Islam : The Untold Story

For every religion, they believe they are the parents of all other religion. This is a paradoxically view, but there is no authoritative evidence as to which was first(*story). 

Here is a wonderful documentary, studying a very ancient and huge religion - Islam.

In this controversial and ground-breaking documentary, historian Tom Holland who is taking the chance to enter the risky waters, suggests that we have absence of historical evidence about the beginning and rise of the Islam. Muslims believe that from the very beginning, the great Arab conquest were all about Islam. But in the 7th century, you can barely find a new religion called Islam anywhere in the historical records.

Even Mecca may not have been the real birthplace of the prophet. The earliest biographies we have were written nearly 200 years after the prophet's lifetime. This is a world founded on stories of Mohammed.

It is not suprising that the program received a torrent of complaints after the broadcast.

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