re: #322 the1sgjohns

See how long he will last showing a picture of Mohammad with a 9 year old girl bride, the original pedophile.

Hardly the original.

Look, folks, I keep seeing this here, and there’s a couple things I want to point out:

1. Mohammed’s other wives, AFAIK, were grown-ups. Khadija was his senior by quite a bit.

2. We’re talking about a community (early medieval Arabia) in which I’m pretty sure marriages of very young girls for political reasons were not uncommon.

3. Aisha, who grew up to become a religious leader in her own right, deserves better than to be a nameless figure in a regular crack on Muhammed.

The ick factor is quite real, here, but guys, IT WAS THE SEVENTH CENTURY. Mohammed wasn’t a pedophile, he was a man of a very distant and very foreign time and place.

My two cents. Feel free to ignore them.