\re: #203 Cato the Elder

Not exactly the point, is it?

His sacred example as the “perfect man” is used to justify marrying girls as young as Aisha to fat old sheiks of Mahomet’s age today, in the real world, with the full justification of Koran, hadith and shariah.

So I think in fairness to those girls it’s still legitimate to raise the point.

I’ll repeat—Muslims may use that example as an excuse to continue traditional abuse of little girls, but Islam is hardly unique among the cultures of the world in treating little girls so. Nor do I kid myself that child marriages would be banned throughout Islam if Mohammed had only married girls over twenty-five.

People are going to start to say I have something against Hindus, but child marriages in that culture go back a lot farther than Islam. Does it suck? Yes, very much. Should we do what we can to help? Absolutely. But historically speaking, I’m still going to guess that Mohammed wasn’t a pedophile in any clinical sense. The legal sense is irrelevent, on account of the the dude’s been dead quite a long time.