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To: Richnorth who wrote (20235)	12/2/2002 7:55:44 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Re Muhammad had a six-year old for a wife A small correction - he took that girl when she was eight (sort of like an adoption, she didn't have parents or something) and did not bed her until she "became a woman", (i.e. she menstruated). When she was 12 or so, if I recall correctly. It is shocking to us now, but let us try to remember that marrying off girls when they are 12-13 was very common practice in those days. A girl would be a spinster by the time she is 20 or so. This story of Mouhammad marrying a preteen is priceless as slander against the whole religion (not that there's a shortage of material), but its criticism is no different than if Muslims were to laugh at Christ for his involvement with Maria Magdalena. I know, I know, there is a moral in there somewhere, but just to point out that these things depend on your viewpoint.

To: Richnorth who wrote (20235)	12/2/2002 6:37:50 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

<< O yes, Muhammad had a six-year old for a wife, hadn't he? >> You get excited and show great resentment for me posting something bad about osama bin laden, and then you post a worse insult against Muhammad? << Even if it's true, apparently there is no stricture in Islam that forbids that sort of thing. >> And now, you are trying to justify child molesting, because, you state, that it is an OK practice in Islam?