> It is said that the Jihad is only to defense, and historians (no-
> believers) can argue that Muhammad was only a big merchant and He
> want the hegemony of the trade in the region, so He returned to
> Mecca to fight and get this aim.
Dear Hasan,
I don't know any historians who have made this argument. Those
reputable historians perhaps most antagonistic to Islam (Crone and
Conin) have usually argued that Mecca was not that big of a trade
center. In any case, Muhammad had stopped being involved in merchant
trade decades before this and never returned to it. Mecca was taken
because their allies had broken the treaty with Medina.
warmest, Susan
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