Religion
While the U.S. has just elected a new president and facing significant struggles with the Islamic or Muslim community in the states (as of the time of this writing), the religion was not always viewed with such distrust and this is for good reason. Any religion has extremists, and before anyone reading this decides that the Muslims are the worst offenders, keep in mind that the KKK, The Aryan Nations, those of the Crusades, the Central African Republic are just examples of the terrorists that we have faced from different radical groups within any religion. This article is not about extremists though, this is about how Musa’s Muslim religious affiliation came to be and why it changed the world in many ways.
On his pilgrimage to Mecca, Musa traveled through the middle east and stopped in multiple cities. In those cities he would spread his wealth, which was altruistic or selfish depending on your world view. Did he do it to gain popularity and respect, or to share the wealth that all but fell in his lap?