If Muhammad didnt marry a child of 9 or own African slaves or lead a war party, would he be more acceptable?

Answer 1

He's already accepted by billions of people. Admit it. You lost.

Answer 2

Irregardless of color there were slaves in that time. Bilal, the first man who announced the call to prayer, was a black man from Africa a former slave. He is a well known and loved companion of the prophet. Muhammeds (pbuh) adopted son was a slave, Zayd is his name, he was an Arab slave. The seventh person to accept Islam was an African slave, her name is Sumayya. Salman, a Persian was an early convert to Islam, was also a slave. Slavery was well practiced in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and much of the world prior to the revelation of the Quran. This is documented in history INCLUDING biblical history. What were the Jews originally to the Egyptians??? In more recent history many Muslims were sold into the slave trade and ended up here in the US as slaves. Considering Muhammed lived in the late 500's through 632 C.E. I don't think your argument holds much. Slavery continues in many parts of the world, though the majority of the world is not Muslim. It was not Christianity or Judaism or even Islam that started to eradicate slavery in the western world. Educate yourself. When you don't it makes you look foolish. Weasel, 1967 (in fact it was 1962, you are 5 years off) is over a thousand years after Muhammed, modern day Saudi Arabia has little to do with him and in most cases little to do with how Islam was practiced at the time or should be practiced now. Again you look foolish because you don't educate yourself. Islam does does not encourage slavery but gave a set of rules to it when it was in use. I am sure you are not aware of this due to your own bias, but maybe you will learn someday. Islam is fundamentally opposed to the concept of racism, so the issue of there being black slaves is no more predominant than that of the arab, persian or white slaves that existed in the time of Muhammed (pbuh). As for slavery it was encouraged that slaves were treated fairly, as part of the human race and encouraged that they should be freed as a part of repentence to sin. Check out the following to learn more.

Answer 3

The prophet is accepted by millions of people all around the world and ishallah there will be many more in the future.Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, the fastest growing in the USA and the second largest religion in both France and the U.K.
To Judith: The Prophet Muhammed(pbuh) did not hate Jews, in fact one of his wives was Jewish. He taught us to respect Jews and Christians " The people of the Book". Under Muslim rule Jews were allowed into Jerusalem which they were not under the Christians in the time of the Crusades. In fact Muslims do not hate the Jews, they hate the Israelis. The Israelis have invaded Palestinian lands, they are trying to commit genocide against them,fellow Arabs and fellow Muslims. The restrict Muslims from going to the mosque in Jerusalem, which is considered the third most holy mosque in Islam. And the site of the Prophets "Night Visit" and where the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) ascended into heaven. This after the Muslims have always allowed the Jewish into their lands.

Answer 4

Acceptable how? Do you mean would he be a more admirable, moral person? If so, then yes. And if Thomas Jefferson had freed his slaves, we'd have even more respect for him on that point, too, instead of having to accept that he's one of history's many enigmas.

Answer 5

Possibly

Answer 6

If I tried to make a point by putting it in the form of a question, would it be more acceptable? or more irritating?
(Personally, when I see a point being made in this form, I find it irritating, a little insulting to my little intelligence instead of to the people you want to attack)

Answer 7

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

Answer 8

no. he still treated women as property, and thought he shuld be able to do whatever he wanted without consequences. And he still hated jews because isaac was chosen over ishmael. And he blamed people for what some ancient possible ancestor did

Answer 9

If he taught goodness like Jesus Christ, instead of vicious war and mass slaughter, certainly.

Answer 10

every one's prcactices depends on the culture of te region he belongs .No one particular cuture would ever e universally acceptable .it should be very much opposed to nature itslef . see the fauna and flora of each region in the world . they differe very widely according to the climate and environment of each region. the frizid zone, the temperte zone and he torrid zone , each has its own faunan and flora sns won type of people with thier own habits of food , dress etc. the acceptability of any one person of his ideology depends on the minds of the people as influenced by thier culture . thoughts differ widely from religon to religion.
For instance , let us conider soul. Chritinity and islam consider that man alone has soul and animals do not have it . the hindus belkiefe that eveything in this world has God in it . they consider that soul is the sign of life and is present in all living beings . So in the case of ominipresence of God , the Hindus widely differ from the Chritians and muslims. It is because of the belief of the Hindus in the omnipresence of the God thay are able to worship god in any form and in anything and everything thaqt pleases them .they think that god id in the atom of everything and nothing is really dead and everythoing is alive with the presence of god .god according to them ids working even in an atom of any element .If evfer he stops working , the universe will not exist . It is becauseof this philosophy that they think that god is never out of sight of man and man is also notout of sight of God .This sort of Omnipresence of God is not believed by Christiuans and Muslims.
again it is because of this philosophy that the Hindus respect all religons . chritians , Muslims , buddhists , sikhs and what not and they are able to respect every religion and every god without any animosity . but the chritians and Muslims have only disrespect to offer to other.thoughts even without understanding them.Hindus do not compel or persuade any one to accept thier thouths or convert to thier religion.by offering inducements or threat of punishment by god in hell and being judged by god imminently on some day unknown etc.The heaven and hell of the hinuds is made by people themselves by thier own action and are not the creation of the Gods.So these are the basic diffefrences between the hindu philosophy and the othere faiths.
christianity and Islam do not differ widely . they hae manythings in common as they both accept Abraham moses and jesus etc . the only doifference is that Islam has retired Jesus from the status of a messaiah and prophet Mohammed has appropriated the sole and final authority through whom alone one can go to god . Chritianity also says that it is only through Jesus only that one can approach god . Rest of the things are all almostalike as islam has heavily borrowed from Chritianity.anothere thing is that on the judgement day , jesus himself comes down to raideall the dead from the grave and all those living also for judement somewhre in the mid air and according to mohammed , the angels of god come down to raqise the deads from the grave =s and those living also for judgement in heaven i n the court whore Abraham , Moses and Jesus would also be seated as honourable members of the bench tpo witness the judgement .
So between these two religons there is vital and total disagreement in authoority and that is only cause of troble between these two.
Furthrer the pupose of one's going to heaven is diferent in different religons . In Hinsuism it is merger of the soul with the paramatmn and ceasation of birth and death cycle . In chritinity it is life in th epresence of god ,driking cool drinks and enjoying (what is notknown0 in islam it is spending one's life in the air-conditioned atmosphere of the heaven with overflowing silver cups of cool drinks in the company of dozens of young damsels with swelling breasts and enjoying for eternity. so it is simply enchanting to youngsteres . what would happen to old people and and women generally is not known.
so there are so many things that are either acceptable or unacceptable to many people in differnt regions of the world .Besides there is also the command of compulsory conversion of killing in isalm which was not being practiced after the mediveal period excet by the terrorists recently . so it is not because of the personal habits of any prophet that Islam is acceptable or in acceptable to any one . the priests of the catholic churches have proved to be phedophiles in many cases . people do not hate the religon on that score .