Does someone recall this, have a link? RW released a "comic" a while

[zbdent]

back, and I recall one set of panels where one young girl (early teens?) was talking about Mohammed . . .

She points out to her friend that he "had taken a 13-year-old as his wife", and the other girl was like "EWWWWW!" (The RWers were trying to portray him as a pedophile)

I was wondering if anybody had a link to this online . . . IIRC, wasn't that a time (however long ago) that marriages at that age were not uncommon, even in what RWers would consider "the civilized world"? And how about the fact that a LOT of young girls have fantasies about their weddings and marrying some old guy (18 would be considered old for many kids)?

[rockymountaindem]

1. That was a "Chick Tract"

made by some messed up guy named Jack Chick for purposes of religious proselytizing. They're on his website if you want to go over there, though I recommend you don't.

[zbdent]

4. Thanks for the warning

I will ponder whether I want to go there when I don't have a shower handy . . .

[okasha]

2. For much of the history of the Western world, it's been customary

for girls to marry at menarche. Shakespeare's Juliet is thirteen; her mother, trying to talk her into marrying Tybalt, berates her by telling her that she was not only married but a mother at Juliet's age. Can't say I've ever seen ayone tossing tomatoes at the stage or the screen at that point, and Billy Shakes' audience wouldn't have batted an eyelash.

[JuniperLea]

3. It hasn't been all that long here in the US when women married that early

Don't we have a few states where age of consent is like 14 or something? My grandma started dating my grandpa when she was 14 and they married when she was 16... in Iowa... the heartland of America:)

People need to be tolerant of other cultures. That would gross me out too, but in the context of another culture... live and let live.

[varkam]

7. Utah.

Gotta be Utah.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Aisha was married to the Prophet at age 6

but the marriage wasn't consummated then. Her father, Abu Bakr, was one of the first companions of the Prophet, and he became the first Caliph at the Prophet's death. I would say that the marriage was for two purposes; Mohammed had lost his first wife, Kadijah, and was lonely, and Abu Bakr wished to cement his relationship with the Prophet. In Europe around this same time and later, it wasn't unusual for children to be wed if they were royalty. And there were many youthful cardinals, abbots and abbesses in the Church, too.

The Prophet never had more than four wives at a time, and he respected all of them, giving them equal time and attention. He even did housework! Many of his later wives he married after they were widowed; it was a way of insuring that they and their children would be cared for.

As has been said, the customs long ago were different than the customs we have today.

[zbird]

6. Link inside for the Chick Tract.

http://www.angelfire.com/on/3angels/allah.html