to one of his henchmen.
Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah: Prophet said, “Who is ready to kill Ka`b bin Al-Ashraf who has really hurt Allah and His Apostle?” Muhammad bin Maslama said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Do you like me to kill him?” He replied in the affirmative. So, Maslama went to him (Ashraf) and said, “This person (the Prophet) has put us to task and asked us for charity.” Ashraf replied, “By Allah, you will get tired of him.” Muhammad said to him, “We have followed him, so we dislike leaving him till we see the end of his affair.” Maslama went on talking to him in this way till he got the chance to kill him . (Bukhari: 4.52.270)
After killing Ashraf, Muhammad murdered his friend, Abu Rafi. This time he sent Abd Allah bin Atik, another of his henchman to kill Abu Rafi (Tabari: VII.99; Bukhari: 5.59.370). The reason for his being killed was that he used to take the side of Ashraf against Muhammad. Tabari wrote,
I [the murderer of Abu Rafi] came to my companions and said, ‘By Allah, I will not leave till I hear the wailing of their women.’ So, I did not move till I heard them crying for the Jewish merchant. I said, ‘Deliverance! Allah has killed Abu Rafi.’ (Tabari: VII.100)
The above quote needs particular attention. The murderer did not say that he had killed Abu Rafi, instead he said “Allah has killed Abu Rafi ”. Each time Muslims kill someone they absolve themselves of the crime and blame their “God”. While calling Allah an assassin seems odd, but Muslim mindset is different. For them calling their God a murderer is not a blasphemy.
When Muhammad gained power in Medina a man and his wife were murdered because they had written insulting poetries against him (Frieling, 1978, p. 33). On another occasion, Abu Azza, another of his critics was beheaded. Abu Azza used to write poetry urging the desert tribes not to join Muhammad’s gang (Walker, 2002, p. 318). Next Muhammad permitted murdering Sallam Huqayq, another man of Khaybar (Tabari: VII.101; Ishaq: 482). Muhammad had now become a psychopath serial killer. Criticizing him became a deadly game and one after another of his critics started falling in pools of their own blood. There were no words more pleasing to a Muslim than “a critic of Muhammad is dead”. They believed they were doing Allah a service by eliminating Muhammad’s critics.
Muhammad’s another victim was Abu Afak, a 120 year old poet from Medina. Afak lamented that people had surrendered their intelligence to Muhammad and became hostile to one another. Hearing this; Salim Ibn Umayr, a henchman of Muhammad, killed the old man when he was sleeping in an open place in a hot night (Sina, 2008, p. 42). When Asma bint Marwan, a Jewish mother of five small children, heard about the murder of Abu Afak, she composed a poetry cursing the men of Medina for allowing Muhammad to assassinate a venerable old man. Muhammad got her assassinated too. Ibn Ishaq wrote,
‘ You obey a stranger who encourages you to murder for booty. You are greedy men. Is there no honor among you?’ Upon hearing this Muhammad said, ‘Will no one rid me of this woman?’ Umayr decided to execute the Prophet’s wishes. That very night he crept into her home while she lay sleeping surrounded by her young children. There was one at her breast. Umayr removed the suckling baby and then plunged his sword into the poet. The next morning in the mosque, Muhammad, who was aware of the assassination, said, ‘You have helped Allah and His Apostle.’ Umayr said, ‘She had five sons; should I feel guilty?’ ‘No,’ the Prophet answered. ‘Killing her
was as meaningless as two goats butting heads .’ (Ishaq: 676)
Soon after receiving praise from Muhammad for the assassination of Asma, the killer went to her children, bragged about committing the murder, and taunted those little kids and the clan of the victim.
Muhammad was a man of extremes. He had created such an atmosphere of terror that nobody could disagree with him. Once, a blind Muslim murdered his slave woman by pressing a dagger in her belly. In the morning, Muhammad called the man to explain why he committed such a murder. The blind man stood up while trembling and said that the woman used to abuse and ridicule Muhammad and hence she was killed. Hearing this, Muhammad said, “ Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood.” (Sunnan Abu Dawud: 38.4348). The message that Muhammad wanted to send was clear – “If anyone insults me, he should be put to death and the killer would not be charged”.
This is a defense mechanism of the Narcissists. By showing that the man was not guilty of murder, Muhammad minimized the impact of the disagreement or criticism on himself. In psychopathology, this defense mechanism is known as “cognitive dissonance”. This is a process of self-justification. Humans are sensitive to inconsistencies between actions and beliefs. When a person recognizes this inconsistency, it causes dissonance, which motivates an individual to resolve the dissonance. The easiest way to resolve dissonance between actions and beliefs is to change the belief by a simple “adjustment of thought”. This is what Muhammad had achieved with this subtle manipulation. Through his words, Muhammad implanted a new way of “thinking” in the minds of his followers.
All those critics recognized Muhammad as a fake; they had every right to oppose him to save their clans from harming themselves. Muhammad’s Qur’an recitals were conflicting; the stories could not be kept straight and new verses often abrogated old verses. They understood that internal contradiction was the surest sign that something was wrong. But neither Muhammad nor his Allah was able to refute his critics’ claims in an intelligent manner. So the only option left to Muhammad was to kill them. Zayn & Dibble (2007, p. 102) wrote, “ The Narcissist realizes he is making bad choices, yet continues to make them anyway. And along the way many valuable, unknowing victims are cruelly wounded ”. When Muslims cannot defend Islam logically, they insult, threaten and even kill the critics.
Deep down, Muhammad knew that those critics were right, but he was utterly helpless. By giving in to his cravings and cruelly using others, he demonstrated a defect (one of the many defects) in his personality. Muhammad knew that Qur’an could not stand mockery and criticism simply because it was false; probably he saw glimpses of his true self when those critics attacked him with their disapproval. He slipped into depression and on behalf of him Allah revealed the following verse,
When you hear His verses being disbelieved or mocked, do not sit with them until they engage in other talk, or else you will surely be like them. Allah will surely gather the hypocrites and unbelievers altogether in Hell . (Q: 4.140).
When Muhammad was depressed, Allah was depressed; when Muhammad was helpless, Allah was equally helpless; when Muhammad was confused, Allah was likewise confused; when Muhammad changed his plan, Allah endorsed it; when Muhammad was furious, Allah sanctioned killing – what more evidence is required to show that Muhammad was only an invisible participant in the game of Qur’anic deception like the prompter in a stage play who takes a backseat behind the scene leaving the center stage for actors?
Why Allah forbade Muslims to ask questions? It was because there is no well-argued explanation for Islam. Islam is a layer upon layer deception; it relies upon ignorance and thrives in it. The deeper one digs, the more obvious the deception becomes. This is precisely why Muhammad protected his doctrine by killing those who criticized him, his book and his religion; he was scared to see the truth. A Narcissist is ever possessed with the inner sensation that he is really a petty crook who is vulnerable of being exposed and condemned by society (Vaknin, 1999, p. 110). In this situation, assassination is the easiest way out. It provides a quick way to end disputes, silence troublesome rivals, and above all, it instills fear into the hearts of those who are still alive. This is the most favored method for silencing the critics for all the notorious mass-murderers in the history – Stalin, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, etc. The beloved Prophet of the Muslims was not an exception.
3.6.5.6: Narcissist Muhammad and his Collection of Women
Sex is a very important factor in the Narcissist’s life, but it should be emotionless. When he cannot obtain adoration, admiration, approval, applause or any other kind of attention by other means (i.e., intellectually); he indulges in sex indiscriminately with multiple partners and becomes a lecherous man. He will consider his sex partners as objects not of desire but of narcissistic supply. Through this, the Narcissist derives his badly needed narcissistic fix. His inflated sense of entitlement may make him think that women owe him sexual favors (Hook, 2007, p. 32). Often he prefers complicated situations, like, sex with celebrities, adolescents, married women, etc (Vaknin, 1999, pp. 88, 89). The aim is; the more difficult the target, the more rewarding the narcissistic outcome. Otherwise the sexual philosophy of a Narcissist is same as an animal.
Muhammad was guilty of every sex crime known to the society – rape, incest, polygamy, adultery, fornication, sexism, pedophilia, abetting prostitution and sex-slavery. Qur’an (4.3) limits Muslims to four wives, but Allah revealed verses (Q: 33.49-50) telling Muhammad that he was exempt and could have any number of women he pleases, as wives, concubines or sex-slaves so that there might be no difficulty for him. During the lifetime of Khadija, Muhammad did not dare to bring another woman in the house. As a young man, he did not face any difficulty to sleep with an older woman, but all his difficulties appeared only during the last ten years of his life when he was old and suffering from all types of ailments. He took a total twenty-one wives, two concubines and many slave girls in his lifetime. No, doubt, Muhammad was a womanizer. Tabari wrote,
They said (to a woman), ‘What a bad thing you have done! You are a self-respecting girl, but the Prophet is a womanizer.’ (Tabari: IX.139)
It does not represent Muhammad a very loving and romantic person. On the contrary, it proves Muhammad’s vulgarity, ugliness and instability of mind. This shows how he treated the institution of marriage. Even after having so many sexual outlets, Muhammad was a pedophile. When he was above fifty, he married a six years old child. He also stole his son’s wife. After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers and husbands, Muhammad and his followers raped them. Worst of all, he rewarded his mercenaries by dividing captured young girls among his followers. It is little wonder his Qur’anic paradise was so perverted.
Narcissists often prefer pedophilia (Vaknin, 1999, p. 264) for many reasons. First, it is easier to have emotionless sex with children. If the Narcissist is attached emotionally with a woman, then there is likelihood that his partner may discover his true self. But if a child is taken as a sexual partner, he is safe. Secondly, sex with a minor gives freedom of action with impunity. It enhances his magical sense of omnipotence and immunity; it thrills him. He can also defy the authority of the state and the edicts of his culture and society. The third and the most important advantage (from the Narcissist’s point of view) is that, he can demand and obtain complete obedience by psychologically molding the child the way he likes. Sub-teen children are, as a Narcissist defines, “inferior”. They are physically weaker, dependent on others for the fulfilment of many of their needs, cognitively and emotionally immature, and easily manipulated. Their fund of knowledge is limited and their skills restricted. Moreover, they are defenseless. The Narcissist can punish the child the way he wants to enforce discipline, and feels entitled to adulation and special treatment from his child-mate. This gives the Narcissist a feeling of superiority and control over the target (Zayn & Dibble, 2007, p. 8). His narcissistic stock goes up easily without much effort at the cost of the innocence of the child.
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edophilia and child molestation had always been considered a psychiatric disorder agreed to by most clinicians (Marvasti, 2004, p. 6). The justice system sees pedophiliac behavior as a sex crime. The aims and acts of a sadist pedophile and a Narcissist pedophile are different. The sadist does it (always forcefully) to inflict damage on the child’s body and mind. But for the Narcissist, forceful or deceitful pedophilia is, in essence, auto-erotic. He uses the child’s body for auto-erotic sexual mono-game – sexual excitement by manual stimulation of his own genitals (Vaknin, 2006, p. 144). For a malignant Narcissist, this is a type of self-love. Unlike sadists, the Narcissist is not enticed by the children themselves but by their budding and immature sexuality or simply by their innocence.
At the age of fifty-one, Muhammad suddenly received a revelation from Allah that the six years old Aisha would be his wife. He knew that pedophilia was wrong and he was aware of society’s view of his action as vile, corrupt, forbidden, evil, and immoral, but it was not a problem because he had Allah’s recommendation for this. To please Muhammad with pedophilic sex, Allah did not hesitate to take the role of a marriage broker.
Aisha reported Allah’s Messenger having said: I saw you in a dream for three nights when an angel brought you to me in a silk cloth and he said: Here is your wife, and when I removed (the cloth) from your face, lo, it was yourself, so I said: If this is from Allah, let Him carry it out . (Muslim: 31.5977)
Narrated ‘Aisha: Allah’s Apostle said (to me), “You have been shown to me twice in (my) dreams. A man was carrying you in a silken cloth and said to me, ‘This is your wife.’ I uncovered it; and behold, it was you. I said to myself, ‘If this dream is from Allah, He will cause it to come true’. (Bukhari: 7.62.15)
However, Abu Bakr, the best friend and confident of Muhammad, had to agree to an immediate marriage. Much is written in Islamic sources about Abu Bakr, but we know very little about his relationship with his daughter. Law can forbid a father from killing his young daughter but this does not mean fathers truly loved and protected their daughters. Abu Bakr agreed to give his daughter in marriage, and the union was consummated when Aisha was nine. Sexual acts with a nine-year-old gave Muhammad freedom of action with impunity. It also enhanced the pedophile’s magical sense of all-powerfulness and immunity. For Muhammad, Aisha was just a “sex-toy” for auto-erotic sexual mono-games.