Normally, I don’t give much weight to conspiracy theories because they tend to lack evidence. The mainstream view and what I have always heard since birth is that Makkah of Muhammad is in Saudi Arabia. However, once I watched Dan Gibson’s documentary on the origins of Islam, the evidence became compelling to me. Gibson showed that for the first 100 years after Muhammad’s death, all of the mosques pointed to Petra and not Makkah. Also, Petra is a much older city than Makkah and has the idol worship places that Makkah lacks (temples of Dushera and Hubal). It also has the foundations of a building that match the proportions of the Ka’bah exactly, unlike the current Ka’bah in Makkah which is a perfect cube. The problem is that all of the sources of history we have, starting from Ibn Ishaq (786) clearly mention that Makkah is in Saudi Arabia. These can be explained by the fact that the books we have today were written more than 150 years after Muhammad’s death. I am leaning towards Petra being the origin of Islam when looked at from a neutral perspective but I want Gibson’s work and evidences to be rigorously examined by archaeologists and for his work to be accepted in the mainstream.

This Is An Utter Trash And False, Many Western Academics Like Sean Anthony (Expert In Early Islam.) And Marijn van Putten (Dutch Quranic Linguist) And Many Others Such As Apostate Prophet (Ridvan Aydemir) Take Dan Gibson’s Work As A Joke.