Posted on 08/12/2011 9:19:16 AM PDT by robowombat
Rationalizing Pedophilia in Islam
by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch July 29, 2011
Earlier this month we saw—or rather, were once again reminded—that Islam permits pedophilia in the guise of "marriage": Top Saudi cleric, Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, issued a fatwa asserting that there is no minimum age for girls to marry, "even if they are in the cradle," and that the only criterion is that "they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men."
Admirable patience to childish antics While this practice speaks for itself, it is interesting to witness the great lengths some Muslims go to justify or rationalize it—or even to turn it into a source of pride.
Consider, for example, this Muslim cleric discussing Muhammad's marriage to the child Aisha when she was nine. Far from blushing for shame, the cleric actually uses this anecdote to boast of the prophet's "patience" and "magnanimity." Translation of relevant excerpt follows:
The story of the prophet's marriage to Aisha reveals to us aspects like the prophet's conduct with Aisha, and more importantly the aspect regarding the relationship between the husband and wife, to show how one should treat his wife, just as the prophet did with Aisha.
We know that Asia's mother went to take her down from the swing that she was playing on to fix her hair and prepare her for the prophet so he could enter her [have sex with her]—and she did that all on the same day.
Aisha's own account in Sahih Bukhari is telling enough: she talks about how her mother hurriedly prepared her and then "handed" her over to Muhammad, and how "nothing surprised me but the coming of Allah's Apostle to me in the forenoon."
The cleric continues:
So you see, she was playing with her fellow playmates even though her day of consummation was that very same day—and all that they did was to fix her up for the prophet so he could have sex with her.
Now what do we see when the prophet married Aisha? Did he go to her and say "Okay that's it, you're married, you're now a grown up, you're supposed to be mature, you need to do this and that; you need to forget about your toys and your little friends; you are now a wife of a man, you have to see to my needs" and that's it?
No. The prophet allowed her to continue playing with her toy dolls—indeed, the prophet even sometimes gave her such things to play with. [This hadith has more details, including how Aisha's little girl friends would "hide themselves" whenever the prophet came to her until he called them out.]
It should be noted that the cleric recounted the above with much awe and amazement—as if to say, "Look how indulgent and open-minded our prophet was!"
In fact, such was the cleric's whole point: to show that Islam, according to the example of Muhammad, expects older Muslim husbands to be patient with their younger wives: "The older husband should not expect the younger wife to be at his level of maturity; rather, he should go down to her level, for he is capable, whereas she is not."
As "gentlemanly" as this ostensibly sounds, it is yet another example of how Muslim scholars deal with Muhammad's lifestyle: because they cannot condemn or ignore his practices, they inevitably go to great lengths to rationalize or justify them—to find the good in every situation their prophet was involved in, while being oblivious to all the bad.
Thus here we have a cleric straining to find a positive aspect to Muhammad's pedophilia—that he was patient and indulgent of his child-bride—while ignoring the heart of it: that the man Islam is built around desired to have sex with a child in the first place.
Ping
Mohammad said he was a prophet so its ok.
Joseph Smith said he was a prophet so its ok.
Warren Jeffs said he was a prophet so its ok.
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No different from the Mormon Warren Jeffs.
Starting a Cult and taking advantage of the underaged seem to go hand in hand don’t they?
Control issue, I guess.
Noted, but there is still Zechariah 13:3.
Mohammad said he was a prophet so its ok.
Joseph Smith said he was a prophet so its ok.
Warren Jeffs said he was a prophet so its ok.
/s
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.Not that any "votaries of the prophet" would believe such, but they will believe eventually.
Sick.
Awww - MadMo was a perv! Who knew?
“because they cannot condemn or ignore his practices, they inevitably go to great lengths to rationalize or justify them—to find the good in every situation their prophet was involved in, while being oblivious to all the bad.”
Sounds alot like the Democrat party and their “Taxes are the cure for everything” belief.
Muslims rationalize pedophilia because so many of them engage in it. It’s a product of the religion.
What a absolute PIG this Saudi freak is.
Oh my gosh-Arabian men have HUGE SEXUAL PROBLEMS so apparently they have to latch on to a dirtbag like mohammed to justify the abuse they are willing to lay upon (no pun intended) little girls.
Arabians must be desparate men-disgusting.
I cannot believe the filth Islam wallows within-may God bless ALL of the women and little girls who live as slaves to those dirtbags.
If you want to truly understand this issue, this websit is a must read:
http://www.dhushara.com/book/zulu/islamp/nakface/naked.htm
When I was in college, we read Nawal El Saadawi’s book “The Hidden Faces of Eve,” as part of our World Religions’ curriculum. Absolutely chilling.
Thanks for the link. (quick glance...read later)
Chilling indeed.
Theologically though, she is very ignorant to accuse Christianity of the same kind of misogyny. It’s the same old idiotic trope of “Christian Victorian morality thinks sex is bad and evil”.
I guess she never read St. Augustine, where he said that sex would have been more pleasurable before the Fall than after it.
Perfect cult to create psychotics.
To call islam a great religion is to admire the worship of satan.
I am astounded at churches that invite this evil into their church & call it an equal to Christianity. Pure Blasphemy!
There are many who say the Judeo-Christian God is the same God of Islam. Hogwash! The God who gave us the 10 Commandments & the Golden Rule cannot be the same God who told mohammed (piss be upon his head) to rape children & commit mass murder. One cannot commit jihad & "love thy neighbour as thyself" at the same time. Polar opposites.
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