Part 5 - Appendix 2
Hagarism
A few notes to explain, in more simple terms, the assertions by Crone and Cook.
Section 1. The basic scenario. Crone and Cook intend analysing Islamic society to 'a model political society'!?! The word 'model' here means 'perfect'!!
Section 2. Crone and Cook lay down their absurd conceptions on the history of human civilisation. They tell us that all human communities appear in pairs, i.e. one against the other. They tell us that each community wants to thrive simply for cultural identification, 'within a framework of strategic logic'. Remember this last statement, it will be discussed later.
This imbecilic logic requires no expert to raise faults with. We must also understand that Crone and Cook are trying to explain the history of communities chosen and guided by Allah, using their own assertions on how history took place. Therefore we can already see that their conclusions will be completely divergent from what we know as fact. Rather like a rugby player trying to use his own rules on a football match.
Section 3. After explaining the framework for the progression of human societies, they tell us, according to them, which is the best type of society: 'One which is integrated, self ruling and self consistent'(?!!??). What kind of criterion is this? They then tell us that the most complete example of such a community is ancient Israel???
Now here is the crunch. According to them, the rest of the world is now thinking: 'How shall we compete with this amazing society rich in culture and religion. Our only solution is to copy them.' Hence Christianity occurs by copying Judaism, Hellenism and Roman Imperialism (a point for Mr. Smith to contend with), and the Arabs do the same and create Islam. Going back to the point of 'strategic logic', here is the scenario that they say has occurred. Before Christianity and before Islam, the communities who were to become Christians and Muslims, had some members of their community sitting and analysing the surrounding cultures and communities. Somehow someone decided that the Israel seemed to be much better than their own communities, so they told everyone in their own communities that everyone had to be like the Jews. So collectively everyone changed all their habits and culture, all their beliefs and religious practices to emulate the Jews without a question being asked. This scenario staggers belief and also contradicts their earlier assertions. What happened to cultural identification?
Section 4. The rest of their theories in explaining Islam are just a cocktail of pure racism, deep hatred and revulsion for everything Arab and Islamic. The Arabs, they tell us are so barbaric and backward that even though they tried to achieve this emulation of the Jews they could never succeed in choosing the correct attributes from the Jews and always ended up choosing the worst due to their stupidity. Hence Islam became the worst civilisation ever known.
The main obvious questions to these theories without even going into the supposed evidences of them, are CONSTANTLY: WHY, WHEN and HOW did all this occur?!?!?!? Investigation into their own evidences cause more problems. The only source of evidence they possess to fit their theories, the DOCTRINA IACOBI is a 7th century document written by Rabbis (Absolutely NO Muslims allowed here, they are too biased).