Quote Originally Posted by Prince of Persia
Hi DDT ,
As I told you before it’s very surprising for me that you have these detailed information about Islam and now Ayatollah Khumeini ( do you know the meaning of Ayatollah , that means sign of God ) because most of lay people don’t have these information that you have .
According to Islamic rule girls can marry at the age of 9 , I don’t know whether this is happening in other Islamic countries or not , but in my country I’ve never heard that a girl married at this age. Maybe in some rural places girls marry at very young ages , for example 13-14 but in cities , especially in big cities such as Tehran( 10milion population ) girls marry at age of 20-30 ( 22 is average age of marriage for Iranian girls and 27 is for men). My grandmother got married when she was 14 (60 years ago ) , my mother got married when she was 19 (29 years ago ) , my sister is 22 years old now and she is still single .
According to Islamic rule men can have 2,3 or 4 official wives and as many as they like have sighe( non-official wives ) , some Arabs say Iranians are not Muslim because they don’t have several women and they don’t obey Ghoran’s order ( Surah Nesa ) .
This is not correct because in Islam if you do not have several wives you will not be considered non muslims and if there is some arabs saying this -although I do not believe this - they do not know real Islam. Regarding, polygamy in Islam, it is not obligatory and it is highly restricted by two golden conditions:
1. Power: here we mean both financial situation of the man and the sexual ability to have more than one wife.
2. the just and fair behaviour toward his wives.
if these two conditions are not valid, a muslim is not allowed to have more than one wife.
Polygamy in Islam has solved several problems that is endangering other societies that do not allow polygamy such as:
Adultery.
encreased number of widows who are suffering a lot in these societies and are crating many problems.
fullfilling the sexual needs of some men in a legal way instead of commiting adultery.
in some socities and religions, when a man has a wife that is not able to have babies he can not mary another one to have his own right to have babies. In Islam polygamy solved this.
there aree several advantages for polygamy and in Islam it is not an arbirtrary well it is a will controlled mean to protect community.

Our nationality and our religions are against each other , we became Muslim by power of sword not by will , so there is a permanent conflict between Iranian nationalists and Iranian religious men .
this is exteremly incorrect, and the simplest answer to your claim is why do we still have Zoroastrians, jews and other religions in Iran. were they so strong or muslims did not want them to become muslims?
Islam has spread all over the world because of its strength, its peaceful meesage, its fairness, its equality, its justice. No one can deny that Indonesian embraced Islam because of the great way Muslim traders coming from Yemen deal with them. In spain, the muslims ruled the country for 800 years and they did not force Chrestians to convert to Islam nor Jews.?
My friend, when you are talking about religions you should be fair and subjective.I want to put some pictures here but I can't , would someone please tell me how can I do that (those pictures are in my computer for example this is a path D:\Documents and Settings\Arash\My Documents\My Pictures\iran\zanan\mode193br.jpg )