A candidate campaigning for the Graz city council in Austria says it is time that Islam was "thrown back ... behind the Mediterranean," and alleges Muhammad wrote the Koran in "epileptic fits." Susanne Winter, campaigning for the Graz city council, called the Prophet Muhammad a child molester. Election campaigns, it would seem, are uncomfortable times for immigrants to be in Europe. First, it was Ronald Koch, the conservative politician in the German state of Hesse who turned up the rhetoric and began railing against "criminal young foreigners" in his country. Now, an Austrian politician has followed suit. Susanne Winter, a right-wing politician with the FPÖ party running for a city council seat in the city of Graz, blasted Muslims on Sunday, saying that "in today's system" the Prophet Muhammad would be considered a "child molester," apparently referring to his marriage to a six-year-old child. She also said that it is time for Islam to be "thrown back where it came from, behind the Mediterranean." Not yet finished, she also claimed that Muhammad wrote the Koran in "epileptic fits." In an interview with the daily Österreich published on Monday, Winter continued the onslaught saying that child abuse is "widespread" among Muslim men and that Graz is facing a "tsunami of Muslim immigration." In 20 or 30 years, she warned, half of Austria's population would be Muslim.
A candidate campaigning for the Graz city council in Austria says it is time that Islam was "thrown back ... behind the Mediterranean," and alleges Muhammad wrote the Koran in "epileptic fits."
Susanne Winter, campaigning for the Graz city council, called the Prophet Muhammad a child molester. Election campaigns, it would seem, are uncomfortable times for immigrants to be in Europe. First, it was Ronald Koch, the conservative politician in the German state of Hesse who turned up the rhetoric and began railing against "criminal young foreigners" in his country. Now, an Austrian politician has followed suit.
Susanne Winter, a right-wing politician with the FPÖ party running for a city council seat in the city of Graz, blasted Muslims on Sunday, saying that "in today's system" the Prophet Muhammad would be considered a "child molester," apparently referring to his marriage to a six-year-old child. She also said that it is time for Islam to be "thrown back where it came from, behind the Mediterranean." Not yet finished, she also claimed that Muhammad wrote the Koran in "epileptic fits."
In an interview with the daily Österreich published on Monday, Winter continued the onslaught saying that child abuse is "widespread" among Muslim men and that Graz is facing a "tsunami of Muslim immigration." In 20 or 30 years, she warned, half of Austria's population would be Muslim.
But Arnold has, unwittingly, already taken precautions. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
But quite why it is necessary to bring this up in such an offensive manner, particularly coupled with the slur that he wrote the Qu'ran during epileptic fits (huh ??), is entirely beyond me. It's one of those things that you are entitled to think and even to question, but to raise it in this manner is going to be ultimately counter-productive. keep to the Fen Causeway
It seems that the allegation that he began a sexual relationship with Aisha when she was 9 years old is correct.
i just googled this, and i am stunned. i had thought he had married Aisha as a formality because she was an orphan or something. but the consensus does seem that she was indeed nine when the marriage was consummated.
even more disturbing to me is this practice of mufa'khathat --
"literally translated means "placing between the thighs" which means placing the male member between the thighs of a child)"
-- which was apparently explicitly condoned by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in his Tahrir-ol-vasyleh:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Supreme Leader of Iran, the Shia Grand Ayatollah, 1979-89 said in his official statements: "A man can quench his sexual lusts with a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. Sodomizing the baby is halal (allowed by sharia). If the man penetrates and damages the child, then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister. It is better for a girl to marry when her menstruation starts, and at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven." Khomeini, "Tahrirolvasyleh" fourth volume, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990 (Yahoo! Answers: Muslims, what is mufa'khathat? I heard it translated to "thighing"? I wanted to be sure?)
"A man can quench his sexual lusts with a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. Sodomizing the baby is halal (allowed by sharia). If the man penetrates and damages the child, then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister. It is better for a girl to marry when her menstruation starts, and at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven."
Khomeini, "Tahrirolvasyleh" fourth volume, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990
(Yahoo! Answers: Muslims, what is mufa'khathat? I heard it translated to "thighing"? I wanted to be sure?)
This seems too outrageous to be true. And coming from Yahoo! Answers, I am withholding judgement. Can anyone shed some light here? Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
How long is it since you'd have been laughed off the face of the planet for suggesting it was criminal for an older man to have sex with a sixteen year old? Or a fourteen year old for that matter?
you are the media you consume.
What verifiable historical sources are there on Muhammad (or for that matter any figure from that far back in history?).
I'm afraid that, in the absence of an Islamic scholar on the site to give us a different view, everything points to the fact that he did. keep to the Fen Causeway
