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The Qur'an in verse 33:49 states that no 'Iddah is prescribed for a woman who has ''not'' had intimate contact with her husband, but goes on to stipulate the 'Iddah for pre-pubescent girls in verse 65:4, meaning the holiest text of Islam supports marrying and having sex with prepubescent girls. This is definitive proof that the Qur'an endorses pedophilia, something that is considered by many people to be the most serious of all sexual crimes.
The Qur'an in verse 33:49 states that no 'Iddah is prescribed for a woman who has ''not'' had intimate contact with her husband, but goes on to stipulate the 'Iddah for pre-pubescent girls in verse 65:4, meaning the holiest text of Islam supports marrying and having sex with prepubescent girls. This is definitive proof that the Qur'an endorses pedophilia, something that is considered by many people to be the most serious of all sexual crimes.
Did Prophet Muhammad Rape a Nine-year Old Aisha?
The allegation that the Prophet Muhammad married Aisha in the year 624AD
when she was only a nine-year old girl, is not new. However, the fact
this controversy has surfaced on right-wing blogs, is something that has
caught a lot of Muslims by surprise. The controversy: The controversy was sparked by a lecture in Toronto where the former Muslim,
Syrian-American Wafa Sultan claimed, “As a married man, Mohammed raped
Aisha when she was nine; he was fifty-four.” Wafa Sultan’s depiction of Prophet Muhammad as a child rapist seems
to be a manifestation of her hatred of Muslims in general. She has no
evidence of any rape having taken place nor does she have a record of
Aisha’s age. Both Prof. Daniel Pipes and Avi Benlolo of the Friends of the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre too spoke against the main premise of Wafa Sultan’s
speech.It is in the vested interest of both Islam-haters as well as
Islamists to continue to uphold the myth that Muhammad married a
nine-year old Aisha. To the former, it is the juiciest scandal with
which to deride Islam and Muslims, while for the Mullahs, it is a
license to sanction pedophilia and child rape for themselves and their
patrons.Most medieval Islamic history books were written 200-300 years after
the advent of Islam and it is true that all of them state emphatically
that Aisha was only nine when she became Muhammad’s bride. However, all
of them rely on, and quote, one single individual as the source of this
information. His name was Hishām ibn Urwah, a prominent narrator of
sayings of the Prophet (the Hadith), who died in the year 756AD. He was
Aisha’s great-grand nephew, who first suggested that his great-grand
aunt was only nine-years old on the day of her wedding, 125 years after
the said event.  Prior to his utterance, a century after the fact, there is no mention
or reference to the age of Aisha. Hisham bin Urwah lived and taught in
Medina for 70 years, yet no one else—not even his famous pupil Malik
ibn Anas—-reported Aisha’s age. It is no coincidence that the growth of
harems of the Abbasid caliphs mushroomed to hundreds of wives and
concubines—many young girls—at the time the sharia law based on bin
Urwah’s report, legalized child marriage. Instead of relying on the words of bin Urwah as so many Islam-haters
and Islamists do, I suggest we look at a few facts that prove that
Aisha’s age on the day of her wedding could not have been lower than 14
years of age. Mathematical facts: The historian al-Tabari informs us in his treatise on Islamic history
that the father of Aisha, Abu Bakr had four children and all them were
born before the year 610AD, the year of the advent of Islam. If, as is
generally accepted, Aisha became Muhammad’s bride in the year 624AD,
then she had to be at least 14 years of age, if not older on the day of
her wedding. Other calculations based on historical events place Aisha as old as
20 when she became a bride. Ibn Hisham, the historian, reports that
Aisha accepted Islam quite some time before Umar (the second caliph).
This means she must have been at least a young girl in the year 610.
Assuming she was five years old when Abu Bakr and his family converted
to Islam, the information puts the age of Aisha at 20 or more at the
time of her marriage with Muhammad was consummated in 624AD. Furthermore, most Islamic historians agree that Asma, the elder
sister of Aisha, was ten years older than her. It is also reported that
Asma died in 683AD at the ripe age of 100. If this is true, then Asma
would have been 31 years old at the time of Aisha’s wedding with
Muhammad in 624 and the bride would have been 21. Of course, these facts do not suit either the Islam-haters or the
Mullahs who sanction child marriage. Had the medieval caliphs or their
court appointed clerics in the 8th century accepted these timelines, it
would have taken away their right to fill their harems with young girls
of their choice.


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