no comparison

Submitted by Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah (Australia), Feb 7, 2015 at 23:09

From what I've read, Muhammed didn't consummate his marriage until the girl was 9 or 10 -- not six. He was married to her for at least three years before going in to her, probably to raise up grandchildren for Abu Bakr.

How does that supposed "sin" compare with the sins of David? The ancestor of Messiah committed adultery with his friend's wife, then conspired to have him killed.

I 'm not sure I know what to say. Maybe you've moved too far into the mountains maybe? To my mind, on the list of morally reprehensible behaviour - an affair between two consenting adults is WAY below sleeping night after night with a six (or nine+) year old girl. Especially when the initiator of that behaviour is a 53 YEAR OLD MAN - already with numerous other wives. Plundering and killing weren't enough to do it for him.

Is he the "moral compass" we should follow?

David did not start his own religion.

"Muhammed's sin was not pedophilia, or any other outwardly despicable act."

So everyone's supposed to be OK with the 800+ Quraysh tribe killings or the numerous acts of murder and torture?

"In fact, there are millions of non-pedophiles walking the planet today, doing this very thing."

Other people are free to disbelieve or believe whatever they like.

But how many of them start up their own religion with themselves at the top of the hierarchy - or condone anti-Semitism , tell their followers they are the 'best of peoples' etc I guess you could say Hitler did just that.

The 'religion' this madman started has had and continuous to have an extremely negative effect on humanity. The teachings of this ridiculous cult have no place in the West (or anywhere in the world for that matter.)

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