Bahrain: Moderate Muslim court sentences Shia Muslim to two years in prison for insulting Aisha

boneshack, the site is still up. It's prophetofdoom.net. not .com.

Bahrain: Moderate Muslim court sentences Shia Muslim to two years in prison for insulting Aisha

They must be moderates, because "extremists" would simply have put him to death.
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That pretty much sums it up...

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In any case, this Bahraini court is simply criminalizing Shi'ite Islam, since Shia Muslims detest Aisha, who was the fierce opponent of Ali, the founding figure of Shiism.
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Yes. This is also more orthodox Islam, where the "Prophet", his family, and his "companions" are to be considered beyond *any* sort of criticism.

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Shias make up the majority community in Sunni-ruled Bahrain, where a Shias-led uprising was brutally crushed last year.
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Blasphemy laws also often serve as convenient ways to politically oppress inconvenient people, as in this case...

Cole wrote:

Wonder who Aisha was sold to [in marriage] after Muhgammad's death - no doubt the highest bidding convert - to her husband's faith!
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Not quite, Cole—though I can see why you might think so.

Instead, Muhammed's wives were all forbidden from marrying again, probably so no one could use a connection with one of his wives as political leverage, or to claim that any resulting children should be given precedence.

So, poor Aisha, who was raped as a nine-year-old child, was prevented from marrying upon the "Prophet's" death, when she was only eighteen years old—just the age when a young woman might typically begin to think about marriage in any sort of normal society.

What a sad, inverted life Aisha was forced to live.

Bahrain: Moderate Muslim court sentences Shia Muslim to two years in prison for insulting Aisha

They must be moderates, because "extremists" would simply have put him to death.
..............................

That pretty much sums it up...

More:

In any case, this Bahraini court is simply criminalizing Shi'ite Islam, since Shia Muslims detest Aisha, who was the fierce opponent of Ali, the founding figure of Shiism.
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Yes. This is also more orthodox Islam, where the "Prophet", his family, and his "companions" are to be considered beyond *any* sort of criticism.

More:

Shias make up the majority community in Sunni-ruled Bahrain, where a Shias-led uprising was brutally crushed last year.
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Blasphemy laws also often serve as convenient ways to politically oppress inconvenient people, as in this case...

Cole wrote:

Wonder who Aisha was sold to [in marriage] after Muhgammad's death - no doubt the highest bidding convert - to her husband's faith!
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Not quite, Cole—though I can see why you might think so.

Instead, Muhammed's wives were all forbidden from marrying again, probably so no one could use a connection with one of his wives as political leverage, or to claim that any resulting children should be given precedence.

So, poor Aisha, who was raped as a nine-year-old child, was prevented from marrying upon the "Prophet's" death, when she was only eighteen years old—just the age when a young woman might typically begin to think about marriage in any sort of normal society.

What a sad, inverted life Aisha was forced to live.

CGW,

Oops on my typo (for the net site), but still no go.

I've had his site bookmarked forever on my computer, and it is not working.

Something is amiss.

Correction:

http://www.prophetofdoom.net/ doesn't work on Firefox, but is still accessible via IE.

Hmmm...

That is exactly what Ayesha said, Salah!

Allah told Mohammed that the usual rule of treating all wives equally didn't apply to him. He could swap his roster around any time he liked and sleep with his favourite wives out of turn. Ayesha responded, "How quickly Allah indulges your desires!"

Ayesha had two spots on the roster anyway; Sawda had none. The other preferred wives were Zaynab, Hind and Hafsa. Mohammed would drop the turns of Safiya, Juwayriya, Ramla, Maymuna, Mariya and Rayhana whenever they annoyed him so that he could spend the night with his favourites - who, incidentally, were not necessarily the best-looking wives. What his favourite wives had in common was that they were all strong-willed, intelligent women.

However, I think that Safwan story has gone for the sensationalist approach without much attention to the known facts. I don't believe that Ayesha committed adultery with Safwan - not because she was too virtuous but because she was far too intelligent. Ayesha would have been far too streetsmart to cross Mohammed in that way: she had witnessed him stoning an adulteress a few years earlier. She was also much too fond of her position as Mother of Believers to jeopardise it.

My take is that although Ayesha apparently did not believe Islam was true, she accepted it as an inevitable and inexorable force. Since it could not be escaped, she might as well make the best of her position near the top of the hierarchy. She also knew Islam's rules quite arbitrary - Allah would do whatever was convenient - so she did make some efforts to sway the rules to help other women. For example, there was the famous occasion when she said to Mohammed: "We need to stop wife-beating. Can you please bring down a revelation from Allah?"

That is exactly what Ayesha said, Salah!

Allah told Mohammed that the usual rule of treating all wives equally didn't apply to him. He could swap his roster around any time he liked and sleep with his favourite wives out of turn. Ayesha responded, "How quickly Allah indulges your desires!"

Ayesha had two spots on the roster anyway; Sawda had none. The other preferred wives were Zaynab, Hind and Hafsa. Mohammed would drop the turns of Safiya, Juwayriya, Ramla, Maymuna, Mariya and Rayhana whenever they annoyed him so that he could spend the night with his favourites - who, incidentally, were not necessarily the best-looking wives. What his favourite wives had in common was that they were all strong-willed, intelligent women.

However, I think that Safwan story has gone for the sensationalist approach without much attention to the known facts. I don't believe that Ayesha committed adultery with Safwan - not because she was too virtuous but because she was far too intelligent. Ayesha would have been far too streetsmart to cross Mohammed in that way: she had witnessed him stoning an adulteress a few years earlier. She was also much too fond of her position as Mother of Believers to jeopardise it.

My take is that although Ayesha apparently did not believe Islam was true, she accepted it as an inevitable and inexorable force. Since it could not be escaped, she might as well make the best of her position near the top of the hierarchy. She also knew Islam's rules quite arbitrary - Allah would do whatever was convenient - so she did make some efforts to sway the rules to help other women. For example, there was the famous occasion when she said to Mohammed: "We need to stop wife-beating. Can you please bring down a revelation from Allah?"

sly311 wrote:

Someone help me remember which famous museum displayed Mary the mother of Jesus covered in elephant dung??
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That would be the Brooklyn Museum of Art, sly311, which displayed Chris Ofili's "Holy Virgin Mary" in 1999. It featured a crudely drawn Madonna surrounded by images from blaxploitation movies and close-ups of female genitalia cut from pornographic magazines, and was—notoriously—smeared with elephant dung.

Equally infamous was Andres Serrano's 1987 "Piss Christ", a photograph of a plastic crucifix suspended in human urine.

Some Christians and others protested these works. Famously, New York Mayor Rudy Mayor Giuliani criticized Ofili's ugly piece.

But that was it. There were no calls for the "artists" to be imprisoned or harmed. There were no calls to institute Blasphemy laws.

Christianity and Islam—compare and contrast.

That is exactly what Ayesha said, Salah!

Allah told Mohammed that the usual rule of treating all wives equally didn't apply to him. He could swap his roster around any time he liked and sleep with his favourite wives out of turn. Ayesha responded, "How quickly Allah indulges your desires!"

However, I think the Safwan story that you linked has gone for the sensationalist approach without much attention to the known facts. I don't believe that Ayesha committed adultery with Safwan - not because she was too virtuous but because she was far too intelligent. Ayesha would have been far too streetsmart to cross Mohammed in that way: she had witnessed him stoning an adulteress a few years earlier. She was also much too fond of her position as Mother of Believers to jeopardise it. There is no reason to doubt her own story about the necklace, which she had in fact already lost once on that journey - it must have had an unreliable clasp.

My take is that although Ayesha apparently did not believe Islam was true, she accepted it as an inevitable and inexorable force. Since it could not be escaped, she might as well make the best of her position near the top of the hierarchy. She also knew Islam's rules quite arbitrary - Allah would do whatever was convenient - so she did make some efforts to sway the rules to help other women. For example, there was the famous occasion when she said to Mohammed: "We need to stop wife-beating. Can you please bring down a revelation from Allah?"