For some reason, Muslims object to the word "pedophile" with reference to Muhammad, even though its just a word to describe an adult who has sexual relations with children irrespective of whether the charade or marriage is a part of it. So, just know that by the word "pedophile", we include adults who go through extra ceremony when desiring a sexual relationship with a child. Heres the Islamic scripture (haddith):
“the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he CONSUMMATED HIS MARRIAGE when she was NINE YEARS OLD” http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/sunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.064
So...are westerners who assert that the act of pedophilia is a disqualifier of a legitimate claim of prophethood or is it not unreasonable to believe that God could appoint a pedophile to be the everlasting and perfect example of human conduct? A model for all time?
2006-10-18 15:23:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Have you read this book and what are your view or answers to the list below from this book?
The Truth About Muhammad
by Robert Spencer
Meet the real Muhammad:
Muhammad's bizarre reaction to his first "revelation": "I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself"
The heretical Christian who convinced Muhammad he was a prophet – and may have taught him his erroneous views of Christianity
Islamic borrowings from Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism – and Muhammad's enraged replies to charges that he borrowed material rather than received actual divine revelations
The "revelation" that allowed Muhammad to marry his beautiful daughter-in-law
The strange incident in Muhammad's life that makes it virtually impossible to prove rape in Islamic countries today
The real "Satanic Verses" incident (not the Salman Rushdie version): how Muhammad's attempt to win over his opponents ended with his saying he had been inspired not by God, but by Satan
How the Qur'an's teaching on warfare against unbelievers developed – with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage
The first year of the Muslim calendar: not when Muhammad was born or became a prophet, but when he became a warlord
How Muhammad used the graphic lure of Islamic Paradise to urge his warriors to fight furiously to extend his rule
"Kill every Jew who comes into your power": why Muhammad became so angry with both Jews and Christians – with disastrous consequences that are still playing out in the world today
The momentous command by Muhammad that led to good being identified with anything that benefited the Muslims, and evil with anything that harmed them --without reference to any larger moral standard
Muhammad's child bride – and the terrible consequences his marriage to a nine-year-old still has in the Islamic world
"This is the caravan of the Quraysh possessing wealth. It is likely that Allah may give it to you as booty": how Muhammad gave divine sanction to the Muslims' bloody raids
"War is deceit": the permission Muhammad gave his followers to lie in order to gain an advantage over their enemies
How Muhammad broke the principal treaty he entered into, again setting a pattern for Muslim states thereafter
Muhammad's commands to his followers to wage perpetual war against non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians
Muhammad on women's rights: women "are prisoners with you having no control of their persons"
"If justice is not to be found with me then where will you find it?" Why Muhammad still stands for Muslims as the supreme model for human behavior
"I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula, and will not leave any but Muslims" – and other statements by Muhammad that contemporary jihadists take very seriously
Islamic tolerance? The onerous tax burden and other discriminatory regulations mandated for non-Muslims under Islamic law
How Muhammad ordered the killing of apostates from Islam
The massacre of a Jewish tribe by Muhammad that was invoked by modern-day jihadists at the beginning of Israel's July 2006 operations against Hizballah in Lebanon
"Embrace Islam, and your lives and property will be safe": Muhammad's threatening letters to the rulers of the lands around Arabia
Muhammad's frequent avowals that the Muslims would overcome the empires bordering on Arabia and one day stand as masters of the world
"I have been made victorious with terror" – and other statements of Muhammad on his deathbed
Six steps that American leaders can and must take in order to protect our nation from Islamic jihad terrorism.
2006-10-20 06:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pedophilas can be anyone of any religion. But there were times that
God permitted this to repopulate the earth after the flood. Not ony Muslims are Pedophiles, look at our
goverment, the people we put in charge to take care and teach our
children. Check out the priests that
had their little boys. Don't just judge
Islam, I think you probably have a few in your church to--you never know!
2006-10-18 15:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Islam has to accept this one.
This is one the West and Christians don't take to.
I don't think the Jews do, either.
Islam is going to have a hard time living this down in the eyes for alot of the world, especially liberated women!
It's bad enough that a small minority of Christians think it's cool to go to the Middle Schools and find wives, the Muslims think it's cool to go to the grammar schools to find them.
There's a lot of Western Woman who will fight to the death the stop that from happening!
And I'll join them!
2006-10-18 15:57:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to true believers the idea of pedophile does not even come up. It is a judgment made from outsiders, however we also must take into account changes in time and beliefs alike. Which is more odd, Muhammad being married to a child or Jesus having no wife in his lifetime? When looking at history and beliefs at the time Jesus remaining unmarried was far mor unheard of and raised more eyebrows than Muhammad marrying a child.
2006-10-18 15:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
How can they be so blind, back in those days most ppl were married you women especially but more like 12-15 and this is more or less engagement. 6 is always to old and 9 is way before maturity, mohammed was a pedophile. Society was diff but 13 was a reasonable "engagement" age.
2006-10-18 15:33:41 · answer #5 · answered by Jonathan S 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
oh wait -- Lot-pbuh consummated encounters with his daughter when she was 3 yrs old. and in India, child marraige was banned not more than 50yrs back. (see it today even in Rajsthan -- try oing there sometime) just try checking the Marraige registers of other countries too and what you see may shock as well as enlighten you. in that case Slomon, David, Jacob and Lot -- should all be Not considered prophets. but the question remains -- who has given the authority for us to judge them?.
2006-10-18 15:41:05 · answer #6 · answered by marissa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Snobbery. Remember, Mary was only 12 when Jesus was conceived. There was a time that 13 was considered adulthood. Only modern society is crazy enough to make sexually capable people wait and stay separate throughout the period of their strongest sexual urges. Of COURSE there are going to be unwed mothers and all kinds of sexual pressure on 'children'.
2006-10-18 15:33:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
To answer your question technically, it's just western opinion.
If and when Muhammad did this, it was not against any laws of the time, God's or man's. It was probably quite common in his society. It's unfair to judge past actions by current standards.
2006-10-18 15:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by phaig93 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
regrettably, in accordance to the Bible, human beings like Muhammed (peace be upon him) have been deceived by ability of devil who comes masquerading as an angel of light and who seeks to entice human beings faraway from Jesus the Son of God by ability of giving them a exchange or "anti-Christ" to worship rather. announcing that the religion of Islam "honors" Jesus by ability of calling Him a prophet of God is like me announcing that I honor somebody by ability of calling them a primate. that's authentic that people belong to the order of primates yet so do monkeys. human beings have been created in resembling God and Jesus on an identical time as a prophet is the eternal Son of God. a million John 4:a million loved, don't think each and every spirit, yet attempt the spirits to work out no rely if or no longer they're from God, for many fake prophets have long previous out into the worldwide. 2 by ability of this you recognize the Spirit of God: each and every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come interior the flesh is from God, 3 and each spirit that does no longer confess Jesus isn't from God. that's the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard became coming and now could be interior the worldwide already. John a million:a million interior the commencing up became the be conscious, and the be conscious became with God, and the be conscious became God. 2 He became interior the commencing up with God. 3 All issues have been made by way of him, and devoid of him became no longer any undertaking made that became made....14 And the be conscious grew to become flesh and dwelt between us, and we've seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the father, crammed with grace and fact. 2 Corinthians 11:14 And no ask your self, for even devil disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it rather is not any marvel if his servants, additionally, conceal themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
2016-10-02 10:56:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That poor little girl. I have daughters, and if anything horrible like that ever happened... I don't even want to think about it. How can people rape children??? What is wrong with them? :o(
2006-10-18 15:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋