To be fair, it was normal at that point in history at many parts of the world to have multiple wives (or one wife + multiple concubines).

That and the prophet was actually monogamous for 25 years (until his first wife who was 15 years older than him passed away).

Every religious scripture has many things that are barbaric by modern standards. This comment really is out of place.

Religious flamewar is not allowed on Hacker News. Please take/keep this elsewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Nobody is "flaming", just pointing out facts. I didn't start the argument though, so I suggest you clean up from the root.

It's amazing how biased you are in this.

Your comment was obviously religious flamewar in the sense that we ban accounts for. We try hard to be unbiased, but when someone has just broken the site rules egregiously, such claims are a little hollow.

You unfortunately have a history of violating the HN guidelines in comments. We've asked you several times to stop doing this. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban you. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended.

Bahai would probably be an exception. About the worst they do is be slightly sexist.

I believe the reason for this was to protect the women. Not sure though.