slaughtering those who offered him and his army of
mercenaries any resistance, slaughtering people even
when they had surrendered and were disarmed (as we have
seen above). Once Muslims had control of Mecca and
Medina, the patient and tolerant Pagans of Mecca were
banned from Mecca (risking death should they return), and
the Jews of Medina who had taken Mohammed and his
Muslims to live with them were banned from their home-
place.^196 Thus, by whatever standard apologists of Islam
wish to use, the Pagans who were ethnically-cleansed from
Mecca were far more tolerant than the Muslims who
replaced them, yet even at the start of the twenty-first
century, with Islamic State once again committing genocide
and raping sex-slaves, in the West religious and political
leaders portray the founder of Islam as a victim of
persecution.^197 The historical revisionism of the elite is
beyond shameless.
The sheer terror of the Pagan population of Mecca
meant that Mohammed was able to take the city with almost
no resistance. In Islam, the is not the only source of
doctrine, but the Koran is the primary source. There are also
the “hadiths”: these are sayings about the behaviour of
Mohammed traced back to loyal and devout contemporaries
of the founder of Islam. The sayings collated by a Muslim
named Bukhari are considered by believers to be among the
most trusted. One of the books of hadiths is entitled
“Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad)”.^198 There it is
reliably reported that Mohammed said “I have been made
victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy)”.^199