Mohammad was first taken care of by his widowed mother before she died shortly due to disease I think. He didn't get a great education because he was an orphan who barely survived. Also, two people in one marriage is considered the ideal and should only enter into marriage with multiple women if they can adequately take care of them all. How many people adequately listen to any polygamy being about "Equal Care" and all is up to interpretation. Mali, a major African and Muslim Nation, was quoted as having "Beautiful women that are more important than the men." Despite the fact it's leader was a man.
It's doubtful that Mohammad placed too much emphasis on patriarchy given the culture previously allowed women to have multiple husbands, but there was at least enough to run with clearly. Though most fundie Islam scholars tend to rewrite the Koran, as well as abuse shitty hadiths. Who knows how much telephones being played with here. Nothing worse than Christian fundies rewriting their own 'sacred' texts to match their beliefs instead of of matching their beliefs to their sacred texts.
I often don't view assholes like the taliban as "Christians" or "Muslims" but as a bunch of manipulative men using faith to delude the poorly informed to gather followers. More Muslims, possibly even more strict followers of the five pillars (Which is the keys to being a muslim), have died to Muslim terrorists and extremists than their western foes. Often as collateral damage. I think the same can be said of Christian Terrorists and Christian fatalities. This crap makes me sad for the women and sad that people believe that they are doing the will of God via this murder and assaults.
