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Quote by: notworthabean actually mohhamad and his followers raided the meccan caravans and thats how they got thie rmoney. don't give me the "he never trained armies" he must have,other wise he would not have conquered the arabian peninusla. if the meccans funded the jews at qana (something i have never heard before-even from my muslim "middle eastern politicls professor" who has gone into great depth on the history) indeed I recall they were farmers. i am sure they had an army of sorts but the fact is mohhamad had the better one. the story I have heard when mentioning qana is that when muhhamd came to medina he expected the local jews (from whom he got many ideas) to accept him as a prophet, evne going so far as to have people pray to jerusalam. when the jews, who figured out he wasn't a prophet, didn't follow him, he had to punish them to show an example. something along those lines is the modern belief regarding the matter.

I read that too. Apparently, the local Jewish scholars made Muhammad(fp) look pretty bad by calling him on his numerous historical and scriptural inaccuracies. He apparently did not take it too well.