Mohammed

                  The Just War:  "In order for a war to be just, it must be on the authority of the sovereign,
                                        the cause must be just, the belligerents must have a right intention,
                                        and the war must be waged by proper means."
                                        (Saint Augustine; The Just War)
                                        "The just cause means that a nation's rights are being violated by actual
                                        or at least imminent attack; that diplomacy or embargo, have been tried
                                        or failed."  (Pope Pius X; The Just War)

                  Mohammed:    He was born in Mecca A.D. 570. His father was Abdullah, of the Hashim family,
                                        who died shortly after his son's birth. At the age of six he lost his mother and was raised by
                                        his uncle Abu-Talib. He was a shepherd and attendant to a caravan. When he was twenty-five
                                        he married a rich widow, Khadeejah, who was fifteen years older than him.
                                        She bore him six children, all of whom died very young except his daughter Fatima.
                                        On his trade journeys to Syria and Palestine he became aquainted with Jews and Christians.
                                        He was devoted to prayer and fasting. On his fortieth year(A.D. 612); he recieved a call from
                                        the Angel Gabriel to be an apostle of God.

                                        Mohammed provoked persecution, by his teaching against heathenism which drove him from Mecca
                                        to Medina in 622. In Medina he was recognized as the prophet of God and his followers increased.
                                        In 630 A.D. He took Mecca and demolished the idols of the Kaaba and united all the forty tribes
                                        under one religion. In 632 he made his last pilgrimage to Mecca and returned to Medina where he
                                        died in the sixty-third year of his age.

                  Jihad:              The Prophet commanded absolute submission to the imam(the governor).
                                          There was no separation of church and state. This fanatical and religious spirit
                                          condemned all nonbelievers as "Infidels". A religious war was a sacred duty, whenever
                                          there was a chance of success against the Infidel.