Muhammad did not take criticism very well, and never permitted others to denigrate him, or say anything against him in public. There are a number of cases where Muhammad had those critical of him put to death, but we are going to use only two here. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2019 (25,730) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flbJI1Hcilg

We now come to our concluding episode concerning the Proto-Qur'an, where Jay tries to make sense of where the Qur'an came from, and how it became the Qur'an we have today. Normally this would take hours to do, but all he has is about 20 minutes...so here goes... We are told by Muslims that according to their 'Standard Islamic Narrative' (SIN) the Qur'an was first compiled right after Muhammad's death by the caliph Abu Bakr, sometime between 632 - 634 AD (see Sahih al Bukhari, volume 6, Hadith 509-510). According to Al Bukhari, in 652, after the battle of Azerbaijan, there were a number of different Qur'ans floating around in the north, so the Caliph Uthman had Zaid ibn Thabit (the secretary of Muhammad) rewrite the Qur'an in the Quraishi dialect, so that it would be pure and in only one language. Obviously, in the 7th century, there could be no dialectical differences in a written Arabic consonantal text, because in order to read those differences, one would require dots and vowels above and below the letters, and these were not invented until the next century, around 100 years later. Remember, however, that the story about the Qur'an's creation is first compiled by Al Bukhari in the 9th century, when dialectical differences would have been well known, as they would have been using dots and vowels for over a century by then; thus, the reason he gives for Uthman burning all the other manuscripts which disagreed, thinking this was merely for dialectical purposes, when in reality, in the 7th century, they only reason someone would destroy variant manuscripts was because the consonantal words were different, which suggests that they said entirely different things. Jay referred to the fact that we have no original or extant 7th century manuscripts at all, which has forced Muslims to try to find at least 96% of the Qur'an in fragmentary form (using 63 different Qur'anic fragments) which they claim existed from before 719 AD, or within the first Islamic century AH. Yet 20 of those 63 fragments have been investigated by scholars with no conclusions as yet, while another 9 have been dated after 719 AD, and the remaining 34 fragments no one has done any research on as yet. Consequently, almost all of the 63 fragments are inconclusive, or too late or have yet to be investigated, suggesting that the Muslims have merely grabbed whatever fragments they could find to make up the 96% of the Qur'an they needed, and then simply stated they were all written before 719 AD, hoping that no one would investigate their claims. Unfortunately, for the, our team in London has, proving, that even as late as 719 AD there is no complete manuscript of the Qur'an which agrees with our current Qur'an. We are told that a Jewish king from Kufa (in Iraq), named 'Umar' (not the Muslim caliph Umar), came West and conquered Jerusalem in 638 AD. He was befriended by a Christian monk named Gabriel, and soon after converted to Christianity. In 647 AD he minted a coin with his image on it, holding a cross, and with the letters MHMD, which are the consonantal letters for 'Muhammad', meaning 'the praised one'. Numismatists thus assume this referred to Jesus, the 'Praised One'. At about the same he was given the Syriac Diatesseron which was in popular use in Syria and Iraq, referred to as the 'recitation' which in Arabic is "Qura'a", the same word from which Qur'an came from. In the late 7th century the caliph Abd al Malik, an 'anti-Trinitarian' Christian, introduced Arabic as the language of the empire, as well as his anti-trinitarian beliefs, into his Umayyad empire, which became the pre-cursor for what later became Islam. His son al Walid began the task of creating the Qur'an, primarily by borrowing the Aramaic texts available to them; but the Arab scribes, not knowing Aramaic, imposed their own Arabic dots and vowels onto the text, and adulterated much of those texts, replacing the name of Jesus with hundreds of references to the 'rasul' or 'nabi' (the prophet of God). It was the German scholars like Gunter Luling and Christoph Luxenberg who in the last 50 years, by removing the Arabic dots and vowels, were able to reverse the Qur'anic texts back to their earlier Arabic antecedents, and even further to the Aramaic originals. What they found were 4th - 7th century Christian Lectionaries, Homilies, and Hymns, all dedicated to Jesus Christ, something the Christian Syrian scholars like Gabriel Sawma have known for years, and have been trying to tell the rest of us for decades. But no one was really paying them much attention; that is, until the Germans came to the rescue. Consequently, from here on out, in order to know what the Qur'an originally said, we will all need to learn Aramaic in order to know what the Qur'an was all about...rather, in order to know WHO it was all about...Jesus Christ. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2022 (68,960) Music: "Feeling the Caribbean Sun" by Horst Hoffman, from filmmusic-io ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs7i5rVk7d0