Muhammads 13 wives
Islam teaches that women are inherenly inferior to men. While some imams disagree
with this assessment, it is difficult to change what the Quarn says. Surah 2:228
states in part, "Women shall have rights similar to the rights against them,
according to what is equitable but men have a degree over them.
According to hadith 3.826, Muhammad said that women are geneticially and legally inferior: "Muhammad asked some women, "Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of a man?' The woman said, 'Yes.' He Muhammad reiterated this same point in hadith 2.541, speaking again to a group of women: "I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you."
Even though the Quran gives men a limit of four wives, Muhammad received special
dispensation directly from Allah to marry as many as he wished. (how convienant).
According to recorded in history that amounted to 13 wives and concubines, one of
whom he married at the age of six and had sexual relations with at age nine. Aishah
was the daughter of Abu Bakr As Siddiq, who was a close friend of the prophet and
in charge of his books.
Throughout history, even in cultures oppressive to women, sexual relations with someone as young as nine years old have seldom been acceptable. No woman that young has the physiological, psychological, or biological maturity to willfully consent to a mutual act of love. Another of his wives Zaynab Bint Jahsh, had been Muhammad's daughter-in-law. When his adopted son Zaid saw that Muhammad wanted his wife, he divorced her so that his father could have her.
Muhammad gave his own 12 year old daughter, Fatima, in marriage to his cousin Ali bin Abu Taleb.
One of the most troubling admonitions in the Quran allows marital punishment. The man can be physically abusive or withhold sexual favors from a wife whose conduct is sanctioned: "As to those women on whose part you fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, beat them" (surah 4:34)
According to Islam a woman is by nature unclean.
Jesus elevated women. He did not consider their touch to be unclean. Women are,
in fact given speical note in the New Testament record.They were the last to leave
the site of Jesus' crucifixion and the first to testify to his resurrection. Women
surrounded Jesus, not for sexual purposes, but for spiritual ones.
Women are equal to men before God, yet men and woman have complementary roles. Thus, submission to a husband's servant leadership reflects Christ's desire to do the will of the Father (Phil. 2:1-16. In Ephesians 5:21-33 stresses that the husband is to love and serve the wife with the same devotion Christ showed in loving the Church. If a woman reflects the passage, entrusting her life to her husband's care, then the husband must also reflect Christ in going further. Jesus did not simply dedicate His life to the church-He died for it. The reponsibilty for care that is the husband's is a far greater burden then the Christian wife's duties within submission. If the wife sees her husband trulyi show servant leadership, she is more likely to be willing to submit to his godly care. Christianity asserts that a husband can never, ever subject hsi wife to any sort of abue. An abusive husband violates the veryk foundation upon which a wife's role of complementary submission is based.