Women in Islam

Articles examining the role, status, and dignity of women within Islamic sources compared with biblical teaching, addressing common Muslim claims and misunderstandings.

A Muslim Defense of Muhammad’s Marrying A Prepubescent Minor Pt. 2 Members Public

This is a follow up to my previous post (https://answeringislam.blog/a-muslim-defense-of-muhammads-marrying-a-prebuscent-minor-pt-1/) where I again republish a leading Muslim scholar’s refutation (https://www.abc.se/home/m9783/ir/d/aam1_e.pdf) to the attempts by some Muslims to deny that Muhammad had sexual relations with a 9-year-old

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamhadithsunnah

Muhammad the Womanizing Sensualist Members Public

The following lengthy excerpt is taken from Iranian Muslim scholar Ali Dashti’s book, “23 Years: A Study of Prophetic Career of Mohammad”. This happens to be one of the best treatments on Muhammad and Islam ever produced. In what follows, Dashti highlights the fact of Muhammad being a womanizer

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamallahquran

A Salafi Defense of Muhammad’s Marriage to a Minor Pt. 1 Members Public

In this post, I am republishing a Salafi refutation (https://islamqa.info/en/answers/124483/age-of-the-mother-of-the-believers-aaishah-may-allah-be-pleased-with-her-when-the-prophet-blessings-and-peace-of-allah-be-upon-him-married-her) to the desperate attempts by some Muhammadans to deny that their prophet had sex with a 9-year-old premature minor. Age of the Mother of the Believers ‘Aa’ishah when the Prophet married her Question

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamhadithsunnah

A Muslim Defense of Muhammad’s Marrying A Prebuscent Minor Pt. 1 Members Public

The following is a post (https://www.abc.se/home/m9783/ir/d/aam2_e.pdf) written by a Muslim scholar who refutes the attempt by his fellow Muslims to undermine the overwhelming testimony of the Islamic tradition that Aisha was a 9-year-old minor when a 54 year old Muhammad

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamhadithsunnah

Muhammad’s Sexual Privileges Members Public

This will be a very short post. Muhammad’s god granted his messenger certain sexual favors which he did not permit for anyone else, such as taking another’s man’s wife and forcing himself on women against their will! وَأَمَّا مَا أُحِلَّ لَ

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamquranhadith

OPEN CHALLENGE TO MUSLIMS: SHOW US WHERE THE QURAN MENTIONS CIRCUMCISION Members Public

One will find many a Muhammadan polemicist claiming that Muslims are more faithful to Jesus, and by extension to the Mosaic Law, than Christians since the former observe circumcision, which God commanded Abraham and all his physical offspring to observe. Christians, on the other hand, do not get circumcised due

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamquranhadith

Quranic Permissibility of Women having Sex with their Slaves Members Public

The readers may find this hard to imagine (especially Muslim ones) that the Quran actually allows Muslim women to have sex as much as they want without requiring them to first get married: Successful indeed are the believers, Who are humble in their prayers, And who keep aloof from what

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Muhammad and Wife Beating Pt. 1 Members Public

Catching Muslims In Another Lie The Quran gives men the permission to discipline their wives whom they fear are being rebellious by beating or striking them: Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
islamquranhadith
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