Karen Armstrong visits Pakistan - Exclusive with Huma Amir

Historian and writer, Karen Armstrong on Express 24/7's Morning Show talks about Islam, religion, compassion and tolerance in the modern age.

If you missed Karen Armstrong at the Aga Khan University last year, come to the Carlton Hotel on Saturday to soak up her words of wisdom and mingle with the who's who of Pakistani literature because they will all be descending on Karachi for the second literature festival.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/112208/2nd-karachi-literature-festival-all-star-c...

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[IVYcmaile]

beautiful, beautiful message. COMPASSION. [don't be distracted by our human weakness / don't be distracted by foreign-culture practices] concentrate only on the holy message of compassion.

[PeterKuriakose]

@danishgroup You stupid cow, take a look at your own imams!

Detective Constable Karen Armstrong with the Youth and Family Violence Unit spoke today in Toronto about the arrest of Mohammad Masroor as a result of an ongoing sexual assault investigation.

On Wednesday August 10 Masroor was arrested and charged with 13 sex-related offenses in relation to alleged offenses between November 1, 2008 and July 28, 2011.

Hundreds of others online, too. Google "Imam sex arrest" and see for yourself.

[danishgroup]

@PeterKuriakose and the priest RAPE LITTLE BOYS !!!!

That 9 year old daughter was the child of Prophet Muhammed's best friend Abu Baker and the 1st ruler of the muslims after the prophet's death. Our 9 year old heck even our 6 year is more mature to be married off then be brought into the market and sold as slut like your women !!! TRUTH WORKS BOTH WAYS ACCEPT UR FLAWS TOO

[PeterKuriakose]

@SarcasmUnleashed Sleeping with a child is wrong, full stop. A 60-year old man sleeping with a 9-year old is disgusting. Would you allow your 6-year old daughter to be given up to a 55-year old man? This was what Muhammad did, and promoted. To your own self, be true.

[masoodadil]

I wish interviewer could do better than not letting Karen finish her sentences.

[SarcasmUnleashed]

@Salimlahore the motivations were not religious, i can assure you that. Understand this: The qurayza broke a pact that they established in Medina with Muhammad. they were treacherous. Muhammad's followers were very vulnerable, and his previous expulsion of other tribes had proved to be more difficult. He needed to establish that the Muslims were not weak or vulnerable and that other tribes needed to keep their promises. Keep in mind, he resented this, but thought it necessary, as i said before

[SarcasmUnleashed]

@freethinker077 If you bring a man back on the 7th century and ask if these practices were immoral, he'd say it were not. And Muslims understand this very well. Aisha (r.a) never had a problem with her marriage and accepted the marriage. And by maturity I mean both physically and mentally. People have never stayed the same, have they? Always changed. In Europe, men married younger girls than Aisha, centuries after the death of the Prophet(s). He was for all time, but he was a man of his time.

[SarcasmUnleashed]

@freethinker077 The practice you are talking about, if you read history, was prevalent throughout the West until the 16-17th century. Women in the 19th century, my friend, did not get the rights in Europe, which Muhammad(s) gave to women in the 7th. But I am not arguing. Younger girls were married to men older than Muhammad during his era. All historians agree that Aisha was mature enough to understand the marraige of concept.

[SarcasmUnleashed]

@Salimlahore War was not something Muhammad set out to do yet he felt that sometimes it was necessary, even inevitable. The Jahilliya (irascibility) was not easy to wipe out overnight, and he had to fight. When he returned from the Battle of Uhad, the prophet said "We are going from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad." Ms Armstrong writes. "As Muhammad was returning from Qurayza to a city, he was seething with resentment. He knew he had to drop the Jahili behaviour" :D

[SarcasmUnleashed]

@Salimlahore The practice of marriage like that of Aisha was not eradicated in Europe till the early modern period, writes Ms. Armstrong. Aisha, of course became one of the most respected and prominent companion of the Prophet and Islam. As for multiple wives, you'd think a man like Muhammad would command such respect and wealth in Arabia, yet he lived frugally. The houses were not big enough so that his wives could stand up and survived on dates and oats. Each wives was treated respectfully