Why Would Anyone Follow a Child Molester?

Why Would Anyone Follow a Child Molester?

1. Mohammed had sex with nine year-old Aisha. The Islamic scriptures  speak with one voice. Aisha was a child of six when Mohammed married her, and nine when he “consummated” their marriage [1].

2. This is child molesting (also possibly pedophilia), and in a civilized nation it is a serious crime. [2]

3. Muslims are taught that Mohammed is the Prophet, the ideal man, and that they should follow his example.

4. Therefore, by necessary inference [3], Muslims believe that having sex with prepubescent (or peripubescent) children is normal and good [4].
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[1] Partial list of Islamic scriptures re: Aisha’s age at “consummation" Source: WikiIslam; emphases mine JEB

Narrated 'Aisha: I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet, and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah's Apostle used to enter they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for 'Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, not yet reached the age of puberty.) (Fateh-al-Bari page 143, Vol.13) Sahih Bukhari 8:73:151

“My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down...while Muhammad was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. The other men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old..” Tabari IX:131

'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 (sic) 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. Sahih Muslim 8:3311

Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: I have been informed that 'Aisha remained with the Prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death)." Sahih Bukhari 7:62:65

"Aisha said, "The Apostle of Allah married me when I was seven years old." (The narrator Sulaiman said: "Or six years."). "He had intercourse with me when I was 9 years old." Abu-Dawud 2:2116

Note: Muslims may try to argue from other scriptures that Aisha was in fact much older than nine. But what about all the scriptures I quoted- and there are many others- if all of these scriptures are false, how can Muslims trust any of their scriptures?

[2] See for example USAM Chapter 9-75.000.

[3] Necessary inference: If I teach you to follow Jesus, and you find that he said “Let the little children come unto me, and do not forbid them”, this necessarily implies that you should be kind to little children. Conversely, being kind to little children is a necessary inference.

[4] Muslims cannot repudiate Mohammed’s molestation of Aisha unless they renounce (or “reinterpret”) the scriptures about him, and embrace human values. If they deny Mohammed’s good example, Muslims must deny his entire life, and thus literally stick their necks out as heretics to other Muslims; the only alterative is to be lie about their beliefs and deny their knowledge of the truth. Mohammed’s molestation of ‘Aisha is a shibboleth.

J E Billings
9/1/11