Aisha saw it all

Submitted by shahla (United States), Aug 14, 2007 at 11:25

Fatima might well have been poisoned. So were at least three of the first four Caliphs, and very possibly the first of them, Aisha's father. These murders had nothing to do with religion. They were about power. Same as today.

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