In Denial About the Murderer and Thief Who Founded Islam

Andrew Bostom, reviews The Truth About Muhammad in The Washington Times, and notes that what is taboo in this politically correct time, was simply generally accepted truth in an earlier age. For example, the early 20th Century biographer of Mohammed, David Margoliouth, whose source material was Islam's own most respected narratives of the life of the prophet:

"In order to gain his ends he recoils from no expedient, and he approves of similar unscrupulousness on the part of his adherents, when exercised in his interest. He profits to the utmost from the chivalry of the Meccans, but rarely requites it with the like. He organizes assassinations and wholesale massacres.

"His career as tyrant of Medina is that of a robber chief, whose political economy consists in securing and dividing plunder . . . He is himself an unbridled libertine and encourages the same passion in his followers. For whatever he does he is prepared to plead the express authorization of the deity. It is, however, impossible to find any doctrine which he is not prepared to abandon in order to secure a political end . . .This is a disagreeable picture for the founder of a religion, and it cannot be pleaded that it is a picture drawn by an enemy . . ."