Koran 2:114

And who are more unjust than those who prevent the name of Allah from being mentioned in His mosques and strive toward their destruction.

It is not for them to enter them except in fear.

For them in this world is disgrace, and they will have in the Hereafter a great punishment.

Koran 2:114

Muhammad and his bandits were outcasts from Mecca, the village of the pagan Arabs, the Quraysh, whose tribe Muhammad came from. When Muhammad was outcast, this town already had 360 idols around a central large idol on top of a square base. The current Kaaba seems to be the square cow/camel sacrifice base for the central idol. Note that the rituals around this idol seem to match those of Hindu/Shiva worship, which relates to an earlier form of bull and cow worship and sacrifice which disagrees with Jewish and Christian rituals, and worse, these pagan rituals continue to be practiced in the Hajj. When Muhammad attacked Mecca with his bandits, he destroyed the 360 idols and the central large idol, leaving the sacrificial base, which is called the Kaaba now. Muhammad inherited the traditions of his tribe into Islam, the rituals of pagan Arabs, which even his men knew were pagan. Such rituals include stone worshipping, perambulation about the Kaaba, running and walking between stones, touching and kissing the black stone, touching the opposite corner, stoning the devil, ritual slaughter of cows/camels, dressing in white robes (earlier, the pagan Arabs were nude). Inheriting pagan traditions which even Muhammad’s bandits knew were pagan, shows that Muhammad is combining pagan religious traditions and re-purposing them for the worship of his imaginary god. Muhammad is recycling pagan nonsense for his nonsense, reducing their nonsense by reducing the 360 + 1 idols to rubble, reusing the pagan temple, and recycling the pagan rituals, to be the FIRST mosque.

But, wasn’t the temple corrupted by the pagans first from the synagogues of the Jews and the churches of the Christians, and wasn’t Mecca built by Abraham? The Jews and Christians don’t worship idols, don’t perambulate, don’t kiss or worship stones or corners, don’t stone the devil, don’t sacrifice animals, don’t dress in special white robes, don’t go around nude, and synagogues and churches aren’t round but are rectangular. To expect Abraham to travel all the way from Israel to Saudi Arabia to build a temple the opposite of what he already knew is simply nonsense.

So the best replacement for this verse is: “”, the empty sentence.