It’s one thing to be a Muslim apologist who is ignorant of all that makes Islam the sadistic, misogynistic, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, supremacist death cult it is. But when one claims to have studied the prophet Muhammad, and still comes away thinking that Islam is all about peaceful co-existence with non-Muslims, one can only shake one’s head in utter disbelief. Shame on you, Craig Considine.
Craig Considine Ph.D. candidate, Trinity College Dublin; Film director, ‘Journey into America’; Interfaith activist
Huffington Post Muslims worldwide have recently joined together to celebrate Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. This day is an opportunity for Muslims and non-Muslims, such as myself – a Catholic – to reflect upon the life and legacy of the prophet of Islam. In this short essay, I want to share with you what I have learned about Muhammad and how his legacy informs my understanding of Islam.
Muhammad’s beliefs on how to treat religious minorities make him a universal champion of human rights, particularly as it pertains to freedom of conscience, freedom of worship, and the right for minorities to have protection during times of strife.
Muhammad initiated many legal covenants with Christians and Jews after establishing his Muslim community. For example, in one covenant with the Christian monks at Mount Sinai, Egypt, Muhammad called on Muslims to respect Christian judges and churches, and for no Muslim to fight against his Christian brother or sister.
Through this agreement, Muhammad made it clear that Islam, as a political and philosophical way of life, respected and protected Christians.
Similarly, in the Treaty of Maqnah, the Prophet stated Jews “may be in peace… you are in security [under Muhammad’s rule]… Towards you is no wrong and no enmity. After today you will not be subject to oppression or violence.”
In the Constitution of Medina, a key document which laid out a societal vision for Muslims, Muhammad also singled out Jews, who, he wrote, “shall maintain their own religion and the Muslim theirs… The close friends of Jews are as themselves.”
In safeguarding the rights of Jews, Muhammad made it clear that a citizen of an Islamic state did not have to follow Islam and that Muslims should treat Jews as they would their own friends.
In developing these agreements with his fellow Muslims, Christians, and Jews, Muhammad clearly rejected elitism and racism and demanded that Muslims see their Abrahamic brothers and sisters as equals before God.
According to Muhammad, humanity was at the heart of Islam. In my reading and interpretation of his last sermon at Mount Arafat in 632 AD, I learned that the Prophet fought against racism long before the days of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
In the sermon, he argued “An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab… a white person has no superiority over a black nor does a black have any superiority over white except by piety and good action.” Muhammad’s final sermon informed me that Islam teaches Muslims to be tolerant of difference and welcome to diversity.
My research has also highlighted how Muhammad had similar beliefs to that of George Washington, a key founding father of America. In a January 2013 article for the Huffington Post titled “An Unlikely Connection Between Muhammad and George Washington,“ I examined how these two great men virtually shared identical opinions on social conduct, modesty, humility, respect, and even hygiene.
In making these connections, it seems to me that Islamic values as expressed by Muhammad, and American values as expressed by Washington, are quite similar. Muslims and non-Muslim Americans can look to the example of Prophet Muhammad and George Washington as a way to build bridges of cross-cultural understanding. Studying Muhammad has taught me invaluable lessons on the fundamental principles of Islam, but more importantly, principles of life itself.
His treatment of religious minorities and his basic moral beliefs have encouraged me to further promote dialogue between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and to improve my own everyday character and conduct.
Without a doubt, my research into the Prophet’s life has showed me that he is a role model for both Muslims and non-Muslims and that humanity can benefit from Islam.
You have only selected quotes that suit you, and have not looked at them in context. Ie. the whole chapter and story behind a specific verse. For that, we invite you to speak with a knowledgeable person about Islam and you will find great comfort in the good that this beautiful religion preaches. I pray that Allah guides you, just as He guided many others to accept Islam, even those who denounced the religion before they accepted it. Which still is, and always will be, the fastest growing religion until the end of time.
Hey Farthad, get lost.
Funny yet you can’t find one passage in the quran that talks about Love.
Same reason why you can’t find palestine on a map. it doesn’t exist.
He is either Stupid or he “drank the kool-aid” {which I guess is the same thing}
It seems that the responses posted only fuel the vitriolic tenor of the website. So, perhaps this as a second one … How does the song go? … “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with ___.” Thank you.
Another idiot dhimmi. Get lost, Robert.
That’s a CHRISTMAS SONG you fking moron. Find the Muslim Song Preaching Good will towards Infidels.
Is this EVIL traitor paid by Saudi Arabia for his treachery against innocent humanity or does he lie and DECEIVE wickedly for Islam for free? This traitor will answer to God one day for his dirty, satanic lies!
Over a period of 1,400 years hundreds of millions of non-Muslim innocents died because of Islam. THEIR BLOOD CRIES OUT!
Ireland is now owned by the EU who pull the strings.
After hundreds of years of bloody strife in ejecting the English they submit like lambs to edict from Brussels.
A treacherous lot, they sided with the Germans in two world wars with collaborators toing and froing from Berlin like star struck teenagers.
They even hatched a joint invasion plan of British Northern Ireland which due only to their ineptness fell apart.
The anti-semitism follows like night follows day.
Carrig MacConsaidín anglicized his name. Why? Maybe he didn’t want to be identified with the ANTISEMITIC Irish: the Corriganns, the McGuires, the Ashtons, the Ryans…
And what’s with that? What did the Jews do to the Irish? Or what do the mohammedans do FOR the Irish, at least the ANTISEMITIC ones? As a smaller country, they are probably cheaper for arabs to buy, but they still have one vote at the UN.
[And clever arsehole trolls: Don’t bring up that stinking canard about arabs being ‘semites’ too, look up the etymology of ANTISEMITISM.]
The blog won’t allow me to show his picture, but here is a link to it:
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‘Craig Considine’
“PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin Ireland | Research
Current: PhD candidate at Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin Past: Editor-in-chief at TCD Journal of Postgraduate Research, Documentary director and research assistant at Akbar Ahmed’s “Journey into America” Education: Trinity College Dublin, Royal Holloway, University of London, American University, Washington D.C. [Keep an eye on THEM!] Craig Considine is in the final year of his doctoral study at Trinity College, University of Dublin (Department of Sociology) in which he explores how young [mohammedan] Pakistani men in Dublin and Boston assist and resist the RACIAL STATE OF IRELAND [THAT ALONE is worth a PhD from his dhimmi Irish friends!] AND THE U.S.” [THAT will guarantee him a job with obuMBoy!]
Someone should inform him of the RACIST activities of young, and not so young, mohammedan Pakistani men, grooming/gang raping/pimping vulnerable under-age WHITE girls in the UK. Or the ultimately sick kidnapping/torturing/murdering of WHITE Scottish schoolboy Kriss Donald
“He is a frequent [how about PROLIFIC, and NAUSEATING?] contributor to the Huffington Post Religion. His writing has been published in Washington Post, Fox News, [Why?] Arab News, and Today’s Zaman, among many more international news outlets.”
He is also prolific on all electronic media. He should call himself Craig Considine Inc., like that other egomaniac David Suzuki Inc.
“In addition to his writing, Craig directed the POPULAR documentary [By who’s metric?] “Journey into America” (2009), which has been screened at the University of Cambridge, Washington National Cathedral, and Parliament of World Religions, among many other university and organizations around the world. The documentary has been accepted to film festivals throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Australia, and his shorter documentaries have been vetted [?] by CNN.”
“Craig has been invited to speak about his research and interfaith service at the U.S. Embassy in London and School of Oriental and African Studies. He has also been invited to debate at the Fitzgerald Chamber at University College Dublin and participate in a seminar at the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University. Craig has also appeared on The Riz Khan Show, Al-Jazeera (English).”
“He has served as research assistant to Professor Akbar Ahmed, who the BBC regards as “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam,” on two separate award winning book projects: “Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam” and “Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization.”
“Through his writing, film work, and interfaith service Craig has contributed to the effort of building bridges between Muslims and non-Muslims ”
He should try building bridges in Syria. With any luck he would end up like Daniel Pearl or Nick Berg. But, as dumb as he is, he wouldn’t miss his head.
The despicable coward and filthy TRAITOR doesn’t say one word of protest against the wicked population replacement of the Irish people with Mohammadans!
THE ENFORCED DESTRUCTION OF THE IRISH PEOPLE HAS BEGUN
He works and studies out of Trinity College in Dublin. He says he’s Christian but he forgot to mention he’s probably a member of the United Church… which kind of says it all.
He has a thing for islam. Written many articles pro-islam and loaded with lies.
Islamist perverted the teachings of the propht the way Christians perverted the teachings of Jesus to go on thier champaian of murder and domination in the crusades sounds like whats going on today to me
I suspect he’s either a pedophile or a pedo sympathesizer. Why else would any individual kiss Islam ass like this guy?
HE’S SICK IN THE HEAD. No one should be giving this depraved and traitorous lunatic the time of day.
Of course, it could be that the SAUDIS are paying this arsehole to spew their vile propaganda.
In any event, I concur: SHAME ON YOU, Craig, for stumping for this EVIL cult that is destroying civilization. You are a TRAITOR.
How did this dhimmi schmuck type this drivel with his head jammed so far up his ass?
Good question.
Too bad Genghis Khan did not finish the job he started. We would all be better off.
It also would have been good if in that same time-period Duke Reginald of Châtillon had been a better, more practical man instead of a mere religious éxalté. His plan of destroying both Medina (where he intended to smash the tomb of “that accursed cameldriver”) and Mecca (in which the Ka’aba would have been “smashed in fragments unto the ground”) was just what was needed.
Alas, he and his men got ambushed and severely defeated near the outset of their expedition by some of the adherents of Salahuddin (Saladin). The captives taken by the Moslems served in lieu of some of the goats that otherwise would have been sacrificed at Eid Al-Adha.
Not long afterwards (even while Jenghiz Khan was annihilating Eastern-Moslem areas like Khurasan, Rayy, Merv, Samarkand, Bukhara, &c.), Reginald committed another anti-Moslem outrage that so infuriated Salahuddin that the latter promised to kill the Duke with his own hand. [After the decisive Battle of the Horns of Hattin, that’s exactly what happened…]
Please tell me this thing is trolling
Oh, little pipsqueak men. Spit, curse, bluster, bellow, jeer all you want at the Jews, at the Christians, at The Little Satan, and The Big Satan but, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, The God that is the Three in One, gets the last laugh, indeed.
Islam is an evil cult of intimidation, subjugation, death and destruction. Nothing more. WE are at war with Islam. Not a war declared by us but rather a war declared upon us by Muslims in the name of Islam.
Bob A.
This sycophant rant isn’t worth comment. I imagine the great majority of Irish people are fast discovering the mission these inbreeding muslim parasites is definately not anything as peaceful as “integration”. Like everywhere else injected with this disease of the human spirit.
craig considine must be an idiot. How can he read the coran and come away thinking that mohamad could be compared to George Washington. This idiot needs to debate with any body who knows islam. Even that monster muslum, a choudray would disagree about what this moron non muslim craig, thinks about mohamad. How do we send him the major parts of the coran that talks about murder and mayhem? I wonder if this idiot would compare mohamad to Jesus? He attends Trinity college and his teachers need to take him to school. It is idiots like craig that are more dangerous than even monsters like anjem choudray.
Allah prefers date shakes …. made with camel’s milk ice cream ! Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad World Tour
Craig Constadine, if you really believe what you are saying about muslims and mohammad you’re a very good candidate to be booked into an asylum.They are barbaric and totally misguided
There now. I feel much better now!
Right!
The true Islam will rear its head when it’s too late. Then you’re screwed!
Craig Considine is more than a douchebag. he suffers from a case of brain rot
i don’t understand how anyone can buy the bullshit of this ideology i don’t see the attraction to such deep hatred of humanity that this “religion” manifests
“ This day is an opportunity for Muslims and non-Muslims, such as myself – a Catholic – to reflect upon the life and legacy of the prophet of Islam. ”
I couldn’t get past the above sentence. As my father (z”l) used to say: only a PhD could be this stupid.
What is there to “reflect” on? A legacy of violence, xenophobia, misogyny, and pedophilia? Islam hasn’t moderated in 14 centuries, so what exactly is this PhD reflecting on?? (guess I should read the rest of the article to find out, lol).
In other news, I’m always amazed at how similar Arabic is to Hebrew. “Mawlid al-Nabi” is “Molad Ha-Navi” in Hebrew … which means “birth of the Prophet”. I only bring this up because I’m utterly sick of the world insisting that the Jews are “European colonists” in the Middle East. If so, why is Arabic so derivative of Hebrew? Urrrgh.
deedee, yes, I’ve noticed the language similarities in the little bit I can understand. Also a lot of Muslim customs and ideas were stolen from the Jews.
mohamad started his evil cult by stealing from camel trains and so the whole cult is about ‘stolen’ from all of the other cultures..