Posted on 10/04/2004 6:11:52 AM PDT by robowombat
Muslim outrage at prophet slur A POLITICAL researcher working for high-profile UK Independence Party Euro MP Robert Kilroy-Silk has been accused of inflaming racial hatred by claiming the Prophet Mohammed was a paedophile and castigating Islam as a false religion.
Outspoken solicitor Tony Bennett, of Chippingfield, Old Harlow, insists his views, which were published in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend, are based on historical fact.
His comments have been condemned by the Muslim Council of Britain but Mr Bennett said this week he had received a lot of support.
“These are things that should be brought into the public domain and talked about,” he told the Star.
Mr Bennett, who was sacked from his role as assistant to local UKIP MEP Jeffrey Titford in 2001 for writing disparaging remarks about a former colleague, carried out his research following the 9/11 attacks. He concluded Mohammed had between 16-22 wives and had sexual relations with a child bride.
He criticised those in the Muslim community who “cry Islamophobia” whenever such comments are made. And when asked his opinion on Islam, he said: “It’s a false religion. They deny that Christ was the son of God. The Koran itself talks about Christianity being a false religion.”
Yet Mr Bennett also condemned racial stereotyping, insisting: “There’s no hatred here. Many Muslims in this country are hard-working people who just want to get on and I have no problem with them.
“I am dealing with historical facts that are in Islamic textbooks.”
And he pointed to the fact that he assisted Asian postal worker Mahmood Siddiqui, who was awarded £130,000 compensation after claiming he was subjected to racial abuse while working at the Royal Mail sorting office in Harlow, as proof that he was not anti-Muslim.
Inayat Bunglawala, Essex spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, described Mr Bennett as an idiot.
“Those kinds of remarks, saying the Prophet was a paedophile, are utterly unacceptable,” he said. “The Prophet is held in huge respect by Muslims the world over and he changed the course of history. The best thing we can do is try to ignore him. I think Mr Bennett is not fit to lick the shoes of the Prophet.”
He added: “His main claim is that the Prophet married an underage girl but at that time in Arabia they had different laws.”
The Rev Andrew Forys, of Our Lady of Fatima Church, in Howard Way, Harlow, said: “I don’t know Mr Bennett’s argument or his views so I can’t comment, but I’m against religions attacking other religions.
“I’m not against religions arguing – that’s something we should be doing to try to prove our point.”
Charles Jackson, president of the Harlow Jewish Community, accused Mr Bennett of trouble-making, while the Rev David Kirk-wood, of St Paul’s Church, in The High, Harlow, said: “There are differences of opinion between Christians and Muslims but it’s very important we respect each other’s beliefs and that we don’t try to undermine the founder of their religions.”
You need a law to tell you that marrying a 6-year old and taking her virginity at age 9 is unacceptable????
Who cares what they think?These people are like democRATs and racebaiters. They're always "outraged" about something. Maybe if they spent more time minding their own business and less time imposing themselves and their godless religion and its pedophile prophet on everybody else, they would have less to be outraged about.
Okay.
;-/
OK, Listen up all you Islam-dolts, there is life after 700AD grow up and learn something or crawl back up that Camel Bung hole you came from...
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So you're saying he WAS a pedophile, but that was acceptable back then.
"The so called Prophet Mohammad was a perverter, murderous, pedophile bastard who had dreams of greatness... Sadly, those who are even lower then this FALSE prophet had taken him up to be a great man and even god himself..."
This guy (Mohammed) sounds a lot like one of our ex-governors (Oregon).
I'll bet he was a democrat.
".... and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death)."
Hey - how long does that Hadith book say it took Mohammed to rise up from the dead?
So if I was correct about his using the wife's wealth and influence to build a following as prophet, that adds another descriptive word about Mo's character that the Muslims won't be pleased with.
Sometimes publicity dosen't turn out the way you want.
The age is not in dispute
'betrothed' age 6
married age 9
she still played with dolls
her name is Ayesha
after that, he also wanted to ' marry ' a 3 year old...
its nothing to do with the culture of the time
it is well documented he drooled over girls
Any thoughtful person who knows history and religion would be anti-Islam. Along with Communism, Naziism, and the Black Death, Islam has been responsible for more death and destruction on the face of the planet than just about anything else since the last asteroid impact. Islam was started by predators. It has spread by predation. It has lived off the decaying corpses of the civilizations it has destroyed. It is a vast, ancient sea of corruption, oppression, fanaticism, and ignorance lapping up against the shores of the present, kept alive by the fortuitous accident of living above huge reserves of petroleum.
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