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Robert "He Can't Keep Getting Away With This" Spencer is the eloquent and soft-spoken author of such books as Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins.
Although I am not a huge supporter of all of his views, Robert Spencer's book
'Did Muhammad Exist'
http://www.amazon.com/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X
gives a detailed and well researched analysis of the circumstances surrounding the origin of Islam, comparing and citing both Islamic and non-islamic sources. It is a top read.
It's not certain at all, actually. If you have any interest, check out Robert Spenser's book, Did Muhammed Exist?
The actual evidence is very scarce and none of it is contemporary. It's also weird that the oldest Torah manuscript slightly predates the alleged dates of Muhammed. He could be an entirely legendary character. There is no hard evidence for anything about him. Nothing from eyewitnesses.
There is great new book out called "Did Muhammad Exist" by Robert Price which brings the existence of a historical Muhammad into serious doubt. I highly recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X
The Author D M Murdock (pen name: Acharya S) has specialised much of her life in research and writings on the mythical and astrological origins of religions and religious figures such as Jesus and Abraham. Her books are excellent and provide a substantial mountain of evidence that Jesus was indeed not a historical figure. A second revised edition of her first book "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is due out sometime this year.
Reading her work is what led me to my Agnosticism.
This is her website which includes many discussions on similar topics - http://freethoughtnation.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X
I haven't researched it yet myself. A few books that talk about it: Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins and Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World. My source for knowing anything about it is the Bible Geek podcast, specifically this episode where he talks a lot about it. (Don't let the name of the podcast turn you off, he is an atheist)
A very good new book on the origins of Islam was just published last week:
Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam's Obscure Origins
A controversial topic for sure, but written respectfully, academically and with great research and documentation.
https://www.amazon.com/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X
http://spencerwatch.com/why-spencerwatch-com/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/robert-spencer-calgary-1.3558485
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Spencer_(author)#Controversies
http://www.loonwatch.com/tag/robert-spencer/
The guy even wrote a book about how Muhammad may not have even been a real person (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X). The guy is a looney and consumed with hatred for Islam.
Here's some summer reading for you:
https://www.amazon.com/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X
https://www.amazon.com/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X
https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/8574
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2012/12/the-christian-origins-of-islam
In addition, Mecca didn't even exist at the time, much less as a huge trading city. Physical archeology has proven this.
You don't hear about this because most people don't care, Al Saud kills people who try to research it over there, and Islamaphobes like the myth because they can paint Mohammed as Hitler and hate to think of Islam as just heretic Jesusism. All sides have a vested interest in maintaining the fiction, but like Christ and Buddha, it never happened.
It's unfortunately a total lie that Islam has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists. The majority of Muslims support evil policies such as murdering people who leave or criticize Islam, systematically oppressing unbelievers, systematically oppressing Muslims themselves (I can't imagine what it must feel like to be a genuinely free thinker - or just a normal person who doesn't like Sharia - in a Muslim majority country. It must be absolute hell), honor killings, etc.
A majority of Muslims also support absolutely barbaric Islamic jihad terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah (depending on whether or not they're Sunni's. Sunni's hate Shi'ite Muslims. And Hezbollah is a Shi'ite jihad terrorist group). And virtually all Muslims hate Israel and want to carry out a second Holocaust against the Jews.
A majority of Muslims also support pedophilia, wife beating, killing homosexuals, cousin marriage, etc.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Opinion-Polls.htm
Muslims who deny these ugly truths are either denying reality out of shame or purposefully lying in order to make Islam look good (Muslims are absolutely obsessed with making Islam look good even if it means covering up ugly truths and blatantly lying).
Muslims are practically experts at duping non-Muslims and presenting them with a highly censored version of Islam in order to make people complacent about the real goals of the Islamic ummah (hint: your death or enslavement), to gain new converts and avoid scaring new converts away.
For example: if you're a Christian and Muslims are trying to sweet talk you about how much they love Jesus and recognize him as a prophet, then you need to realize that, in reality, Muslims hate Christianity. A large portion of the Quran essentially revolves around bashing Christians as the "vilest of creatures".
In the Islamic version of the End Times, Jesus comes back to the world as a Muslim, destroys all the crosses and kills all the Christians and sends them to hell if they don't convert to Islam. So, Muslims are telling you a comforting half-truth when they say they love Jesus in order to disarm you. They love their version of Jesus. Not the Christian version of Jesus.
If you're not a Muslim, then Muslims aren't supposed to be friends with you because you're "unclean". And if you're a religious minority in an Islamic majority country that upholds Sharia as the law of the land, then you'll be denied basic human rights and live as an oppressed 2nd class citizen. And if you step out of line (like protesting your oppression), they can kill you without penalty. And if the government itself doesn't kill you (they usually want to avoid bad international PR), then they'll look the other way as the enraged Muslim mob kills you.
And the problem with Islam goes beyond mere popular opinion amongst Muslims; its the texts themselves that are rotten to the core. It's the depraved theology of Islam which inspires Muslims to act like violent and tyrannical savages.
After all, Muhammad was a barbaric warmonger whose favorite wife (he had many. Including non-Muslim sex slaves) was a 9-year-old girl named Aisha (who he also beat), who had his critics tortured and killed and who led his early followers on dozens of jihad campaigns against his non-Muslim enemies (he even completely destroyed a Jewish tribe. He had over 600 of the Jewish males from the tribe beheaded. He then enslaved their wives and their children).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-o9l3kTSd0
And of course this all assuming that Muhammad actually existed in the first place and that the Quran and Hadiths accurately depicted him:
http://www.amazon.com/Did-Muhammad-Exist-Inquiry-Obscure/dp/161017061X
Can you imagine if Jesus acted in such a way and how that would affect the actions of modern day Christians? It would be the Christians running around shrieking "The power of Christ compels you!" as they carried out literally thousands of suicide bombings all throughout the world and ruthlessly abused basic human rights on an industrial scale.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Scroll down to see the daily instances of Islamic jihad terrorism documented.
The only good Muslim is an ex-Muslim. Period. Deluding yourself about how your "beautiful" and "peaceful" religion has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists is little more than self-deception and religious propaganda. Meanwhile, Muslims will continue to slaughter innocent people and Islamic societies will continue to be backwards as they happily oppress 1+ billion people all across the globe.
And worse, that violence, oppression and backwardness is coming to a neighborhood near you thanks to mass immigration and extremely high Muslim birth rates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
Not to mention Western "liberals" have decided to protect Muslims from criticism and promote their religion (including Sharia). God help us...