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Originally Posted by Hafke
I would happily leave the fact that the Prophet Mohammad was a paedophile (and yes, a fifty year old man raping a nine year old girl is paedophilia) in the past, except for the fact that it has ramifications today. Most of the culturally Christian world has laws preventing the marriage of children. In the Islamic world, his proclivities are the reason that the sexual abuse of girl children through marriage is legal. Iran, for instance, has an age of consent for girls of nine. If the best - legal, state sanctioned - parallel in the Western world you can come up with come from the Middle Ages, the your argument is weak.
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Actually Saudi, Iran and Kuwait have no age of consent but simply stipulate that everyone who has sex must be married.
Many nations have very low ages of consent, it's a holdover from conditions no more than a hundred years past, when so many children died before 5 that a woman really had to start early to have any surviving offspring at all.
You're are right that women are terribly abused in many Islamic nations, but that is a consequence or adjunct of the general oppression in those nations. Abuse of women is no more inherent in Islam than in Christianity.