# How is anti-wokeism different from sexism and/or racism?

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**Created:** [February 11, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-anti-wokeism-different-from-sexism-and-or-racism/979604 "2023-02-11T01:12:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-anti-wokeism-different-from-sexism-and-or-racism/979604/128 "2023-02-13T22:56:42Z")

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> **Muhammad Hijack Hidden by What Exit?**
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> > [@Novelty\_Bobble](#):
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> > Well I think […] their prophet was a paedophile.
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> [hijack] But that part, which is based on an [ill-informed misinterpretation of available historical facts that we’ve been criticizing on these boards for decades,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-fine-islam-is-this-violent-evil-religion-what-do-you-want-us-to-do-about-it/736328/340) is basically just ignorant bigotry.
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> A lot of us around here abominate ignorant bigotry, completely irrespective of whether it happens to offend devout Muslims.
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> > [@Kimstu](#):
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> > It would also be false to claim, even in accordance with modern views of sexual morality, that Muhammad was in any sense a “pedophile” as modern medicine defines the term. Recall that the historical evidence about his married life strongly suggests that most of it was spent in happy and sexually fulfilling relationships with wives older than himself. And there’s no confirmation that he ever actually had sex with his child-bride while she was pre-pubescent (which would have been the definition for “too young for sex” according to most marital codes of the time).
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> > In short, the statement “Muhammad was a pedophile” is such a misleading distortion of the known historical evidence about his life that it basically amounts to a bigoted and ignorant slur. That’s not a good way to win any converts to your anti-religion stance who don’t already agree with you.
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> [/hijack]

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