RE: A challenge about women and marriage in Islam
May 13, 2013 at 8:10 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 8:14 pm by Rayaan.)
(May 13, 2013 at 7:15 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Every Muslim I've spoke with about this topic does believe Muhammad married a 9 year old, including the poster of this thread.
And that only means that you haven't spoken to Muslims who don't believe that.
Even if he did marry 9-year-old girl, what does that prove exactly?
Also, know that all of Muhammad's and Aisha's family members knew about their marriage with each other and it was arranged by their parents which is a strong indication that such a thing was a cultural phenomenon and that it was not viewed to be immoral by anyone living at that time. There were even people who used to say very offensive things to Muhammad and they used to mock him and ridicule him with extremely harsh words (mainly because they didn't believe what he was preaching, Islam) - and yet - none of them was ever heard to have insulted him nor criticized him about marrying a supposedly 9-year-old girl.
You have made a ridiculous amount of generalizations about how Muslims view women and how they treat them; I don't feel that it would be worth my time to explain them to you. Lilly has already countered all your arguments and she said it better than I could have said it myself.
