THE FIRST RAMADAN MASSACRE IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAM
After the revelation of the verses on Ramadan Fasting on the 25th of Shabaan (just five days before the commencement of the month of Ramadan in 2 AH), Muhammad and his 300 highway robbers planned to plunder the caravans of the Pagans on the 17th of Ramadan 2 AH, barely 23 days after the announcement of Ramadan as the month of salvation. Muhammad planned a surprise-attack on a rich Meccan’s caravan at Badr, a place near Medina, on it way back from Syria to plunder and loot it. This resulted in the legendary and glorious Islamic ‘Battle of Badr’. Muhammad killed 40 men of the Quresh, looted their wealth and made some 60 of their men captive. 19 Jihadis also died in the same encounter. His greedy companions wanted to collect ransom from those captives. But tyrant Muhammad didn’t want to show any mercy by letting them go alive. So, he ordered his ‘puppet’ Allah to send verses commanding to butcher the captives. And Allah readily complied by sending down the ‘made-to-order’ verse to kill those captives.
“It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land.” (Quran 8:67)
They were accordingly butchered under the supervision of Muhammad in the ‘sacred’ month of Ramadan. This is how the special month of Islamic salvation, the month of Ramadan, was inaugurated as the sacred month in Islam.
RAMADAN: A SACRED MONTH OR TRAP TO CATCH THE PREY
Muhammad (Allah) announced the month Ramadan as ‘the special month’, just for the name-sake of confusing his prey. After few days of his (Allah’s) announcement of Ramadan as the fasting month, Muhammad perpetrated the first major bloodbath at Badr on 17th of Ramadan 2 AH, the very first fasting month observed in Islam. This was also one of Muhammad’s strategies to subjugate his so-called enemies. The god-fearing Pagans, following their own tradition of observing restraint in sacred months, might have thought that Muhammad will at least show respect toward his own sacred month, and refrain from violence and bloodshed during the month. So, they might have felt some relief from the danger of Muhammad’s raiding gang of bandits and proceeded to conduct their life-saving caravan trade with Syria during this month. And one they way, they got butchered by Muhammad’s highway robbers. Similarly, Muhammad led the campaign to conquer Mecca also in the ‘sacred’ month of Ramadan of 8 AH. On the 20th of Ramadan, he captured the city and destroyed all idols of the Kaaba. Obviously, there is no such word as ‘divinity’ or ‘sacred’ in Muhammad’s dictionary.
Like Muhammad sanctified bloodbath and looting by his Jihadi thugs during their four sacred months by taking advantage of the weakness of the god-fearing Pagans, he committed the same atrocious deeds in his own sacred month.
