Saturday, October 3, 2020

Who Debunks The Debunkers? (II)

We have just written about snopes.com and their bias. Another example is the "analysis" snopes.com makes of a billboard seen in Indiana about Prophet Muhammad, which claims is "MOSTLY FALSE:




"What's True

The Muslim Prophet Muhammad had multiple wives.

What's False

There are no historical accounts of the Prophet committing rape or torturing people; he was known for freeing slaves, not "dealing" them.

What's Undetermined


The age of his youngest wife, Aisha, at the time of marriage is contested; the male members of a Jewish tribe in Medina were executed for treason during a battle, but the number is also contested.
"

The fact is that the billboard is MOSTLY TRUE, and what is not true is just "undetermined", as snopes.com puts it. 

1. Muhammad not only had multiple wives, he had 13 wives

2. "The Prophet Muhammad did not try to abolish slavery, and bought, sold, captured, and owned slaves himself." [BBC

3. The most accepted age of Aisha foin the moment of the marriage with Muhamaad and when the marriage "was consumed" are 6 and 9 years old: "The majority of traditional sources state that Aisha was betrothed to Muhammad at the age of six or seven, but she stayed in her parents' home until the age of nine, or ten according to Ibn Hisham,[30] when the marriage was consummated with Muhammad, then 53, in Medina." [Wikipedia

4. So the only contested fact is the number of Jews beheaded on one day, as snopes.com puts it.

Snopes.com should have written "MOSTLY TRUE". If they didn't want to accept that it was true, they could have written "DISPUTED". In the moment they claim this is "MOSTLY FALSE" they are lying.

1 comment:

J said...

drain the swamp! drain snopes!