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While human nature is everywhere the same and Muslims can, of course, act as tolerantly as anyone else, the example of Muhammad, the highest model for human behavior, constantly pulls them in a different direction.

— Robert Spencer The truth about Muhammad : founder of the world's most intolerant religion (2006)

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In reality, few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage.

There is no orthodox sect or school of Islam that teaches that Muslims must coexist peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis.

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The myth that poverty causes terrorism. In reality, study after study has shown that jihadists are not poor and bereft of economic opportunities, but generally wealthier and better educated than their peers.

With statements like these from the Qur’an and Muhammad, it is no wonder that women in the Islamic world suffer such inequalities.

The truth about Muhammad : founder of the world's most intolerant religion (2006)

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