How is this a defense?
Let’s assume the person in question wasn’t Muhammad.
Suppose it was George Washington, Napoleon, or even Jesus Christ.
How would you react if you learned that George Washington dismantled the institution of adoption, which allowed adopted children to be treated as legitimate children, and then, to establish this new rule, went on to marry and sleep with the wife of his adopted son? And imagine there was also a story about how he had previously seen her partially undressed while visiting his son.
Like many other issues in Islam, take Muhammad out of the picture and replace him with another historical figure. Then make your judgment. Would your judgment remain the same?
Think about it: if you have to make an exception for Muhammad every single time, what does that say about Muhammad and Islam?
Let’s make a fair intellectual and logical assessment here.
You say Islam is as old as Abraham. Fine.
According to the Yoruba Kọ́jọ́dá calendar, our civilization traces its existence back thousands of years before Islam ever reached Yorubaland.
The point remains the same: Yoruba identity did not come from Islam. Our language, culture, institutions, and worldview existed before the first Alfa arrived in Yorubaland.
Islam became part of Yoruba history. Yoruba history did not begin with Islam.
Definitely you are not one of us and stop getting involved in Yorubaland discussions, go get involved in Saudi Arabia land and discussion. Akotileta bi eran ileya.
A religion that promises an orgy in heaven can only have been imagined by a man addicted to sex, for men addicted to sex.
Allah created the venue for the orgies, Muhammad is the orgynizer of the party.
the thing about islam you can tell it’s just some incel sexual fantasies. allowing men to practice polygamy, concubinage and virgins waiting for them in heaven as a reward.. it’s actually laughable
“No one is practicing Islam to seek Arab validation.”
You save up your hard-earned money to make a pilgrimage to Arabia and participate in religious rites that originated there.
Your daily prayers are recited in Arabic, and many believers hope to visit the holy sites in Arabia at least once in their lifetime.
During prayer, you face a sacred site located in Arabia, and Arabic remains the primary liturgical language of the faith.
Yet when someone points out the strong cultural and religious connection to the Arab world, you’re told that seeking Arab validation has nothing to do with it.
"Queerness is un-African."
Meanwhile, in 19th-century Buganda, Mwanga II was widely documented as having sexual relationships with men at his royal court. You don't have to like that fact, but you do have to explain how a Ugandan king became "Western" before Europe even colonized Uganda.
Imagine proudly saying your tribe, culture, and heritage come second to an ideology imported from Arabia, even when many Arabs themselves will never truly see you as one of them.
A Yorùbá man now sees himself through the lens of a foreign religious identity before the identity of his own ancestors. That is cultural replacement packaged as piety.
The painful irony is that this so-called “global brotherhood” is mostly one-sided. When Palestinians needed refuge, many neighbouring Muslim countries shut their borders against them despite all the loud talk about the Ummah.
At the end of the day, your tribe, language, and people are real. They are yours. No religion should make a person feel proud to reduce himself to second place in his own land.
You can only fight with your whole heart if you believe you can win. Nothing is more detrimental than fatalism. If you let the brutality of the oppression you face convince you it’s too entrenched to overcome, you lose. You have to believe in liberation. There’s no reason not to.
Ohen Grace Eze N'ughegbe portrait at the back of one of her shrines. The wall depicts deities and cures, with the term "Ohen - Ezenughegbe Tra Domedical Union", Benin City,ca.1989.
📸; Joseph Nevadomsky
in the Ghanaian and Nigerian settings i keep finding that the child is expected to learn the parent deeply whereas the parents can ignore who their child is and claim successful parenting because of the type of material scarifies they are systematically forced into.