Introduction:

1- The Arab conquests constituted the biggest sin and the most flagrant violation against the Quranic sharia; yet, they are made 'holy' and part and parcel of the Sunnite creed, and most of the companions/criminals of such conquests became deities for the Sunnites. Proof: the panic attack that might occur to some Arab readers of this book who used to regard such historical figures as holy saints, as we assert that they were merely murderers and thieves.  Most Muhammadans learn – as children – to sanctify and glorify Abou Bakr, Omar, Othman, and Ali, among others. Yet, real scientific historical research does not regard anything or anyone was 'holy', and we quote in this book books authorized, revered, honored, and valued by Sunnite scholars themselves.     

2- This proves the corrupt nature of Egyptian education in particular and religious education in the Arab world at large; our urgent mission is to reread history of Arabs critically using scientific methods as done by scholars in the West. In addition, we, Quranists, must use the Quran as a measure stick and criterion of such history, to make the Muhammadans stop worshiping and deifying things, locations, and mortals.

3- We see that most Muhammadans worship and sanctify Omar more than God himself; Sunnites do not feel furious when God is verbally abused by any non-Sunnite, but they do shake with fury if Omar, or any other deified figure among the mortals, is being criticized within a historical research showing his true character, using Sunnite books themselves. 

4- Deifying mortals is a crime and a grave sin in terms of the Quran and in terms of the intellect; yet, what is worse now is that Muhammadans of today follow the footsteps of the murderous companions and kill one another in some regions within the Arab world! This has been going on and off for the last centuries since the days of the caliph Ali! This is absurd!

5- Thus, if we, Quranists, would not examine the history of the so-called companions and judge it using the Quran, Muhammadans and Arabs in general would go on killing one another in religious strife, causing the rest of the world to accuse Islam of being a barbaric, backward, and terrorist religion. In fact such traits describe truly the Sunnite Wahabi creed, not real Islam: the Quran alone: Quranism we propagate here on our website. 

Firstly: The Violation of Islamic Sharia within Arab Conquests during the Caliphate of Abou Bakr:

1- We assert here again that Islam (Quranism) is the religion of peace, justice, and freedom, whereas the earthly man-made creeds of the Sunnites and Shiites affiliating themselves by force to Islam are creeds of heresy, blasphemy, injustice, tyranny and enslavement of fellow human beings. The culture of the Middle Ages was based on injustice, oppression, suppression, and tyranny. Qorayish hegemony was part of such a culture. The revelation of the Quran came to show the way of how to establish the foundations of justice and how to put an end gradually to the crime of enslavement of human beings; yet, enslavement as a crime went on for centuries following Muhammad's death. Khaled Ibn Al-Waleed was a victorious military leader who caused the death of tens of thousands persons and the enslavement of thousands others, not mention looting and murdering captives and POWs. Let us quote below examples of such crimes.

2- Ibn Al-Atheer, the historian, summarizes what Al-Tabary mentions about how Khaled murdered many enslaved and captured men and sent women as slaves to the capital of the caliphate at the time, Yathreb, to Abou Bakr. No one felt the urge to condemn such practices in the renegades' wars as well, and in the battles with the Persians and the Byzantines. Even the liar, Ibn Ishaq, who wrote the false account of the lifetime of Muhammad though he never saw him, ascribe such falsehoods to him as murdering POWs, captives, children, etc. and enslavement of women to be distributed and sold as spoils! Such falsehoods spread to justify the crimes of Arabs of the conquests and of internecine civil wars.  

3- Khaled in his battles against the Persians in Iraq caused the death of 30.000 persons, and sent one-fifth of the spoils to Yathreb, and distributed the rest among his soldiers and cavaliers, while enslaving widowed women of the dead men, collecting heavy taxes and tributes from Christian peasants. Some of such non-Arabs became later on Arabophone scholars of science, history, and theology in the Umayyad caliphate.

4- Khaled gained victory over Christian Arabs who aided the Persians in Iraq, and murdered their leader himself, while taking his men as captives, to be later killed upon his orders, after deceiving them by securing their safety to leave their fortress and surrender. All their possessions were of course confiscated by Khaled as spoils, while their children, about 40 who learned the Gospels in the fortress, became slaves to be sold later on, while keeping one-fifth of spoils, women, and children to be sent to Yathreb!

5- Akidar, the Iraqi Christian leader, refused to fight the troops of Khaled, and proposed a peace treaty that included surrender, but his proposal was rebuffed by his people of his tribe, called Kendah. Khaled later on captured and killed Akidar and confiscated all his possessions, and the same applied to all captives, while their women and children were sold into slavery. Khaled kept to himself the beautiful daughter of one of the killed resistance leaders to be his concubine. 

6- Within another battle in Iraq, the same occurred, as Khaled vanquished the Christian Arabs who were allies to the Persians, after attacking their locations at night, murdering all captives while enslaving their progeny and women and sending one-fifth of spoils, confiscated looted ill-gotten money, to Yathreb, and even Ali Ibn Abou Talib bought an enslaved beautiful woman who later on bore him a son and a daughter. This means that Ali, once his wife Fatimah the daughter of Muhammad died, married more than one woman not to mention enslaved concubines who bore him many children, thus gaining the fruits of Arab conquests without participating in them!

7- The same recurrent pattern occurred with every captured city in Iraq, but peasants were spared from being killed and their lands saved confiscation for economic reasons: they had to give large part of their crops and heavy taxes and tribute to Arabs in return for keeping their possessions and creeds, and to work sometimes for free in lands confiscated by Arab fighters.

8- When men of an Iraqi city by the river resisted fiercely Arab troops led by Khaled, who urged them to surrender to spare their lives but they refused, Khaled ordered his men, after conquering the city, to behead all male residents by the river banks, and that went on for three days, as there were about 70 thousands of them, so that the river turned red from too much blood shed on it! Arabs called that river for some time the ''Blood River'', and Abou Bakr knew of this from Jandal, the man Khaled sent with the one-fifth of the spoil, and Abou Bakr felt overjoyed that he gave Jandal a beautiful slave woman as a gift. Was there brutality and barbarity worse than this in all Arabia?!

9- Other cities in Iraq feared Khaled because of what occurred to other city residents as they were robbed and murdered brutally and their women and children enslaved, and residents of most cities fled and deserted their cities to avoid such fate, and thus Khaled conquered several cities with no fighting and with no resistance of any type, and spoils were beyond measure, as dwellers of deserted cities fled leaving their possessions and wealth, to be looted by the troops of Khaled, sending the usual one-fifth to Yathreb, to Abou Bakr.

10- Within another battle, Khaled caused the death of more than 100.000 persons, in battlefield and when enslaved after gaining victory, as their sole 'crime' was defending their own city against Arab invaders and causing the fighting to remain for longer than usual!

11- On his way from Iraq to the Levant to aid defeated Arab troops there who suffered great losses because of the victorious Byzantines, Khaled killed thousands of men and enslaved women and children of the cities on his way, looting all their wealth and possessions, sparing no lives at all, even Christian monks and clergy in churches of the Levant, all the while sending one-fifth of spoils and slaves to Yathreb. We can just wonder here: what were the amounts of spoils money reaching the Treasury of Abou Bakr, looted from Iraq and the Levant? Was such immense treasure the main cause behind poisoning Abou Bakr and his night hasty burial with no funeral so that Omar would confiscate the caliphate Treasury?! 

Secondly:  The Violation of the Sacred Months during the Caliphate of Abou Bakr and his Conquests:

 During the Arab conquests, the so-called companions violated the four sacred months, during which God imposed the divine la of never fighting in them as they were the months of performing the pilgrimage in Mecca. We mention below some battles that broke out during the four sacred months of the lunar calendar (Zu Al-Hijja, Muharram, Saffar, and Rabei Awwal) during the caliphate of Abou Bakr. We will indicate the sacred months using brackets.

1- Al-Tabary mentions that Abou Bakr ordered Khaled Ibn Al-Waleed to conquer Iraq and Yazeed Ibn Abou Sufyan to conquer the Levant after the end of the renegades' wars in which Khaled achieved victory. Abou Bakr returned to Yathreb coming from Mecca, where he performed pilgrimage in 12 A.H., and once there, he prepared and mobilized troops and armies for that purpose. This means that this mobilization was in (Zu Al-Hijja) in 12 A.H., and he decreed such aggression against Iraq and the Levant in the very first month of the sacred four, and he knew quite well that people of the Levant and Iraq never committed any aggressions against Arabs; he could not possibly call his aggression as self-defense. Al-Tabary asserts that huge Arab troops began their march in (Muharram) in 13 A.H., and fighting and battles went on for the rest of the sacred months and the rest of the lunar months.   

2- Hence, such aggressive wars began with a one-sided decision of Arabs and their caliph Abou Bakr, and horrific incidents of bloodshed began and lasted for several months, and the very first battles occurred between Arabs and the Persians on one hand, and the Arabs and the Byzantines on the other hand in (Muharram), (Saffar), and (Rabei Awwal), and even Khaled caught up with Arab troops defeated in the Levant to come in their aid in (Rabei Awwal).

3- Al-Tabary asserts that one major Iraqi city, whose residents fled into the wilderness leaving their possessions and wealth to avoid confrontation with Khaled troops, was conquered in (Saffar), and Khaled and his men looted every possible item they could lay their hands on, and then, they demolished and burned down the city to efface all its traces! A cavalier's share of the spoils amounted to 1500 dinars, not to mention items looted personally by each cavalier and soldier, and when Abou Bakr received his share of one-fifth, he told those around him in Yathreb that women failed to bring forth a great man like Khaled! All Arabs condoned and overlooked the fact that such spoils were ill-gotten money looted from those who never harmed a single Arab in Arabia; this tells us that Abou Bakr and the rest of the villains, murderers, and criminals, i.e., the so-called companions, had created a new creed with jihad defined as looting, destroying, enslaving, and murdering peaceful innocent people! Abou Bakr had the nerve to brag and take pride of crimes of Khaled in public in Yathreb, once countless spoils reached him! Al-Tabary considers in his history book such crimes as deeds pleasing to Muhammad and God! He was the historian of the Sunnite creed criminals among the early Muhammadans, NOT of Islam or Muslims. Those residents of the Levant cities who readily surrender their possessions and promised to pay the heavy annual taxes and tributes were spared from being killed in the sharia of the devilish creed concocted and fabricated by Abou Bakr and the rest of his gangsters. Those who defended themselves against Arab conquerors would end up being massacred, and their possessions and lands were confiscated and looted, and their children and women were enslaved and sold. The worst thing was to ascribe such horrible crimes to Islam; Islam is of course innocent of such crimes perpetrated in its name: "O you who believe! Enter into submission, wholeheartedly, and do not follow the footsteps of Satan; he is to you an outright enemy. But if you slip after the proofs have come to you, know that God is Powerful and Wise." (2:208-209). Arabs never heeded this divine warning; they followed the footsteps of the Devil and ascribed their horrendous crimes to Muhammad, about whom God says: "We did not send you except as mercy to humankind." (21:107), but the companions of the sword made Muhammad and Islam as tools to murder the humankind!

4- Al-Tabary mentions another battle in Iraq with Arab troops against the Persians, who used to occupy it, in (Saffar) in 13 A.H., as 30.000 men were killed and priceless spoils were distributed, with the usual one-fifth of them sent to Yathreb, to Abou Bakr. Let us remember that spoils included enslaved women and children, separated from one another after killing their husbands and fathers. They were later on distributed as gifts or sold into slavery, forming a generation of non-Arabs in Arabia. Abou Bakr died suddenly, by poisoning, during the events of the Battle of Yarmouk in the Levant, in (Rabei Awwal) in 13 A.H.

Thirdly: The Reason Why the Arabs Were Victorious in their Conquests:

 Khaled used delivered a speech to his men before battles, asserting to them that what they do was for God's sake and the sake of His religion, and that they had to be fearless and heartless to advance God's cause! Thus, we read here about power-, sex-, and money-hungry and blood-thirsty criminals who aimed to loot everything possible and to justify their crimes by a thin film of religiosity in the name of jihad for God's sake! They violated both the sacred months and the name of Islam by murdering the innocent, eating from ill-gotten money, and destroying people's lives and cities.

Lastly:

1- We conclude here that Abou Bakr and his men fought innocent people who never committed aggression against Arabia, and never sent forces and troops to conquer Yathreb for instance. It was Abou Bakr who mobilized and sent Arab troops to conquer other nations to satisfy their greed for looting and power. Khaled murdered and massacred hundreds of thousands of men, including captives, who rightly tried to defend themselves, their families, and their homelands, and he enslaved their progeny and women by distributing them among his men and selling some into slavery, not to mention those sent to Yathreb as spoils of war. Arabs in Yathreb, like Ali Ibn Abou Talib, in their old age enjoyed sexually such women, who bore them progeny.

2- God in the Quran prohibited all types of injustices, whether committed in the four sacred months or not, and the Quran asserts that the worst crime in Islamic sharia laws is murder; the life of any innocent peaceful human being is important, regardless of his/her creed or lack of it, and they are not to be killed unless in retaliation when they commit murder first.

3- We quote here an excerpt from our article published here on our website in Arabic and in English titled "Islam Is a Religion of Peace": (…The link between Islam and its faith concepts and sharia laws of self-defense fighting is clear; yet, Quranic sharia gives us more assertions to prevent manipulation of Quranic terminology and concepts. A clear enough example is found in the Quranic Chapter 4, when tackling the prohibition of killing an innocent, peaceful person; a believer in terms of behavior and demeanor, NOT in terms of creed and faith: "Never should a believer kill another believer, unless by error…" (4:92) and the rest of the verse tackles the diyya money (compensation) for manslaughter paid to the folks and family of the killed one, who was killed by accident. The next verse tackles the Afterlife punishment of killing a believer, again in terms of innocent peaceful demeanor NOT creed: "Whoever kills a believer deliberately, the penalty for him is Hell, where he will remain forever. And God will be angry with him, and will curse him, and will prepare for him a terrible punishment." (4:93). The next verse tackles this innocent peaceful person whose right to live is protected by Quranic sharia laws: "O you who believe! When you journey in the way of God, investigate, and do not say to him who offers you peace, "You are not a believer," aspiring for the goods of this world…" (4:94) this verse means that all believers should verify and make sure they would not kill innocent, peaceful person, even in battlefield, and this person's sign is to utter the word of peace, and then, this person is to be protected and made to listen to the Quran and riven safely home, as we discern from this verse: "And if anyone of the polytheists asks you for protection, give him protection so that he may hear the Word of God; then escort him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know." (9:6)…).

4- Hence, we assert that the Arab conquests were crimes committed by Abou Bakr, Omar, and Othman and the rest of their contemporaries and those who followed their footsteps and were violations against Quranic laws; it was an insult to Islam's name to be used as a cover or a pretext to justify such horrors. Such criminals said to the other in general (i.e., non-Arabs) that they were not believers and attacked them to massacre, rape, enslave, and loot. This scramble for loot was certainly against the divine warning in the Quran that they never paid heed to it: "…and do not say to him who offers you peace, "You are not a believer," aspiring for the goods of this world.…" (4:94).