Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt  -- 

In AD 630, two years after signing the Treaty of Hudaybiya, Muhammad’s army was strong enough to take over Mecca. This he did, destroying the idols in the Ka’aba, including that of Allah, but keeping the latter without its image as the god of Islam. For a time, he allowed the pagans to continue to practice the Hajj, joining with the new Muslims in its traditional pagan rituals. Then he gave the pagans four months to convert to Islam or be killed. Thereafter, only Muslims could approach Mecca and the Ka’aba, which remains the rule today. Muhammad’s last public act shortly before his death was to lead forty thousand of his followers in these very same rituals, establishing the centuries-old pagan practice in perpetuity as the most important part of Islam.

The Qur’an claims that the Ka’aba was “the first Sanctuary appointed to mankind…where Abraham stood up to pray; and…pilgrimage [Hajj] to the House is a duty unto Allah for [all] mankind, for him who can find a way thither” (Surah 2:125; 3:96-99; 5:97). It also claims that Abraham and Ishmael together built the Ka’aba (Ibid., 2:127). In fact, Abraham (Ishmael was no longer with him, having been banished together with his mother, Hagar – Genesis:21:9-12 [9] And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. [10] Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. [11] And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. [12] And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
See All...) lived in Hebron in Canaan. The idea that he would make the arduous journey across hundreds of miles of Arabian deserts to Mecca – and to build an idol temple to be used by pagan Arabs – is an outrageous fabrication contrary to common sense, to everything the Bible says about Abraham, and without any history to support it.