Pedophilia in Islam

A ‘Sahih’ Islamic Fallacy — what is the proof that your father is actually your father?

We who speak about civilization, human rights, science, and human dignity have many limitations and must follow laws and ethical guidelines. Many of these are written, and many are unwritten. For example, even if you are certain, you cannot call someone a thief without proof. You cannot call a potential terrorist group a terrorist group. It’s a lot like this: suppose there is a village with miles and miles of banana plantations, and here and there a few mango trees stand tall with their heads held high. If the owner finds out, he will cut down all those mango trees. But according to the rules of civilization, you cannot call that village a banana village; you have to say that there are some banana plants… Even if 97% of the people in a village are thieves, you cannot call it a village of thieves; you have to say that some people in the village are thieves. You can clearly understand who I am giving examples of, but you have to take into account social media community standards, prevailing laws, the definition of racism, etc.—even though for many or some, that number can be 80-90% as well. We ourselves have created these rules of civilization and politeness for our own benefit—although those to whom we want to say these things do not care about them at all. Their rule is divine command.

If you highlight the dark side of Islamic ideology, especially the dark side of the life of Prophet Muhammad, many Islamists will abusively insult you irrelevantly. They will insult your father and mother, call you the son of a whore, the son of a prostitute, and imagine your mother sleeping with thousands of men. Prophet Muhammad himself used to insult people, and Allah in the Quran has compared disbelievers and polytheists to the lowliest animals. When reason is defeated, abuse becomes their only weapon. While abusing, they also plot how to label you a kafir, apostate, or blasphemer (shatime rasul) and slaughter you. Islam itself has instructed them to kill kafirs, apostates, and those who blaspheme the Prophet. Prophet Muhammad himself sent secret assassins to kill his critics. His followers are instructed to love him more than their own lives, and anyone who doubts him even slightly or compares him with anyone else must be killed.

One of the popular questions from these Islamists is: “What is the proof that your father is actually your father?” They think that by asking this question, they have thrown a massive argument. The person to whom this question is thrown will not answer such unwanted, worthless questions. How many will they answer? If one answers, thousands will ask the same question again in a new way. Then, not getting an answer, their sweet dream begins—that they have defeated the writer, freethinker, atheist, or humanist with this question.

What lies behind this question? Logic? Science? Or thousand-year-old stupidity, contempt for human dignity, and deep hostility toward modern civilization? These people are trapped in the circle of that ignorance from 1400 years ago and cannot break out of its boundaries. In Surah Luqman, Allah says that only He knows whether the child in the mother’s womb will be a boy or a girl, and when and where it will rain. Ultrasound technology can accurately determine the sex of the fetus between 16-20 weeks of pregnancy. Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) can determine the sex through a blood test in as little as 10 weeks of pregnancy. And meteorologists, using satellite data, humidity, air pressure, temperature, and big data analysis, are now capable of forecasting rainfall one week or even one month in advance. That is, the matters that the Quran presents as “known only to Allah” are now known to ordinary people with the help of hospitals, weather offices, and smartphone apps. This is the exclusive knowledge of Allah in Islam!

Modern Paternity DNA Tests can determine biological fatherhood with 99.99% accuracy. This test compares the STR (Short Tandem Repeat) markers of the child and the potential father. The test is so reliable that almost all courts in the world accept it as legal evidence. DNA-based paternity determination is now easily available and legally recognized in many countries around the world, including Bangladesh. Yet, all these insane, ignorant believers think that apart from the mother, no one else can say who had sex with her and whose child it is.

This question does not arise from any intellectual curiosity. It comes from a specific tactic—which philosophers call “Ad Hominem” or personal attack. When there is a risk of being defeated in argument, instead of addressing the subject, they attack the opponent’s personal life. When topics like child marriage in the life of Prophet Muhammad, the sexual exploitation of female war captives, or the secret assassination of critics are raised, they cannot answer with logic—then the abuse begins, along with this kind of “challenge.”

The second purpose of this tactic is to create confusion. The question sounds curious, but its real goal is to divert the main discussion in a different direction. This is called the “Red Herring Fallacy”—that is, diverting attention from the main topic by introducing an irrelevant issue.

The third purpose is even more sinister—to socially humiliate the critic by trying to prove him a “bastard” or “illegitimate child” and to declare his statement invalid. This is not mere abuse; it is a calculated strategy of social oppression.

Why is it so important to know the answer to this question? A human child has no choice or desire regarding whose sperm he or she is born from. According to the Islamists’ belief, it is Allah who sent that child into the world. So why are they so eager to know whether that child is, in their language, a so-called bastard? Even if it is, isn’t the responsibility Allah’s? Along with hundreds of ways to determine the biological father, it can also be understood through various external features, human qualities, sense of social responsibility, and observation. For various reasons, many children grow up with someone other than their biological father in a fatherly role—does that person stop being a father?

There is a girl in my neighborhood. A few years ago, her mother separated from her biological father and is now living with a boyfriend. As you know, I am a working man; I earn my bread by working. I cannot survive on the easiest income scheme in the world—like Islamic mullahs do with their sermons, Facebook, and YouTube fan followers. Sometimes when I go out very early in the morning for work, I see that girl being dropped off by her real father. Sometimes she stays at her real father’s house for a day or two. At other times, I see her mother’s boyfriend throwing away all her old furniture, toys, and clothes and buying her new, expensive things. Now, if this girl grows up receiving fatherly affection from this new man, what is wrong with that? What is her fault or unworthiness?

How many boys and girls grow up with their foster or adoptive parents? It is seen that those parents raise them like their own children and even give them a share of their property. But none of them, like Prophet Muhammad, happens to see the exposed body of his adopted son’s wife, becomes overwhelmed with sexual arousal, and marries her. In Islam, there is a rule that once a foster daughter grows up, the foster father can marry that girl. Just imagine how disgusting! A father raises a little girl with fatherly affection, and later when the girl grows up a bit—seeing her youth, that father marries her! But Islam permits this. Check the tafsir of Surah Al-Ahzab; you cannot escape by saying you don’t accept Hadith—this is stated in the Quran. This practice is still prevalent in Iran today. Search online and you will find it; I also have it in my timeline—look it up. In September 2013, the Iranian Parliament passed a law honoring this Islamic principle, stating that a father can marry his foster daughter when she turns 13! State recognition of pedophilia, and not only that—it is a huge moral question.

Islam has tarnished the sacred relationship of father-mother and child. Marrying foster parents! Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. Islam, you are so vile? Even though civilization discourages it, Islam has permitted marriage with aunties (mami, chachi), uncles (khalu, fufa), and such relations. It even allows marrying one’s mother-in-law (if no consummation with the wife has occurred, or after divorce)—yet our common sense and social norms do not permit it; we see our mother-in-law as a mother figure. Islam permits cousin marriage—whereas modern science discourages marriage between cousins. Marriage between close relatives significantly increases the risk of recessive genetic disorders in children. Research has shown that the rate of birth defects in children born from cousin marriages is double. In many Middle Eastern countries, where the rate of cousin marriage is 30-50%, the prevalence of genetic diseases is alarming. If you consider all this from the perspective of modern science and human civilization, you will see that Islam is a very medieval system.

The sad thing is that people like you, who are immature and foolish, are again the majority in society. You have coined a slur called “bastard” (jaraj). This so-called slur of yours does not affect conscious people like us, but you have no idea how many hundreds of human lives are destroyed because of it. When a child is conceived due to extramarital sexual relations, often out of fear of social shaming, the girl commits suicide, or aborts the child, or kills the infant after birth, or leaves the baby at the hospital. How many infants are found eaten by foxes and dogs in forests and fields, how many are flushed down toilets? How many babies are found every year on the streets and in dumpsters—do you keep count? The society led by religious fanatics and extremists like you, which has named an innocent child “bastard,” is itself the real bastard. Every human child is legitimate— if the mother or father cannot take responsibility, then the state and the world should take responsibility for that child. That is civilization. Islam has planted so many seeds of barbarism in your brains—you have no sense of that reality.

People like you—potential terrorists—are a cancer to society. You create hundreds of hardships and bear responsibility for the murder of thousands of people. Those whose paternal identity you question are not harmful to society even if they do not know their exact paternal identity. Every human birth in this world is a celebration, whether it takes place in a prostitute’s house or in a royal palace. As a human being, that child has the right to the same dignity as everyone else in the world. Worms of the gutter like you do not want to give humans that dignity, yet you claim that there is no caste or class discrimination in Islam! Disgusting nymphomaniac, pedophile followers and racists claim that their religion has no discrimination of caste or race. Let the earth split open in shame.

Why should anyone accept your questions and challenges? We are humans, not terrorists, beasts, or animals like you. We value free thought and opinions. Look, even if you abuse me or use derogatory language, I still speak to you politely. Do our fathers deprive us of their property so that we have to prove through DNA testing who our biological father is? Who are you? What is your identity? Do I seem to be at your level? Are you our equal in humanity, society, or moral quality? Why should we take your absurd, 1400-year-old challenges seriously? Although I am a humanist, both my father and mother are very religious people; they are deeply immersed in Islam, but they are not harmful to anyone. Since they have not come into contact with radical Islam or original Islam, they have kept religion limited to their daily lives. But who are you to demand my birth identity? Don’t worry—our moral standards are much higher than the low moral standards of Islam. You don’t need to worry about our birth identity or moral standards—focus on patching up new holes in your own system.