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| Preacher calls Mohammed 'pedophile' |
| 2005-04-24 |
| SEVERAL hundred Muslims protested at a pentecostal church in Stockholm against a preacher who denigrated Islam's prophet Mohammed, calling him a "confused pedophile". According to police, about 400 Muslim protesters, including women and children, gathered in front of the Philadelphia Church, the main site of the pentacostal movement in Sweden. In March at this church, Runar Sogaard, a 37-year-old Norwegian preacher living in Sweden, had made comments about several religions including Islam. "Mohammed, he is not God, he was a confused pedophile... Read the story of what Mohammed did. He married girls at age nine, 11," Sogaard said in a sermon which was sold on a CD by his followers. A statement signed by "Muslims of Sweden" called Sogaard's remarks "immature and ridiculous," noting that at the time when the prophet lived girls were married at very young ages. After Sogaard's sermon was reported in the Swedish press, the preacher has tried to justify his remarks. "I made humorous descriptions of different religions, including Christianity," Sogaard said in a television interview last week. Sogaard, who is not a member of the Philadelphia Church but has his own religious group, is under police protection having received threats, according to his followers. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 The protestors have got a point ... what proof is there ol' Mo' was "confused"? |
| Posted by: Kirk 2005-04-24 9:22:07 PM |
| #3 noting that at the time when the prophet lived girls were married at very young ages. Mohammed the pedophile (MERIH) married the child when she six years old and consumated (i.e. had full sexual intercourse with her) when she was 8 or 9 years old. Any Doctors out there want to say a 9 year old is physically capable of even concentual consumation? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-04-24 9:06:50 PM |
| #2 some of the Norwegian stock are realistic |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-24 9:05:18 PM |
| #1 .. "immature and ridiculous,"...? Not in my book Calling a ♠ a ♠ is more like it. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-24 8:35:36 PM |