We look like our gods….said the Catholic priest. If your god is a thug you will be a thug… What came to mind was the book, A GOD WHO HATES by Wafa Sultan. Published in 2009 by St. Martin’s Press, New York, N.Y.
If your god hates, you will hate.
Ms. Sultan, a medical doctor, writes about how Muslim women are treated by men — with hate — because of the Muslim god they worship.
She tells the story of her grandmother who was Ms. Sultan’s ideal. Her grandmother had 3 sons and 2 daughters by the time she was in her early 20’s. Small pox killed the boys. Girls are worth little. The grandfather, head of the village, forced his wife within a week of their death, to solicit the hand of a young woman in marriage. For the next 15 years until her death, the grandmother served the second wife and her husband and the ten boys the second wife bore him. She accepted the humiliation.
As a 4th year medical student she witnessed how male Muslim gynecologists took advantage of sick situations: Muslim families would bring their daughters to get “fixed”. The young girls were sexually abused and pregnant because of male relatives. The male Muslim gynecologist demanded huge sums of money to take care of the problem — “fix” the pregnancy and broken hymen.
Muhammad is Muslim men’s ideal. The Prophet contracted his marriage to Aish when she was six years old and he was fifty. The marriage was consummated when the girl was age nine. Wives of Muhammad, by Bint al-Shati describes the day for Aisha in her own words. What kind of a “prophet” marries a 9 year old?
Quote from A GOD WHO HATES: “Of all Muhammad’s marriages his marriage to Safia was the most horrific…Safia was a Jewish woman whose husband,father and brother Muhammad had killed when raiding the Khaybar tribe. She was taken prisoner by one of Muhammad’s men. He…married Safia the same day he killed her husband, brother and father… ”
One tribe was always raiding another. The tribes lived always in fear of another raid. The dessert environment was difficult. Are these excuses? Sounds like the Old Testament which is filled with violence.
What a difference between the Prophet and Jesus. Jesus did not marry nor mistreat women.
