USA Today reports on this billboard in Indianapolis.
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The billboard described “The Perfect Man” as a “slave owner & dealer” with “13 wives, 11 at one time.” https://t.co/V8IsUQ1yJe
Muslims are upset.
The question is: is it true? Here are some observations:
- The Quran never claims that Muhammad was a perfect man. But in Islamic theology, “al-Insān al-Kāmil” is a term used as an honorific title to describe Muhammad . The phrase means “the person who has reached perfection.”
- Muhammad married 6 year-old Aisha, though he waited to consummate the marriage until she was 10 years-old. Today, that would be classified as a “rape of a child in the first degree” since he was 53 at the time.
Nothing else on that sign is in contention.