The Quran and The Prohibiting of Pedophilia? Marriage Contracts

[WinterHold]

@Atlas: Your reply to my reply didn't address what I wrote. I was asking a genuine question and making a technical observation, that's all.

So I think we can surmise that the Quran doesn't require puberty. Therefor, your argument here is redundant because you're drawing on outside laws to stop child marriages, rather than Islam.

Now, you seem to be against child marriage, which is great. But you're not against it because the Quran is, it's because you're a better person than that. You deserve the credit for that opinion, not the book.

I wanted to refer to the severe criticism of Islam when an opinion suggested that it advocates pedophilia, but the criticism persisted even when a another opinion suggested that it doesn't advocate it; if not prohibiting it even.

I wouldn't say that puberty is not "required" in the Quran; rather "not stated" in the context of marriage. But it is stated elsewhere as a requirement, this is the longest verse in the whole book; it's about exactly this:

Sura 2, The Quran:
( 282 )   O you who have believed, when you contract a debt for a specified term, write it down. And let a scribe write [it] between you in justice. Let no scribe refuse to write as Allah has taught him. So let him write and let the one who has the obligation dictate. And let him fear Allah, his Lord, and not leave anything out of it. But if the one who has the obligation is of limited understanding or weak or unable to dictate himself, then let his guardian dictate in justice. And bring to witness two witnesses from among your men. And if there are not two men [available], then a man and two women from those whom you accept as witnesses - so that if one of the women errs, then the other can remind her. And let not the witnesses refuse when they are called upon. And do not be [too] weary to write it, whether it is small or large, for its [specified] term. That is more just in the sight of Allah and stronger as evidence and more likely to prevent doubt between you, except when it is an immediate transaction which you conduct among yourselves. For [then] there is no blame upon you if you do not write it. And take witnesses when you conclude a contract. Let no scribe be harmed or any witness. For if you do so, indeed, it is [grave] disobedience in you. And fear Allah. And Allah teaches you. And Allah is Knowing of all things.

Witness must be "men" and "women"; of course the words "man" and "woman" refer to fully grown men and women; that's even from a linguistic perspective.

Just a note; women in the past weren't strong merchants, so it's normal that they might err in calculations.

So if we looked at marriage with same perspective, the witnesses and the bride and the husband must be men and women: and men are not children, women are not children.

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That's the thing about the abrahamics that really gets my goat.  When belief in magic book leads you to either deny or fail to recognize your own basic human decency (let alone the basic decency of others)....there's a problem with magic book.  The culture that wrote the quran wasn't quite as brutish as other cultures of the time in regards to the context of this thread..but they were certainly no better than their own times version of a monticello slaver.  Seeing a broad range of things we consider unacceptable today as..unfortunate..distasteful, even...but ultimately permissible and sanctioned by divinity.

Case in point.  Puberty..really?  That's the qurans defense?  So..sometime between 7 and 13......a 40 year old man could marry a girl..with her consent?  You don;t get to say things like this often...but at least the slave was a captive held against her will....  I can't imagine how fucked up a society would have to be to regularly produce  7-13 year old girls who dreamed of marrying their kindly old uncle....?

I asked you before to provide a verse from the Quran to prove your point.
Something like "Go take slaves". 

But you failed to find a verse in the Quran that advocates slavery. I can't see the verse. All your assumption is built on a spider web. Mere accusation forged in the void.