PART VI, CHAPTER 2, SUBCHAPTER 1 (= VI-2-1-0)

MUSLIMS UNDER ISLAM ACCORDING TO THE QURAN, THE HOLY BOOK OF MUHAMMAD, MUSLIMS, ISLAM, AND ALLAH

LIFE FOR MUSLIM WOMEN ACCORDING TO MUHAMMAD, THE QURAN, AND ALLAH, AND HENCE TO ISLAM (women as human beings).

Comments in this book numbered by 3 numbers (included 00 or 0) a few places followed by one small letter = clear cases. Comments numbered by 00 or 0 followed by 1, 2 or 3 letters (big or small) = likely cases.

A woman is a second class human being in Islam. Her life is strictly regulated – in order to take care of them the men explain, declare, and boast - - - and not one single of them had themselves accepted the life they forces their women into.

Also the religion is a man’s religion. Of more than 6000 verses in the Quran, only these few in this and the next chapter + the chapter about slaves, and a few more verses (with similare contents) are about or partly about women. So what is below in these 2-3 small chapters (included the chapter about slaves) is more or less all there is about women in the Quran. (There also is some in some other chapters, but more or less the same as here). We especially mention, though, that we have gone little into laws on inheritance, as they are very complicated, because Muhammad did not get his mathematics correct when he made the rules (no god had stumbled in such an in reality easy mathematics). The result is that often the shares of the inheritors are less than the inheritance, and sometimes more – in the worst cases up to ¼ more (125%) of the inheritance. It has proved good food for lawyers). But to be short and concise about that: Women do inherit, and what they inherit is their personal property. But they only inherit half of what a man in the same position inherits. (You will meed Muslims saying that this is reasonable, as men has to "buy" wives. There are arguments both for and against that point of view).

001 2/26: “- - - they (Muslim men deserving Paradise*) have therein companions pure (and holy) (houries*) - - -.” Houries are a bit special kind of women, but the “fact” that they are given to the men arriving in Paradise as repayment for good (?) deeds, tells kilometres about Islam’s view on women.

2/221: “Do not marry unbelieving women (idolaters), until they believe - - -”. According to Sharia - Muslim law - a man is permitted to marry a non-Muslim woman, but a woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man. (Not even a Muslim slave girl can be married to a non-Muslim - the marriage is void and automatically annulated.)

002 2/222: “They (Muslims*) ask thee (Muhammad*) concerning women’s courses (menstruation*). Say: They are a hurt and a pollution: keep away from women in their courses, and do not approach them until they are clean.” Menstruating women are ritually unclean.

003 2/223: “Your wives are as a tilth (field, garden*) unto you; so approach your tilth when and how ye will - - -”. Approach your “tilth”, not approach your woman/women or fellow human being(s) or dear one(s). And approach her/them when and how you will - when and how she/they will is not mentioned.

004 2/228a: “Divorced women shall wait concerning themselves for three monthly periods”. This to be sure who is the father if there is a child.

005 2/228c: “And the woman shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but men have a degree (of advantage) over them“. Which means that women are one step – small or big – below men as judicial persons (in reality also as human beings).

006 2/231: “If ye divorce women (not irrevocably*) - - - either take them back on equitable terms or set them free on equitable terms - - - (do not make life difficult for them*)”. On this point the Quran is ok.

007 2/233b: “No mother shall be treated unfairly on account of her child.” If the mother does her part of the upbringing ok, and the child all the same turns out to be a rascal, the mother (and also the father on the same conditions) cannot be held accountable for what an offspring does. One point in plus for both parents.

008 2/234: “If any of you die and leave widows behind (remark the passive position of the women – one or more*), they shall wait concerning themselves four months and ten days (before remarrying*) - - -.” Wait to make sure one knows who the father is if she should happen to be pregnant. (One may react to the short time, but remember that marriages seldom were marriages from passion, and that there were few ways for a woman to make a living for herself).

009 2/236: “There is no blame on you if ye divorce women before consummation (= sex*) or the fixation of their dower; but bestow on them (a suitable gift) - - -.” A marriage may be a casual affair – at least for the man. But remember: The Quran nearly always debates from the man’s point of view.

010 2/240: “Those of you who die and leave widows behind should bequeth for their widows a year’s provision and residence - - -.” A widow has the right to stay in her home and have food, etc. for at least one year - - - if her husband has prepared things so.

011 2/241: “For divorced women provision (should be made) on a reasonable (scale). This is the duty of the righteous.” Positive for the woman as far as it goes in reality.

012 3/14: “Fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: women and sons; heaped-up hoards of gold and silver; horses - - - and cattle and well-tilled land”. Does this lining up of a man’s glorying in his possessions tell something about women’s position and kind of value in Muslim societies? Also see 3/15 just below.

013 3/15: “(In Paradise Muslim men*) find their eternal home; with Companions (houries*) pure (+ their wives if they qualify for Paradise*), and the good pleasure of Allah.” Does this sentence tell something about how women are valued and looked upon in Islam? Also see 3/14 just above.

014 4/3: “- - - marry women of your own choice, two or three or four, - - - “. In addition you can have as many concubines/slave women as you want.There is a limitation for wives (but not for slave women): You have to treat them equal and justly - but in most cases that is a “forgotten” sentence when a man wants another wife. It is also worth noticing that it is far from unusual that the founder of polygamous religions or sects get a special licence from the god(s) to have extra many women – like Muhammad in Islam.

015 4/4: “And give the woman (on marriage) their dower as a free gift.” The dower formally is for the woman only to spend. Sometimes it works like that, sometimes it in a way works like that, as the realities of life forces the woman to spend it on her family and daily tasks. Sometimes it does not work like that, as there are many ways to pressure a woman in a family to spend it for other things than she herself really wishes.

016 4/15: “If any of your women are guilty of any lewdness - - - confine them to houses until death do claim them”. There is no corresponding rule for men. A contradicting verse says they are to be whipped a hundred lashes - half if she was a slave when sha married. It also is worth mentioning that stoning as a punishment for this is not mentioned in the Quran. But there is a strong rumour in Islam that a number of verses (may be 100) “did not make it” into the Quran, and that one verse about stoning for “unlawful sex” was one of them – but in the book there is nothing like that. There is in Hadith, however – and Hadiths also tell that Muhammad personally took part in at least one such stoning. A primitive and inhuman kind of punishment – and even more so at frequently only the woman is stoned in such cases.

017 4/24: “Also (prohibited (for Muslims to marry*) are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess (= slave women*) - - -“. You can rape or marry slave women even if they were/are married before”. No comments. In this connection remember that not until in unbelievable 1982 AD was official slavery abolished in the last Muslim country – Mauretania. (And not until even more unbelievable 2007 did it become a punishable crime there). That is to say; we have heard that Niger was even later, but we have found no confitmation on this. Also remember that according to UN some 24 million humans today “live as slaves or under slave like conditions” – a good percentage of them in Muslim areas. And not least: According to old Islamic laws (later than Muhammad though), all so-called “new ideas” became prohibited and punishable early in the Islamic period. That meant everything not in the Quran or traditions (Hadith). This turned out to be too harsh, and they were forced to accept some changes: Changes that could be said to build on the Quran or Hadith were called “god new ideas” and permitted, whereas all other were called “bad new ideas” and still prohibited. No matter how Muslims boast about that abolishment of slavery was/is an integrated part of Islam, that only is rubbish to be very polite. Islam was forced backwards and fighting into abolition by the west. In addition Muhammad both took, raped (at least Raihana bint Amr and Safiyya bint Huayay), used as gifts, accepted as gift (at least his black concubine Mariah, who bore him his son Ibrahim, who died as a baby, though) and sold slaves – and Muhammad is the great icon in Islam: Everything he did is permisable, good, and morally and ethically fine. If Islam gains the upper hand and the pressure and ideas from the outside comes to an end, will then slavery be thought to be a “good new idea” or a “bad new idea” – and in the latter case: Will slavery then little by little be reinstated? – at least as long as the slaves are not Muslims? There are many who would not be surprised. Especially slave women is a temptation.

018 4/25a: “If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess (= slave girls*) - - - wed them with the leave of their owners”. The leave of their owners, not of the woman.

019 4/25b: “- - - and give them (the women you wed*) their dowers - - -.” The dowers formally became the woman’s personal belonging. If she was a slave girl, often her dower was her formal release from bondage – like Safijja with Muhammad. He took her as slave in Khaibar, tortured her husband to death, murdered the rest of her male family, enslaved all women and children, raped her the same night as her husband was murdered – and married her shortly after. And her dower was her formal release from slavery. A cheap wife for Muhammad.

020 4/34a: “Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength (only the physical strength counts*)) than the other, and because they support them from their means (because the women had hardly any other choice*). Therefore, the righteous women are devoutly obedient (and chaste*)”. As for support: In many societies before Islam, the woman was working and doing her share of supporting the family and herself. In those many cases the reason why she needs support, is that Islam denies her the possibility to do it herself. (Actually one reason why a war religion like Islam may be will not succeed in conquering the world, simply is the inefficiency of the women workforce - and another that Muslims can not be trained to think for themselves (and be innovative) because then they may start asking questions about Islam - among other things about all the mistakes, contradictions, and invalid proofs - and some aspects with its morality, ethics and humanity - ot the lack or such. As for empathy it is so far from Islam, that it is an oped question to what degree an average believing Muslim is able to feel empathy, at least for anything not Muslim - it is too foreign to the ideals of Islam).

021 4/34b: “As to those women on whose part ye fear (!!) disloyalty and an ill-conduct - - - (if not words help*) chastise them (lightly) - - -.” We are told that the word “lightly” is not in the original Arab texts.

022 4/43: “- - - (if*) ye have had contact (in this case; had sex*) with a woman (you are unclean*)”. We have found no corresponding statement about a woman having had sex with a man becomes unclean - but then women from nature are more unclean. Sex is nice and necessary according to Islam, but it also is unclean. Not only physically unclean, but also ceremonial unclean. The same goes for the juices from a woman, and hence partly to the woman herself, at least when she has her monthly period. Therefore it is essential for the man to clean himself afterwards – and if real washing is not possible, then at least ceremonial cleansing, if by no other means then by dust or some kinds of earth. The women is ceremonial restricted when she has her periods – she is unclean – and has to do a thorough ceremonial cleaning each time the period is finished. This even though according to Islam it is Allah who have made also the women, and created the humans perfect.

023 4/57: “- - - therein (Paradise*) shall they (deserving Muslim men*) have companions pure and holy (houries*) - - -.” Houries are a bit special kind of women, but the “fact” that they are given to the men arriving in Paradise as repayment for good (?) deeds, tells kilometres about Islam’s view on women.

024 4/127: “They ask thy (Muhammad’s*) instruction concerning women. Say: Allah doth instruct you about them - - -”. Treat them like the Quran instructs you. The Quran has no instruction the other way round, though. Besides: Even if the Quran is not too bad against woman in some ways, in other ways the “instructions” in the Quran are such that no man would accept it for himself - - - and no human should demand that other humans have to live under conditions he will refuse himself, and especially not that his closest family - wife and daughters - should be forced to live like that.

025 4/128: “If a wife fears cruelty or desertation on her husband’s part, there is no blame on them if the arrange an amicable settlement between themselves (husband and wife*); and such settlement is best - - -.” Muhammad was not very fond neither of family troubles nor of divorces, so that even though he made divorces easy, especially for men, he – and Islam – favours settlements and stability (stability also makes administration and ruling easier for the ruler).

026 4/129: “Ye are never able to be fair and just between women (wives*) - - -”. This sentence is often used by Muslims as "proof" for that polygamy (many wives) is not much used in Muslim societies. The trouble is, though, that this paragraph is a most sleeping one for men who can afford and really wants more wives. (Also serial monogamy - frequent divorces and marriages - exists. Media have reported up to more than 60 marriages for a man. Among Shiia Muslims also short time/fixed time marriages exists - marriage for a month, f. ex.)

027 5/5: “(Lawful unto you in marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers, but chaste women among the (Jews and Christians*) - - -.” This is told to men – women are too insignificant for such debates. But it concerns women. It seems that Muslim men can marry women that are Jews, Christians (though the Quran other places seems to be against it) or Muslims, but not Pagan ones (though there is no prohibition for having them as concubines or similar). Muslim women can marry only Muslim men – the prohibition is so strict that if a woman marries a non-Muslim, or her Muslim husband converts to another religion, her marriage is invalid.

028 5/6: “When ye prepare for prayer, wash (face, hands, lower arms, feet till ankles, and rub your head*) - - - if you are in a state of impurity, bathe (in praxis wash – Hadiths tell Muhammad used 3-4 litres of water for a “bathe”, and that only means wash) your whole body. If - - - you have been in contact (= had sex*) with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand and earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands.” The rules for cleanliness did make the Muslims a somewhat cleaner people than many others, but that was a side effect, not the intention. The main thing was the formal, ceremonial cleanliness, not the physical cleanliness. And one normal source of becoming formally unclean, was – and is – women.

029 16/58: “When news is brought to one of them (Arabs at the time of Muhammad*), of (the birth) a female (child), his face darkens, and he is filled with inward grief! With shame does he hide himself from people, because of the bad news he has had!” It hardly is as bad today, but only a boy is a boy in many Muslim societies.

030 23/6: “(Good Muslims*) abstain from sex except with those joined to them in marriage bonds, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess (= slave women*) – for (in their case) they are free from blame - - -:” To rape captive women and slave women was/is completely ok (with one exception; it was prohibited if they were pregnant – but most likely not if they were pregnant with your child). Take a woman captive in a “just” war – and anything was named “just war” – jihad - as long as the victims were non-Muslims, not to mention if they were Pagans – and you could freely rape her with Allah’s blessing, because it was “good and lawful”. And as even slave raids could be defined as holy war - “jihad” - as the victims were non-Muslims, and all the 4 Islamic law schools accepted the fact that the "enemy" were non-Muslims as "bona fide" reason for declaring jihad. It was – and is (rape is very common in armed conflicts where Muslims are involved) – a nice life for the warriors.

031 24/23: “Those who slander chaste women, indiscreet but believing, are cursed in this life and in the Hereafter - - -.” The chaste women deserved a good reputation (also because it counted for the men of her family and her husband, and their reputation), but spreaders of slander often are difficult to catch, so some help/threat from the god had value.

032 24/31: “And say to the believing woman that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands - - - and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments”. THIS IS ALL THAT IS SAID IN THE QURAN ABOUT HOW A WOMAN SHOULD DRESS, WITH ONE EXCEPTION: SHE ALSO SHALL COVER HER HAIR. Things are mentioned other places, but the same as here. (There is talk of a veil one place, but that only concerns the wives of Muhammad, and it is a veil used as a partition of a room, not a veil covering the face). Everything else about a woman’s clothes is NOT from the Quran. (But in the Hadith veils are mentioned).

033 24/33: “But force not your maids to prostitution when they desire chastity - - -”. This was a rule that was much broken - and even today are much broken (and not only among Muslims) as a huge part of the 24 million slaves UN rapports about, are women in forced prostitution or sexual abuse.

034 24/60: “Such elderly women as are past the prospect of marriage – there is no blame on them if they lay aside their (outer) garments, provided they make not a wanton display of their beauty (female body parts*): but it is best for them to be modest - - -.” The strict codex is somewhat relaxed when she is not attractive any more.

035 25/74: “And those who pray, ‘Our Lord (Allah*) Grant unto us wives and offspring who will be a comfort to our eyes - - - (and some other prayers, are good Muslims and will end in Paradise)” No comments, except it tells not a little about how the Quran looks on women.

036 33/28-29: “O Prophet (Muhammad*)! Say to thy Consorts: ‘If it be that ye desire the life of this World, and its glitter – then come! I will provide for your enjoyment and set you free in a handsome manner. But if ye seek Allah and His Messenger, and the Home of the Hereafter, verily, Allah has prepared for the well-doers amongst you a great reward”. Muhammad had his women problems – and Allah (?) helped him – this is not the only time. Look at this text, take into account the intense religious fervour of Medina at that time, the impression and one-mindedness that is the normal effect on people in intense, one-sided religious hotpots – Islam is just not the only one through history or resent history - plus the naivety that follows lack of education and one-sided propaganda, plus the fact that the women knew what they had, but had every reason to fear the future in a society with small possibilities for earning their own living, and in a society where they would forever be stamped for leaving “the Prophet” if they were “set free” - - - there is no doubt that Muhammad knew his psychology and people. He used one of the age-old strategies the powerful and resourceful through ages has used, and uses, to manipulate his surroundings – includes his women. And at places in the Quran he is backed up by his god – is that really a task for a god? – and is it something that belongs in a “Mother Book” revered by the omniscient and omnipotent god in his Heaven? (And if man – and women – has free will, so that the future is not locked – how could these details be written in the book billions of years before it happened? – that could only be done if man and animals all are puppets on a string totally without a free will.)

Muhammad was intelligent and manipulating.

And to the degree this story could be a model for others, this was how life were and is for Muslim women for all future, for Muhammad was and is the great idol and moral ideal.

Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god.

037 33/30: “O Consorts of the Prophet. If any of you were guilty of evident unseemly conduct, the Punishment would be doubled for her, and that is easy for Allah”. For comments see 33/28-29 just above – and also note that the god is easy to use, for Muhammad like for every self centred human manipulator in societies where religion is a dominant presence.

Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 + 33/50 and 33/51 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god, is typical for such persons. All this formally is about Muhammad’s private intimate life, but as what he said and did was and is the correct ethical and moral codex in Islam – and hence the norm for all women concerning this aspect of life, we include it also in this chapter about women’s life under Islam.

038 33/31: “But if any of you is devout in the service of Allah and His Messenger (also to solve such problems he glues himself to his platform of power – the god*), and works righteousness – to her shall We (Allah*) grant her reward twice: and We have prepared for her a generous sustenance.”

As said above: Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 + 33/50 and 33/51 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god, is typical for such persons. All this formally is about Muhammad’s private intimate life, but as what he said and did was and is the correct ethical and moral codex in Islam – and hence the norm for all women concerning this aspect of life, we include it also in this chapter about women’s life under Islam.

039 33/32: “O Consorts of the Prophet! Ye are not like any of the (other) women: if ye do fear (Allah), be not too complaisant of speech lest one in whose heart is disease should be moved with desire: but speak ye a speech (that is) just.

Once more: Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 + 33/50 and 33/51 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god, is typical for such persons. All this formally is about Muhammad’s private intimate life, but as what he said and did was and is the correct ethical and moral codex in Islam – and hence the norm for all women concerning this aspect of life, we include it also in this chapter about women’s life under Islam. Here Muhammad puts extra pressure on his women to make sure they "behave".

040 33/33: “And stay quietly in your houses, and make not a dazzling display, like that of the former Times of Ignorance; and establish regular Prayer, and give regular Charity; and obey Allah and His Messenger (!!*). And Allah only wishes to remove all abomination from you, ye Members of the Family, and to make you pure and spotless.” Yes, this is how the omnipotent, mighty god speaks to solve Muhammad's daily family life according to the revered Mother Book in his own home in his Heaven (of which the Quran is a copy, according to Islam).

As said before: Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 + 33/50 and 33/51 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god, is typical for such persons. All this formally is about Muhammad’s private intimate life, but as what he said and did was and is the correct ethical and moral codex in Islam – and hence the norm for all women concerning this aspect of life, we include it also in this chapter about women’s life under Islam. Allah orders his wives to be good girls - a nice help for Muhammad. But is it a job for a god? - and is it text worthy a Mother Book that an omniscient god reveres - reveres - in his Heaven?

041 33/50: “O Prophet! We (Allah*) have made lawful (for sex*) to thee (it is not unusual that the god "permits" this towards the founder of a religion or a sect – it happens not infrequently*) thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers: and those to whom thy right hand possesses out of the spoils of war (which was quite a huge number*) whom Allah has assigned to thee; and the daughters of thy parental uncles and aunts, and the daughters of maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated (from Makkah (= Mecca*)) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her – this is only for thee, and not for the Believers (at large); we know that We have appointed for them (permitted sex*) as to their wives and those whom their right hands possess – in order that there should be no difficulty for thee.” As for slaves, a huge number passed through Muhammad’s hands – perhaps 2000 or more only from Khaibar. We do not know if and in case how many of them he personally raped, except Raihana bint Amr and Safiyya bint Huayay (which we know about because the first later became one of his concubines, and the other one of his wives), but the casual way and the minimal fuzz with which two rapes happened and made, makes it easy to think that they neither were the first, nor the only ones – to rape one's captives and slaves was (and formally still is) completely ok in Islam. That just was the way life was/is for women under Islam.

And once more: Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 + 33/50 and 33/51 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god, is typical for such persons. All this formally is about Muhammad’s private intimate life, but as what he said and did was and is the correct ethical and moral codex in Islam – and hence the norm for all women concerning this aspect of life, we include it also in this chapter about women’s life under Islam.

042 33/51: “Thou (Muhammad*) mayst defer (the turn (of having sex*) of) any of them that thou pleasest, and thou mayst receive any thou pleasest (for your bed/sex*): and there is no blame on thee if thou invite one whose (turn) thou hast set aside.” It is the man’s wish and pleasure that counts, and here this fact is confirmed by the almighty god in his Mother Book – though written only to Muhammad and nothing similare is said in that book to any of the thousands of former prophets (124ooo ?) or to ordinary men. But as Muhammad is the great idol, everything he said and did was and is the correct thing to do if nothing special is said that prohibits it.

Once more: Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 + 33/50 and 33/51 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god, is typical for such persons. All this formally is about Muhammad’s private intimate life, but as what he said and did was and is the correct ethical and moral codex in Islam – and hence the norm for all women concerning this aspect of life, we include it also in this chapter about women’s life under Islam.

043 33/53: “And when ye (Muslim men*) ask (his (Muhammad’s*)) ladies for anything ye want, ask them from before a screen - - -.” Note: A screen, not a veil. This is all that is said about the hiding of women in the Quran. Nothing more: A screen, not a veil, and only concerning the wives – and likely also his other women – of Muhammad. (But you find veils in the Hadiths – which is written 200 – 250 years later, and where it is very clear that a lot is made up stories (the Quran f. ex. proves that all the stories in the Hadiths about miracles around Muhammad are made up)).

Further: Read 33/28-29 through 33/33 + 33/50 and 33/51 together to get a picture of his – and very many other dominant religious persons in strongly and dark religious societies – technique. One of the much used – and proven efficient – ways of manipulating dependant persons. Even the use of the god, is typical for such persons. All this formally is about Muhammad’s private intimate life, but as what he said and did was and is the correct ethical and moral codex in Islam – and hence the norm for all women concerning this aspect of life, we include it also in this chapter about women’s life under Islam.

044 33/59: “O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad) - - -.” What is “outer garments”? – the veil at least is neither mentioned nor indicated. And what is “when abroad”? - his wives never left Arabia.

045 37/48: “And besides them (Muslim men in Paradise*) will be chaste women, restraining their glances, with big eyes (of wonder and beauty).” These are the famous houries that are to comfort Muslim men in Paradise. The women are solely for man’s pleasure in Paradise, too (well, on Earth they also are for giving him sons). Nothing is said in the Quran about where the houries come from, nothing is said about how they like to be in the harem of often rough, uneducated and primitive – and naïve? – warriors - - - and also nothing is said about how the wives enjoy the competition. Only what the man likes counts.

There is another mystery: From where did the houries come? – and what were they. A theory that the early Muslims – f. ex. Hasan al-Basri - believed, is that they were women who had lived a pious and good life on Earth. Of necessity they could not have been married (or married to men that ended in Hell?), because married women followed their husbands – it is not said which one if they had been married more times, but perhaps the last one). But how many such single women existed compared to the millions of warriors that had a right to up to 70 each? And how did such women like to be sex slaves for often rough and self centred and primitive men – was it a Paradise for them too, or - - -? Another theory was/is that they were girls that died as babies or unmarried children - but then they in case should belong to their father's household in Paradise. And the same question: Aow many died compared to many houries to each warrior and terrorist?

046 41/25: “And We (Allah*) have destined for them (Muslim men in Paradise*) intimate companions (of like nature) (the houries*) - - -.” See 37/48 just above.

h047 44/54: “- - - and We (Allah*) shall join them to Companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes.” Houries are a bit special kind of women, but the “fact” that they are given to the men arriving in Paradise as repayment for good (?) deeds, tells kilometres about Islam’s view on women. Also see 37/48 above.

048 52/20: “- - - and We (Allah*) shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.” Like 37/48 and 42/25 above – see them.

049 52/39: “Or has He (Allah*) only daughters and ye have sons?” Most unbelievable and treated as a proof for it being a lie that Allah has descendant(s). It tells a lot about Islam’s view concerning women. This argument is never even mentioned when it comes to Jesus – he after all was male and should fit in the picture Muhammad painted.

050 53/21: “What! For you (Muslims*) the male sex (sons*) and for Him (Allah*), the female (daughters)?”. In praxis like 52/39 just above.

051 55/56a: “In them (the Gardens of Paradise*) will be (Maidens (houries)), chaste, restraining their glances - - -.” See f. ex. 37/48 above.

052 55/56b: “In them (the Gardens of Paradise*) will be fair (Companions (houries*)), good, beautiful - - -.” Houries are a bit special kind of women, but the “fact” that they are given to the men arriving in Paradise as repayment for good (?) deeds, tells miles about Islam’s view of women. The servile nature of the houries – the ideal women – in the descriptions, also tells volumes about Islam’s point of view on how women shall behave.

053 55/56c: “In them (the Gardens of Paradise*) will be fair (Companions (houries*)), good, beautiful - - -.” Houries are a bit special kind of women, but the “fact” that they are given to the men arriving in Paradise as repayment for good (?) deeds, tells fathoms and miles about Islam’s view of women.

054 56/22: “And (there will be) Companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes - - -.” In praxis like 37/48 above – see that.

055 56/24: “(The houries is*) A reward for the Deeds of their past (life).” How do women like to simply be a reward to some previously unknown – and often uncultivated – man? – and to be his sex slave or sex doll for eternity? A Paradise?

056 56/35-37: “We (Allah*) have created (their Companions (houries*)) of special creation. And made them virgin-pure (and undefiled) – beloved (by nature), equal in age (for good Muslim men in Paradise*) - - -.” Houries are a bit special kind of women, but the “fact” that they are given to the men arriving in Paradise as repayment for good (?) deeds, tells miles and square miles about Islam’s view of women. The servile nature of the houries – the ideal women – in the descriptions, also tells volumes about Islam’s point of view on how women shall behave.

056 60/10: “When there come to you believing woman refugees - - -.” Quite a number of women during the first generations fled to Islam and (said they had) converted to the new religion, to get away from disliked husbands. A marriage between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man is automatically nullified (even if both want it to continue) and the fleeing woman suddenly and unseremoniously was divorced - and free from her unwanted husband.

057 65/1: “O Prophet! When ye (also all other Muslims*) divorce women, divorce them in their prescribed period, and count (accurately) their prescribed periods - - -.” Not on account of the wellfare of the woman, but to make sure who is the father if there is a child afterwards.

058 70/30: “(Muslim men should have no sex*) Except with their wives and the (captives) whom their right hands possess - - -.” To force captive women or slave women to have sex – to rape them – was “good and lawful”! What a benevolent religion and what a benevolent god!!

NB: If you find any mistakes anywhere, please inform us. If it is a real mistake, it will be corrected.

NB, NB, NB:

1. Read first the 2 small chapters "Some Essentials for how the Quran is to be read and understood" (VII-10-1) and "The Quran is to be understood literally if nothing else is indicated" (VII-10-2).

2. http://www.1000mistakes.com is blocked by many Muslim authorities. To debate with persons in such areas, cut and paste what you want from the pages and send it under titles different from http://www.1000mistakes.com.

3. http://www.1000mistakes.com is one of 9 pages which Muslim organisetions warned especially against in 2008 and 2009 - it could make especially procelytes lose their belief in Islam; correct and "down-to-the-earth" information works. In this connection it is worth noting that in the "warning" http://www.1000mistakes.com was one of 3 which neither was accused of bringing wrong facts, nor of being a hate page.

4. Comment 141 (to verse 6/149) in “The Message of the Quran” (see point 5) explains (translated from Swedish) about Allah's claimed omniscience vs. man's claimed free will:

“With other words: The real connection between Allah’s knowledge about the future (and consequently about the unavoidable in what is to happen in the future*) on one side and man’s relatively (!!*) free will on the other – two statements that seems to contradict each other – lies outside what is possible for humans to understand, but as both statement are made from Allah (in the Quran*) both must be true”. Unbelievable. Blind belief is the only correct and intelligent way of life, even in the face of the utterly impossible!!

5. And an afterthought: In the book “The Message of the Quran”, certified by Al-Azhar Al-Sharif Islamic Research Academy in Cairo (one of the 2-3 top universities in the Muslim world on such subjects) in a letter dated 27. Dec. 1998, it is admitted rather reluctantly that there are no proofs for Allah, and that it is not possible to prove him. An additonal point here is that if there is no proof for Allah and impossible to prove him, automatically there also is no proof for, and impossible to prove Muhammad's claimed connection to a god. And if there is no Allah and/or no connection between Muhammad and a god, what then is Muhammad? - and what than is Islam? - a made up, invalid religion?

6. Further: All the mistakes, contradictions, etc. in that book prove 100% that the Quran is not made by an omniscient god - no god makes such and so many mistakes, etc. If then Islam is a made up religion, what then about all the Muslims who have been prohibitted from looking for a real religion (if such one exists)? And where will they in case wake up after living and practising such an inhuman war religion like Islam is according to the Quran (and to Hadiths), if there is a second life somewhere? - Hell or Paradise?

7. NB and PS: No matter how sure you are about something, if it is not proved, it is not knowledge, only belief or strong belief, and can be wrong. Only what is proved or possible to prove is knowledge.

(As http://www.1000mistakes.com is blocked in many Muslim areas - which shows they are afraid of it and lack arguments (if they had real arguments for http://www.1000mistakes.com is wrong, blocking was unneccessary) - "cut and paste" whatever you want from it and send if you want to inform or to debate there. Remember to omit the name http://www.1000mistakes.com).

PS: If we are blocked centrally - f. ex. by spam (there is too much at times already from unfriendly sources) we will reopen with new address somewhere else, and announce the new address om f. ex. http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/islam. Also if your comments to us do not reach us, any comments posted on a thread with "1000 mistakes" in the title on that forum will be read by us - it is a big international debate page. We cannot answer on that page, though, as it is not safe enough - we have had death threaths (better to kill an opponent, than to check if a religion brainwashed into you only on the word of a man who even practised lies (f. ex. "war is deceit") and advocated breaking even your oaths if that gave a better result, is true ot made up - old beliefs are hard to question).

Please inform all and everybody and all relevant fora - f. ex. Internet pages for debate or information - about the address http://www.1000mistakes.com. It is information that is urgently needed by many, not least by Muslims. No god made a book with so many mistakes and other wrongs - and if the Quran and Islam are made up by humans or dark forces, where are the followers of this inhumanly dark and brutal war religion heading for in a possible next life?