Like with Islam, they defend their prophets marriage and sex with a child of 9...is religion a valid exception or are my feelings of disgust for Muhammad based on an inherent morality in us all.
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Read the Quran!\n\nI respect your right to have a view  but please learn the real facts before you make such offensive comments.  Why to you want to hurt us muslims we are people. It upsets us when you say such things about us. Would you like it if I started calling all Americans sadistic perverts. Like linddy england (abu ghraib) is\n\nWhen you have read the Quran I would be happy to debate with you :-)\n\n\nProphet Muhammed (pbuh) never had sex with Aisiha at 9. \nThey had wedding for politcal reasons as was the case at time, and marriage comsummated much later.\nAisiha was loved and respected by The prophet. And Aisha became one of most respected scholars. She was not abused women.
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I'm afraid my opinion of Islam isn't good, at all, Sir.\n\nAnd your quotation from the Koran hasn't helped improve it any better; I'm sorry to say, Sir.\n\nThe "strong handle" is perhaps a typo, Sir; because it really makes no sense to a Native English Speaker, like myself.  Besides the whole "quotation" is rather confusingly worded, Sir.\n\nNow, since you ask, Sir, may I enlighten you on why I  have the low opinion of Islam?\n\nFirst of all, Sir, the life of Mohammad is not exactly an inspiring one.\n\nHe took 12 wives, at least a couple of whom were more than 20 years senior to him when he was in his 20's, and they just happened to be rich old women,  and then took a 9 year old child for a wife, when he was "Prophet"  and in his 50's.\n\nThe words gigolo and pedophile come to mind, Sir.\n\nThe History of Violence, Intolerance and being somewhat deranged behavior of it's members are other factors that cause me to be repulsed by it, Sir.\n\nThere are many more reasons, but I think these suffice, Sir.\n\nDo have a nice day.
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The truth is that Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a religion of hate, of terror and of war. A thorough study of the Quran and Hadith reveal an Islam that is not being presented honestly by the Muslim propagandists and is not known to the majority of the people of the world including Muslim themselves. Islam, as it is taught in the Quran (Koran) and lived by Muhammad, as is reported in the Hadith (Biography and sayings of the Prophet) is a religion of Injustice, Intolerance, Cruelty, Absurdities, discrimination, Contradictions, and blind faith. Islam advocates killing the non-Muslims and abuses the human rights of minorities and women. Islam expanded mostly by Jihad (holy war) and forced its way by killing the non-believers. In Islam apostasy is the biggest crime punishable by death. Muhammad was a terrorist himself therefore terrorism cannot be separated from the true Islam. Islam means submission and it demands from its followers to submit their wills and thoughts to Muhammad and his imaginary Allah. Allah is a deity that despises reason, democracy, freedom of thought and freedom of expression.\n\nI reject Islam a) because of Muhammad’s lack of moral and ethical fortitude and b) because of the absurdities in the Quran.\n\na) Muhammad lived a less than holy life. His lust for sex, his affairs with his maids and slave girls, his pedophilic relationship at age 54 with Aisha, a 9-year-old child, his killing sprees, his massacre and the genocide of the Jews, his slave making and trading, his assassination of his opponents, his raids and lootings of the merchant caravans and unarmed villagers, his burning of trees, his destroying the water wells, his cursing and invoking evil on his enemies, his revenge on his captured prisoners of war, his torturing of his captives to for greed and his hallucinations such as believing of having sex with his wives when he actually did not, disqualify him as a sane person let alone a messenger of God.\n\nb) An unbiased study of the Quran shows that far from being a “miracle”, that book is a hoax. The Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. Could possibly the author of this Universe be as ignorant as it appears to be in the Quran?
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There is no Earthly central authority for the Islamic Faith, such as the Pope is for Catholics, or the like.\n\nAlso, there are numerous violent sects that claim allegiance to the Islamic Faith, although they have nothing to do with the True Faith of Islam. (They're sorta like a "Christian" cult that sacrifices babies, or whatever, as part of their "Biblical Interpretation.")\n\nAll leading adherents to the True Faith of Islam HAVE condemned the mass killings of innocent people. But look at all the Catholics who ignore THEIR leader AND Jesus who go around blissfully killing babies (abortion) or committing adultery (divorce and remarriage,) etc.\n\nReligious leaders have done their part, but all men still have their free will to use for good or evil.
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I think it is the definition if irony. The Muslums are upset over the depiction of their prophet with a bomb for a turban and they then commit terrorist acts. They are provint the cartoon to be accurate. Have you seen any other religion act like this? Look at all of the bad depictions of Jesus there are. Do christians go around threatening violence?
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The problem with Muslims is that you hold to the word of one prophet and ignore the rest. Great prophets in the Old Testament prophesied many times of the coming King and how He would suffer to heal His people. I judge a prophet by his message. That message has to be consistent with all the previous messages from God. Mohammad's message is out of sync. It doesn't teach that blood must be shed to gain forgiveness of sin as both the Old and the New Testaments do. You deny Christ's position. Out of His own mouth He claimed to be the I AM God that spoke to Moses from the burning bush. Adam and Eve Died the day they sinned. They lost the presence of God in their lives and physical death followed. Now God is restored in the Lives of the Christian Gos walk with us in our daily walk before Him. We are alive Spiritually again. We still carry with us the body of sin that is subject to physical death. When it is gone our spirits go to the Father who created them and so we are ever with the Lord. I don't know as you can understand the two deaths physical and spiritual because I don't know your teaching that well. All I need to know about Islam is that you deny that Jesus is God. That tells me that your religion is closer to a cult than it is to God...   Jim
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Well I think its a shame what both religions are saying about each other i have argued with so called Christians about calling Muhammad a pedophile many times here on answers...It is debatable the age of Aisha and the culture and times would not have made him a pedophile. It gets ugly while i was trying to defend Muslims they were posting sites that absolutely lied about God and Christians and the Bible so it cuts both ways. As a Christian I am more offended by folks calling themselves Christians and acting inappropriately...but such is the way of the world I guess.
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I'm reluctant to say all Muslims are guilty. I wonder though about where their heart is. We hear talk about how moderate Muslims reject extremism, violence in the name of religion, etc. But I've never seen much from moderate Muslims when it comes to stopping extremism. How many times have you seen Muslims drag one of their own out of a mosque, by the hair of their head, for preaching hate? I have never seen it. How many times have you heard of moderate Muslims expressing outright hatred for those who would kill innocents? I have not heard it. I suspect, with absolutely no proof, that many moderate Muslims wish for their more radical brothers in Islam to win the war on terror.
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Yes, yes and yes! I'm a Muslim who believes in tolerance, love and peace. Yet, I keep getting stereotyped as a terrorist because of the horrible, insane actions of some fanatics who misinterpret, or misuse, the teachings of my beloved religion. I hate them and everthing they stand for; It breaks my heart to see them commit these evil acts against innocent people in the name of Islam, which has always taught me to respect other people's beliefs and how to live and let live. It's not fair to label me and my religion based on what these monsters do. It's just not fair.
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Before 9/11, I've never heard of a follower of Islam who hated Christians. Therefore, I think it's just a select few. And, if you like a place, why should your decision be dictated because the main religion is not your own?
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Dear SellCar,\n\ni really hope you got a good reason behind those questions, anyways ill answer your question.\n\ni read some strange answer above ;(, so i hope i can make it clear \n\n\nOfcourse every woman hates polygamy, God created woman to hate anyone that shares her love, but in Holy Quran it says and made it clear for men that they should not take more than one wife unless they have their reasons, like for example some wives dont have the ability to be pregnant, its no body's fault of course but as a man everyone likes to be a father, therefore he can marry another wife.\n\nanother reason for men might be that some men need more than one woman and he is not getting enough, therefore he could make sin with other woman which is bad for Islam teachings and social life and reputation, or he can marry another woman that will give him more pleasure and in the same time he is not making any sin.\n\nMoreover, if you now make a study you will find that number of men is much more less than number of women in the world, years ago in Germany they where surprised to find that 1 man is being borned for every 4 women!!\n\nfor a reason that no one knows except God he knew that this will be the case, therefore he authorised to have more than wife, or else we will have more than half of the woman not married for the rest of their lives.(speaking about Islam societies only, western countires men and woman stays with no marriage usually for the rest of their lives)\n\nGod authorised polygamy for more better reasons ofcourse, but i only know these.\n\nand of course there is no polygamy for men in Islam ;), because at that stage we cant know who is son or daughter of whom.\n\nand for a man being with a legal woman is ofcourse much better than being with a new woman everyday or month ;(\n\nIslam makes a great social life by its teachings.\n\n============\n\ni really dont know the exact age of Muhammad(PBUH) when he married Aisha, but i think in 40's.\n\nGod didnt authorise for muslims to marry more than four wives and in a certain conditions, but for messenger of God (Muhmmad PBUH) he authorised for him to marry more, i do know one reason now for this is that Mohammad(PBUH) wanted to make links with the arab tribes across arabia to spread Islam, and as a messenger of God marrying one of the women in a tribe it was a very good impression to make for those tribes, which later he made friendship with them and they followed Islam teachings, therefore marrying more than one wife helped the spread of Islam at that time, and it made for Islam a good base in Arabia.
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Yes.  Islamic fundamentalist's brain wash children and teach them to hate... it is no surprise then, that they grow up to perpetuate that hate.
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Its like saying all men are rapists.  All men want to dominate and hurt women.  All women are whores.  You just can't generalise like that.\n\nAnd actually not all terrorists are Islamic, there are more than enough terrorists destroying lives in Africa and South America and Ireland to mention a few places.  And these are predominantly christian lands.\n\nDon't be so prejudiced against people, because there are some nice Moslem people out there who are horrified by what the extremists are doing in the name of their faith.  It must be scary times for those who are peaceful to see themselves grouped together with the mass murderers and are subjected to force of ill-will from non-moslems who feel it is their right to punish moslems.\n\nIf a priest abuses a boy, we don't lynch mob all priests, we understand that he is a bad seed.  Similarly we aught not to categorise all moslems as the same.
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I am a muslim woman.  I have two children.  I teach them both to treat others as they would like to be treated, to apologize if they accidentally harm someone or insult somebody, and to have manners.  I don't know a single muslim with these insane plans in mind.  In other countries, probably, but I know of none here.
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That is why I firmly state that Islam is not a tolerant religion and is the cause for conflicts throughout the world. It is a religion that doesn't consider human rights at all. I'm not saying I'm against the Muslims, just that they have to make their religion flexible to be able to be in peace with others.
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Because Allah gave you the false prophet Muhammed, who married little Aisha when she was 6 & he was 54...then when Aisha was 9 yrs old he scratched her private area to make her bleed,and proclaimed that she was a grown woman having her menstrual cycle so it was ok to have sex with her. He also murdered hundreds of Jews, later he accepted a dinner from the widow of one of the murdered Jews and she poisoned him.The Quran & hadiths make sex with animals, killing infidels, incest, jihad all acceptable.
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I wish I could not respond to this one, but I'm not going to be able to keep my mouth closed.\n\nIf your information is correct and Muhammed had a 9 year old wife, then that simply illistrates how society has changed over time.  While we see this as wrong now, people's life spans were not as long in the past and marrying when a woman was capable of having children was not uncommon.\n\nYou can wipe your ass with the quran if you want, as much as you could wipe it with the bible or the book of mormon, just be prepared for someone to want to kick your ass for it.\n\nAnd finally, Muslim women are just as attractive as any other culture's women.\n\nJeeze, what, exacly, is wrong with you?  You can't honestly expect anybody to believe that their are people this misguided out there.