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As the days go by our hard won freedoms and liberty are slowly being eroded. In Europe a crushing blow has been made to freedom of speech with a European Court of Human Rights upholding a conviction for saying that the person known as Muhammad ten centuries ago was technically a paedophile based on information in historical texts. The statement was made in reference to Muhammad's marriage to a six year old child name called Aisha. The court found that “Presenting objects of religious worship in a provocative way capable of hurting the feelings of the followers of that religion could be conceived as a malicious violation of the spirit of tolerance, which was one of the bases of a democratic society.”. In giving its ruling that "Muhammad was not a worthy subject of worship" the court has additionally demonstrated a complete misunderstanding as to the religion involved which worships "Allah", a word meaning 'God', not 'Muhammad' who claimed to be a prophet of this god. Freedom of speech is dying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:04PM (4 children)
More to the point, the defendant claimed that Humammad was a pedophile *without* providing andy contextual details.
"person X is a pedophile" requires some qualification
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @02:36PM
They should learn how to search the internet for information. Here is a start.
Sahih Muslim, Book 8, chapter 10, verse 3309-3311
Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234
Sunan Nasa'i: Bukhari vol.5 book 58, no.236 p.153 & no. 234 p.152
Sunan Ibni Majah, Vol. 3, Book 9, Hadith 1877
Biography of Muhammad, Ibn Ishak/Ibn Hisham, translated by A Guillaume, page 792
AL-TABAR, Hadith IX:131
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Responses_to_Apologetics_-_Muhammad_and_Aisha [wikiislam.net]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 13 2018, @10:35PM (1 child)
No, it absolutely does not when it is a fact.
"Ted Bundy was a serial killer." That is a cold, hard fact and stands alone. Nobody is required to give it any context.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @12:20PM
<sarcasm>Who?
Is this the guy who founded Bundy Rum? He was a killer? With what? A glass bottle?</sarcasm>
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 15 2018, @07:27PM
No, just a bullet between the eyes.
Word is though, his child bride was a twenty-something widow and declared to be a child over a hundred years later on the grounds of it wouldn't do to have their prophet getting someone's sloppy seconds.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.