Oh my goodness! @Kirran, you've figured it out! Put both these charts side-by-side and the REDUCTION IN MARGARINE CONSUMPTION correlates to the INCREASE IN SUICIDES!
It's lack of margarine that's making people depressed. :(
When a religion employs the (dirty) tactic of threats, it makes me sad, and just gives the impression that it is desperate to pressure people into converting, or holding on to the people it already has with fear of punishment.
I much prefer Rabia Basri's attitude:
Thanks Union for explaining about married women seeking war asylum. It makes much more sense now!
As far as post #6 goes, I was merely pointing out that the rules were different for Muhammad, as your OP mentioned Muhammad specifically.
Thanks FearGod, but I don't think your response addresses the particular sentence I pasted. Can you elaborate around whether or not the MMA can already be married when the Muslim man marries her, please?
And where the rules different for Muhammad?
33:50
O Prophet, indeed We have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have given their due compensation and those your right hand possesses from what Allah has returned to you [of captives] and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the...
Could the second coming of Christ be about people acting Christlike (without the whole setting children against their parents thing, of course...), rather than an actual physical appearance of Christ himself?
Hi Luis
This section from SikhiWiki explains much (my comments in [brackets]):
And some more from the same SikhiWiki source, which gives more context to the equality side of things:
Here's a lovely article about the langar hall at the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, India...