as exists in many conversations, and also by some slogans. Many Muslims say that the West is deeply immoral and reprehensible. And with most of the West and Christianity is meant.
As a self-critical "Westerners" and perhaps also as a Christian, one quickly gets a guilty conscience. Of course, we know that there are many moral deficiencies in the west. This self-critical approach as a "Westerner" is not wrong, but should we turn first of all before his own door.
But on the other hand it would be interesting to consider what justification Muslims feel called to the moral high-school teacher.
Mostly we hear from the many sexual freedoms in the West, has the suggestive clothing and also in the West usual equality between the sexes are kept in all situations catchment. Many of crayons and the West to the young people in school are informed and even worse - that boys and girls are enlightened. Others have their own problems with the idea that women can walk alone on the road (must) and some confused from this perspective, the movement of women with sexual advances - a lot of harassment of women could occur.
You can see from the arguments very quickly obviously very different moral codes to each other . Meet Apparently there are different positions on morality and it seems the moral good is always the moral feeling, or behavior of an individual or a group and not by all people. This is precisely the point. Many Muslims think their moral view is the only right and everyone else should think kindly directed it. Muslims think in this case their God, Allah on their side, as many rules to the words in the Koran are due. The result also make other provisions of the Islamic claim to be able to (have?), Which ultimately is contrary to our finding that one can not generalize morality.
However, one of the "Islamic Forefinger consider "too different. For he who finds himself appointed as a moral high-school teacher must also ask leave as it's own with morality is ordered.
So we should take a look at the origins of Islam, directed, then on the Koran, and finally course on the present, the lived Islam in the 21st century
A view of Islam.. The great model Mohammed
Let's start with the religious founders and the great idol From Mohammed says that he is a flawless and led exemplary lives and he should be the shining example of every Muslim. When West Europeans and even more as a Christian to get the study of Islamic sources but rather quickly to wonder, since it is the role model Mohammed morally not so closely watched. For example: He was married with a total of 13 women - in his best years with 12 women at once (!). The youngest woman (child) was 6 years old when he married and she was a child at the age of 9 years when he approached her sexually for the first time. Two of his wives he has made a widow before she married and a woman was the wife of his adopted son, which he had sought when she was still married to his son. But that's not all. According to Islamic tradition, we know of 23 (sex) slaves which he had to be will.
course, Muhammad did it all with the blessing of his religion. For him There are special rules in the Koran, so he could marry 12 women at the same time and the marketing of female slaves are encouraged in the Hadith and the Koran.
A view of Islam: Can The "moral" Koran
Now of course the one you say to Mohammed should simply turn a blind eye. He lived 1400 years ago. Then he was a prophet stressed in addition to the 13 women still a whole book (Koran) and had to announce in addition to the many raids certainly had some relief necessary.
said to have sent the Book in which Allah (Koran), we will hopefully find more reasons to show us why Muslims feel called to top teachers. There are
We then include the following: Women must cover themselves so that strangers do not come to bad thoughts. That may now everyone n the / who grew up in the free world a bit surprising. For what is woman for the thoughts of some men? Why is not expected by the men they control themselves? And why is not expected by the men they hide themselves in the same way as the women? Why do people only veiled women and never disguised men?
The next thing we are surprised by the attitude toward marriage. Men are allowed to take 4 women, unless they can afford it. Is that moral? And if you have such a sexual Free movement propagated why women may then not have 4 men?
At the point in the Koran it is even more interesting: When can a man not women, then he should (sex) to keep slaves. Here, too, certainly makes it the question of the morality. Scroll
Then we read it and men are allowed a woman paid for an agreed period to take. An interesting formulation for an old and rather morally questionable business is: prostitution. And indeed. When you look in today's Iran is found together with other forms of prostitution, this variant. They only just officially, even with religious Blessing takes place. In short: This is about the same as if you go with a streetwalker in the church and the pastor to ask if he is willing to act to give his blessing. Certainly a fun idea, but certainly no reason to bring to the West to the moral index finger.
But that's not all what we can discover in the Koran. At the time of Mohammed, it was apparently normal to take your children to wife, because only then is to explain why even in the divorce terms in the Koran marriages with children (O-Ton: "women before they get their period") are considered.
A view of Islam: Islam Today
Well of course you can say that the Quran is 1400 years old and the Muslim world so they may have developed good right now to take the moral finger. Therefore, we dare even a brief look into various Islamic countries: polygamy is still widely used, marriages involving children that would be pursued in the West as pedophilia are still common, there are many places forced marriages and with no word, the misconduct criticism of Muhammad. You refuse to think critically about the Koran, but is meant to Today it is the will of Allah, the man may have four wives. We think that the Muslims should only return once our own house:
summary. Of course The west is a moral point of view is not perfect, but Islam and especially the Islamic society, it is even less. Certainly, Islam has no right to make other moral accusations, rather it looks just as Islam could learn from other cultures in a lot of moral questions.
Interesting source: Wikipedia
