(July 18, 2011 at 9:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Actually Islam began as the rest of the Abrahamic faiths. As an oral tradition. It was not a whole book or scroll composed by the Prophet Muhammad, but there is a debate as to whether or not Muhammad did write down certain sura so as to remember them rightly. And there is also the contention afforded by some Muslims that accuse Muhammad of having changed scripture.Quote:While the Koran says a husband is entitled to sex anytime he wants it
Naturally....because the thing was written by horny guys who have choice between wives who hate them or camels who hate them. Hasn't got anything to do with fucking Allah.
Quote:Transmission from 612-632? – Muhammad never ordered the Koran to be written down, and when first asked to do so by Abu Bakr, Zaid ibn Thabit refused, arguing that he had no right to do so if Muhammad hadn't thought it necessary. (The wonderful memory of the Arabs has been overstated. For example, if we compare versions of the elegy 'Itabah' in different tribes we see significant variations.) Some verse were apparently written down, but we're not told which ones and we have no idea how they were preserved. What happened to the scraps after codification? They couldn't have been just chucked away – what sacrilege! Source
Muhammad was a merchant and was presumed to be literate in order to conduct his business. However, Muhammad was also a rapist, a pedophile, a murderer and a thief. Women during Muhammad's time in Arabia had hardly any rights. They were considered property and easily disposed of at the whim of their men. Even during hard times, when food was scarce, it wasn't unusual for girl children to be buried alive by their families because what food there was was given to the male children, who would continue the seed of their father.
Islam claims both men and women are equal before Allah. And yet, as we learn from video's describing proper etiquette in beating one's wife, the opposite is true. One would be hard pressed to find a sura in the Koran that describes the etiquette for a wife to beat her husband. So in matters of the man's will, it trumps that of the woman. Especially when it comes to sex.
And it wasn't a group of men responsible for the Koran. Muhammad claimed to have been given it through recitation by Allah, after Muhammad arrived in Heaven having been borne there on the back of a flying horse. He then returned to earth and later began to teach what he'd been told to share to his people, as to god's will for them. So while the Koran was compiled in what can be said to have been a collaborative effort, Muhammad was the original author on the terrestrial plain, at the behest of Allah the source and dictator of the scripture, in the ethereal.
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