First off,
Personally I have seen many people claim that mohammed was just following the standards of the time when he consummated his marriage to Aisha when she was 9, it's the standard defence, but that is why I asked you if 'it is ever acceptable for a middle aged man to have sex with a nine year old girl?'
Mohammed was 52 when this happened.
For me the worst thing about this is that even were you to argue that it was the norm for the times, and that women attained maturity at a younger age, I find it incredibly creepy that :
Sahih Muslim wrote:A'isha reported that she used to play with dolls in the presence of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and when her playmates came to her they left (the house) because they felt shy of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), whereas Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) sent them to her
http://www.iiu.edu.my/deed/hadith/muslim/031_smt.htmlSo he used to sit and watch her play with dolls with her friends before they had sex
If we wish to test him by the standards of the time, we run into another problem. Her father Abu Bakir was a close friend for him and he should have been obliged to treat Aisha like an Uncle. By the standards of the day it was highly unethical to marry the daughters of your close friends.
However as a muslim (and I assume you are, feel free to tell me otherwise if you are just interested in Islam as an outsider) you have a major problem with your not supporting his kiddy fiddling ways, because of
Uswa Hasana,
http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Uswa_HasanaThis is the concept that according to the koran (which remember is the perfect word of allah) Mohammed was the 'Perfect human' who could do no wrong. The koran even call his morality 'sublime'
Koran 68:4 wrote:And most surely you conform (yourself) to sublime morality.
Now, Mohammed being perfect as stated by the koran is surely not up for debate here? this is a central tenant of the muslim faith, and why muslims worldwide rioted because a few people drew pictures of him with a bomb in his turban.
This combination of hadith and koran is why countries like Saudi Arabia allow child rape in the guise of 'marriage' because mohammed did it, and allah says mohammed was perfect, therefore it must be OK. Saudi Arabia (and others) didn't just invent this, they came to it by the most careful study of the koran and hadith they could.
For the umpteenth time
YOU ARE NOT ARGUING WITH ME ABOUT WETHER AISHA WAS NINE WHEN MOHAMMED FUCKED HER, YOU ARE ARGUING WITH ESTABLISHED ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP If you want to trot out a weak defence based on what one person told you, be prepared for me to quote back at you volumes of established works by islamic scholars, both believers and secular. In fact I find it hard to even find a reputable source that denies it.
Of course your local imam might disagree, but if you and through you, him, cannot provide some pretty well documented evidence for this I'm going to just dismiss it as one mans apologetics aimed at providing a nice face of islam to the infidels, and therefore worthless and meaningless. As people here are wont to say
Show me the fuckin evidenceNow onto the claim that the koran doesn't explicitly permit sex with prebuescent girls (which by the way says nothing about maturity)
I think we are both agreed that according to the koran it is OK to marry and have sex with say an 11 year old girl as long as she has her period, which to me is fucking disgusting anyway ....... But I digress
We are going to have to deal with translations of the koran here, because there are some dodgy translation out there, made with the specific intent of hiding this from the infidels so we don't get up in arms about it. If you or your 'respected source' wants to argue, I ask that you get him to find fault in the translation and not just hand wave away and say 'this isn't a correct translation' I want to know
Why it's incorrect.
Wikislam provides a very nice summary of the verse, with a very well referenced translation, if your expert disagrees with this translation, please explain
What the problems with it are.
Detailed analysis of the verse in Arabic
:
http://www.wikiislam.com/wiki/Pedophilia_in_the_Quran
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