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Muhammad's New Religion

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Muhammad: Dividing People One New Religion at a Time
By creating a new, foreign, and strange religion and by bringing families and old clans to war with each other, Muhammad was a divider of his people. Muhammad’s new religion, Islam, disrupted his village. The reason most chose not to follow Muhammad was because up until that point, monotheistic religions did not exist among their community, and Muhammad’s preachings were different from what people had always worshipped, so they were reluctant to change religions. Also, Muhammad had no authority or credentials because he was an average citizen like everyone else, so most people were skeptical that he was really a prophet. Muhammad claimed to have had visions of a new god and told the people

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