RE: A challenge about women and marriage in Islam
May 13, 2013 at 8:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 8:23 pm by paulpablo.)
Quote:You have made a ridiculous amount of generalizations about how Muslims view women and how they treat them
Show me one time I ever did that. You don't even need to show me 2 times, just once when I ever made a generalization about how muslims treat women.
Quote: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.
I have actually explicitly said I don't think Muhammad was a out of the ordinary, perverse or anything else along those lines for the time in which he lived in so you miss my point entirely.
My point is that because someone married a 9 year old girl 1400 years ago it doesn't make it ok to do that now just because of a religion or for any other reason, not when we have education systems in place for 9 year olds for a reason these days, they work better than the systems that were in place 1400 years ago.
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