…to marry girls under 16. The Prophet did it, so why can’t Muslim men? Afterall, they are only trying to live out the sunnah, or the way the Prophet lived. I do not make these claims, but yet another Muslim clown/cleric (the two are becoming synonymous) has claimed:
the marriage of nine-year-old girls was allowed by Islam as the Prophet Muhammad consummated the marriage to one of his wives when she was that age.
He derided criticism of his claims as “part of a secular attack against the Islamic nation and its theologians”.
Sheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al-Maghraoui has come under attack from the ulema in the region of Rabat, Morocco, for his statements and views. But this issue does not rest its hands there; rather it gazes across toward yet another Islamic country.
In Indonesia:
a wealthy Muslim cleric who married a 12-year-old girl and is reportedly planning to wed others aged seven and nine, a spokesperson said on Tuesday [...]
Widiyanto has been backed by some high-profile Muslim figures, including Hilman Rosyad Syihab, the deputy head of the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), according to the Detikcom online news service.
Islam allows for marriage regardless of whether a girl has reached sexual maturity, Syihab was quoted as saying.
“It is not a problem under Islamic law,” Syihab said.
What we can at least be assured about is our knowledge of it. We can glad in that we at least know these things are occurring, spurring our anger into action. The fact that other bodies of clerics are decrying these practices; that governments and police are investigating the violation, in Jacarta, of the “2002 child protection law for forcing or trading a child into sex and for marrying below the legal minimum age of 16.”
Such acts are abhorrent, yet fall under swift reappraisal from behind faith. “What would Muhammad do?” seems to be swan song for human sensibility. Down it goes, echoing into the chasm where reason would normally dwell.
But aside from this so-called “fringe” acts (no moderate, TRUE Muslim would do this would be the usual claims), we must wonder at the outright instigation toward this act. What else other than religion could justify such retardation of values? Where else would someone find himself in a position to say “God says I can” except behind faith, an eternal book that is the word of god, and being a leader of the faith. This is not some random Muslim, but a religious leader. Yet, why shouldn’t he make such claims? Yet again, I am not surprised, but I am shocked. And it proves yet again that with faith, anything is justified.
The old maxim of Ivan Karamazov is flipped on its head. It is not “Without god, anything is permitted”, it is rather “with god, anything is permitted”. Be it slavery, child abuse, child marriage, enforced sexual relationships with children or non-consenting women, murder, – you can find many places in the holy books to justify it. Afterall, I’m not stating this as something new or from “thin air”, I’m merely quoting this from what the clerics, priests and leaders say. They’ve told us why and how they are able to justify it. We must make a stand to show faith as not a virtue, as irrational and a plague to our species.
We can so easily toss it out and find respect and faith and happiness, behind all this silliness. We are better than this! We are worth it. It takes faith to not believe our worth; It takes reason to realise it.
I am, however, pleased that we are all, regardless of religion or faith, able to view this as abhorrent and stand against it. Let this be a mark next to faith’s name and a tick next to reason’s.
Conservapedia on Obama
Thursday, October 16th, 2008We all know that you can search for about anything left of the centre or non-religious on Conservapedia and come up with gut-wrenchingly hilarious results. But with that laughter comes a loss of faith in humanity’s ability to reason clearly. Usually I just brush off the pain that comes with reading utter stupidity, but this one was too much.
Whoever wrote this article must have been jumping at the gun to get it off their chest that they think Obama is a Muslim. It comes in the first paragraph. Usually on a Wiki negative remarks like this are left for the criticism section, and then there’ll be something about how it’s only speculation. Not Conservapedia. They’ll throw all honesty and objectivity out the door to accomplish their goal – in this case to slander Obama.
At least they try to back up their claim that Obama is a Muslim with this list of weak evidence:
As if perpetuating the myth that Obama is a dangerous Muslim isn’t enough, this Conservapedia article goes on to attack another enemy of contemporary conservatism, elitism.
It says alot for the status of bigotry, racism, and stupidity of some people in the United States that people would actively contribute filth to such a widely read Wiki. But hey, a spades a spade – it isn’t called Conservapedia for nothing. Anything they don’t like they consider anti-American, and they’ll twist facts any which way to fit their perspective. Just look at the first picture of Obama in this article:
Stupid Conservatives, you think that the reason Obama isn’t holding his hand over his heart for the pledge of allegiance is because he’s not American.
Wrong answer.
The correct answer is….
Muslim’s don’t have hearts. Jeeeezzzzzzz. Get it right Consveratives.
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