Charlie Hebdo And The Hypocrisy Of The West Through Salman Rushdie

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Kwadwo 10 years ago

So people should be killed for poking fun at Mohammed? This shows that Islam has issues and further explains why most terrorists are of Moslem faith.

So people should be killed for poking fun at Mohammed? This shows that Islam has issues and further explains why most terrorists are of Moslem faith.
HUMU 10 years ago

Kwadwo , i think u dont get it. No one has said people should be killed for poking prophet Mohammed,(pbuh).
what is the purpose of journalism , it is to correct a wrong. if charlie hebdo or u have something to critique about ...
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Kwadwo , i think u dont get it. No one has said people should be killed for poking prophet Mohammed,(pbuh).
what is the purpose of journalism , it is to correct a wrong. if charlie hebdo or u have something to critique about islam that will bring progress , bring it on. what did that publication seek to change or bring to humanity.what? ponder. we abhor the killings bt as moslems we think the publication was totally unnecessary.
baba 10 years ago

kwadwo or what ever,you are a very foolish person.

kwadwo or what ever,you are a very foolish person.
Twum Barimah 10 years ago

Just writing to support the killings of innocent people by Moslems. So up to now don't you see that religions are killing more than any social institution in the world. More especially Islam. Please, remove the dark glasses f ...
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Just writing to support the killings of innocent people by Moslems. So up to now don't you see that religions are killing more than any social institution in the world. More especially Islam. Please, remove the dark glasses from your eyes and the illustions on your brains and look at Nigeria, Iran, Yemen, Central Africa Rep. and even in Saudi Arabia itself......how will you sentence a normal human being to thousand strong whips and in addition, sentence the same man to ten (10) years in prison because he has allegedly insulted Islam. Tweaaa! for what reason? And Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Islam! My nephew think twice about the religion called "Islam". Allah!, Allah! God! God! you, since you were born have you ever seen this Allah before? I am over sixty years now and not a single minute I have seen God. We are only imagining and fantasizing that God is there. Please, don't use your damn imagination to kill innocent people. If you are still in school, please think rationally and stop following those illiterate ancestors and their unnecessary myths and hogwash beliefs'. It's so sad that, a catholic is becoming more catholic than the Pope. Do you know the history of the Arabic Moslems...how cruelly they treated and killed thousands of negroes and blacks in Africa...and took them as slaves. Up to now Blacks are in Morocco, Mauritania, Djibouti, S. Arabia, etc. being treated as damn slaves. What about the Westerners? Do you know how many Africans perished because of sheer greed, wickedness ....and in the name of Allah or God. And mind you, during those days the Bible and the Quran were existing. And who made you an Arab? Please, stop that inferiority complex....I lived and worked with some of these Arabs, and they don't have even an iota of respect for the Black race. And they are the worst hypocrites in the world!Stop writing nauseating and disgusting articles about religions!
syncopa 10 years ago

dear writer, you yourself wrote: dan brown was CALLED NAMES and CRITICIZED. No one incited others to MURDER him. Can you see that "small" difference? God has a thick skin and can even take care of himself when he is really pr ...
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dear writer, you yourself wrote: dan brown was CALLED NAMES and CRITICIZED. No one incited others to MURDER him. Can you see that "small" difference? God has a thick skin and can even take care of himself when he is really provoked, ok?
Teacher 10 years ago

Inusah, your piece is really ridiculous. In the first place, YOU DID NOT READ SATANIC VERSES. You are just following the muslim crowd in its condemnation of the book.

Go and read the book - all of it and not just the one ...
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Inusah, your piece is really ridiculous. In the first place, YOU DID NOT READ SATANIC VERSES. You are just following the muslim crowd in its condemnation of the book.

Go and read the book - all of it and not just the one chapter that talked of the Satanic Verses. The book did NOT do a thing like "tarnishing and maligning the glorious image of Prophet Mohammed". The whole book is a great literary satire that questions some of the grounds of the Islamic faith. The Satanic Verses that Rushdie used played on a tale that is common knowledge in Islamic history - those verses that the prophet said may have come from the devil. Rushdie did not ridicule the prophet but questioned the basis of his revealed knowledge - a legitimate exercise.

The Muslims were peeved just because he dared mention those verses "at all". All the muslims who died in the conflagration later on, like you, had not read the book.

Salman Rushdie condemned the Da Vinci Code for its literary shortcomings not because it dared question the Christian faith. Salman Rushdie is a literary stylist and read the book on that level. All the reviews you cited as condemning the book did so on its LITERARY MERITS, not because it dared give a strange life to Jesus Christ. All the reviewers said the book was entertaining but it was not GREAT LITERATURE. Indeed, they say the same things about Stephen King's novels too.

It was only some Catholic clergy in the Vatican and some extreme right wing envangelists in the US who condemned Da Vinci Code on religious grounds. Even then, they never called for the author to be killed! Mel Gibson was also never threatened with death. Martin Scorsese, whose film, The Last Temptation of Christ annoyed many Christians, is still walking a free man. Nobody pronounced a death sentence on him.

We have been hearing this hypocrisy argument for a long time even before the Charlie Hebdo murders. You ask: whose freedom of speech? And you say it's the west's freedom of speech. Of course! Whose freedom of speech do you want the west to promote? Do you want the west to promote oriental freedom of speech? Or Islamic freedom of speech? or Chinese freedom of speech? No, they will proclaim Western freedom of speech. It is just in the same way that in muslim countries, they also proclaim their types of freedom of speech. They don't give much space to western type freedom of speech either.

Inusah, WE ARE ALL HYPOCRITES. We are all fighting for our personal interests. The Jews are also fighting for their personal interests and have contrived cleverly to get the west to align their interests with theirs - without fighting a bullet or killing anybody!

Muslims believe their religion will eventually conquer the world and everybody will become a Muslim. The West don't believe in that and they have fought this for millennia. If you, as a Muslim, stand up and accuse the West of hypocrisy, there are many grounds they too will stand up and accuse Muslims of hypocrisy.

Yes, we are all hypocrites, I say.
masala 10 years ago

Muslims believe they have The right to take life when they are offended. They believe they have the right to take life but others do no have the right to free speech.
A man speaks against Muhammad and they declare fatwa.
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Muslims believe they have The right to take life when they are offended. They believe they have the right to take life but others do no have the right to free speech.
A man speaks against Muhammad and they declare fatwa.
A man speaks against Christ and the west express their opinions of his opinion through freedom of speech
HUMU 10 years ago

what do u mean when u say muslims think they have the right to take life. its sad u guys dont learn. i wont say christians or jews cos i dont think u really read the article objectively. u read with a closed mind. anyway u ha ...
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what do u mean when u say muslims think they have the right to take life. its sad u guys dont learn. i wont say christians or jews cos i dont think u really read the article objectively. u read with a closed mind. anyway u hav a right but before u attack moslems, learn what the religion is all about. even in your own house , u cannot control everyone how much more a religion with over 1.7 billion followers. learn nd be objective.
Kwame 10 years ago

Religious pluralism and accommodating the views and religions of others have been the cause of feuds between Zionist and other religions since the time of Moses. Christianity, Judaism and Islam that all propagate the existenc ...
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Religious pluralism and accommodating the views and religions of others have been the cause of feuds between Zionist and other religions since the time of Moses. Christianity, Judaism and Islam that all propagate the existence of one God are in themselves despotic religions, and represent eastern despotism in religion as opposed to the plural gods in Greece and elsewhere.
The world is a path that we all cut through the forest of the unknown and everyone will make some mistake and even commit absurdities whiles cutting the path. Religion and illusion is at the same time a garment that people wear, and every garment will have people who will praise it and those who will mock it. Thus we must respect he actions and words of those who praise and mock us whiles we cut the path because your violent response to those actions and in actions are like you been a person who runs out of the bath naked to chase a mad man who has taken your towel.
The west is full of cynicism that it talk like a snake with double tongue about the same issue. But was it not the west that supported this none accommodating of the views of others, even up to the socioeconomic level? Do we forget how Pakistan came into being. The French support for the Islamic in Algeria and NATO involvement in Afghanistan.
Ibrahim 10 years ago

Every religion or group has its own codified rules and regulation and that should be the bench mark for assesing the religion or group. This is common sense. So i find it very unfortunate when 'intellectuals' on this platform ...
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Every religion or group has its own codified rules and regulation and that should be the bench mark for assesing the religion or group. This is common sense. So i find it very unfortunate when 'intellectuals' on this platform judge Islam by the behaviour of some members (extremist) without reading anything on the principles of the religion. It's really sardonic and lugubrious

To those blindly attacking Mr. Inusah , i dont tink you really read his article objectively. Never in his article did he suport the killings. He just couldnt fathom the double standard of western leaders as far as freedom of is concern. Freedom of speech has a limit. Dont you tink they should ve condemed the actions of charlie watever as dey did for the killings ?

Inusah good work done keep it up.
Asiwome 10 years ago

Let us try responding to free speech with free speech if necessary, and show your maturity by offering accurate information. If I learned anything in the West it is this, "sticks and stone will hurt my bones, but words may ne ...
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Let us try responding to free speech with free speech if necessary, and show your maturity by offering accurate information. If I learned anything in the West it is this, "sticks and stone will hurt my bones, but words may never harm me." We humans are always subject to slander and libel, and the best thing we can do for ourselves is to develop though skin and correct misconception if possible.
yanks 10 years ago

killed. how many people were killed about because of the da vinci code?

killed. how many people were killed about because of the da vinci code?
PK 10 years ago

Inusah, Christiandom, and much of the West, may have been irked by Dan Brown's work. But he lives. Those angered by his revisionism responded by airing their disapproving views in much the same way Dan did. That, my friend, ...
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Inusah, Christiandom, and much of the West, may have been irked by Dan Brown's work. But he lives. Those angered by his revisionism responded by airing their disapproving views in much the same way Dan did. That, my friend, is the difference.

Any human who kills in the name of a supreme god or divine prophet is downright stupid. If they are truly divine and will sit in judgement over us, then they need us to fight for the honour of their names.

And, please, don't tell me about he crusades unless you want to admit that all the jihad some Muslims are waging against innocent people is equally stupid. Yes, Christendom is guilty of some really stupid and hellish stuff. But all those are seen as part of its dark ages.

Does Islam have in itself the capacity for such self-criticism and therefore progressive evolution? The Quoran provides room for such progress. But the Imams, fearful of loss of power, won't allow that to happen. This is the problem with Islam as opposed to the other major religions of the world.
Abdullah 10 years ago

PK

Christian killings i.e. Michael Servetus was killed or murdered by John Calvin and other Christians because of his rejection of Christian Trinity. You call that dark ages of Christianity? Then the killings by Muslim ext ...
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PK

Christian killings i.e. Michael Servetus was killed or murdered by John Calvin and other Christians because of his rejection of Christian Trinity. You call that dark ages of Christianity? Then the killings by Muslim extremists is also a Muslim dark ages too. That is the double standards by the west and you. Charlie Hebdo cannot publish any thing that will be termed anti Semitism or against Israel or against Jews, but will do publish any thing against 1.7 billion Muslims and you call it freedom of speech but not double standards?

Christian terrorism i.e. killing those who will not join Christianity has to be fought and won by liberals and pagans in the west. The freedom of religion in the west was won by defeating the intolerant Christianity while Islam allows freedom of religion in Spain(Al Andalus) and the Holy Land under Islamic control without any fight.

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Teacher 10 years ago

What do you mean by double standards? Do you mean that the Christian west should promote Muslim values in the West? Does Muslim Arab promote Christian values in Muslim lands?

Islam did not really allow freedom of religion ...
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What do you mean by double standards? Do you mean that the Christian west should promote Muslim values in the West? Does Muslim Arab promote Christian values in Muslim lands?

Islam did not really allow freedom of religion in Al Andalus. They came there as conquerors. They were outnumbered by the people they conquered and it was difficult for them to force them all to convert to Islam. So they allowed Christianity and Judaism in Spain under very strict conditions. The Christians and Jews were third class citizens. They paid huge taxes and were restricted in their worship. They didn't have the same rights as the Muslims unless they converted to Islam. You call that freedom of religion?

The freedom of religion that Muslims enjoy today in the West - USA, France, UK, Sweden, Spain, Holland, etc is faaaaar greater than the freedom of religion enjoyed by Christians and Jews in Al Andalus(ia). It is still greater than the freedom of religion enjoyed today by Christians in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan or even Egypt which was a flourishing Christian country before Islam was founded and used force to convert Egypt. Talk about double standards.

Christians also are guilty of religious killings in the past. But they don't do that now. They have learnt better. Can we say that of Islam today?

The problem, Abdullah, is everybody thinking their religion is the best. But there is no proof that Islam, Judaism, Christianity or any other faith based religion is the best. No proof at all.

I live in Europe and I also don't like the discrimination I see here - whether religious or racial. But I will never support the killing of people who offend one religion, no matter the religion, and I will never argue that my religion is better than other religions.

1.7 billion Muslims? But there are even more Christians than that. But that still doesn't mean Christianity is the best religion because no religion is.
Abdullah 10 years ago

Teacher

Firstly, I will respond by saying that the main topic is that, the west has double standard when it comes to freedom of speech and other things such as discrimination

Why? The Charlie magazine can not publish an ...
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Teacher

Firstly, I will respond by saying that the main topic is that, the west has double standard when it comes to freedom of speech and other things such as discrimination

Why? The Charlie magazine can not publish anything that will be anti semitic, holocaust denial, or against Israel.

Is Israel God? when nothing can be said about it? Is holocaust denial not a freedom of speech? Robert Spencer has written a book to deny the existence of Prophet Mohammed recently and they are tonnes of books saying bad things against our prophet and the west will not say anything about that and call it freedom of speech. That is the big double standards by the west.

You said;
They were outnumbered by the people they conquered and it was difficult for them to force them all to convert to Islam

I say;
what do you mean by conquer? If you conquer someone, it means you have power, strength and authority over the one you conquered. So according to your assertion Muslim has power over Jews and Christians of Al Andalus in Arabic not Andalusia in other languages. They could still force convert them If they wish, but they did not because Islam forbids force conversion to Islam which is clearly stated in the Quran.

Later, Christian conquered back Al Andalus and we all read what happened i.e. force conversion, killings etc. So when the Muslims were running to North Africa, the Jews went with them(Muslims). That is why Morocco, a Muslim country was once in the world with more Jewish populations.

To be continued.
Abdullah 10 years ago

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Besides the so called Egypt, middle east and all Muslim dominated countries has no concrete force conversion to Islam by Muslims and that is why you have indigenous Arab Christians in Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Kuwait, M ...
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Besides the so called Egypt, middle east and all Muslim dominated countries has no concrete force conversion to Islam by Muslims and that is why you have indigenous Arab Christians in Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia, Malaysia etc. and all Muslim lands.

Do you have indigenous English Muslim in England during Richard the Lion Heart? or during King James? or Martin Luther? The Christian world was once rule by Christianity and no religion is allowed.

It is after 1800s when the liberals and pagans among the west fought the Christians and won the battle i.e. the north and the southern USA before the freedom of speech was established in the constitution and laws.

Before that, the Catholics will persecute the Protestants and vice versa and the Mormons will be persecuted by both.

Freedom of religion in the west is not by Christians but by liberals and pagans among the west.

You said;
Christians also are guilty of religious killings in the past. But they don't do that now. They have learnt better. Can we say that of Islam today?

I say;
Christians do kill today. There is law and other in the west, that is why you do not see much Christian killings. The west went to war in the Muslim majority country like Iraq and made Iraq a failed state. That is what brought isis. Christians of Iraq were the first Christians from the time of Jesus and nothing happened to them under different Muslims rule, even under Saddam Hussein nothing happened to them. Now the west conquered that part of the world and left it to rot, and isis will emerge to be the dark age of Muslims to borrow it from PK

My dear Teacher, your Europeans and the west will enact law to criminalize anti Semitism, holocaust denial and anti Israel stance, but will give a green light to deny 1.7 billion Muslims their right to see their prophet respected.

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Kofi 10 years ago

You have been swallowing Arab cultural vanity for far too long.Look,you cannot slander or libel the dead.So one can print a cartoon about Your Mohammed without you going out to kill him.Are you an Arab? Only an African idiot ...
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You have been swallowing Arab cultural vanity for far too long.Look,you cannot slander or libel the dead.So one can print a cartoon about Your Mohammed without you going out to kill him.Are you an Arab? Only an African idiot will kill his fellow African in Mali,Nigeria,Niger,etc for the sake of a dead Arab businessman making a grand claim for his "bogus revelation".There were no indigenous English,French, etc Muslims because "Your Arab Allah" did not speak to them in their own language.When the Arab soldiers tried as they did in North Africa all the way to you in northern Ghana,they were soundly beaten by Martel and Sobieski. Mansa Musa spent all his fortune in Egypt and Arabia as a Muslim convert...Now look at Arabia and Dubai beautifully developed by the west for them and look at Mali and Niger? Do they "Arabs" give a damn about the poverty in these countries? NO. Do me a favour? travel to these countries and see how they will treat you.
Teacher 10 years ago

Thanks for your response, Abdullah

Sorry I cannot take on all the points.

The Muslims who conquered Spain were not so righteous as you want us to believe. They conquered Spain through better military strategy in which c ...
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Thanks for your response, Abdullah

Sorry I cannot take on all the points.

The Muslims who conquered Spain were not so righteous as you want us to believe. They conquered Spain through better military strategy in which case it didn't matter that the conquered were more than the conquerors. The freedom of religion that was allowed for non-Muslims was not as benign as you want us to believe.

Now this thing about double standards of freedom of expression. There is really no absolute freedom of expression. It is always someone's freedom of expression. If the same standards are not being applied to the Muslims of Europe, it is because it is France's freedom of expression that is being applied. To call it double standards is, itself, a hypocritical statement. No country, even the Muslim ones, allows freedom of expression on the opponents' terms.

Now, I am not saying that it is good for France to censure abuse of Jews but not do the same for Muslims. I am saying that they do this for self-interest. Note too, that, there is a racial element in this too, not just religious. France, as a culture and nation, feels closer to the Jews (who they also discriminated against in the past and still do so mildly now) than to Arabs.

It is really not true to say that Europeans give the green light to deny Muslims their right to see their prophet respected. No European government actively encourages discrimination against Muslims. Perhaps the laws are not enforced as sharply as against other forms of discrimination but it is really not a free for all to be disrespectful to Muslims.

Note, too, that, the Jews fought hard to stop discrimination against them. The Muslims in Europe are also in the process of doing that. But it cannot be achieved by such acts as the Hebdo murders which is why every Muslim, while pointing hands at their poor treatment in Europe, should also condemn those murders.

Yes, Christians have killed in the past especially in the name of their religion. They killed a lot. But that is no more than Muslims too have done. Note the millenia of differences between Shia and Sunni and the blood that people of the same religion shed in the name of that religion. And, yes, Christians are killing today in millions and destroying other countries but these are because of geo-political and economic interests. You cannot say that they are doing this because of their Christian religion?

Finally, this story about Islam not coercing others to convert to the faith is a very tall lie that is not supported by the historical facts. Islam would NEVER have spread so much around the world without the SWORD. No way!

The bottom line, dear Abdullah, is that Islam is a faith based religion like Judaism and Christianity. There is no proof that any of these three religions is the true one given by God. We are not even sure if God exists. We can only BELIEVE that He/She exists. We don't know whether angels exist and if one of them gave God's actual words to Muhammad 1400 years ago. We can only BELIEVE that something like that happened.

Why should we be killing each other over such a situation?

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Abdullah 10 years ago

You said;
Finally, this story about Islam not coercing others to convert to the faith is a very tall lie that is not supported by the historical facts. Islam would NEVER have spread so much around the world without the SWORD ...
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You said;
Finally, this story about Islam not coercing others to convert to the faith is a very tall lie that is not supported by the historical facts. Islam would NEVER have spread so much around the world without the SWORD. No way!

I say;
You did not provide us with any proof that, Islam was spread by the sword. You are just repeating what the evangelical Christians keep dishing out without proof.

Proof of Islam is not spread by sword is simple, visit any Muslim majority country such as Palestine, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait Morocco etc. and you will still see indigenous people there who are Christians from centuries to centuries without converting to Islam. This shows Islam did not force convert anyone but people were attracted to it because of truth and it is from God.

If freedom of speech and expression is for some people but not others then it is not freedom of speech but freedom to discriminate. So the west must bow their head in shame for promoting freedom to discriminate.

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shaggy 10 years ago

It's only a good things that sells itself. If your prophet is a model of excellence you wouldn't have to defend him when some idiot insults him. Because he carry so much baggage, which touches on the sensibilities of modern c ...
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It's only a good things that sells itself. If your prophet is a model of excellence you wouldn't have to defend him when some idiot insults him. Because he carry so much baggage, which touches on the sensibilities of modern civility that is why you guys get irate when people expose the underbelly of your faith.
Abdullah 10 years ago

What are the baggage?

What are the baggage?
shaggy 10 years ago

How do you defend your prophet marrying a six year old girl and consummating the marriage when she was nine years old. Would you give your nine year old in marriage?
How do you defend Sura 9:5.
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How do you defend your prophet marrying a six year old girl and consummating the marriage when she was nine years old. Would you give your nine year old in marriage?
How do you defend Sura 9:5.
And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. I have just given you two if you defend it I will add more.
Abdullah 10 years ago

shaggy

Give me evidence where the Jews and Christians at that time of our prophet blamed him for marrying a young woman. You cannot because it was normal to marry a young woman at that time. If the Jews and the Christians ...
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shaggy

Give me evidence where the Jews and Christians at that time of our prophet blamed him for marrying a young woman. You cannot because it was normal to marry a young woman at that time. If the Jews and the Christians who blamed our prophet in various reasons did not blame his marriage of a young woman, then that is normal at that time and you cannot use todays modern standard to judge someone thousands of years ago who was not blamed at that time because it was normal for all at that time. Putting the age of marriage to 16,17,18,19 etc. was a very recent in the 1950s. It means before then, no body can hold anyone responsible for marrying a young woman.

There is no record to prove our prophet marriage to his younger wife harmed her in any way, but it was rather a good romantic marriage with children and the wife became a good teacher and a leader.

So many people including Christians like younger women today, but they do not marry them, instead they take them as mistresses and having sex with them without marriage.

Do not bring sura 9:5 as it is every Christian attack on Islam. the same sura says "stop attacking them if the stop attacking you" which you omit. It is about defence.

In the Bible, they are more verses of killings including innocent babies and children. Is it logical to attach those barbaric action to Jesus? because he is the God of the Bible?

1 Samuel 15:3
New International Version
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'"

Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Shaggy 10 years ago

You are not serious. I expect you to defend your faith to me without reference to any other faith. The fact is, I don't have any use for them. I said initially about modern sensibilities. Because I wouldn't marry my daughter ...
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You are not serious. I expect you to defend your faith to me without reference to any other faith. The fact is, I don't have any use for them. I said initially about modern sensibilities. Because I wouldn't marry my daughter even at the age 18. And I asked you whether you will give your daughter away at the age of 9 and you chose not to answer me.You wouldn't. Which makes me conclude that it is primitive faith. I am living in the 21st century why should I follow some ignorant primitive tribe that lived in the 7th century.
Maazi Okoro 10 years ago

Your ignorance is suffocation Shaggy. Read history very well. The youngest woman to give birth in history was 5 years, 7 months, 17 days old. Her name is Lina Medina from Peru in the 1950s. 6,7,8 and 9 year old have given bir ...
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Your ignorance is suffocation Shaggy. Read history very well. The youngest woman to give birth in history was 5 years, 7 months, 17 days old. Her name is Lina Medina from Peru in the 1950s. 6,7,8 and 9 year old have given birth and in the not too distant past. Therefore you have no issue brother. You are just making noise and not making sense.
Otsibu Darko 10 years ago

Just as much as your comments are nauseating, have you read the said articles very well (seems you deliberately avoided it) the said girls were well over developed than their normal age compared to other girls of the same age ...
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Just as much as your comments are nauseating, have you read the said articles very well (seems you deliberately avoided it) the said girls were well over developed than their normal age compared to other girls of the same age in the case of Muhammed it does not state so otherwise it would have been mentioned
not so?
Kofi 10 years ago

The baggage is the Arab story.The book,which in its entirety, is food for no thought.

The baggage is the Arab story.The book,which in its entirety, is food for no thought.
no name 10 years ago

u couldnt v said it better but i dont think the writer is encouraging what happened but he wants some people to see how hypocrite others can be when it comes to religion.

u couldnt v said it better but i dont think the writer is encouraging what happened but he wants some people to see how hypocrite others can be when it comes to religion.
Kausara Toure 10 years ago

Wallahi you have said it all, your piece is awesome! Double standards my foot. They west fear the rate at which Islam is growing more espespecially in America and Europe. They fear Islam will rule the world again. Big ups Y ...
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Wallahi you have said it all, your piece is awesome! Double standards my foot. They west fear the rate at which Islam is growing more espespecially in America and Europe. They fear Islam will rule the world again. Big ups Yunus Mohammad
Kofi 10 years ago

Travel to the Gulf countries and see real hypocrisy as to how you will be treated as a stupid black African.I mean live and work with them.Until then dream about your non-existent virgins.

Travel to the Gulf countries and see real hypocrisy as to how you will be treated as a stupid black African.I mean live and work with them.Until then dream about your non-existent virgins.
Hamza Hajj Ayub 10 years ago

Well said brother.. Hypocrisy is their DNA. The west will never be in peace with us until we become their puppets.

Well said brother.. Hypocrisy is their DNA. The west will never be in peace with us until we become their puppets.
John Koenig 10 years ago

I'm missing the parallel here. Free speach allows for expression of an idea as well as critisism of the idea. But no one commanded that Dan Brown be killed. No one went to Dan Brown's house and killed all its occupants

I'm missing the parallel here. Free speach allows for expression of an idea as well as critisism of the idea. But no one commanded that Dan Brown be killed. No one went to Dan Brown's house and killed all its occupants
Abdullah 10 years ago

Because there is law and order in the west. Dan Brown would have been killed by Christians before the west was liberated by the secularists and pagans from the intolerant Christianity.

John Calvin killed Michael Servetus b ...
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Because there is law and order in the west. Dan Brown would have been killed by Christians before the west was liberated by the secularists and pagans from the intolerant Christianity.

John Calvin killed Michael Servetus because he wrote against Christian Trinity. Protestants, Catholics and Mormons killed each other until secularism took over by force. Who is fighting isis and other extremist Muslisms? Muslims are fighting their extremists with the help of the west and Christian extremists must also be fought by Christians and preaching of killings of anyone in church must stop.

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KAST 10 years ago

Its important to note that Arab is not a racial classification; an Arab is almost like an American in that people classified as Arab today could be Caucasian (white people), Asiatic or even Arabized Africans. In the beginnin ...
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Its important to note that Arab is not a racial classification; an Arab is almost like an American in that people classified as Arab today could be Caucasian (white people), Asiatic or even Arabized Africans. In the beginning there was some level of mutual respect between the Blacks and the more lighter skinned Arabs. However, as Islam and the demand for enslaved Blacks grew, so did racism toward Africans.

As casual association with Black skin and slave began to be established, racist attitudes towards Blacks began to manifest in Arabic language and literature. The word for slave - Abid - became a colloquialism for African. Other words such as Haratin express social inferiority of Africans.
reader 10 years ago

Salman Rusdie's books are well written while Dan Brown's books are not, no comparison there.

Salman Rusdie's books are well written while Dan Brown's books are not, no comparison there.
Peter Dogbe 10 years ago

Freedom of association protect your right to believe in whatever shiitt you want to.

It also gives other people the same amount of right to not to believe in your shiitt.

Islam faith is your choice and other people's f ...
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Freedom of association protect your right to believe in whatever shiitt you want to.

It also gives other people the same amount of right to not to believe in your shiitt.

Islam faith is your choice and other people's faith is that your Islamic thing is bullshit.

Nobody owes you and your Islamic faith any
respect.

Learn to respect other people's right to not respect your Mohammed.

Is the Islamic god so weak that it can't stand little ridicule by non-believers????

Then that makes Islam a weak-arsed faith!!!
Abdullah 10 years ago

People are arrested in the western countries when they ridicule Jewish people and their religion. The west call it hate crime and anti Semitism law is there to prevent any ones right not to respect Jewish people and their rel ...
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People are arrested in the western countries when they ridicule Jewish people and their religion. The west call it hate crime and anti Semitism law is there to prevent any ones right not to respect Jewish people and their religion. The Charlie Magazine cannot draw swastika or paint swastika on a synagogue. That is pure double standards by the west.

Thanks
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Passion of Christ - How many people do you know were arrested (or killed) for that stupid movie?

And so, you support death. for as many as are killed, for drawing the cartoon, or sitting in a room with other who drew, rig ...
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Passion of Christ - How many people do you know were arrested (or killed) for that stupid movie?

And so, you support death. for as many as are killed, for drawing the cartoon, or sitting in a room with other who drew, right?
yaayi 10 years ago

Well written my brother, you have said it all. May the Almighty Allah continue to shower you with His infinite wisdom. Stay Blessed!

Well written my brother, you have said it all. May the Almighty Allah continue to shower you with His infinite wisdom. Stay Blessed!

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