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CHAPTER 10. GOD – THE NOBODY EVERYBODY KNOWS
in the night you could eat and enjoy. In the day, the month of Ramadan is a month of fasting and
fighting.
And when you are fighting it is good to fast so you are not bothered by food. Otherwise you need a
foodbreak, a teabreak, a coffeebreak, and in war you cannot make all these breaks; in war you have
to be totally in it, no break. In the desert, when the sun sets, war ends; you cannot fight in the night.
Then you are free; then with ease, with comfort you can eat, dance and enjoy yourself late into the
night and then go to sleep – and be ready again in the morning with the sword to bring peace into
the world.
Mohammed killed an uncountable number of people, and his followers have been killing people for
these fifteen hundred years continually. I don’t think there is anybody – Christian, Hindu, Buddhist,
Jew or Jaina – who can kill as easily as a Mohammedan. A Jaina of course cannot even kill an ant
– that is enough to go to hell. Killing a man is unheard of.
In the whole of history not a single Jaina has been sentenced to death because he murdered; it is
not possible. He can be murdered, but he cannot murder. Even if you give him a sword, it will fall
from his hand immediately; he cannot hold it – he may not even know how to hold it. Except for the
small knife that he uses in the kitchen, he knows nothing about any weapon. He will find it easier to
be killed than to kill... because if you are killed you are not going to fall into hell, and if you are killed
without any resistance, then heaven is yours: just the opposite of the Mohammedan.
If you kill somebody in a war of religion, a jihad, what Christians call a crusade... and all wars
are jihads. They are for religion: they are to convert the other person. And Mohammedanism has
used the lowest kind of methodology to pervert – yes, I would like to say pervert – a man into
Mohammedanism. I would not like to use the word convert....
What kind of conversion is this? You have not even had a little conversation before it, you don’t give
any opportunity to the man. You simply say, ”Either you believe in one God; one prophet, that is
Mohammed; and one holy book, that is the Koran.... These three things you have to believe, that’s
all, then you are a Mohammedan – otherwise, accept death.”
Mohammed says the more people you bring to Mohammedanism, the more virtue you are attaining.
And if you have to kill many people, don’t be afraid: that too will be counted as virtue, because you
have saved those people from remaining heretics all their life. The man may have lived forty years
more, so you have saved him from forty years of a heretic’s life. That much compassion you have
shown to that man! Strange logic! But all these pseudo-religions are full of strange logic.
Hazrat Mohammed had nine wives – God has not even one! And God created Mohammed in His
own image? What kind of image...? He should have remained celibate, but he married nine women
and allowed all Mohammedans to marry four women. The reason was that Mohammed wanted
more and more soldiers. From where to get soldiers? One woman can get married to four men but
then too in one year she will give birth to only one child, so that is absolutely uneconomical. But if
four women are married to one man then certainly they can give birth to four children in one year.
He wanted more and more Mohammedans, more and more children, more and more soldiers – and
this was a way to find them. But where are you going to find so many women?
From Ignorance to Innocence 131 Osho