1. Extortion & Marriage:
The torture of Kinana for hidden wealth followed by the immediate taking of his widow Safiyya (Bukhari 371) exposes a fusion of military conquest, extraction, and personal desire.
2. Universal Mandate:
Sahih Muslim 22 establishes an open-ended theological objective to wage war against mankind until they profess Islam, transforming geopolitical expansion into an eternal religious duty.
3. The Absolute Divide:
Muhammad commanded the hunting of political and religious dissidents; Christ commanded the loving of enemies.
While Islamic apologists frame these events as necessary statecraft or divine justice, Christians identify them as cold-blooded killings that stand in total opposition to the sanctity of life demonstrated by Jesus Christ.
The most frequent evidence cited for Muhammad acting outside the bounds of just warfare involves his ordering the deaths of individuals who had not physically attacked him, but had merely used their words to mock or oppose him.
Abu Rafi:
His targeted assassination by deception is also recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari.
Sahih al-Bukhari 4039:
A Jewish poet and leader. Muhammad explicitly asked his companions, "Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?"
Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf:
A Jewish poet and leader. Muhammad explicitly asked his companions, "Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?" See Sahih al-Bukhari 4037 The volunteers used deception to lure him out at night and beheaded him.These are not deaths on a battlefield; they are targeted hits on political dissidents.
In contrast, when Jesus was mocked and spat upon, he forbade his disciples from using violence and healed the ear of the man sent to arrest him (Luke 22:51).
This is also mentioned in Muhammad Was Cruel. This stands as a stark example of severe martial enforcement. The execution of 600 to 900 men of the Banu Qurayza Jewish tribe was carried out not as a standard battle, but as a systematic execution of prisoners of war who had already surrendered
In the conquest of Khaybar, Muhammad sought the location of the tribe's hidden treasure.
Ibn Ishaq records that Muhammad ordered the torture of Kinana ibn al-Rabi (the leader of the tribe) by having a fire lit on his chest until he was near death, after which he was beheaded. Muhammad then took Kinana's widow, Safiyya, as his wife that same night—an act that characterizes a raw desire for conquest, wealth extraction, and immediate marital acquisition.
While the specific method of fire torture is detailed in the early Sira of Ibn Ishaq, the authentic Hadith collections (Sahih Muslim 1803) confirm that Kinana was executed for hiding wealth, and his widow Safiyya was claimed by Muhammad that very night.
Muhammad took life to establish an earthly kingdom, whereas Jesus gave His life to establish a heavenly one. To Christians, the blood on Muhammad's hands is primary evidence that his claims were not a continuation of the work of the God of Israel, but a departure into worldly power
While the Quran commands "Kill them wherever you find them" (Surah 2:191), the Christ of the Gospels commands "Love your enemies" (Matthew 5:44). The two paths are mutually exclusive: one leads to a trench in Medina, the other to a Cross in Jerusalem.
urthermore, there are prescriptive, open-ended commands of Islamic jurisprudence regarding global conquest. Examples include Surah 9:29—the command to fight Jews and Christians until they pay the Jizya tax and feel subdued—and Sahih Muslim 22, where Muhammad states: "I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not bear witness that there is no god but Allah.