"If Banu Qurayzah was under Muhammad's (saaws) "watch" and you believe
Muhamad was a Manifestation of God, then even if the religion of Islam
never existed, Bahais should have to come to terms with explaining the
ethics and morality of such an action. But that's not the route Bahais
take. Instead Bahais tend to argue that it was under a different law
and a different situation, as if the moral value of a human life was
different now and then."
The ethics and morality of the situation *were* different then. Both as a
Baha'i and as a historian I realize I can't project my own values back on
the far past. I don't think Muhammad was guilty of any sin because He
married a young girl. But if that was done today I would condemn it. I
realize that Muslims take the opposite position. If Muhammad treated a
nine-year old girl as an adult, then this should be the age of majority for
women for all time. Therefore in Iran it is legal to execute girls that age
by hanging. I think that is just wrong.
warmest, Susan
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