Next time you hear some holier-than-thou Muslim lecturing to the inferior Kafirs of Dar al Harb on the supposed superior morality of the Islamic lifestyle, ask them about so-called "pleasure marriages" that are officially sanctioned by Islam. The 1400 year-old practice of muta'a - "ecstasy" in Arabic - is as old as Islam itself. It was permitted by the [ed: alleged] prophet Mohammed as a way to ensure a respectable means of income for widowed women (and of course pleasure for men). Pleasure marriages were outlawed under Saddam Hussein but have begun to flourish again.
The contracts lasting anywhere from one hour to 10 years, generally stipulate that the man will pay the women in exchange for sexual intimacy. Now some Iraqi clerics and women's rights activists are complaining that the contracts have been less a mechanism for taking care of widows than an outlet for male sexual desires.
Read the rest at Pedestrian Infidel.
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As I stated, its "one" reason. Fact is, in their day to interactions, Sunnis and Shias don't say to each other: "Hey listen, you asshole, I think Ali should have been the first Caliph." Instead they point out stuff like, "you temporary marriage doing, anal-sex having shia!" or "you shia-killing, oppressive monkey!"
For the record, much of Shia' anguish comes not from the first Caliph thing, but from the killing of Hussain at Kerbala at the hands of the Umayyad pretender-Caliph Yazid.
As far as fighting over the past: what the hell does that even mean? When Serbs and Croats and Bosnians were going at it, weren't they fighting over the past? When Denmark Vesey rebelled against slaverholders, wasn't that fighting over the past? I love it when people make cliche statements that don't really mean anything and then apply them to Muslims as if just in this one instance a cliche will become a meaningful contribution. Guess what, it doesn't.
Having said that I oppose temporary marriage and polygamy.
Threesomes on the other hand...
Islam is the only major world "religion" that officially sanctions prostitution. That's the upshot of all this, period. Prostitution has been around forever, and will always be around...I'm cynical enough to realize that. Having said that, at least the other major faiths all officially agree that prostitution is a bad, bad thing.
You can try to pass it all off on the Shia types, but that doesn't absolve Islam from the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Islam devalues women in many different ways, and this is one of many tools in the Islamic 'gender apartheid' toolbox.
I blame Mohammed and Islam, which is precisely where the blame belongs.
A while back CUANAS had an article and link to an interesting video related to this and other forms of deviant sexuality . . .
As a matter of fact, I have to accept that such hadith are true b/c Muslims believe in them, however, that doesn't mean that I have to accept that they should be part of Islam.
Unlike you, who chose to leave Islam -- more power to you -- I choose to remain within it and 'fix' it. Obviously we concur on the fact that there are significant problems with the execution of the faith (pun intended), but our methods are quite disparate. I have no interest in 're-verting' you, nor do I think that such a title as an 'apostate' ought exist within islamic law, but i'm curious, what do you practice now, if anything? Did your family convert alongwith?
Finally as for the 'pretender-caliph' comment, i was referring to how a shia would view Yazid.
Avenging Apostate,
Would you like to be a contributor to IBA as well?
If so, give me your email address here, or get mine from John Sobieski, and I will send you an invitation.
Glad to hear it.
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