Originally posted by DaveMoral
Quote: | Originally posted by serenity
yes, but do sports fans attack other countries embassies?
seriously, whenever theres something bad said about islam, its never true. its all this and that and blah blah blah. besides, wasnt muhammed nothing
more then a dirty pedophile, marrying a nine-year old girl called aisha? |
Either way, the riots are retarded.
As to Muhammad... some reported traditions say Aisha was 9, but the stories don't add up. She was supposed to be something like 5 years younger than
Muhammad's daughter Fatima, who was 17 when Muhammad is said to have married Aisha. Secondly, the notion that Muhammad was some sort of sexual deviant
doesn't really add up given that his first wife, with whom he was completely monogamous, was 15 years older than him and he didn't marry her until he
was 25... which was extremely unusual for that era of human history. The majority of his later wives were divorced older women. Aside from which, the
standard Muslim belief is that a person reaches the state of "baligh"(maturity, adulthood) at around the age of 15... so even in that era 9 would have
been quite the stretch for betrothal, let alone marriage. It's certainly a worthy story to be criticized, but it's also important to analyze it with
other sources which it may contradict or not gel with... Muslims are currently actively engaging in such analysis. If you're actually interested,
check this out Aisha.
Though, interestingly, if one does the math on say.... Mary, the mother of Jesus, in all likelihood her age at the time of the immaculate conception
was 12. At this time we know she was betrothed/engaged to Joseph. The Catholic Church teaches this. By today's standards Joseph would be a "pedophile"
or at least considered sexually deviant for marrying a 12 year old girl(even if he didn't ever consumate the marriage with her, as the Catholic Church
teaches). It wasn't that long ago that people in the US were getting married at 13 and 14, ages considered far too young by today's standards.
It's kind of hypocritical to analyze what may have been acceptable 1400 years ago by the standards of today's society, especially when not even 100
years ago 14 year olds were being married off. |