Muhammad, The First Muslim Immigrant ( part one) From an article by the same nam. Thanks to Beatrice Immigration is known since the times when humans appeared, but Muslims can be proud that their prophet made of immigration a practical guide about how to make all the world Islamic. And as Muhammad was the first official Muslim, so he was also the first official Muslim immigrant. After his own tribe Quraish, being sick and tired of Muhammad’s bashing their gods and disrespecting their traditions, started to murmur that it’s time to put an end to all this, Muhammad ran to Medina, the native town of his mother, and pledged for what we now call, asylum. Soon, his closest ring of friends and followers joined him, forming what’s known in Islamic history as “Companions.” They formed in Medina the first body in history of Muslim immigrants, and very soon changed the face of Medina, making it the city of the victorious Islam. Muslims learned and remembered this lesson, and since then the concept of Hijrah- Immigration- as a means of supplanting the native population and reaching the position of power became in Islam a well–developed doctrine. Immigration in Islam is not a Western liberal romance about how the newcomers gratefully search for opportunities for a better life in liberty and offer their talents and loyalty to the benefit of their new homeland. Immigration, as Islam sees it, is an instrument of Islamic expansionism that employs religious and ethnic separatism to gain special status and privilege, then subvert, subdue, and subjugate non-Muslim societies and pave the way for their total Islamization and implementation of Shari’ah law. Muhammad started with offering himself as a mediator between two main rivaling clans of Medina: Aws and Khazraj; and three main Jewish tribes: Banu Qaynuka, Banu Nadir and Banu Qurayza. As Muhammad was an outsider without any political influence in Medina and, in the opinion of the clan chiefs, could not pose any threat, the clans of Medina accepted him as mediator between them. This resulted in Muhammad gaining the official position of mediator whose advice the people got accustomed to seek in a war-torn city. And already in the Charter of Medina, Muhammad outlined the basic rule for Muslims who immigrate to non-Muslim land, i.e., they must form a separate body, keeping their own laws and making the host country comply with them: (3) The Quraysh emigrants according to their present custom shall pay the bloodwit within their number and shall redeem their prisoners with the kindness and justice common among believers. Muslims from the beginning made it clear that they were going to live by their own laws
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