Cultural Pedophilia?

An Islamic tradition: Child-brides

Though there are many differences between Christianity and Islam, one of the major differences is the definition of marriage. In what way? Christianity condemns polygamy while Islam approves of it.

But it doesn't stop there. Islam not only allows Muslim men to marry several women, it also allows them to marry extremely young women. How young? As young as eight or nine years-old.

Where did Islam's tradition of child-brides originate? It originated with its founding prophet Muhammad who had 18 wives, with Aesha being the youngest at nine years-old. Yes, that's right. Muhammad's youngest wife was a mere nine-years old when he added Aesha to his harem.

Western civilization has historically forbidden prepubescent girls to be taken in marriage, and rightly so. Nine year-old girls aren't physically developed to have sexual relations with adults. 

Young girls not only can be physically harmed by sex with adults, they can also be emotionally damaged. However, that's of no concern to Islam that views women as inferior beings that were created by Allah to be used by men.

The Muslim world generally denies that Islam condones adult-child weddings, and it accuses westerners of spreading propaganda to tarnish that religion's image. But while Islam doesn't outwardly condone adult-child weddings, it doesn't condemn them either. 

In Pakistan for example, a bill that was first introduced in 2014 to ban that barbaric practice was recently struck down. From www.rt.com:  

Legislation to ban child marriages was struck down in Pakistan as the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) said it was "anti-Islamic" and "blasphemous." The new law failed at the first stage of the legislative process.The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2014, which would have made it more difficult for children to marry, was quickly withdrawn by Marvi Menon of the Pakistan Muslim League party. The decision to pull the plug on the anti-pedophilia bill was triggered by CII speaking out against the idea. The council provides advice for lawmakers on whether the newly proposed laws comply with Sharia laws. The proposed legislation was shut down in its infancy on "purely religious grounds." 

 CII Chairman Mohammad Khan Sheerani said the proposed law opposed Islamic teachings: "Parliament cannot create legislation that is against the teachings of the Holy Quran or Sunnah." 

What does the Quran say regarding adult-child weddings? While it doesn't directly mention them, it does say this: "And test the orphans [in your charge] until they reach a marriage­able age; then, if you find them to be mature of mind/sound in judgment, hand over to them their possessions…" (Quran, 4:6)

How does the Quran define a "marriageable age?" It doesn't, leaving that up to the individual to determine when a girl is of "sound mind and sound judgment" to be taken as a wife.

Do you think that someone who burns with lust for adolescent girls is truly going to consider whether or not a girl is physically and emotionally ready for marriage? Of course not. If she turns him on, he'll try to marry her.

Still, Islam's apologists condemn anyone who suggests that their religion encourages adult-child marriages. One such apologist website says this:

It is absolutely clear from the Quran that child marriage is something God never authorized. Child marriage is detrimental to the overall well-being of children, and quite frankly, is another form of slavery. The psychopathic mentality that allows this is a sign of a very sick and disturbed mind, something that seems to be much abundant within the clergy-class. Any rational person can immediately identify the evils of such an oppressive act. It surprises me to see how a beacon of light is manipulated by a bunch of misogynistic individuals to enslave billions around the world!

By characterizing those who marry young girls as "misogynists" with "sick and disturbed minds," the author blasphemes Islam's founding prophet who took a nine year-old girl to be his wife. Muhammad set the standard, of which many of his followers throughout the centuries have followed.

Islam's apologists don't want you to know that their religion encourages such evil. And it encourages other evils such as suicide bombings, the wholesale slaughter of Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims, and even the beheadings of innocent children who aren't Muslims.

The apologists want you to believe that Islam is a religion of peace that's been hijacked by a few nuts and radicals who've besmirched that religion's impeccable reputation. Only ignorant fools choose to believe that.

Concerning those who oppress young children who are created in the image of God, Jesus Christ said this: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea." (Mark 9:42)

Indeed. Prepubescent girls are too young to be in marriage. And those who force them into marriage under the guise of culture and religion are nothing but sexual predators or pedophiles. That's evil that can't be apologized away.