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#5 is wrong. The Muslim calender begins when Muhammad took control of Medina

Wow. And there's a lot riding on the AP test-- college credit, credentials for getting into the college one wants.

And what are the AP graders told? Do they accept it uncritically as they grade multiple choice and essay questions?

For lack of a better analogy at the moment, it's a little like the "Movementarian" episode of The Simpsons where the teacher preys on Lisa's desire for straight A's to get her to concede all manner of claims about The Leader.

■ About 610, Muhammad had a transformational spiritual experience and traveled through the Arabian Peninsula proclaiming that he was the last prophet of Allah

The Profitable Prophet scheme. All thanks to Craig Winn for exposing this charade.

■ He believed in one God (Allah)

Sure. A well-established, pre-islamic rock deity.

■ Allah's words were given to Muhammad and collected by his followers and compiled in the Quran.

Yeah, with much editing and manipulation to make it sound "holy". You know, all those insipid math miracles around the number 19.

■ Hadith, a record of the sayings attributed to Muhammad and accounts of the prophet's deeds, serves as a guide for interpretation of the Quran and for social and legal customs.

Pure hearsay. Read the story of Uthman and how he traveled the "known world" to collect the sayings of Mo. So much for a "book" revealed by allah/allan.

■ Muhammad's journey to Mecca became a symbolic starting point of the official Islamic calendar and a religious pilgrimage for the followers of Islam.

Ditto what Cornelius noted above.

How about all his plundering, beheadings, rapes, pillaging, mutilating and preaching hell fire, death and subjugation of kuffars? No wonder today's students are so bored.
AP = Advanced Platitudes.
How about an APP: Advanced Pablum for Putzes.

I like that "transformational spiritual experience." It's very timely. I can't turn on the radio, or open the newspaper, without hearing, or reading, the word "transformative." Everyone and his brother, apparently, has had or is having or will soon have a "transformative experience." Everyone but me. I must be doing something wrong.

My cards say "Moops".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bubble_Boy_(Seinfeld_episode)

Yes, I think having a "transformational experience" ia a prerequisite for becoming an "inspirational" type of person. Not me; I'm just thought of as a "pest". (Not here, I hope!)

Hugh,
In the Middle Ages, most of the monastic orders, such as the Cluniac, became over-worldly, and had to be "reformed". But not the Carthusians. Of them, it was said: "never REformed, because never DEformed." So maybe you don't need transforming, because you've never been deformed.

■ About 610, Muhammad had a transformational spiritual experience and traveled through the Arabian Peninsula proclaiming that he was the last prophet of Allah

-reports alleged spiritual experience as fact
-didn't travel much out of Mecca between 610 and 613

■ He believed in one God (Allah)

-in the Islamic texts, he claimed to believe in one god, except in the Satanic verses episode, wherein he allowed multiple gods

■ Allah's words were given to Muhammad and collected by his followers and compiled in the Quran

-reports pious Islamic belief as fact.
-quibble: Allah allegedly sent words to Muhammad through Gabriel

■ Hadith, a record of the sayings attributed to Muhammad and accounts of the prophet's deeds, serves as a guide for interpretation of the Quran and for social and legal customs

-unqualified use of "the prophet."

■ Muhammad's journey to Mecca became a symbolic starting point of the official Islamic calendar and a religious pilgrimage for the followers of Islam

-Muhammad's and his followers' emigration to Yathrib (later renamed Medina) marks the start of the Islamic calendar.
-the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca was patterned after pre-Islamic polytheistic pilgrimages to Mecca
-Muhammad did not merely "journey" to Mecca. He returned to Mecca (in 630) as a conqueror with an army.

1) "Muhammad had a transformational spiritual experience and traveled through the Arabian Peninsula"- what a pleasant euphemism for "raiding caravans and attacking oases". Also it implies that he went out himself, not the truth: he lead or order raids to spread Islam.

2.) Nothing about Jinn, the Last Days, or that Islam must rule all?

3.)Some ayat written on pieces of bark were eaten by goats.

4.) nothing wrong really here.

5.) The official start of the Islamic calender is when Mohammad left Mecca for Medina. This is not the religious pilgrimage that is done today.

Hugh--

The good news is, the term is used so broadly, there are many, many opportunities for anyone and anything. A "transformational experience" can be a moment of truth with Dr. Phil, or an Extreme Makeover. By extension, one's living room can have a transformational experience with a new lamp and some throw pillows.

On the other hand, it also fits George Carlin's criteria for a euphemism, sounding needlessly formal and easily being far more syllables than the un-word it's meant to replace. Recession? Nah. The economy is undergoing a transformational experience. The bank down the street? Transformational experience.

Kinana of Khayber, good pick up on the word "prophet" for number 4.

2) "He believed in one God (Allah)"

Allah is a false god, and not the God of the Bible, which makes the above statement "highly questionable":

http://www.kingmessiahproject.com/is_allah_not_God.html

Excerpt from above link:

"Muslims believe that there is no other God besides Allah and that he is the God of the universe. They claim that not only is he their God, but that he is the God of the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. When examining the profile of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and comparing it with Allah’s profile, there are a number of distinct differences between them that can only result in one conclusion: These profiles simply do not match! Allah is NOT the God of the Bible!"

"The Islamic faith, through the teachings of Muhammad, asserts that Allah is God and attempt to place him within the confines of the Holy Scriptures. When the Bible contradicts their teachings, they allege that it is flawed, has been tampered with, and has many errors. They further claim that the Koran, through the teachings of their prophet Muhammad, corrects them. However, it has already been established that Muhammad was both a false prophet and teacher. Therefore, Islam’s allegations are unsupported, baseless and without merit."

"There are a number of major differences between the God of the Bible and Allah. This chapter will focus upon five reasons why they are not the same. According to the Holy Scriptures, the God of the Bible is the one true God while Allah is a false god."

"-reports alleged spiritual experience as fact"

Oh, I don't know. I think when someone goes from run-of-the-mill pagan to scourge of the earth, that is, in fact, a "transformational spiritual experience."

My quibble is the "He believed in one God (Allah)" line. So far as I can figure, Mohammed was his own god. "There is no god but Mohammed, and Allah is his puppet."

"A "transformational experience" can be a moment of truth with Dr. Phil, or an Extreme Makeover."

Dammit Marisol! I initially read that line as a "transcedental experience".

I, in short order, already had "Sgt. Peppers" all queued up.

In all seriousness, they are all false. That is simply because Islam is embarrasingly, yet so obviously, a false Mohammedan ideology.

"Everyone and his brother, apparently, has had or is having or will soon have a "transformative experience." Everyone but me. I must be doing something wrong."

I strongly recommend getting stuck in an airport with a 50-degree ambient temperature overnight and trying to stay warm through copious amounts of muroka nama genshu sake.

What can I say? Worked for me.

3) "Allah's words were given to Muhammad and collected by his followers and compiled in the Quran"

No mention of the angel Gabriel in this sentence. Didn't Muhammad receive revelations from an angel named Gabriel? Not directly from allah?

I heard somewhere (not from Moslems) about why Moslems hate pigs.
Apparently Mohammed went into the desert to try and emulate what Jesus did. But first he placed all kinds of food and drink in the desert so he could, well, you know, eat and drink.
But as he was going about his business, pretending to fast, he found that pigs had consumed everything he had hidden in the desert. So he can never forgive the pig world for this.

I also heard (from a Moslem) that Moslems don't eat pigs because pigs are really humans. Sorry, trouble with accents, don't know why.

Can someone explain any of this?

■ About 610, Muhammad had a transformational spiritual experience and traveled through the Arabian Peninsula proclaiming that he was the last prophet of Allah

He suffered from agromegaly and began to suffer from multiple temporal lobe disorders, many of which mimicked the later stages of syphilis. He did not travel far and wide, as the above statement implies, but rather he preyed upon caravans of Jews, and when the Meccans called him on his BS he left in shame and started plundering, pillaging, raping, and slaughtering in Medina, then returned to Mecca to do the same.

■ He believed in one God (Allah)

He had a displaced narcissistic personality to whom he referred as 'Allah,' who he used as an alibi to support his raping of his retarded six-year-old niece and his marriage to his daughter-in-law, as well as mass murder and attacking unarmed women and children in unprovoked night raids, then raping, enslaving, and selling them after killing off all the males with pubes. He also believed in no fewer than four gods, as evidenced by the Satanic Verses, as well as angels, jinns, and Shaitan, all of which would preclude Islam's claim to be a monotheistic belief system, which was of course nothing more than a pathetic excuse to destroy all the idols in the Kaba but one, that of a Pre-Arabian moon-god, out of sheer intolerance and lack of respect for those who tolerated Muhammad and his gang of thugs, in patently narcissistic fashion.

■ Allah's words were given to Muhammad and collected by his followers and compiled in the Quran

Whenever Muhammad needed an alibi to justify some atrocity that he committed or wanted to commit he would conveniently receive a "revelation" by placing his head between the thihgs of his retarded underage sex slave/niece. Also, conveniently, the only witness to any of these 'revelations' was the village idiot, who, although having been present while he received the 'revelations,' was never able to corroborate them, having not witnessed them herself. Still, she is considered to be the most reputable narrator of hadith somehow, despite her obvious mental deficiencies and inability to corroborate any of Muhammad's claims.

■ Hadith, a record of the sayings attributed to Muhammad and accounts of the prophet's deeds, serves as a guide for interpretation of the Quran and for social and legal customs

In order to contrive some sense in the ridicuously nonsensical Koran, a bunch of hearsay was gathered up, despite the fact that much of it contradicted itself, like Aisha's assertion that Muhammad 'possessed the sexual strength of 30 men,' while it can easily deduced entirely from ahadith that Muhammad was impotent for at least the last 20 years of his life and that Aisha had no idea what sex entailed. These collections of gossip-by-way-of a 20-year game of telephone came to be called "Hadith."

■ Muhammad's journey to Mecca became a symbolic starting point of the official Islamic calendar and a religious pilgrimage for the followers of Islam

What Cornelius said.

Charles Bogle - LOL!

You shouldn't have added the link and just left it an inside joke for those who knew what you meant! ;)

■ He believed in one God (Allah)

More like Allah believed in one person (Mohammed)

Lies, lies, and gosh darn lies...

That's Islam...

From jdam. He suffered from agromegaly and began to suffer from multiple temporal lobe disorders, many of which mimicked the later stages of syphilis...

The later stages of syphilis is 'general paresis'.
Since the advent of anti-biotic drugs, particularly penicillin, the west see's little of that, but there may be numbers of untreated cases in lesser developed countries.
Sometimes people forget that AIDS is not the only sexually transmitted disease that can ruin your day and maybe your life.

People with general paresis have diminishing capacity because brain cells are being destroyed, or by that time, are already destroyed.

Mohammad does seem to have had multiple physical problems. He may have also had severe migraines
the onset characterized by loud bells or clanging.
I have a fiend who hears loud banging like a hammer on metal...but Allah nor Gabriel ever talk to her...That I know of, I will have to ask....

Hey, DJM - why so stingy with the laughs? Thanks, Charles Bogle, for adding the link.

Mohammad, born and raised a "pagan," was not a descendent of Abraham. He developed a self-hatred of his own people in Mecca, expressed in illiterate rantings partially borrowed from actual Abrahamic religions. He finally fled to the Jewish city later known as Medina in, where he soon ordered the Jewish male adults murdered, their wives raped and their children enslaved and forced to convert to Islam.

All is true. It is easier to be smarter than Barron's. You just don't need to sell anything to politically correct people intimidated by jihadists.

"AP World History"
From the story.

These "facts" were obviously written by a Muslim believer, and are nothing more than a recitation of a few Islamic fables. That they are part of Barron's AP curriculum is appalling. I wonder, do they elsewhere in the set include as fact that the world is flat or was created on the morning of 9 Oct 4004 BC? Jdamn, your analysis of them is excellent. YOU should have been among the advisers asked to write those cards.

Well, I can't come up with this number of errors, but will admit my ignorance! Has Robert posted the details of his analysis of this?

Here's how I see it:

■ About 610, Muhammad had a transformational spiritual experience and traveled through the Arabian Peninsula proclaiming that he was the last prophet of Allah

Hey, I will grant Muhammad a "transformational spiritual experience". Such experiences can be very subjective, and lots of people claim to have had such. The root cause of such experience "could" be truely spiritual, or could be the result of psychosis, disease, or other factors.

But did this tranformational experience have positive spiritual/transformational results on Muhammad and the world? I think not.

Regarding his travels, its my understanding that Muhammad did not travel extensively, so that part of the statement would be incorrect.

■ He believed in one God (Allah)

I don't see anything wrong with this statement. i.e. I see no proof that he did not actually believe in one god, as he claimed. Of course, he received that truth from Christians and Jews, so it wasn't unique. And he (mis)used the beliefs of Jews and (heretical) Christians to claim legitimacy for his own teachings. But I can't disagree with that simple statement.

■ Allah's words were given to Muhammad and collected by his followers and compiled in the Quran

This is clearly a statement of faith by a Moslem. No one else would state as fact that "Allah's words were given to Muhammad". Also, even though not stated explicitly, this statement gives the impression that Muhammad's immediate followers collected and compiled the words into the Quran, ignoring the rather lengthy period it actually took to produce the finished Quran.

■ Hadith, a record of the sayings attributed to Muhammad and accounts of the prophet's deeds, serves as a guide for interpretation of the Quran and for social and legal customs

The statement matches my understanding of Hadith, but I will admit to ignorance.

I don't know enough about Hadith to definitely agree/disagree. I've read the Quran, but not the Hadith.

■ Muhammad's journey to Mecca became a symbolic starting point of the official Islamic calendar and a religious pilgrimage for the followers of Islam

This statement clearly confuses the "hajj" religious pilgrimage required of his later followers with Muhammad's retreat to Medina.

It was Muhammad's journey to Medina that became the turning point of Islam (when he transformed from a religous preacher to military/political leader) and the "symbolic starting point..."

HEY!!!

Isn't anyone shocked that kids have to read these flash cards?

Indoctrination begins in grade school!!!

"Barron's AP World History Flash Cards by Lorraine Lupinskie-Huvane and Kate Coughlin....Card #87 "Muhammad."
-- from the article above

It would be fun to be dealt a full deck just to check what other vulgar errors -- though no doubt none so egregious, dangerous, and possibly deliberate as those to be found on Card #87-- can be found in Barron's AP World History Flash Cards. God knows what new bits of dreary misinformation are being disseminated in these all-to-make-a-buck compilations of Pseudodoxia Epidemica churned out by these ruthless, cruel, ill-educated companies, and their ill-paid writers and editors.

Has American education come to that? Has it come to a closed circle that begins with fill-in-the-blanks of the "Language Arts Workbooks" in elementary school, and then later on graduates to the various versions of Cliff's Notes and Hi-Marx Outlines and other potted summaries that spare the student the pain of reading. You know the kind, the kind that summarize "Hamlet" in two pages and polish off "Anna Karneina" in ten. And should you, for some reason, actually be asked to write a paper of -- oh god, five or even possibly ten pages -- then you can always buy it on-line from those who cater to the multitudinous C-students, never incarnadine from embarrassment but only worried about getting caught.

And then it all comes full circle, even in so many of those professional examinations that are mostly Multiple-Choice, so that a nation of people incapable of writing a paragraph, much less speaking one, is raised up, a phony education so expensively charged for, and so widely sought after.

And the new Administration promises to make something called "college" accessible to all, as if what has become so often meaningless acquires a meaning if we all pretend to ignore the dismal reality. But what does that word "college" now mean, if not something like the equivalent of what, fifty years ago, was quaintly called Junior High?

Card #87 represents the tip of an iceberg of ignorance, one that not only is impervious to global warming, but is steadily growing.

Please someone assure me that these erroneous and deceptive flash cards will be challenged and withdrawn... da'was in your schools? In your classrooms? This must stop.

About 610, Muhammad had a ...

Ooh, I know, I know! Muhammed never lived that long, he died before turning 60. I this must be Methuselah or someone...

1. Mohammad plagiarized a "faith", cobbling it together from half-comprehended gnostic Christian heresies (those which taught a non-divine Jesus and a non-Trinitarian Deity) and larded in spurious misquotes and rank misunderstandings of the older Hebrew religion, essentially mimmicking/modelling himself upon the Old Testament figure of Elijah, but, when he failed to convince either Jews or Christians or his fellow polytheistic pagan Arabs of his "divine mission" or "prophethood", he turned violent.

1350 years of waxing and waning episodes of "holy" terror resulted.

2.3.4.5.- Covered expertly by Cornelius, boneshack, et al.

about 910 the koran in its present form was written judging by the dating of the arabic used in the text....

or so i am told by an Arab.

better facts would be

#1 killed lots of jews like his followers still do today
#2 treated women like property, not people, like his followers do today
#3 thought it was ok to shag young girls, like his followers do today (and if this wasn't so why do councils with large moslem populations have to set up special social service task forces to try and protect children from being sexually abused by moslem men)
#4 thought the way to deal with criticism is to kill the person who disagrees, like his followers do today.
#5 thought nothing of lying, like his folloers think today