Islam: Is Muhammad A Child Molester, A Womanizer, And A Homosexual?! - B-3/3

Continued from Part A-3/3

In my previous article, I touched on Ms. Kidd's baseless aggressive article on Islam, Muslims and their Prophet, Muhammad. 

In article A-3/3, I discussed her alleged point that Muhammad was a child molester as he was engagd to  a young girl, named Aishah, when she was 9 years old, and consumated his marriage to her when she was 12 years old. 

I also mentioned that age of consent has always been different from a country to another, 
and what is considered legal marriage in Spain, 
can be considered illigal in the USA, 
and what is considered illigal marriage right now in the USA, 
was liggal in the USA a few centruies ago.

I've also touched slightly on the Christian Bible to show that it contained shocking verses that so violently call for killing. I did not mention these verses in an attack against Christianity. My personal attitude towards any religion; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, etc. is neutral. I critisized and defended all of them, and in the same breath I defended them whenever I reasoned with someone.

I always searthed for the truth, and my mentioning of those Biblical verses was nothing but stating that the Christian Bible contained them. Therefore, I personally believe that followers of the three major religions should abstain from attacking each other, but reason, not argue, for finding a common truth that may thread the three religions on the same divine string.

Now, let me discuss Ms. Kidd allegation that Muhammed was a womenizer, due to the fact that he married many women.

SHOWDOWN: THE HOLY BIBLE vs. THE QURAN

By: Devvy Kidd

December 25, 2006

Before Muhammad declaired himself to be the messanger of God, he was a young man living in Mecca, nicknamed "Al-Ameen/the trustworthy one", by the people of Mecca, and he never worshipped any of the images (statues, idols" that filled the Kabah (temple) at his time. He also never participated in any of his pool activites, like going to a tavern for drinking, or getting himself engaged in any of those sexual activities which are currently abundant in the American society. Therefore, due to his modesty, trutworthfulness and well- reputed manarism, a rich Meccan woman named Khadijah, who was double his age, hired him to tend on her flocks. 

Later Khadijah allowed him to trade for her upnorth of the Arabian peninsula. 

As a merchant, he was so honest in his transactions that Khadijah offered herself to him in marriage. Khadijah gave him a son, whom he named after the patriarch, Ibrahim (Abraham), and who died at a very young age. At the time, Muhammad contemplated at cave "Hira') in one of the mountains about Mecca. There he had his first encounter with the "Archangle Gabriel". The encounter having a deep impact on Muhammad, he wnt home shaking and sweating. Asked by his wife why he was shevering, he told her the story of his encounter. Khadijah consulted with one of her relatives, named "Waraqa Ibn Nawfal" who was Christian. Waraqah confirmed to Khadijah that her husband was visited by "Al-Namoos Al-Akbar/Archangle Gabriel), and also told her that Muhammad had been chosen for a message that will cause him lots of troubles. Khadijah supported Muhammed all the way in carrying out his mission and then died. After the death of Khadijah, Muhammad had a heavy load of trouble by the Meccan people, including some of his own tribe and some of his uncles.

Meccan people who nicknamed Muhammad "Al-Ameen" were against Muhammad message which critisized their worship to the idols.

Arabs from everywhere in the Arabian peninsula performed pelgrimage to Mecca once year to offer sacrifices to their idols that represented them in Kabah, and also to trade. Hence, Mecca was a thriving trading centre at least once a year. Meccans, specially the wealthy families considered Muhammad a great danger to their interest. So one is right to deduct that their hatred was not directed towards "the trustful one" as they called him, but towards his message which was harmful to their own interest.

The relative main point of the story is to show the normal marriage life Muhammad had, and that he married a woman far more older than he was.

Later, Muhammad married again, and again. I am not going to give individual details of his marriages, but I am going to explain why did Muhammad marry many times: 1. he married a widows whose husbands died in the battlefield or were husbandless and without someone to support them, 2. He married "Hafsah", the daughter of his close friend "Omar Ibn Al-Khattab", whose little beauty was an obstacle for her for men to ask for her hand in marriage.  Omar offered his daughter in marriage to Muhammad, 3.  he married a woman to tighten the connection between him and her clan that reverted to Islam, 4. He married young "Aishah" at the request of his closest friend "Abu-Bakr", and 5. All of Muhammad's wives were not young at the time he married them, except for "Aishah"

The main point is that there was legitmate reasons for Muhammad's marriages.

Someone may say, Yes there were reasons all right, but not love. I would then say that:  

1.  Muhammed may have married those women for reasons other than love, but he did not harboure hatred towards them, but all respect. Love might have grown during marriage, 

2. Muhammad was so fair towards his wives that he equally divided  the nights (sleeping with his wives) amongst his wives. It is known that he loved Aishah more than his other wives, and it is also reported that he said, "God, I've equally divided what I own and control. But I couln't do the same as regards what I cannot control [meaning heart affairs]. And it is also reported that whenever Muhammad was asked who was the closest wife to his heart, he always mentioned Khadijah who died long time ago. Aishah her self was jelous of this fact.

Added to the above, Muhammad married between 9 or 12 times in his whole life, BUT he never had more than FOUR wives at the same time. He never broke the divine rule revealed to him that Muslims were allowed to marry upto four women, which is also critisized by orientalists because of their ignorance of what the Qir'an stated in this regard (Qur'an states that if a Muslim is afraid that he cannot be equally fair with his wife (which is a sin), he shold marry only one wife. Thus, the rule for marriage in Islam is to only one women. Therefore, marrying more than one woman is not the rule, but the exception and if certain circumstances arise. Those circumstance are discussed in details in the Islamic jurisprodence, and they are very serious circumstances. Some Muslims have abused the rule, however, Islam as a religion is not to blame.

Someone may say, all right, Muhammad may have had only four woman at the same time, but still he could have divorced a wife to replace her with another wife, so still he was a womanizer.

My answer is a big fat NO, for the following reasons:  

1. There were reasons behind Muhammad's divorce to his wives. Such reasons are stated in the Islamic history and Biography of the life of the prophet (Sirah Nabawiyyah). anybody can read and critisize their logic and authinticities if he/she wants,  

2.If Muhammad was a lusty man who had a big appetite for sex, he could have married as many as he wanted, and could have had, on top of that, hundreds of concubines and slave. King David and King Soloman, who are considered by Muslims to be prophets, had hundreds of concubines who were sexually accessable to them. Muhammad did not have this previllage, and  

3. As regards marriage to more than one woman, it was not a novice phenomenon during Muhammad's time. Men married more than one woman all the time. Aancient Sumarians and babylonians, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and monarchies in Europe, and Jews and Christian in the old times married more than one wife.

So please, Ms. Kiddieee, stop spewing your baseless hatred, and give Muslims and Islam a break.

To be continued...Part C-3/3