Comments on: islam: Religion of Misogynists, Pedophiles and Barbarians

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:08:48 +0000

Child marriage is the ultimate misogyny! But Mohammed committed it and his best friend went along with it…giving his six-year-old daughter in marriage! How can Moslem women not react to this with revulsion as you (and all civilized people) do?

Where are the millions of feminists protesting the millions of child marriages taking place in the Moslem world? Feminists, step up to the plate! Defend the helpless! A six-year-old recently applied for a divorce in Yemen. She said she wants to be a lawyer when she grows up ‘to help people’. I hope she does.

By: Angie D.

Angie D. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:38:13 +0000

I have to say that I wasn’t able to watch the whole 3+ minutes of the video because the guy just kept repeating himself and rationalizing Mohammed’s pedophilia. I know a BS argument when I hear one, and that one was pure BS! It’s OK because we follow what Mohammed says. I have an 8-yr-old granddaughter and it IS NOT OKAY FOR SOMEONE TO HAVE SEX WITH HER WHEN SHE TURNS NINE!!!

By: Angie Jackson

Angie Jackson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:05:53 +0000

Ugh, I was replying to your mutual discussion, but agreeing with you You know “religion bad, and yet not all religious are like the worst parts of their religions”. (I like to think of it in pious, condescending tones as “Love the religious, hate the religion” – like “Love the sinner hate the sin” lol)

By: Angie Jackson

Angie Jackson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:59:50 +0000

Very likely true. But the question was “what have they done?” and my answer as “algebra”. I don’t credit faith for knowledge really.

By: Widgetas

Widgetas — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:36:06 +0000

(are you talking to me or Hornyhobo? You and I are in agreement, I think )

By: Widgetas

Widgetas — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:33:25 +0000

I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed that comment and responded before. I think I must have done, but dismissed the man as a bigot.

By: Widgetas

Widgetas — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:30:56 +0000

Angie, although I agree that the people living in the areas that were devout Muslim made a significant contributions to science and maths at that time, I think it is very much a mistake to credit these advances to their faith in Islam.
Consider science that has come about in the western Christian world in the last century. These things did not take place *because* the scientists may or may not have been Christian. It is actually highly likely that these men and women were not devout believers, simply because the scientific mind is by and large not a theist mind. Also there is much documentary evidence for scientific advances being denounced by various ‘churches’ down the centuries.

Islam penalises apostasy with death. The men (and women?) who were clever and learned enough to develop things such as algebra were very likely also clever enough to realise that if they left the faith, or expressed disdain for it, then they would be subject to rather harsh penalties.
Also I believe that the Koran states that it is the only book that is needed (am I correct? I read this somewhere…) so surely such ideas of mathematics and science are contained within its pages? If so one wonders how Leibniz and Newton came up with Calculus, and not those Arab Muslims.