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Islamic Tradition Claims


  1. • 570 AD - Muhammad was born in Mecca.


  1. • 610 - Muhammad receives his first revelation of the Qur’an from Allah, through the angel Gabriel. He continued periodically receiving them for 22 years until his death.


  1. • 622 - Muhammad emigrates to Medina from Mecca and the Islamic calendar begins year 1, and the Koran becomes more bellicose than the “Meccan Verses”.


  1. • 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


  1. • 633 - Arabian invasion of Iraq.


  1. • 636-639 - Arabian conquest of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Armenia.


  1. • 644 - Arabian conquest of Persia


  1. • 650’s - 660’s - Arabian conquest of North Africa.   

  

  1. • 674 - First Arabian siege of Constantinople


  1. • 711-718 - Muslim conquest of Spain.


  1. • 732 - Muslim advance into western Europe is stopped at the Battle of Tours in France.


  1. • Circa 760 - Ibn Ishaq collects material and publishes 1st biography of Muhammad.


  1. • 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)


  1. • 1095 ~ 1290 - Series of mostly unsuccessful Christian Crusade wars with Muslims after several hundred years of Islamic jihad.


  1. • 1453 - Muslims conquered Constantinople, renamed it Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire (Caliphate).

  

  1. • 9/11/1683 - last Muslim advance into Europe from the east is stopped at Vienna, Austria.


  1. • 1924 - Birth of secular Turkey, abolishing the 600 year old Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I.


  1. • 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.


  1. • 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


  1. • Pew estimates world population 6.9 billion in 2010.


  1. • Pew estimates 2.18 billion Christians in 2010.


  1. • Pew estimates 1.6  billion Muslims in 2010. 


  1. • Estimated 900 million Hindu.


  1. • Estimated 850 million Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist.


  1. • Estimated 360 million Buddhists.


  1. • Estimated 14 million Jews.


  1. • Estimated 50 million Muslims in Europe.


  1. • 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.


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