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So it seems that Muhammad was indeed a pedophile

Sigh... Is that what you understood from what you read there?

You should have seen enough from the exchange of hostilities in your quoted passage to understand that the issue will not be easy to "settle". Since Islam-bashers use it as an inflammatory meme, there are inflammatory replies from the other side.

And what makes you refer to the Qur'an? As I noted above, the oral tradition legends about Aisha and her marriage are set down in the hadith.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 03:30:12 AM EST
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Yes, it seems it's from the hadiths. And it seems the shia and the sunni cannot really agree either.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 04:07:37 AM EST
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Religious texts need to be understood as at least partially propaganda. When looking at the bible what was once positive propaganda has within today's moral understandings become negative propaganda. The same is true with national myths.

For example, Santiago (St. James) was believed to have come forth from Clavijo on his white charger, and to have slain 40,000? moors. Well, this was long after his death, and now days we call what he is credited with a war crime. (The difficulty of finding numbers on the Internet testify to the changing morality as well.)

While religious texts may be useful from a historical or sociological perspective - they should not be assumed to be neutral, let alone error free.

We are for Justice and Mercy, and Truth and Peace, and true Freedom. Edward Burroughs 1659

by edwin on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 10:36:34 AM EST
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Supposedly dictated by god.

I guess what you said qualifies as heresy... ;p


Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jan 17th, 2008 at 11:43:28 AM EST
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