why do some like to point out that Muhammad had a wife of 10 yrs old and that it is so terirble?

Question

When chirstianity was born from rampant incest.


For one thing it is silly to transpose todays laws and ways onto those ancient times.

Answer 1

wow..10 years old huh?...are there any 10 year olds who are attractive?

Answer 2

As you say it was perfectly normal then - no one criticises it and indeed medieval Christians who attacked the Prophet on all sorts of spurious grounds never did on this because it was the norm in pre-modern socities. Aisha was married after puberty.


According to Judaism Rebecca was 3 when she got married
to Yitzhak

"We all came home from school saying that Rivka was three years old when she got married, and most of us had a hard time believing it. Our teachers explained that people in those days matured faster, so 3 years old then was not what 3 years old is now. What they did not tell us (probably because they did not know), is that there is another opinion that says that she was 14.

We know that Yitzchak was 40 when he married Rivka (Beraishis 25:20), but nowhere does it say how old Rivka was.

One fact to which all midrashim agree is that the birth of Rivkah coincided with the Akeidah (Seder Olam, l.c.).

Rashi, the first opinion, caculates that Yitzchak was 37 by the Akeidah. The Midrash explains that Rivka was born the same time that Sarah died, since “before Hashem allows the sun of one righteous individual to set, He causes the sun of the next righteous individual to rise” (Bereishit Rabbah 58:2). Yitzchak was 37 when Sarah died (she was 90 when he was born and 127 when she died -- 127-90=30). If Rivka was born at the Akeidah (as stated above), and Sarah died when Rivka was born, then Yitzchak must have been 37 at the Akeidah. Three years later, when he was 40 and Rivka was 3, they married."


http://www.jewishlegends.com/displayExp.php?rumor=122

Answer 3

How was Christianity born from "rampant incest?" Are you referring to Adam and Eve? Aside from the fact that is clearly allegory, all Abrahamic religions, ie Islam, believe that story.

As for your question, isn't it very clearly wrong for a man to rape a ten year old child? It is absolutely and unequivocally wrong for someone to marry child.

And you claim that the West is immoral?

Answer 4

I would never judge a religion by what it did in the beginning or even 200 years ago. That would be wrong because times and things change so much.
I judge a religion by what the people who belong to that religion do, at the current time.
If I read in the yahoo.com news that a suicide bomber was a Muslim with a grievance and a grudge against society and choose to take it out on his own people by blowing them up.
Rather than allowing them to have freedom of religion then I judge that person to be a control freak. Preach to them, get a bible or what ever your religion uses and go door to door if you have to and preach your religon and convert people.
It has been shown to work wonders.
Show them the truth and the right way to God.
Who was saved by the bombing and killing of 50 people in Pakistan? Who said, "now I see the light that must be from God so now I am converting to that religion?"
Or did it bring reproach on that religion and make people think, they are extremists who kill their own people. People who believe like they do? That was a puzzle to me?
What was hoped to be gained by that action?
I don't even know and I doubt anyone else does either what sect of muslim it was? or what sect of muslim was killed?
All anyone gained out of that was that they killed their own people. What a tragic waste, why did they do that?
No one cares what muhammad did a 1000 years ago.
that is not even an issue, but his own people have made his name a evil thing in the world today. Would he have wanted that? No westerner did that, no Jew did that, his own people did.

Answer 5

People like to do this because, as Christians, they believe in what is called Blind Faith. It is believing what the bible says even in the face of absolute proof. With such a thing, it is easy to swipe down the historical accuracy of - as you so greatly put it - rampant incest out of which Christianity was born. If you are a Christian history can't do much for you, but if you are not, history will be used against you.

Answer 6

Muhammad raided innocent people. He looted them. He massacred them. He raped their women. He assassinated poets for composing poetries that he did not find flattering. He tortured people whom he captured in his ambushes to make them reveal the whereabouts of their hidden treasures. Why this Allah who was always ready to provide for his beloved prophet's sexual needs and license him to sleep with any women he lusted for, did not tell Muhammad where his victims had hidden their treasures so to save those wretched people from being tortured? Muhammad beheaded people and slept with their wives in the same night. He fooled his followers to such an extent that one of them allowed him to sleep with his 9-year-old child. What kind of person can have sexual feelings for a 9-year-old child? Normal people do not get any sexual feelings for; 9, 10 or even 13 year old girls. Children at that age do not have femininity. They are not sexually appealing to grown up men. Only a sick person can be aroused by a 9-years-old child at the age of 54. Yet Muhammad had sexual feelings for Aisha when she was only 6-years-old. Abu Bakr, the history's greatest fool, begged Muhammad to wait for a few more years until she matures. But Muhammad, this sick monster, could not wait more than three years and when Aisha was nine he took her to bed and entered her in the same forenoon that she was brought to his home. Don't these things bother you? How can you justify them? How can you believe in the lies of such monster

Answer 7

Don't rant on another religion, just because ours appears to have a fault. All religions do have faults and Prophet Muhammad having a 10 year old wife happens to be unacceptable in today's day and age, while in the past it was totally acceptable. Is it morally or ethically wrong? I don't know and I don't think we have the right to judge that matter.

Answer 8

Pedophila was, is, and always will be, wrong. Mohamed was a pervert and a pedophile, and Aisha's parents are at this moment burning in Hell for their complicity in giving their daughter to him. Of all people, those who profess to be men of God/Allah should be above reproach. Frankly, I wish Mohamed would have been around now. Then we could put his sorry behind in prison with a lot of sex-starved addicts. I wonder how he'd like being given up in such a manner as Aisha was?

Answer 9

i see so many things wrong with marrying a girl off at 10. this is purely child abuse and should not be encouraged. a girl child at this age is pyhsically, mentally and emotionally immature. this could cause her lots of troubles later in life. i also dont see christainity to be born from rampant incest but from jesus christ from the very beginning, during creation.

Answer 10

well yes most people would put it into modern context, but do you really believe a 10 year old girl would be attracted to a fully grown man? i mean that marriage cant have been HER choice, but yes modern ideals being used in appliance to ancient days is a growing problem

Answer 11

Well, seems as if you are just pointing out Christianity, and pulling for your religion. Not fair. Have an open mind, no person or religion is perfect.