In my debate with a fellow on MWU!, he alluded to accusations that I was charging the Prophet with child marriage and murder allegations.

I kindly explained my positions, that one I do not view the Prophet as the "best of creation" and that I view him as a man, a man who intially questioned his Prophethood status and was even fearful of it.  I guess I do not buy into the "Muslim concept of the Prophets being free of sin" and perhaps my understanding of the Prophets is tainted by my acquaintenance with Evangelical and Mainline Christianity and Roman Catholicism and other denominations that may be referred to as "non-mainstream" like Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witness.

The Biblical accounts of the Prophets allude to issues like ethnocentricism for Jesus, adultery and even homosexual relations for David, Abraham’s child abandonment of his son Ishmael, who quite possibly was born out of wedlock, Lot’s daughters making sexual advances at their father after the "two cities of the plain" were destroyed (i.e., Sodom and Gamorrah).

This fellow queer Muslim accused me of denigrating the Prophet and did not use the term "blaspheme" but his comments were close to it.

This is where I find and take issue with Muslims and how we relate to the Prophets.  Perhaps I am not reverential enough, perhaps I rely too much on the "corrupted" sacred texts that proceeded the Qur’an, because the Qur’an leaves out many details and is more concerned with the moral message than history and biography like the Old and New Testament.

But the fact that I a take a modern scientific/skeptical approach to Islam irks many Muslims.

But honestly, I am a product of Western academia and Islamic studies should be free from the yoke of "classical jurisprudence" constructs and free to question assumed truths that may have little or no validity.  Islamic studies departments should not be Saudi-funded madrassas that rehash old ways of thinking without engaging in innovative thought and new ideals.

I feel an entirely new approach to the Prophets is needed, much of what is cancerous in Islam right now is a result of lack of innovation in matters of spirituality.