The Muslim and the Mormon by Johnny Cirucci SEPARATED BY BIRTH It is interesting to note that both Joseph Smith and Muhammad claimed that they were visited by “angels” and that their critics accused them (both then and now) of poorly fabricating religions that were loosely based on Judeo/Christian traditions and Scriptures for the very earthly purpose of personal lust, greed and aggrandizement. Certainly, that is what both men achieved in their lifetimes (as well as ignoble ends). The Bible Answer-Man has noted several oddities in the Book of Mormon such as over 25,000 plagiarized words from the King James Bible (available handily in Joseph Smith’s time but not very accessible during the supposed “inspiration” of the book ages before), or that Jews brought horses and elephants to the New World before Columbus was a gleam in his daddy’s eye. Muhammad, on the other hand, couldn’t keep Miriam the sister of Moses straight with Miriam the mother of Jesus. The confusing labyrinth we know as the Quran contains many more twists such as who the first muslim was (Muhammad [Surah 6:14], Moses [7:143] or Abraham [2:127-133]) or is it even possible to see the most merciful Allah (Surah 53:1-18 says “yes” but 6:102-103 says “no”). Seeing the power brought by the Hebrew religion, Smith appropriated much of its trappings, calling non-believers “Gentiles” and labeling his place of worship a “temple” but it was his propensity for using polygamy as a cover for lust that brought him the most notoriety: In identifying 33 well-documented wives of Smith — other researchers have placed the figure as high as 48 — [author Todd] Compton found that in the case of 11 women, Smith’s polygamy was polyandrous. That is, the women were married and cohabiting with their husbands, who mostly were faithful Mormons, when Smith married them…Eleven of Smith’s wives were between ages 14 and 20, nine were in their 20s, eight were in Smith’s own peer group of 31 to 40, two were in their 40s and three in their 50s. Joseph Smith’s Wives, the Salt Lake Tribune, 13 December, 1997 Muhammad was cut from the same cloth, for amongst his many wives his favorite—Aisha—was married to him when she was 6 and he waited a full three years before consummating the “relationship”. Both religions acquired new male proselytes by appealing to their loins but while Smith promised godhood with an eternal harem of goddesses, Muhammad promised an eternal erection to be used on both virgin girls and young boys [Surah 52:20-27]. OK, to be fair, the ever-lasting woody was added by subsequent Islamic theologians like Al-Suyuti but muslim men have become quite attached to it for some reason (seems rather uncomfortable to me). Apparently, Smith was so enamored with Muhammad’s style, he vowed to be just like him. If the people let us alone, we will preach the gospel in peace. But if they come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion with the sword. We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood…from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I will be to this generation a 2nd Muhammad, whose motto in treating for peace was “the Al-Qur’an or the sword.” So shall it be with us — “Joseph Smith or the sword!” A reference to this speech can be found in Smith’s “History of the Church” (Volume III, p. 167) but a more complete and devastating account is to be had from Fawn Brodie’s No Man Knows My History, pp. 230-231. Smith made this public proclamation just as the “Mormon War” was starting to heat up. Perhaps he had taken inspiration from Muhammad’s claim: I have been ordered by God to fight with people till they bear testimony to the fact that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his messenger, and that they establish prayer and pay tribute. If they do it, their blood and their property are safe from me. ~ Bukhari Volume I, p. 13 Sadly, the good folks from the “Show Me” state didn’t think so and he was exiled from Missouri and ended up in Illinois where he created his own little fiefdom in a town he named “Nauvoo” [Hebrew for “to be beautiful”]. Smith’s utopia quickly devolved into strife, envy and jealousy compounded by some extraordinary religious doctrine and political intrigue. It ended with Smith being imprisoned by Illinois governor Thomas Ford in the county seat of Carthage along with his brother Hyrum. It was there that a black-faced mob executed Hyrum and shot Smith multiple times as he jumped from a window, falling dead in the street in June of 1844. For Muhammad, al Tabari claims that a conquered woman tried to poison him in vengeance for the torture and murder of her family but Bukhari’s Hadith state that a Jewish woman succeeded in poisoning the Prophet. Certainly, in either case, the words of a different Prophet ring true; All who live by the sword shall die by the sword. 9/11 TRUTH But Smith’s abject demise set the stage for another tragedy. Mormons again looked to relocate and centralize in one geographic area, this time following their new president—Brigham Young—to the great state of Utah. It was here that they intercepted a wagon-train of Arkansas pilgrims. In their paranoia and perverse doctrines they chose to waylay and annihilate the entire caravan down to only the youngest of children, at one point, entering the Arkansas defenses under a false flag of truce to facilitate slaughtering them. Known as the “Mountain Meadow Massacre”, the siege culminated with that bloodbath in 1857…on September 11th.
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