Table of Contents IslamicSupremacism.org - A Short Course
Key Dates & Population Statistics
Islamic Tradition Claims
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• 570 AD - Muhammad was born in Mecca.
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• 610 - Muhammad received his first revelation through the angel Gabriel from Allah of what became the Qur’an. He continued periodically receiving them for 22 years until his death.
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• 622 - Muhammad emigrates to Medina from Mecca and the Islamic calendar begins year 1, and the Koran becomes more bellicose than the “Meccan Verses”.
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• 632 - Muhammad dies in Medina. The split in Islam into Shia and Sunni began over a dispute over Muhammad’s successor.
Brief Chronology of Historical Events
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• 633 - Arabian invasion of Iraq.
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• 636-639 - Arabian conquest of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Armenia.
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• 644 - Arabian conquest of Persia
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• 650’s - 660’s - Arabian conquest of North Africa.
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• 674 - First Arabian siege of Constantinople
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• 711-718 - Muslim conquest of Spain.
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• 732 - Muslim advance into western Europe is stopped at the Battle of Tours in France.
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• Circa 760 - Ibn Ishaq collects material and publishes 1st biography of Muhammad.
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• 830’s-860’s - The six major Hadith collections are compiled and published, providing voluminous detail about Muhammad’s words and deeds.
(Above chronology from Did Muhammad Exist? Spencer, p.xv)
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• 1095 ~ 1290 - Series of mostly unsuccessful Christian Crusade wars with Muslims after several hundred years of Islamic jihad.
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• 1453 - Muslims conquered Constantinople, renamed it Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire (Caliphate).
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• 9/11/1683 - last Muslim advance into Europe from the east is stopped at Vienna, Austria.
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• 1924 - Birth of secular Turkey, abolishing the 600 year old Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I.
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• 1928 - Muslim Brotherhood founded in Egypt to recreate an Islamic empire (caliphate), in opposition to the new secular Turkey. The MB was outlawed for decades in Egypt.
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• 2012 - The Brotherhood wins elections in Egypt with U.S. government support, and in little more than a year gained sweeping new powers by forcing out military chiefs and writing a new sharia constitution that passed in referendum. But soon they were removed by the military, more on the MB page.
Population Statistics
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• Pew estimates world population 6.9 billion in 2010.
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• Pew estimates 2.18 billion Christians in 2010.
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• Pew estimates 1.6 billion Muslims in 2010.
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• Estimated 900 million Hindu.
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• Estimated 850 million Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist.
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• Estimated 360 million Buddhists.
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• Estimated 50 million Muslims in Europe.
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• Estimated 15 million Jews worldwide in 2020. In 1939 there were an estimated 17 million worldwide. In 1948 there was an estimated 11.5, after 6 million were murdered, mostly by nazis.
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• There are less than 2.5 million Muslims in U.S., not “nearly 7 million” CAIR claims on its website , and Obama repeated in his 2009 speech at al-Azhar.