Was Muhammad a pedophile?

[The Lizard Queen]

The majority of traditional hadith sources state that the girl Aisha was married to Muhammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith, at the age of six or seven, but she stayed in her parents' home until the age of nine, or ten according to Ibn Hisham, when the marriage was consummated with Muhammad, then 53, in Medina. She then became his favorite wife, possibly showing he had a preference for young girls.

So, Muhammad slept with a 9 or 10 year old. The question is, does this make him a pedophile? This happened in a very different time period, so can we judge him by modern standards?

Or, because this is 2018, and we like to judge past historical figures based on modern sensibilities, and tear their statues down and remove them from history books... should Muslims make apologies for the fact that their founder is a child rapist?

 

[Sparkletor]

You have to find their average ages. 53 + 10 = 63 ÷2 = 31.5

They were both almost 32 years old so its perfectly fine.

 

[User names must be unique]

I think you have to judge the era they lived in. Only the elite were highly educated, so your average person was likely as educated as they were going to get by the time they were able to perform labour and generate an income (or complete all household chores for women). So no for the era I don't think it was paedophilia.

However if you're just saying it to piss people off I'll agree with you because I'm a cunt.

 

[drtoboggan]

Yes. All Muslims are.

 

[SomethingWittyandBadass]

Yeah he was. Everyone was back then at this point my dude. Child Marriages is actually a thing in middle eastern societies including India as well. No one on the liberal side really contests with it because they are literally afraid of being called racist or horrible people for actually having standards around the world. It's literally a fucking clusterfest as usual when the liberals have to ACTUALLY be liberals towards brown people. But watch as some muslim whose tired of this shit will say something and the liberals will be shock and questioning everything he or she says to the fucking moon because liberals are idiots.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Yes, as was basically every man at that time

 

[Cthulu]

No. Muhummad was a good and a saint. He had to throw himself on child pussy because politics in that time called for it. Lol the Greeks raped boys irl up the ass.

 

[CatParty]

Ya prob

 

[MG 620]

Yes, if the ""holy"" book is to be believed.

 

[Audit]

Look, at least Joseph waited until after Mary had her first kid before he slept with her.

 

[Y2K Baby]

No. Muhummad was a good and a saint. He had to throw himself on child pussy because politics in that time called for it. Lol the Greeks raped boys irl up the ass.

False, they did it in the thighs with kitty stockings.

 

[jebsurge]

Abdullah died and he left (behind him) nine or seven daughters. I married a woman who had been previously married. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to me: Jabir, have you married? I said: Yes. He (again) said: A virgin or one previously married? I said: Messenger of Allah, with one who was previously married, whereupon he said: Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you could sport with her and she could sport with you, or you could amuse with her and she could amuse with you? I said to him: 'Abdullah died (he fell as martyr in Uhud) and left nine or seven daughters behind him; I, therefore, did not approve of the idea that I should bring a (girl) like them, but I preferred to bring a woman who should look after them and teach them good manners, whereupon he (Allah's Messenger) said: May Allah bless you, or he supplicated (for the) good (to be) conferred on me (by Allah).

 

[GS 281]

Yes