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Forced Conversions http://sunnah.com/bukhari/64/383 " When Jarir reached Yemen, there was a man who used to foretell and give good omens by casting arrows of divination. Someone said to him. "The messenger of Allah's Messenger is present here and if he should get hold of you, he would chop off your neck." One day while he was using them (i.e. arrows of divination), Jarir stopped there and said to him, "Break them (i.e. the arrows) and testify that None has the right to be worshiped except Allah, or else I will chop off your neck." So the man broke those arrows and testified that none has the right to be worshiped except Allah." In his book, "The Biography of the Prophet" (part 3, p. 113), Ibn Hisham relates this episode: "Ali Ibn Abi Talib encountered a man called 'Umru and told him, 'I indeed invite you to Islam.' 'Umru said, 'I do not need that.' 'Ali said, 'Then I call you to fight.' (This w...

There are number of times Quran derides some people as hypocrites. But what about Muhammad? Did he apply values or rules he expected his followers to follow to himself? Quran says that Muhammad is just a messenger but still allows him to break rules set for Muslims. 1 Maximum Number of women a Muslims can marry was fixed by Allah to 4 but Muhammad had more that 10 wives at one point in time. Muhammad even asked a person to divorce 4 four of his wives as he had 8 wives before conversion. 2. Islam allows women to remarry after death of their husband but Muhammad prevented his wives from remarrying. 3. Islam allows polygamy an Muhammad himself had many wives but he stopped Ali from marrying anyone other than his Daughter. Ali  married other women only after death of Fatima. 4. Quran says that Muhammad is just a messenger . why should Allah include verses to solve his personal problems? 5. Another hypocrisy inherent in Islam  is regarding adultery. On one hand h...