(March 20, 2015 at 5:24 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Mohammed married a 9-year-old. That pretty much makes him a pedophile, all special pleading aside ... no matter his motivation.
I'm certainly not in Mohammed's defense team, but every wealthy and/or poweful man married children at that time. All around the world, in all cultures. Daughters were a commodity to be sold or exchanged for other favors. It's a custom that lasted at least till the late 18th century.
If you want to nail Islam for something no other culture did at that time, it's rather the rampant polygamism that in some regions is still enforced.