Brian37 Wrote: Lets be fair here.
Given: that girls were married off young in ye olden tymes.
The problem though is mo is revered as a model to be emulated. You would think Allah might have foreseen the difficulties this would cause in the future, but no he did not.
Hence we have all sorts of behaviors throughout many parts of the Islamic world, repulsive to our modern sensibilities and justified by the behavior of a reprehensible character from a book of fiction. Boko Haram springs to mind.