RE: Was Muhammad a Pedophile?
June 3, 2011 at 8:47 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2011 at 8:48 pm by Sybyl Walker.)
Quote:A 16 year old is debatable even in today's standards ... but that's not what we're talking about.
We're talking about 9 year old girls. The huge majority of which have not even begun menstruation, let alone achieved a level of intellectual and psychological development capable of handling a sexual relationship with what we can assume is going to be an aggressive 50 year old male.
But too many people on this thread want to defend religion-endorsed pedophilia so maybe I'll just check out of this now. Clearly it pisses me off.
I think anyone who is related to a minor is a pedophile, it is not discussed.
I am an atheist, but when going to discuss a given as this is necessary to see what was natural at the time, you can not judge any time based on figures her contemporaries are not.
That's my opinion as a historian. Regarding child abuse, those who practice it have to be castrated.