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To: ZULU
One of Mohammad's "wives" he married when she was 6 years old, and had sex with her when she was 8 years old. (he was 50 something at the time)

Is that not rape? (perhaps NOT by muslem standards)

171 posted on 11/20/2001 6:43:58 AM PST by babygene
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To: babygene
Fromour cultural perspective it is more like paedophilia than rape. On the other hand, in Christian Medieval Europe it was not unusual for women of eleven, twelve or thirteen to be given in marriage to older men.

Remember that a vast cultural and temporal divide separates America of the twenty first century from Arabia of the eight century. Failure to recognize changing times is one of the abysses into which these modern-day Islamic fundamentalists frequently fall

180 posted on 11/20/2001 7:05:06 AM PST by ZULU
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