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<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Letter to America (Osama bin Laden)|2=[[File:Osama bin Laden.jpg|300px|link=Letter to America - Osama bin Laden]]|3=The letter to America is a 4,000-word document written by Osama bin Laden in 2002. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic on a Saudi Arabian website, and has since been translated and posted on Islamic websites run from the United Kingdom.
The letter lists seven demands. The first demand is that Americans convert to Islam, "the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand," "the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme". ([[Letter to America - Osama bin Laden|''read more'']])}}</option>





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Joseph the Pedophile: A Case of Christian Hypocrisy?
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This article refutes the claim that Joseph, the husband of Mary (the mother of Jesus Christ), was a pedophile, a popular yet erroneous tu quoque argument used to defend Prophet Muhammad's pedophilic marriage to Aisha.

Upon reading the non-canonical apocrypha, the Christian equivalent of da`if (weak) or maudu (fabricated) hadith, we find it does not say Mary married Joseph when she was aged only 12. It in fact says she was possibly 17 years of age at the time the marriage was eventually consummated, if ever.

The most decisive argument against the claim that Joseph was a pedophile is the fact that the same non-canonical writings which are used to gather information on Joseph and Mary's age, also confirm Mary's status as "ever virgin" (in The History of Joseph the Carpenter, Jesus says on Joseph's death "my mother, virgin undefiled"). (read more)