How About Saddam as a Prophet?

Muhammad was just a successful Saddam
by Mumin Salih16 January, 2005

TODAY, IT WILL BE madness to accept any person to be a prophet, never mind a dictator like Saddam Hussein, with so much blood on his hands and a reputation of being brutal and ruthless in dealing with his opponents. There is little doubt that Saddam Hussein does not appeal to most of us and the chances for him to make a successful claim of prophethood, should he decide to make one, are very slim indeed.

This is rather unfortunate for him, as, I believe, he got what it takes to make a prophet—more precisely, an Islamic prophet. The toughest hurdle for him remains that he is born in the wrong time, as nowadays, most people do not believe in prophets anyway. The usual group of people who are likely to believe in such an absurdity, that is, the Muslims, have committed themselves to Muhammad, an earlier impostor, who told them never to believe a man who claims to be a prophet (he knew best) after his death. Muhammad declared himself to be the last and the final prophet of Allah—all Muslims must believe this firmly.

A fair and open-minded analysis of history reveals a striking resemblance between Muhammad’s career and the careers of other brutal dictators and gang leaders of our time. In this essay, I chose to compare Muhammad with Saddam. But the same arguments can also be used to compare Muhammad with Hitler, Bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarkawi.

http://www.islam-watch.org/MuminSalih/SaddamProphet.htm