Posted on 12/21/2010 9:50:26 AM PST by ventanax5
Islam is the only major world religion where child marriage has the religious sanction of its prophet. Mohammed 'married' Aisha, his most notable wife, when she was six years old. The marriage was consummated when she was nine or ten at the latest. Like so many marriages, it was the product of an alliance between her father and Mohammed. Aisha's merchant father was Mohammed's first ally outside his family, and went on to be Mohammed's successor. That alliance was sealed with the sexual abuse of his little girl.
Such arrangements are still common in the Muslim world today, where little girls are treated as gifts to seal an alliance.
Islam was born out of the brutal rape of a little girl. As the mother of the Sunni Caliphate, Aisha is not just an incidental figure. Her marriage to Mohammed lies at the heart of Islam. The alliance between her father and her abuser made Islam viable by giving its prophet his first real power base. After Mohammed's death, her father used that connection to the Chief Prophet of Islam, to gain the political upper hand over Mohammed's son-in-law in the civil war that arose afterward. And it was her father who oversaw the codification of the Koran in its written form.
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This what the Nazis said about the Jews - I know you’re different.
“The Virgin Mary was what, like 13 or so? Not that I’ma big fan of islam but really, young girls at the age of puberty all over the mideast region were routinley taken as wives.”
Sure, but there’s a big difference between taking a wife at the age of puberty, which is common practice in all pre-industrial cultures, and taking a pre-pubescent child as a wife. Obviously, Mohammed didn’t wed Aisha because he was interested in procreating with her, so that leaves only deviant motives.
“You can not compare the morality of thousands of years ago to today.”
That’s cultural relativist hogwash. The same kind of reasoning leads liberals to believe that we can’t judge cultures that regularly practice cannibalism, infanticide, rape, and pederasty. The truth is, a savage is a savage, and no amount of rationalization will change that.
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“This what the Nazis said about the Jews - I know you’re different.”
Oh, give me a break. He said the religion should be wiped off the planet, not the people. The Nazis didn’t care if a Jew was practicing or not, they wanted to eliminate the entire race. There’s a big difference between saying an ideology or religion is worthless and should be eradicated, and saying a race or ethnicity needs to be wiped out.
Most perfect system ever for systematically creating psychotics.
“How are you going to “wipe” a 1400 year old religion with a 1.5 billion followers off the face of the earth?”
Convert them? Or you do like the Commies and just subvert their youth...
Get the AUTO DE FE ready!
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