That message was given to the Arab people 1400 years ago.
And they were told that it is only for your guidance and not anyone else? Come on as I said unless you read and understand the message yourself, your argument remains biased, one sided ...... why are you so afraid to spare sometime and do a thorough well informed study yourself?
What followed was military imperialism.
Against what? Tyranny, Exploitation, Slavery ............ I hope you don't think that those emperors and kings were saviors of the humans. If they were they would never have been defeated by a lesser equipped and lesser trained adversary.
The message of God has been revealed to other people by Prophets before Muhammad.
Were those messages wrong?
Or were those Gods lesser or false Gods?
Yes messages were revealed before and the final message lays it as a condition to believe in all of them (the non corrupted versions) before I call myself a Muslim.
Were those messages wrong? No .......... but would they appeal the needs of humans of today, would they be accommodating enough to afford the freedom a human in today's world demands, the answer is .... no. Those messages were incomplete in the sense that they were time bound for people of those times only, somethings which were prohibited for people of those times were later permitted by the final message. You need to understand when and in what times the messages were sent and to whom those messages were applicable ........ the difference between the final message and all previous messages is ...... the final message is for all the times to come and is for everyone .......... look at the world today and modes of accessing information ........ and tell me if you cannot get a copy of the final message yourself.
God remained the same ......... humans, their fears, their selfishness, their weaknesses and their superstitions became the Gods.
If it's your argument that the message got corrupted by the people, and they needed a reminder by the birth of a new Prophet ....
Then look around you. And tell me what you see today.
Have the people evolved? Is this what you call evolution?
Jews are people of scripture but they are a closed faith, you are born a Jew or else you are not a Jew, they have literally declared the ownership of their faith, they in their belief consider themselves to be the only chosen people and non Jews inferior and irrelevant. Did God give them this ownership?
And again doc stop judging the message ...... in light of the conduct of people and their politics. You are believer of a faith tell me if you are practicing your faith exactly the same it was practiced at the time of its inception, tell me if you are sure you hold the same belief and faith as centuries old people of your faith held?
If you start believing a non sense parallel religion and are hell bent on making man made prophecies come true, its not fault of the message ....... its your fault that you have stopped practicing and reading the message.
A people can never aspire for greatness on a borrowed (adopted, enforced, enslaved) philosophy.
Greatness doesn't need humans and their certification, it remains greatness ......... its upto people if they achieve greatness or remain ignorant.
Its your belief (fairy tales) and you are entitled to it. Had it been the way you think it may have been, you won't be debating this with me, instead we may have been debating why apostasy doesn't demand capital punishment, with you being the strong advocate of the punishment.
