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Das muslimische Glaubensbekenntnis,
welches auch den Eintritt in den Islam markiert, lautet übersetzt ungefähr

“Es gibt keinen Gott, es gibt nur Allah,
und Mohammed ist Allahs Prophet”

Daran kann man schon erkennen, daß der Gestalt des Mohammed eine starke Bedeutung im islamischen Glauben zukommt, und es keineswegs so ist, daß der Koran “der Christus des Islam” sei.

Eine weitere Bestätigung dafür findet sich
auch in der Beschreibung der Eigenschaften Schaitans, dieser nämlich spricht laut Tradition ebenfalls das Glaubensbekenntnis
aus, aber nur den ersten Teil – “La illaha il Allah”, weigert sich aber, den zweiten Teil “Muhammadun Rasul Allah” auszusprechen,
da er beleidigt ist über die hohe Stellung, die Allah einem seiner Meinung nach niedrigeren Geschöpf als ihm, einem Menschen eben, zuspricht.

Nebenbei wirft das ein Licht auf die Verortung derjenigen, welche die Verehrung Mohammeds als “Schirk” verurteilen, also zb. die Wahabiten, unter deren saudischer Regierung inzwischen rund 90% der historischen islamischen Stätten systematisch zerstört worden sind.

Und es wirft ein Licht auf die Verortung der Medien, die selbstverständlich ausführlich über die Zerstörung von Buddha-Statuen u.ä. durch “Fundementalisten” berichten, zu der Zerstörung islamischer Gräber und Moscheen durch die Saudis aber bemerkenswerterweise kein einziges Wort verlieren, wodurch diese Fakten auch kaum bekannt sind.

Some of the destroyed sites include:

Mosques

* The mosque at the grave of Sayyid al-Shuhada’ Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib.[8]
* The Mosque of Fatima Zahra.[8]
* The Mosque of al-Manaratain.[8]
* Mosque and tomb of Sayyid Imam al-Uraidhi ibn Ja‘far al-Sadiq, destroyed by dynamite on August 13, 2002.[10]
* Four mosques at the site of the Battle of the Trench in Medina.[11]
* The Mosque of Abu Rasheed.[7]
* Salman al-Farsi Mosque, in Medina.[7]
* Raj’at ash-Shams Mosque, in Medina.[7]

Cemeteries and tombs

* Jannat al-Baqi in Medina, completely leveled.
* Jannat al-Mu’alla, the ancient cemetery at Mecca.[7]
* Grave of Hamida al-Barbariyya, the mother of Imam Musa al-Kazim.[10]
* Grave of Amina bint Wahb, the Prophet’s mother, bulldozed and set alight in 1998.[12]
* Graves of Banu Hashim in Mecca.[7]
* Tombs of Hamza and other martyrs were demolished at Uhud.[7]
* Tomb of Eve in Jeddah,[7] sealed with concrete in 1975.
* Grave of the father of the Prophet, in Medina.[7]

Historical religious sites

* The house of Mawlid where Muhammad is believed to have been born in 570. Originally turned into a cattle market,[11] it now lies under a rundown building which was built 70 years ago as a compromise after Wahhabi clerics called for it to be torn down.[3]
* The house of Khadija, Muhammad’s first wife. Muslims believe he received some of the first revelations there. It was also where his children Umm Kulthum, Ruqayyah, Zainab, Fatima and Qasim were born. After it was rediscovered during the Haram extensions in 1989, it was covered over and public toilets were built above the site.[13]
* House of Muhammed in Medina, where he lived after the migration from Mecca.[7]
* Dar al Arqam, the first Islamic school where Muhammad taught.[3] It now lies under the extension of the Haram.[12]
* Qubbat’ al-Thanaya, the burial site of Muhammed’s incisor that was broken in the Battle of Uhud.[8]
* Mashrubat Umm Ibrahim, built to mark the location of the house where the Prophet’s son, Ibrahim, was born to Mariah.[10]
* Dome which served as a canopy over the Well of Zamzam.[7]
* Bayt al-Ahzan of Sayyida Fatima, in Medina.[7]
* House of Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq, in Medina.[7]
* Mahhalla complex of Banu Hashim, in Medina.[7]
* House of Imam Ali where Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn were born.[7]

[edit] Tombs at the Prophet’s Mosque under threat

The Prophet’s Mosque in Medina is where Mohammed, Abu Bakr and the Islamic Caliph Umar ibn Al Khattab are buried. A pamphlet published in 2007 by the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, endorsed by Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, stated that “the green dome shall be demolished and the three graves flattened in the Prophet’s Mosque.” This sentiment was echoed in a speech by the late Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent Wahhabi clerics: “We hope one day we’ll be able to destroy the green dome of the Prophet Mohammed”.[4]
[edit] In Iraq
Al-Askari Mosque 2006

With the rise of sectarian violence in Iraq resulting from the 2003 US invasion, major shrines and mosques associated with early figures in Islam have been targeted by bombings, some of which have resulted in devastating effects.

Destroyed sites include:

* Al-Askari Mosque, Samarra, a major Shia shrine in Iraq was bombed in February 2006 and again in June 2007.
* Imam Ali Mosque, Najaf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_sites_associated_with_early_Islam