Italian feminist and former far right-wing MP Daniela Santanche has sparked a controversy after calling the Prophet Mohammed a “a polygamist and paedophile” during a TV debate. Santanche appeared on a television programme aired on the commercial channel, Canale 5 with the president of Milan’s Islamic centre, Ali Abu Schwaima, on Sunday.
“Mohammed was a polygamist and a paedophile because he had nine wives, one of whom was only nine years old, that is a historical fact,” said Santanche.
A former MP for the post-fascist National Alliance party, Santanche now leads the far-right La Destra party.
Her remark incensed Schwaima and Muslims in the audience, who had been invited to take part in a debate on the contentious issue of placing crucifixes in Italian classrooms after last week’s ban by the European Court of Human Rights.
“Why don’t we talk about serious things, not about your disgusting comments,” he shouted at Santanche.
Santanche continued to shout back: “For us, Mohammed was a paedophile.”
“You’re just showing the ignorance of people like you who have no other arguments to use,” bellowed Schwaima, jabbing his finger at her.
He claimed the crucifix should not be removed from classrooms in Italy.
“For us, Christ was one of the five main prophets and we respect him, like the crucifix.”
But Santanche was not appeased by Schwaima’s remark.
“We will never listen to Mohammed, who was a polygamist and a paedophile,” screeched Santanche.
Studio ushers were seen physically restraining an irate, bearded member of the audience from lunging at her.
“I and my staff dissociate ourselves from these comments, which are offensive to Islam,” Domenica Cinque’s presenter, Barbara D’Urso, said in a statement issued after the programme.
A former MP for the post-fascist National Alliance party, Santanche ran for the lower house of parliament on the far-right La Destra list in last year’s general election.
But the party failed to reach the 4 percent threshold required for election to the parliament.
Santanche was last year among rightwing protesters who opposed the conversion of a former velodrome into a mosque in Milan.
She opposes Muslim women wearing the veil in Italy and has called for a referendum to reopen the country’s brothels.
Aisha was believed to be nine-years-old at the time of her marriage to Mohammed.
Child marriages such as Aisha’s were relatively common in Bedouin societies at the time of the prophet and remain so in countries such as Yemen and Saudi Arabia among others.
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1. Muhammad did not marry Aysha when she was 9 years old. That’s a popular myth. This myth was authored 150 years after the death of Muhammad. It is not in the Quran. The Quran asks us to marry only when we reach a marriageable age in verse 4:6.
2. Again Muhammad was not polygamist.The story about his “9 wives” is a also a medieval forgery. There is no evidence for this in the Quran.
Santanch is known for her racist opinions and vulgar behaviour. She talks about Christianity and equality? Read the epistles of Paul and the Old Testament to know the status of Christian women. Why talk about Muhammad when the show was supposed to be talking about banning crucifixes in schools? She talks about pedophilia in KSA? How about pedophilia in Italy, the seat of the Vatican? This woman is known for her racist comments against homosexuals and minorities. She even tried to harass Muslims at Eiu Fetr! I take pride in the fact that she will never listen to Prophet Muhammad. Islam was never for vulgar, racist and uncivilized women like her.
Everything she said is correct and all documentation sustain that. She is well educated and she knows the contain of Qu’ran. She say only the truth and it is not racism. who is not able to face the truth is not able to be civilised as those savages muslims in the video.
1. She did not say a single correct thing at all. The “documentation” you talk about is a medieval forgery that was written after the death of Muhammad by 200 years. So the “documentation” has no authenticity whatsoever. Even that “documentation” does not say that he married 9 women, so she does not even know the number in that “documentation”! But as I said it is a worthless documentation that has no authenticity!
2. She is not well educated at all. Well educated people are not savage and speak in a civilized manner. They do not interrupt others and do not shout. They do not divert the discussion when they losing. That racist woman is a loser because the discussion was about the crucifixion of Jesus. When she lost the discussion there she turned to Muhammad’s “sexual life”. That is a sign of stupidity and uneducation.
3. She does not know anything about the Quran. Actually the Quran debunks her because it prohibits pedophilia and makes ploygamy strictly conditional and gives women the right to prevent their husbands from marrying on them. Did you notice that she did not quote one verse of the Quran? It is because she does not know, or pretends to know, anything about the Quran.
4. The savage person in the video was that stupid woman who was shouting and raising her voice because she could not defend the “crucifixion” of Jesus and interrupting others loudly and barbarically with off topic comments that show her ignorance and arrogance.