Hello. I am Muhammad and im a muslim living in Iceland.

How could he ever hope to meet the Roman Emperor? Before he founds Islam, he's a merchant, and afterwards a hostile war leader...

Not only is this racist trolling, it's also ASB.
 

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Secondly, I don't think that 'Peace be with him' is something every Muslim says after mentioning Muhammad.
"Peace be with him" isn't entirely accurate. Truly devout Muslims merely write (pbuh), which stands for "Peace be upon him," as others here have noted. I have never seen PBWH, which leads me to question whether anyone would actually go through the trouble of writing out "Peace be with him" seeing as it is a) much longer than is required and b) wrong. It just seems fundamentally wrong-headed in so many ways.

As Ran notes below, you occasionally see (saw) which is short for ṣallā ’llāhi ‘alayhi wa-sallama "May God pray for him (= bless him) and preserve [him]."

Actually "peace be upon him" (pbuh it is often abbreviated) is often used after Islamic prophets (not only Muhammed; Jesus, Mary, and depending on whether Sunni or Shiite, perhaps Ali and so on).
Actually, (pbuh) is reserved for Muhammad; (swt), which is short for subḥāna wa-ta’āla (praised and exalted), is reserved for God; (as), which is short for ’alayhi salām (peace be upon him), is reserved for the bigger figures like the other prophets (Jesus and crew) and (among Shiah) the Imams; and (rah), which is short for raḍiya ’llāhu ‘anhu (may God be pleased with him) for the Companions of the Prophet. Us mere mortals have to be content with raḥimahu ’llāhu, "God has had mercy with him."

Also AFAIK neither Judaism and Christianity are heresy. Shiism might be considered "heresy" for Sunnis (but even there I'm not quite sure), and some variant sects of Islam are generally considered heretical (as perhaps are offshoots like the Druse).
This term "heresy" is a very loaded term with rather blatant Christian connotations. Most devout Muslims will swear up and down that Islam knows no heresy, although you are correct to point out that the most hardcore Sunnis often consider Shiism to be something very much like heresy. The reason being is that most fundamentalist Muslims only believe in one "true" Islam and will often point to the numerous and complex schisms within Christianity as evidence of its inferiority. Within Islam, the only possible equivalents are disbelief (infidelity) and apostasy, which take the place of the term "heresy" in the mouth of a fundamentalist. If you deviate too far from orthodox Islam, you run the risk of being labeled either an infidel or an apostate, but never a "heretic."

I have serious problems believing that a devout Muslim would ever refer to another religion, even an schismatic sect within Islam, as "heretical." This more than anything else makes me think that our friend here is trying to ape the vocabulary of Islam and failing at it, most probably because he is not a Muslim.

I suppose he was trying to make some kind of point coming on here and pretending to be a Muslim, but the only point he seems to have made is that Muslims will get banned just as fast (or even faster) for saying the same shit that gets other people banned.

ObWI: No Nazis=No widespread dissemination of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the Middle East=No widespread Holocaust denial in the Muslim World?
I have this theory that it was actually Henry Ford who popularized the Protocols in the Middle East, as he was the one who brought them back from obscurity with his book The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, which was translated into Arabic almost immediately after it first appeared in English. Remember that Henry Ford viewed himself as the patron of the Arabs in America, as well.

Well, like I said; PBUH or "Peace be upon him" is the most common variety, but I've seen Muslims use other varieties like "Peace be with him", or SAW, which is the abbreviation of the Arabic version of the phrase.
Not precisely, but it's close enough for government work. I've never understood why Muslims use (pbuh) for ṣallā ’llāhi ‘alayhi wa-sallama (which, as I said above, actually means "may God bless him and keep him") when (pbuh) is actually an exact equivalent to ’alayhi salām (as). I guess it simply has become the tradition in English speaking countries, perhaps because (mgbhakh) is a) too long and b) looks like Armenian to me.
 
I didn't know about Ford and the Middle East; that's interesting. I suspect though if Henry was less virulent in that particularly obsession it would probably pop up somehow; given the original content of the piece (a satire against Napoleon III I believe concocted by the Russian state for their own purposes) though, I always find it kind of amusing.

I know the various Islamic schools of thought (regarding Sharia) aren't exactly denominations per se, though I've never quite grasped the geographic preferences that emerged or the exact working of the system (it does appear unique to Islam). Do the various permutations of Shiism see the others as "apostates?" Apostacy seems somewhat odd in that context.

It would seem hard to pull off solid "Islamic thought what ifs" largely because the subject matter is somewhat obscure (most tragically to Muslims who give my admittedly limited exposure could benefit from looking back a bit; certainly the OP probably hasn't heard of any of this).

One possible WI to play with is no Shiite polity.

I assume a Shiite Iran is relatively contingent; I suppose it is plausible enough to have no Safavids, and with it a Sunni Iran. I'm not sure how the butterflies play out on that one; Persian culture having survived Arab conquest in an interesting fashion, Iran is always going to be in a unique position in the Muslim world, even if it was Sunni.
 
Heh, the TL might actually have been fun. Oh well, too bad.

*Grabs a bag of fresh kittens and sits back for the show.*
 
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