Sam Z, I believe you are not a war mongler and want to kill Christians and Jews. in fact i know there are a lot of people like yourself. I am not discussing Muslims, I am discussing Muhammad.
Muhammad sleeping with 9 year old has never been a Contraversy. It is demonstrated in numerous hadiths. There is no controversy in that. There has never been until now that some of the Muslims have come in contact with western values and are ashamed to admit that their Prophet could commit such an indecency.
They deny the facts and have made it a controversy. The majority of Muslims still have no problem with the young age of the Aisha and they ridicule these Modern day “moral relativists” who are twisting the truth to please the morality of the westerners.
Some Muslims deny it and this is the subject of a controversy not agreed by all the Muslims. Contraversy. Hmmm..
Intelligent people are not affected by controversies. They look at the facts and are not swayed by hearsays.
Feeble-minded people become confused and do not know which way to turn.
Only a few years ago Sheikh Baaz in Saudi Arabia issued a fatwa that any one who said the Earth is round is Kafir.
Obviously this did not go very far but he started a controversy.
So what is your opinion about the shape of the Earth? Would you stay out of it because it is a controversial issue?
Obviously we all cringe when we think of pedophilia and acknowledge that it is a shameful act of immorality.
The question is, if sleeping with a nine year old child was not deemed bad and therefore was not considered immoral, was it ok?
Not everything that a society accepts as moral is right. Having sex with a minor may not have been immoral for Arabs 1400 years ago, but it is now, as it was then, unethical.
Moralities are defined by circumstances, but ethics transcend time and space. They are rooted in logic.
IF Muhammad was a messenger of God or even an honorable man, as he made his Allah to proclaim him thus, he should have known that what he was doing was dishonorable and unethical.
And it is rue that very occasionally wealthy old men married very young girls. We release they acted on what they knew at the time.
We do not condemn people for they did not know better.
What they did was the norm. But we do condemn those cultures.
However, we cannot forgive with the same amnesty those who claimed to be the standard of rectitude amongst mankind, ie muhammad.
If average people could not distinguish the right from the wrong, the messengers of God, if they were from God, should have known better. Do you not agree?
If their claim was true, if their knowledge was divine, if they were inspired, they should not have followed the tradition of their people but should have set the example.
Muhammad followed the morality of his people and that morality was ethically wrong.
He claimed to be the best human and the last messenger of God. According to him God has said to people all he wanted to say in the Quran and his religion is complete.
There is no more guidance to come and his examples and teachings are all we need to know and follow for eternity. Yet what he did and said, under the light of modern values prove to be very wrong.
Thanks to Dr Ali Sina.