Cenk, don't make me defend Muhammad, don't do it! Well, I think Cenk just used hyperbole to describe how many women Muhammad had sex with. Maybe that would be clearer if he had said 40 thousand. And even if he meant the actual number: if you know Cenk, that was not an insult or ridicule, much rather envy ;). You gotta take into account, Cenk was raised Muslim... So, Muhammad was, I suspect, during his childhood, a kind of a hero, much like Superman and Batman are. Now, that I think of it: funny that Muslims have mostly just one entity to ascribe all of the different psychological functions. Westerners ("Christians") have many of them, from Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the aforementioned super heroes to the Grim Reaper. In that sense, Islam is much more elegant, but I digress.

I have criticized Muhammad in the past on multiple occasions and for a multitude of reasons, including his alledged pedophilia with Aisha. But he was mostly just a guy who was using his charisma and intelligence to become powerful and rich. You never know what anyone would become if people started believing they speak to a god. I mean, for all I know, he maybe just got tired of being able to fuck every beautiful women he pleased (because Allah told him so in the cave, wink, wink!) and he wanted the experience of fucking a child (sex with animals and homosexuality was also pretty common back then, I suppose, he's had his share of that, too).

As others have pointed out: why would it be OK back then and not now? Your god is supposedly allknowing. Funny, how (un)surprisingly shortsighted that being was. I mean, it is really ridiculous that this god supposedly told Muhammad who to fuck with but not how to conquer future problems of mankind. Use your logic and reason, and you will come to this conclusion, too: either Allah is not allknowing and allmighty or Muhammad was a fraud which makes an Allah pretty much an unknown.

by eborujion on 02/05/2010 02:48:35 AM EST