Any number of reliable oral traditions of the Prophet, or hadith, exist which show Muhammed’s absolute intolerance of criticism of the nascent Islamic faith and of himself by his contemporaries.
The collection of hadith in the text that follows shows that Muhammed had a particular antipathy towards the poets and satitrists of Arabia who criticised the new religion of Islam and its Prophet resulted in their death, usually by the command of Muhammed himself.
Is it possible that the humourless intolerance notorious of Muslims throughout and the total lack of a scholarly tradition of textual criticism is the result of a culture of intolerance that has been embedded into the faith by the Prophet’s own example? [The Spittoon] Read more
