The prophet Mohamed PBUH married Aisha when she was six years old so the marriage of preteen girls is perfectly acceptable in Islam.
just proves my point really that child brides are acceptable in Islam
i have no hatred of Islam so please withdraw your allegation
If this is true GlorytoGod I am a little confused as to why you would make the same uneducated statement (as above) twice on one thread?
Perhaps you would be better to ask Muslims what Islam says rather than telling us?
There are a number of countries where child brides are still used ... these include some African countries (where Muslim and Christian girls are sold off like cattle by their families or married off to strengthen tribal ties), Afghanistan, Pakistan (both usually in rural areas and from Muslim and other religious backgrounds) and Saudi Arabia allows marriage at puberty but I am aware of a divorce case for an 8 year old girl (I believe saudi allows child brides but does not allow consumation until puberty).
Virtually all of the child brides I have read about have been married off to pay debts off, rather than for the sexual desires of the groom.
What your statement fails to do however is question whether this is a cultural or religious practice and fails to ask how regularly this happens. Most Muslim countries have either the same or even higher legal marriage ages than Britain.
Also something you need to understand is just because the Prophet Mohamed (pbuh) did something does NOT mean all Muslims can, or every Muslim man would allow himself 9 wives based on what the Prophet did. Ask virtually any Muslim and they will tell you that the marriage of the Prophet to Aisha (pbut) was about strengthening ties and nothing to do with marrying little girls per se.
How I wish Muslimwoman was around as she would have simply provided an answer.
Boo .... gosh i feel like a genie lol, I haven't visited the forum for so long ... my ears must have been burning today.
OK
to answer your OP Wil
the shooting of soldiers in America .... there is no answer and I honestly don't believe we will ever get the truth. Did he just flip or was he watching fundamentalist propaganda? We will never really know.
My personal guess is that he was posted to Iraq and knew he could not go to wage war against Muslims. He then started looking for answers on the net .... on what basis could he refuse to go. He probably ended up on more and more fundamental sites, which would feed his need for religious solace and build his hatred of the war over there.
Only a guess though.
The mass wedding ..... it took me a while to stop laughing LOL
I was then amazed at this thread ... can't anyone on this forum google? Muslims are trying to defend it and non-Muslims are simply going with the flow ... come on people RESEARCH.
Yes a mass wedding of 450 couples took place in gaza. Yes $500 was paid to each groom by Hamas (money gathered from their members amounting to 5% of their wage .... guessing but probably collected during ramadan as zakat (charity)) in this case to help young men who can't afford to marry get married.
In Arab countries the groom has to pay for a dowery and setting up the marital home ... many men in poor countries simply can't afford it so imagine what it's like for young men in an open prison like Gaza?!
The youngest BRIDE was 16 but most were 18.
So who are the little girls in the video? Sisters, nieces, cousins ... anyone little and cute basically. I could show you wedding photos from Islamic weddings in Egypt and all the little girls are dressed as brides (6 inches of make up included) and the little boys are dressed as grooms .... no idea why, they just think it looks cute, a bit like the little girls in pageants in US perhaps.
the girls make the most of these days, as the day makes them special. Women and men sit seperately during weddings but the little girls can go with the men, due to their age. So the girls revel in all the attention they get.
Simple answer to a silly rumour ... as usual.
