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A centuries-old mosque in Asia. Photo by Dane Dahl
Excerpt from a conversation with author and historian Dane Dahl
Question: "When you were laying the groundwork for The Moslem Institute and its sister project The Pox of Mohammed, what was the most startling aspect your research uncovered?"
Answer: "Actually several items stand out. Two that come to mind involve the central role Khadija, Mohammed's first and only wife for twenty-four years played in founding the earliest version of Islam. Khadija was a princess in the ruling tribe that controlled the ancient Arabian city of Mecca and its all-important temple known as the Kabba. Hundreds of pagan gods and goddesses were worshiped in the Kabba Temple. I was surprised to learn, in spite of this pagan background this wealthy, powerful, and highly spiritual woman became an Ebionite Christian prior to her marriage with Mohammed."
Question: You said there were several items. Would you like to share some of the others?
Answer: Before writing The Pox of Mohammed I spent two years researching the religion of Islam. Most of the evidence I gathered is too complex to cover in the course of a lunchtime discussion. If you want to learn more about Islam and its history, I suggest you read my book.
There is however one important aspect I will comment on. It pertains to what I believe may be the real cause of Mohammed's death. I don't think the messenger of Islam died of poisoning as Moslem tradition insists; I believe it may have been something more sinister. More shameful. In fact, it's the reason I titled my book The Pox of Mohammed.
The Moslem Institute
In the 21st Century, approximately 1.4 billion followers practice the Moslem faith, making Islam the second largest religion on earth. In the author's opinion the vast majority of Moslems are gentle, law-abiding people who combine religious piety with acts of tolerance, moderation, compassion, and most of all—common sense.
Such Moslems are more in keeping with the original doctrines of Islam, the ones that were practiced when Mohammed and his first wife, Khadija the Pure, lived in the city of Mecca.
Unfortunately such moderate Moslems are not the ones you hear about on the evening news. And during the same time period in which the Moslem population has swelled to record proportions (thereby making Islam's militant component all the more numerous and menacing) the number of people held in slavery throughout the world has also grown to unprecedented numbers. Catholics and Protestants and Jews living in Europe and America are largely unaware of it, but militant Islam has played a long and and brutal role in this immense human tragedy.
The United Nations puts the current number of women and children—and in rare cases men—who are taken into slavery each year at four million! Of these four million slaves, a sizeable percentage are held as sex slaves.
The following is an abbreviated compendium of research author and historian Dane Dahl conducted on these triplet topics: Islam, terrorism and modern human slavery, while preparing to write the historical fiction novel, The Pox of Mohammed.
The material in this online article titled The Moslem Institute is being offered for purposes of comment, criticism, research, and teaching. It is hoped this website will promote better understanding of the origins of Islam, and the underlying reason for the schizophrenic personality, (sometimes compassionate and gentle, and sometimes cruel and homicidal) the Moslem world has displayed to the rest of humanity for the past fourteen centuries.

Author Dane Dahl has joined the ranks of those who believe the original Moslem faith began as a persecuted sect of Christianity. He also believes the first and real prophet of Islam was someone other than Mohammed—and that person was eventually erased from the Koran! This material offers insight into the identity of the shadowy personality who has almost disappeared from history. In so doing, this composition touches on the pivotal roles played by the extinct Ebionite Christian church in the earliest development of the Moslem faith.
Fourteen centuries ago, Moslems believe God (Allah) gave the Koran to their prophet in a series of revelations. As such, Moslems believe the Koran to be the literal words of God: perfect, unflawed, and eternal, the unbending guidebook all of mankind must eventually conform to. However . . . everything present-day Moslems believe about their religion may not be historically correct. This is especially true when you examine the beliefs of militant Islam.
Six things militant Moslems do NOT want Christians and Jews to know regarding the real history of the Koran
1. The earliest versions of the written Koran were scribed with a primitive form of Arabic that used only six letters to distinguish twenty-six different sounds.
http://www.search.com/reference/Banu_Tamim
Because of the important role Khadija the Pure played in founding the original religion of Islam, when women were first reviled and subjugated in the city of Medina, full scale civil war broke out more than once in early Moslem history. This strife almost destroyed the infant Arabian Desert religion called Islam. The first major rebellion involved another female prophetess named Sajah. Shortly after Mohammed died, Sajah the Prophetess emerged from the largest Arabian Desert tribe called the Banu Tamim.
Sajah the Prophetess challenged the corrupt all-male leadership who had seized control of the Moslem faith. After savage fighting, this brave woman and her devoted followers were ultimately defeated. Sajah went into hiding and her loyal supporters were killed. However, vast numbers of Arabs continued to hold secret views that were sympathetic to Prophetess Sajah; given the fact that the woman was still alive, Caliph Uthman and his political allies viewed her as a very real threat.
Question: How many women are named by name in the Koran?
Answer: Only one! According to the following academic website: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//maryecumen1.html "Mary (the mother of Jesus) is … the only woman mentioned by name in the Koran."
Question: How many women are named by name in the Bible?
Answer: More than 150! The author researched the following website: http://www.complete-bible-genealogy.com/names/starting_a.html, and found an extensive list of more than 150 female biblical characters named by name in the Bible. The individual women identified in this database are clearly labeled by the word “female” and the book, chapter, and verse displaying their information is cited for reference.
Khadija the Pure running her trading company
Sex slave image from The Pox of Mohammed
Thoughts on modern day sex slavery: The United Nations estimates that four million people are trafficked into slavery each year! Women living in extreme poverty are lied to by traffickers, who give them false promises of prosperity in a new country with a new job. Instead of the promised wealth, these girls, sometimes as young as 13, become sexual slaves, indentured to the traffickers until they can pay off the debts put up for their travels.
"According to estimates from the United Nations, one quarter of the four million victims trafficked each year are exploited in sex industries. In the last decade, hundreds of thousands of women have been trafficked from Central and Eastern Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union into prostitution throughout the world." http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/international/programs/ukrainetraf_finalreport.pdf
Human trafficking is now the third most profitable activity for international criminal gangs, according to the (U.N.) convention,
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/00organizedcrime1.html
Organized crime also uses "boot camps" for stolen prostitutes. A website operated by a national feminist organization, documents the existence of such facilities. http://www.dullesnow.org/slavery.html
"... traffickers break the women's will by bringing them in bunches to a 'show murder' of a woman who refuses to work. Some are sent to a training camp ... where… traffickers make them have sex with 50 to 100 men a night, until they are totally broken." (Note: The underlined emphasis was added by historian Dane Dahl to clarify the text.)
An actual interview with a former sex slave who was rescued from sexual bondage in an Eastern European brothel is documented in the following website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3071966/
. . . Natasha estimates she was forced to sleep with more than 1,000 men during her nine months in Velesta. Besides the Albanians and Macedonians, there were men from “France, Germany, and the United States,” Natasha said, referring to soldiers from the NATO peacekeeping mission in Macedonia and nearby Kosovo . . .
According to the U.S. Aid Agency, even in the twenty-first century, women in fanatical Moslem countries like Sudan, are victims of horrendous sexual violence.
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/pubs/natsios_antiviolence_stmt.pdf ". . .women continue to suffer from an appalling number of rapes and other forms of sexual violence, branding, maiming. . ." (Note: The underlined emphasis was added by historian Dane Dahl to clarify the text.)
Modern day sex slavery and Israel:
According to the Israeli human rights organization ATZUM, (http://www.atzum.org/)“Tens of thousands … are trafficked into Western Europe … each year… two thirds of them come from Eastern Europe.”
...the sale is one of the most salient expressions of the women's status as sex slaves. There are a number of methods...At least 16% of the women were auctioned off..."
Excerpt of the testimony of a sex trafficker in Israeli court: "She's made to stand naked in the middle of the room ...(potential buyers) touch her breasts, her ass, in order to see if she has anything to grab. They check her tongue, her teeth, to see if she is healthy. They touch her private parts. http://www.atzum.org/trafficking2003.htm (Note: The parenthetical remark and underlined emphasis were added by historian Dane Dahl to clarify the text.)
A Moslem checking a sex slave's mouth and teeth
Sex slavery in Albania the only Moslem country in Europe
In Europe the Albanian mafia has become a key player in the criminal plague of human trafficking. http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/news/8mars_en.htm#al
The Albanian mafia is expanding its range of operation.
According to the on-line news organization The Free Republic, http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a390646772.aff.htm (in Italy) "the Albanians have taken the prostitution racket away from the country’s toughest Mafia branch, the Nerangheta."
First Europe――Then America...
According to the following website, the Albanian mafia threatens to become the most dangerous crime organization in the United States: http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the United States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime problem, threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN) families as kingpins of U.S. crime, top FBI officials said Wednesday.
Moslem Law and sex slavery: (Sharia is the Arab word for Moslem Law which is based on Mohammed's sayings in the Koran and the Hadith.) On the day in question, the topic at the mosque was looting and sex slavery. A crowd of men filled the house of worship when Mohammed said:
Chapter 8, Verse 41 of the Koran "of all the loot you seize from non-Moslems, 20% belongs to Mohammed." (Loot included sex slaves. Also, in correct chronological order, this is actually the 95th chapter.)
Chapter 33, Verse 50 of The Koran: “we have made it legal … for you to take as wives ... those women whom your right hand possesses … whom Allah has given you as booty.” (The terrible words: "women whom your right hand possesses," are Moslem code words for kidnapped female sex slaves. Also, in correct chronological order, this is actually the 100th chapter.)
Women whom your right hand possesses...
Sex slavery and modern Saudi Arabia: The cradle of Islam.
According to the following website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia "...the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has enforced strict Sharia religious laws … Many western freedoms as described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights do not exist … Saudi Arabia has come under fire for … torture …and (its) attitude towards … women … In 1962, Saudi Arabia (finally) outlawed slavery ...(but as of) 2005 Saudi Arabia was designated by the United States Department of State, as a Tier 3 country with respect to trafficking in human beings … Tier 3 countries are, “Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.” (Note: The parenthetical remarks and underlined emphasis were added by historian Dane Dahl to clarify the text.)

Mohammed choosing the grief-stricken Safiyah
You've heard about Moslem Suicide Bombers.
How about Moslem Suicide Brides?
The (original) Satanic Verses discussed three female angels of Islam that were given great respect in the earliest days of the religion. The phrase was coined by a 19th Century Islamic scholar named Sir William Muir, who wrote about the feeble excuse Mohammed gave when he removed the verses talking about these divine females from the Koran.
According to the following website: http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-allahs-daughters.htm The Moslem historian al-Tabari, (Annals 1.1192-1193 = Tabari vi: 108-109) said these words used to appear in verses 19-22 of the 53rd Chapter of the Koran (which is actually the 46th chapter in correct chronological order). "Have ye seen Lat and Uzza, And another, the third (angel), Manat? These are the exalted cranes whose intercession is to be hoped for." (Note: historian Dane Dahl provided the parenthetical remark and underlined emphasis to clarify the text.)
At the time Lat, Uzza, and Manat emerged in Moslem doctrine, the early Catholic church was teaching the Christian faithful to pray to the saints, the Virgin Mary, and the angels for divine intercession. The first Moslems were taught to view these three females as high-level angelic beings, that flew in the heavens and watched over the affairs of men. These females served as intermediaries between mankind and God. The mental imagery in these four Koran verses empowered women, and it is no accident that all of these verses were originally revealed to the Islamic faithful while Khadija the Pure was alive and living in Mecca. (The Mecca chapters). Only after the death of this holy woman, did Mohammed work up the nerve to declare these four verses to be the discredited Satanic Verses of Islam.
This precipitous act was done after the woman who may have been the first and real prophet of Islam died. In Khadija’s absence, Mohammed began introducing murder, hatred, war, slavery, looting as well as the complete subjugation of women into Islamic teachings.
Mohammed did this by proclaiming that (while Khadija was still alive) the Devil came to him and deceived him into uttering these words about Lat, Uzza, and Manat. As a result, following her death the three female angels of Islam were removed from all Moslem teachings. In the same time period, the status of women was reduced to little more than property: Something that could be bought, sold, or stolen against the will of the women.

John the Baptist: An Ebionite Evangelist
Who were the Ebionite Christians
and why were they so important to Islam?
Most Ebionites were Jews who considered themselves to be the direct disciples of Jesus and John the Baptist. According to the following website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebionite - "(The) Ebyonim, (an Aramaic word meaning) "the Poor Ones"… (an) early sect of mostly Jewish disciples of Jesus the Nazarene, and possibly, to a lesser extent, John the Baptist." (Note: The underlined emphasis and parenthetical remarks were added by historian Dane Dahl to clarify the text.)
An Ebionite Bishop named Waraka married Mohammed and Khadija (his first and only wife for twenty-four years) in a monogamous Christian wedding ceremony. According to the following website: www.copticchurch.org/Presentations/Islam%20unveiled.PPT "(Bishop Waraka was Khadija’s cousin.) Waraka was the one ordaining the marriage … it was a Christian monogamy marriage." (Note: The underlined emphasis was added by historian Dane Dahl to clarify the text.)
Scattered communities of Christians lived in pre-Islamic Arabia, and the Ebionites were part of that population. According to the following website: http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/4_ch03.htm (Philip Schaff’s History of the Christian Church, 1910, Vol. 4) (In Arabia) "The Christians belonged mostly to the various heretical sects which were expelled from the Roman empire during the violent doctrinal controversies of the fourth and fifth centuries. We find there traces of Arians, Sabellians, Ebionites, Nestorians, Eutychians, Monophysites, Marianites, and Collyridians or worshippers of Mary."
Also according to the following academic website, the earliest form of Islam was Ebionite. http://www.auburn.edu/allenkc.jud-chr.html "...the religion that Mohammed founded at the beginning of his public activity was very Ebionite." (Underlined emphasis was added by historian Dane Dahl to clarify the text.)
In short, the Ebionites were important to Islam because their faith was the religion Mohammed's first wife (and Mohammed himelf?) practiced; it became the foundation Islam was built upon. These factors, have convinced the author the first and real prophet of Islam may have been Mohammed's wife Khadija: a devout Christian Ebionite, whom Moslem tradition declares to have been a wealthy and influential Arab princess, and one of the four holiest women in human history!

The Roman Persecution of Christians
Who were the Gnostic Christians?
Gnostic Christians were plentiful in the second century A.D. and significant numbers of them were murdered by the Romans in systematic anti-Christian persecutions like the one portrayed in this painting. Gnostic Christian believers were common throughout the Middle East, extending from Persia to Egypt in the east, to Europe in the west. Long before it became fashionable or even good for one's health to be a Christian, a prominant theologian named Valentius was once considered for the position of Bishop of Rome! Valentius was a Gnostic Christian. http://www.referenceencyclopedia.com/?title=Valentinius
According to another website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism#Major_Gnostic_movements_and_their_texts
Gnostic Christians were influenced by Zoroastrian traditions from Persia (Persia is modern day Iran).
Author's note: Gnostics believed humans to be previously existing souls, who had become trapped in a cruel material world, created by an imperfect spirit being sometimes called the Demiurge. Gnostic Christians identified the Demiurge with Satan and considered him to be the same blood-thirsty god who appeared the Jewish Old Testament. Interestingly enough, the three Magi who came and worshiped the baby Jesus were believed to be Zoroastrians, who converted to Gnostic Christianity.
Gnostic Christian communities such as the Arians and Gnostic Ebionites living in Arabia during the final thirteen years of Mohammed's life, would have immediately recognized Allah as another manifestation of the (blood-thirsty) god of the Jewish Old Testament. As such they would have refused to convert to Islam, even though it meant they would all be enslaved or killed.

Archaeology and Mohammed
Question: Is there any archaeological evidence from the time Mohammed was alive, actually identifying him as a prophet?
Answer: No! According to the following website: http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=327 "there is no archeological evidence dated at the time when Mohammed was alive by way of artifacts, manuscripts or inscriptions… where Muhammad is actually referred to as a prophet."
http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/MH_LM/prophets_sickness_and_death.htm
quotes the work of Muhammad Husayn Huykal (1888-1956). This man was another minister of Education in Egypt. He was awarded a Juris Doctorate from Sorbonne University in 1912. According to his work, The Life of Muhammed, published in 1933, Dr. Huykal said, ". . . His (Mohammed's) fever increased in the first days of his sickness so that he felt as if he were on fire . . ."
". . . One day he asked his wives and servants to pour on him seven goatskins of water from various wells. The water was brought from different wells as he commanded and poured over him as he sat in a tub belonging to Hafsah. He then put on his clothes, wrapped his head, and went to the mosque . . ."
". . . Members of the Prophet's household saw fit at this stage to give him some medicine . . .When he came back to himself, he asked who had given him the medicine and why. His uncle, al `Abbas, explained that they had prepared it and given it to him because they feared he had pleurisy. The Prophet said, "That (pleurisy) is a disease, which God would not inflict upon me . . ."
". . .After this, the Prophet's sickness and pain increased. His fever was so high that it could be felt by his wives and servants upon touching the blankets which covered him . . ."
". . . The same reports also tell that as the agonies of death became stronger, the Prophet turned to God in prayer saying: "0, God, help me overcome the agonies of death." `A'ishah reported that his head was in her lap during the last hour. She said, "The Prophet's head was getting heavier in my lap. I looked at his face and found that his eyes had become fixed . . . The Prophet of God expired . . ."
With this horrible death in mind, is it any wonder that pious and superstitious Arabs who were not part of the privileged ruling elite in Medina would see Mohammed's demise as evidence of divine retribution for betraying the original beliefs of Khadija the Pure? In the author's opinion, it is no coincidence that another female prophet soon burst on the scene. Her name was Sajah al-Tamimiyyah.
By a fluke of history, one surviving historical record escaped the brutal campaign of censorship designed to eliminate this godly woman and other anonymous females like her (including Khadija the Pure) from Moslem history. The brave Moslem historian who wrote about Sajah al-Timimiyyah was named Sayd ibn Umar al Tamimi. Sayd ibm Umar was an eighth century Moslem historian who is widely quoted by later influential Moslem historians such as al-Tabari. Sayd ibn Umar is highly authoritative on topics of Moslem history extending from the Riddah Wars to the Battle of Suffin. Historian Sayd ibm Umar clearly identified Sajah as a prophetess.
Mohammed and the angel Gabriel
Question: Does the Koran actually say it was the angel Gabriel who appeared to Mohammed?
Answer: No!!!! It simply says a majestic being appeared to Mohammed. This is important, because longstanding Christian teachings that Khadija and Mohammed would have been familiar with say Satan can appear as a beautiful and majestic angel of light. In fact, the entire Moslem faith is based on the premise that the majestic being who came to Mohammed, was the angel Gabriel and not Satan. According to the following Moslem website: http://www.centerce.org/ISLAM/Islamic%20Beginnings.htm
"About 610 CE, as he reflected on such matters, Muhammad had a vision of a majestic being, later identified with the angel Gabriel."
In fact, it was approximately two hundred years later before Moslem tradition finally identified the majestic being as the angel Gabriel.
A point-by-point comparison of Jesus' teachings in the Bible―versus Mohammed's teachings in the Medina Chapters of the Koran
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· The Koran, Chapter 5 Verse 33 ― Updated into modern English:
Kill or crucify non-Moslems, or cut off their hands and feet…
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 94th chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
· The Koran, Chapter 8 Verse 12 ― Updated into modern English:
Fill non-Moslems with terror … chop off their heads and cut off their fingers.
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 95th chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
· The Koran, Chapter 8 Verse 17 ― Updated into modern English:
You are not the one who is killing non-Moslems, Allah is killing them … (using your hands) so he can test his faithful followers...
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 95th chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
· The Koran, Chapter 8 Verse 41 ― Updated into modern English:
… of all the loot you plunder from non-Moslems, 20% belongs to God and to Mohammed ... (Loot included female sex slaves.)
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 95th chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
· The Koran, Chapter 9 Verse 3 ― Updated into modern English:
...this is a warning from Allah... Allah breaks all treaties with non-Moslems, and so does (Mohammed)...
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 113th chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
· The Koran, Chapter 4 Verse 3 ― Updated into modern English:
…Take as many as four wives from the women you are sexually attracted to …
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 100th chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
· The Koran, Chapter 4 Verse 34 ― Updated into modern English:
God has made men superior to women… Virtuous women are obedient. If a woman becomes
disobedient, scourge her. (Beat her with a whip.)
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 100th chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
· The Koran, Chapter 33 Verse 50 ― Updated into modern English:
When it comes to marriage, Allah makes it legal for you to take as wives, women whom your right
hand possesses. (Kidnapped female sex slaves.)
(In correct chronological order, this is actually the 103rd chapter and was orally revealed by Mohammed AFTER Khadija’s death.)
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