Koran 8:15-16

8:15 O you who have believed, when you meet those who disbelieve advancing [for battle], do not turn to them your backs [in flight].

16 And whoever turns his back to them on such a day, unless swerving [as a strategy] for war or joining [another] company, has certainly returned with anger [upon him] from Allah, and his refuge is Hell – and wretched is the destination.

Koran 8:15-16

Muhammad, ad nauseam: “who have believed”. Read, O you who have believed.

Muhammad spoke about Allah in the third person. This means this passage is not the perfect words of the perfect Qur’an from perfect Allah. Thus, Allah is false, imaginary, and fictional, which means Islamic doctrine and Islam are nonsensical and false.

This passage is Muhammad’s battle tactics for Muslims, in the religion of “peace”. Obviously this is incoherent with Islamic doctrine, but not with Islam. Also note Muhammad’s no surrender rule, akin to Hitler’s no retreat rule in WW2, with the threat of Hell. Muhammad and Hitler never heard of the Feigned Retreat.

And lest you think I’m giving away secret strategy to Muslim armies, note that Sun Tzu wrote advice about this long ago: “Do not pursue an enemy who simulates flight” in The Art of War. It was a common tactic in Ancient China with their well-trained troops. And you’ll note that Muhammad, supposedly advised by the perfect Allah, is unable to relate what was relatively commonly known over 1,000 years before for military tactics and strategy.

But, infidel, “swerving”! Swerving isn’t Feigned Retreat. “Swerving” is most likely the translator’s best approximation for re-aligning one’s own formation in an undisciplined way. For example, the Muslims are riding along to the North to hit a caravan path and see instead a hostile force of innocent pagans to the right or East. To realign, one side of the formation gallops around to the left, west, and south and then forms up again to face East, which is presenting one’s back to the enemy during this “swerving” around, particularly if they have to reform to a narrower formation, perhaps along a track. Muhammad’s bad military advice prevents that convenient reforming. Both Hitler and Muhammad, by not using well-known military stratagems, show they were not guided by a wise god at all or by competent and brave military leaders.

I fully encourage all Muslim armies to never retreat just as Muhammad tells you, so they can be destroyed in place by modern stand-off weapons. So for a change, if you’re a Muslim soldier fighting against the innocent and the West, I encourage you to obey Muhammad in this passage, study it well and don’t turn your back, just stay there.

For everyone else, the best replacement for this poor advice is: “”, the empty sentence.