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<metadesc>Pedophilia is permitted in the Qur'an, was practiced by Prophet Muhammad and his companions, and some Muslims today continue to commit the crime, following their prophet's example.</metadesc> | <metadesc>Pedophilia is permitted in the Qur'an, was practiced by Prophet Muhammad and his companions, and some Muslims today continue to commit the crime, following their prophet's example.</metadesc> | ||
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Pedophilia is permitted in the [[Qur'an]], was practiced by Prophet [[Muhammad]] and his [[Sahabah|companions]], and some Muslims today continue to commit the crime, following their prophet's [[Sunnah|example]]. | Pedophilia is permitted in the [[Qur'an]], was practiced by Prophet [[Muhammad]] and his [[Sahabah|companions]], and some Muslims today continue to commit the crime, following their prophet's [[Sunnah|example]]. | ||
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There are many references in authentic Islamic scripture concerning the permissibility of pedophilia. | There are many references in authentic Islamic scripture concerning the permissibility of pedophilia. | ||
{{Quote|{{Muslim|8|3311}}|'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that '''Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) married her when she was seven years old, and he was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, ''and her dolls were with her;''''' and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old.}} | {{Quote|{{Muslim|8|3311}}|'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that '''Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) married her when she was seven years old, and he was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, ''and her dolls were with her;''''' and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old.}} | ||
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===Muhammad Fits the Clinical Definition of a Pedophile=== | ===Muhammad Fits the Clinical Definition of a Pedophile=== | ||
{{Main| | {{Main|Muhammad and the Clinical Definition of Pedophilia}} | ||
Muhammad was a pedophile, even according to the most stringent clinical definition of pedophilia - the DSM-IV-TR: | Muhammad was a pedophile, even according to the most stringent clinical definition of pedophilia - the DSM-IV-TR: | ||
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==Apologetics== | ==Apologetics== | ||
=== | ===Some Islamic Sources say Aisha was Really 17 or 18 Years Old=== | ||
{{Main| | {{Main|Aishas Age of Consummation|l1=Aisha's Age of Consummation}} | ||
Some Muslim apologists have recently claimed that Aisha was actually older than nine lunar years at time of the consummation of her marriage to Prophet Muhammad. They have attempted to explain that Aisha was in fact not nine-years-old as the Sahih hadiths of her own testimony claim, but some other ages derived from misquotations, indirect sources, fuzzy dating techniques and slander. These dubious research techniques have led to several conflicting ages to be proposed for Aisha at the time of consummation, including 12, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 21 years. | Some Muslim apologists have recently claimed that Aisha was actually older than nine lunar years at time of the consummation of her marriage to Prophet Muhammad. They have attempted to explain that Aisha was in fact not nine-years-old as the Sahih hadiths of her own testimony claim, but some other ages derived from misquotations, indirect sources, fuzzy dating techniques and slander. These dubious research techniques have led to several conflicting ages to be proposed for Aisha at the time of consummation, including 12, 14, 15, 17, 18 and 21 years. | ||
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===Miscellaneous Apologetics Used to Defend Muhammad's Actions=== | ===Miscellaneous Apologetics Used to Defend Muhammad's Actions=== | ||
{{Main|Responses to Apologetics: Muhammad and Aisha}} | {{Main|Responses to Apologetics - Muhammad and Aisha|l1=Responses to Apologetics: Muhammad and Aisha}} | ||
This article refutes miscellaneous apologetics which may not be fully covered in our other articles, but are used by some to justify the marriage between the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his six-year-old bride Aisha. | |||
The 26 different excuses covered include; Muhammad can't be a pedophile because he also had sex with grown women, pedophiles prefer children but Muhammad had many adult wives and only one child-bride, at that time it was okay to have sex with 9 year-olds in Arabia, people lived shorter life spans back then, and menstruation in hot climates starts earlier than in cold ones, so girls in Arabia matured as early as nine. | |||
==Modern World== | ==Modern World== | ||
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So one has to agree that whatever reasons and justification people may give for the prevalence of child marriages in Muslim-majority nations, without Islam this practice would have long been discarded as immoral and unacceptable in the modern world. | So one has to agree that whatever reasons and justification people may give for the prevalence of child marriages in Muslim-majority nations, without Islam this practice would have long been discarded as immoral and unacceptable in the modern world. | ||
===Muslim Statistics on Pedophilia=== | |||
{{Main|Muslim Statistics - Children|l1=Muslim Statistics (Children)}} | |||
This page consists of various statistics concerning Islam and children. A small sample include: | |||
#4 out of 5 Middle-Eastern women are sexually abused between the ages of 3 and 6 by family members. | |||
#More than half of all Yemeni girls are married before reaching the age of puberty. | |||
#With more than 3,900 children within 6 months, Indonesia tops the UN bodies list for child trafficking cases | |||
#2,000 child sex abuse claims in 1 year at Pakistani Islamic schools, but not even 1 successful prosecution | |||
===Pedophilia Discussed in Arabic/Islamic Media=== | ===Pedophilia Discussed in Arabic/Islamic Media=== | ||
{{Main|Pedophilia (Translations of Arabic/Islamic Media)}} | {{Main|Pedophilia (Translations of Arabic/Islamic Media)}} | ||
=== | This hub page contains English translations of various Arabic/Islamic media discussing pedophilia. | ||
{{Quote|1=[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.islamonline.net/ar/IOLCounsel_C/1278406761316/1278406720653/هل-يجوز-تحديد-سن-زواج-للفتيات؟-|2=2011-02-03}} Is it permissible to restrict the age at which girls can marry?]<BR>Submitted by Ahmad, IslamOnline, December 24, 2010|2=The Noble Qur'an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: "And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women - if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated" [Qur'an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur'an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet (PBUH) entered into a marriage contract with 'A'isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari. | |||
Therefore the issue is fixed in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. There is no jurisprudence without it being accused of being a 'male jurisprudence'!!! For a portion of the women in our day deny the jurisprudential efforts of scholars with the accusation that their masculinity leads them to jurisprudence which is in their best-interest, and against women. It appears that those who are led by this idea have the image stuck in their minds of a father or shaykh of a mosque, who would resort to religion. As this was his (description), it was not desirable. But this is not how it was, according to what was related by Allah Almighty: "But if the right is on their side, they come to him with all submission" [Qur'an 24:49]. Wherefore the history of jurisprudence is abounding [with examples] which dispel this mania, and this is not the place to lay them all out. But what can those who follow the Western feminist agenda say to this Qur'anic text, and to the marriage of the Prophet to 'A'isha (may Allah be pleased with her)!!!}} | |||
==Miscellaneous== | ==Miscellaneous== | ||
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===Quotes on Muhammad Relating to Pedophilia=== | ===Quotes on Muhammad Relating to Pedophilia=== | ||
{{Main|Quotes on Muhammad Relating to Pedophilia}} | {{Main|Quotes on Muhammad Relating to Pedophilia}} | ||
This page consists of quotes relating to Muhammad's pedophilia made by notable individuals. For example, Simon Ockley, who was chosen Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University: | |||
{{Quote||An Arabian author cited by Maracci,<ref>Marac. Vita Mahometis, p. 23. </ref> says that Abubeker was very averse to the giving him his daughter [Ayesha, who was then but seven years old] so young, but that Mohammed pretended a divine command for it; whereupon he sent her to him with a basket of dates, and when the girl was alone with him, he stretched out his blessed hand (these are the author’s words), and rudely took hold of her clothes; upon which she looked fiercely at him, and said, “People call you the faithful man,<ref>Abulfeda says he was called Al Amin, “the faithful one,” when he was young. </ref> but your behaviour to me shows you are a perfidious one.” And with these words she got out of his hands, and, composing her clothes, went and complained to her father. The old gentleman, to calm her resentment, told her she was new betrothed to Mohammed, and that made him take liberties with her, as if she had been his wife.<ref>Simon Ockley. ''The History of the Saracens'' ([{{Reference archive|1=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Saracens/Life_of_Mohammed/Part_I|2=2013-02-05}} Life of Mohammed, Part I]). 6th Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1857 </ref>}} | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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'''Articles''' | '''Articles''' | ||
*[[Concerns with Islam: Child Marriage]] | |||
{{Hub4|Sex|Sex}} | |||
{{Hub4|Children|Children}} | {{Hub4|Children|Children}} | ||
*[[Islam | *[[Necrophilia in Islam]] | ||
'''Multimedia''' | '''Multimedia''' | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Core | [[Category:Core Articles]] | ||
[[Category:Pedophilia]] | [[Category:Pedophilia]] | ||
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[[ru:Ислам и педофилия]] | [[ru:Ислам и педофилия]] | ||