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Faith, Freedom & Citizenship Class Kempsville Presbyterian Church August 31, 2003
The views expressed herein are the views of the Editor, Vernon Fix

“SECRETS OF THE KORAN” INSIGHT

by Don Richardson "Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi)
POLYGAMY AND ISLAM'S PROPHET revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend
Along with the plunder and ransom money it, knowing that they had always boasted of their
Mohammed and his followers amassed were captive women. devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities
What rules did he give to govern the behavior of male were immediately silenced.
captors with their female captives? Then I looked to the great editors of the
Mohammed knew that men who are responsible for newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by
female orphans, let alone feminine slaves, might be tempted had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the
to violate them sexually. He advised men thus tempted to universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...Only
marry "other women. . . two, three or four of them" (Koran the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's
4:3) to help them keep their thoughts distracted from comely campaign for suppressing truth.
young adoptees. Note that two is the minimum number I never had any special interest in the Church
Mohammed suggested. Monogamy, apparently, was not even before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration
to be considered. And because Mohammed mentioned four, for it because the Church alone has had the courage
everywhere in the world that Islam's Sharia law supercedes and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral
other laws, Muslim men are permitted four wives. freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once
M. M. Ali, eager to excuse Mohammed's failure to despised I now praise unreservedly." --Albert Einstein
urge self control or monogamy instead of polygamy as a from Kampi und Zeugnis der bekennenden Kirche
solution for male temptation, assures monogamous Western quoted in the Federalist 8-25-03
readers: "This passage permits polygamy under certain
circumstances; it does not enjoin it." If that is true, why "Our Senate always opens with a prayer,
couldn't at least one wife be listed in 4:3 as one of the followed by an investigation." --Will Rogers
options? Still, in spite of Mohammed's failure even to
mention monogamy in 4:3 as acceptable, Ali wants us to
believe that the Koran favors calling human societies away
from polygamy toward monogamy. NEWS BRIEFS
...The Mississippi Supreme Court has issued a landmark
Polygamy for the strong, monogamy for the weak is
ruling that recognizes an unborn child as a person with
clearly Mohammed's policy!
rights. The ruling paves the way for wrongful death lawsuits
on behalf of unborn children to proceed. The court's decision
MOHAMMED, MARRIAGE AND SLAVES
said that a child who has developed so that he or she moves
In Mecca, Mohammed was not violent, nor was he a in the mother's womb is a legally defined person protected by
robber or polygamist. In Medina, by his own choice, he Mississippi law. Pat Cartrette, director of Right to Life of
became all three and more. A man known for self-control is Jackson, says the ruling is definitely a step in the right
even more contemptible if he abandons self-control than a direction. She says 3,500 "quick" babies -- babies that can
man who lived as a rake and a scoundrel from his youth. swim inside of the womb -- were aborted in Mississippi in
What were Mohammed's reasons for changing? 2001, but the court's 2003 ruling pushes the issue out to
Every indicator following Mohammed's arrival in Medina society and challenges what she calls the nation's
points to his decision to build up a fighting force that would "schizophrenic attitude toward unborn babies." Cartrette
not only plunder Mecca's caravans and expel or kill Medina's insists that individuals must look at the facts and decide to
Jews, but also eventually be large enough to defeat the protect "these little humans." She adds that pro-abortion
hostile Arabs who expelled him from his hometown, Mecca. forces are in an uproar because, more than anything, they
Prescribing his original monogamy as a standard for fear any ruling that reinforces the personhood of an unborn
pagan men would, of course, have turned away many a pagan child. From the AGAPEPRESS.
man Mohammed coveted for a rapid buildup of his fighting
force. Or did he feel that 25 years of monogamy in Mecca
earned him the right just to live it up in Medina? Federal Budget Deficits Explode
Verse 33:50, interestingly, admits a need to shield Moham- A recent update from the Office of Management and
med from blame for having sex with so many women. Budget (OMB) projects a fiscal year 2003 deficit of $455
Concerning "God" and Mohammed, one wonders which was billion, followed by a $475 billion gap in 2004. These

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the servant and which was the master? Mohammed projected deficits would far surpass the previous record
reduced his God virtually to the level of a procurer, a mere of $290 billion in 1992. Accumulated deficits out to the
auxiliary to himself. end of fiscal year 2008, when the OMB forecast ends,
total $1.9 trillion.
Rules for Making a Female Slave an "Honest As bad as these figures appear, the situation is
Woman" actually far worse, because Congress will continue to
steal from the temporary Social Security surpluses,
Occasionally a Muslim man would decide that a which it has been doing for years, to help fund budget
captive woman whom Mohammed had given him to use as
increases. Ironically, it is a Republican-controlled
a sex slave should be his wife instead. Chapter 4 in Congress, with its image of fiscal conservatism, deliver-
Mohammed's Koran lays down three conditions that had to ing the largest budget deficit in history.
be fulfilled before a mere slave could be the wife of a
ACTION: We need to keep writing our Congressmen
Muslim man. M. M. Ali lists them: and asking them to cut government spending. The
1. The slave must be a believer (see Koran 4:25). amount of PORK in the last budget set a new record.
2. A man must persuade the community that he cannot
afford the bride price for a free woman (Koran 4:25).
3. The man is afraid he will fall into sin if he does not The Armed Citizen
marry that pretty slave. A Reno, Nevada, woman had just dropped off her
All a male Muslim need do is admit a little children at a local clinic and was returning to her
weakness. Could this be the reason their God had to cater
so obeisantly to Mohammed's desire for sex? In Chapter minivan when she saw a man vandalizing the vehicle.
70 of the Koran, Mohammed invited male Muslims to The woman yelled at the vandal, who then approached
descend to the same lower marital standard his God had her in a threatening manner. That's when the 39-year-old
already authorized for him. First, though, posing as a guard mother of four drew a .32-caliber pistol from her purse
for morality, Mohammed commended male Muslims who and told the man to stop. When he continued to advance
"control their desires" (Koran 70:29, Rodwell). Then he toward her, she shot him once in the chest. Her attacker,
added indulgently, "Save with their wives and slave girls;
Karan-Vir Singh, was expected to be charged with
for these are lawful for them" (Koran 70:30; see also 23:5).
The slaves mentioned in these two verses are not included destruction of property. Gazette-journal, Reno, NY,
in the category of wives. OS/21/03)
ACTION: Write to our elected representatives and tell
How Muslims Justify Mohammed's Polygamy them to protect the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
How do Muslim apologists defend Mohammed's
polygamy? The previous quotes show that for Mohammed U.S. on Permanent War Footing?
himself, "God let me do it" was defense enough. M. M. Speaking on the August 3rd edition of NBC's Meet
Ali, ever ready to strengthen what Mohammed left weak, the Press, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge put
adds a reason Mohammed and his God both forgot to give the matter quite plainly: "I guess one of the challenges
1,400 years earlier in the Koran. . Ali claims that Muslim we have to understand is that our job is, first of all, to
male casualties in battle left many women widowed. reduce risk [T]he president intuitively realized we are at
Mohammed prescribed polygamy, Ali suggests, because so war. It is a permanent condition. That's why they made
many widows needed care and there were no single men to permanent changes in the government. That's why we
wed them. have a Department of Homeland Security." (Emphasis
Ever so many cultures throughout history have added.)
had an excess of widows following wars, but have not Ridge's department is rapidly becoming the locus of a
found it advisable to resort to polygamy for their care. "consolidated" (a word he used repeatedly) law
enforcement and intelligence system - precisely the
Of course, a majority of Muslims do not want to harm variety of centralized, militarized, garrison-state
non-Muslims. Unlike their so-called prophet, they do not apparatus the Constitution is designed to prevent. But as
plunder other people's homes nor do they exploit female the Roman maxim informs us, inter arma, enim silent leges -
captives as sex slaves. God forbid that any reader of this "In time of war, the laws fall silent."
critique of the Koran should think that Muslims must be "I can see down the road the additional capacity that
punished for being misled by a bad prophet and his bad we'll be able to build," predicted Ridge on Meet the
book. May God defend people in every nation from Press. "We are far safer, far more secure. We're not
vigilante justice-including Muslims in Western nations and where we need to be, because it's an ongoing threat, but
Christians and other minorities in Muslim nations! we will get there." In truth, the "additional capacity"
would not make us "far safer, far more secure," but
I will continue to sample the Secrets of the Koran it would extinguish our liberty in the name of safety
for a few more weeks. You really should buy Mr. and security.
Fichardson’s book. This is just the teaser. Editor.
See FBA’s on the Web---http://hrcc.exis.net.
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