Ironic isn't it?
After leaving Islam fairly recently, I noticed that a lot of Muslims, whenever you try to discuss their prophet’s life with them and criticize something immoral he did, respond by telling you that you have no moral standard by which to distinguish right from wrong or judge Muhammad.
(Ignoring the fact that Muslims couldn’t give a shit about your moral standards anyway. They just want something they can use against you, something they can latch onto to attack you and your beliefs. For example, when a Christian criticizes slavery and concubinage in Islam, Muslims usually don’t try so much to justify these practices morally as they try to dig up Bible verses they believe permit slavery, just so they can convince themselves that both religions are Equal.)
Anyway, once you leave Islam and realize that Muhammad wasn’t a prophet receiving revelations from some god, that there isn’t even a god watching over us and commanding us to kill people, enslave women, and condemn women to the fires of hell simply for showing their hair—and that the whole thing is bullshit to begin with—you start to realize that Muhammad’s actions don’t just prove he wasn't a prophet sent by God. It proves that he was a man who didn’t believe in the existence of a god at all.
When you see that he spent his life enslaving people, killing, looting, raiding, and throwing his weight around, you begin to see him as a vile, godless man who didn’t believe in any afterlife, judgment, or accountability, and who never gave a damn about any of that in the first place. He understood that the fundamental law of life was survival of the fittest, so he decided to act accordingly. He was a man with no moral compass beyond his own whims and desires.
In other words, he fits the exact stereotype Muslims themselves constantly push about atheists: that an atheist has no moral standards to live by.
And that’s the irony: What Muslims hate the most are non-Muslims, while the person they love the most and consider a moral role model is someone who, at no point in his life, was ever a Muslim himself—not even after he claimed to be a prophet.
And the person who caused the most suffering to non-Muslims in the name of Islam was, himself, someone who wasn’t a Muslim either.
Another thing I find pathetic is how the poor, innocent Muslim, gets upset and starts crying if he misses just one of the five daily prayers he’s supposed to perform, feeling like he’s going to hell over it. Yet Muhammad didn’t establish and prescribe prayer in its current form until he was around 53 years old, and he died ten years later, at 63. That means he only performed the very prayers Muslims perform throughout their entire lives for about ten years. In other words, even the average Muslim alive today has performed more daily prayers than his own atheist prophet.
(This is just a point I wanted to make for Muslims who argue that if Muhammad was simply following his own desires, what would be the point of prayer, and what purpose would it serve? The point is that prayer serves to keep Muslims in a constant state of submission and fear of a god who will burn them in hell not only for missing a prayer, but even for delaying it. Eventually, that fear and terror can reach a point where Muslims are too preoccupied with worrying about their punishment to even think critically about the rest of their religion, Muhammad’s morality, or whether his claim to prophethood was ever true.)
Peace out.