...or an 11 yr old Christian girl in Zimbabwe...
....or an 11 year old Hindu girl in India
Sucks to be female in an underdeveloped country.
I don't know about 11 year old girls in Zimbabwe. But I do know the Bible itself doesn't have the founder of the faith engaging in pedophilia.
I know that some priests, today, still engage in pedophilia with little kids. But it's not
preached by the Religion itself.
And it does tend to make your banter about the taste of a wafer of bread (a symbol representing the Savior) seem truly insipid.
Religion, child brides, pedophilia.....you, Liability don't seem to debate this beyond posting some cherry-picked out of context quotes from "Islam Watch" a clearly biased source.
Those who condemn Islam, as an entire faith do so on largely hypocritical grounds because Islam, along with Judaism and Christianity have roots in the same cultures and marriage of child brides was (and in some cases still is) endemic in many parts of the world regardless of religion.
The argument that the Quran and the Hadith specifically endorse pedophilia is disengeneous. Rules are given for the treatment of women and girls of all ages - rules that specifically indicate in some cases, marriage to or intercourse with a prebubescent girl. The Talmud however, specifically states that a girl 3 yrs old and one day, can be betrothed by intercourse and Moses commanded
"Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." (Numbers 31:17-18).
Not a one of the Holy Books, or their spokespeople, messiahs and prophets
condemns sex with children.
An honest examination of the historical record would show that Biblical law and the Judeo-Christian tradition not only fails to condemn pedophilia but often condoned sexual relations between adults and girl children. The social taboo and subsequent laws against sex with children are a product of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as were the concepts of "age of consent" and "statutory rape". You quite blithely set aside the constantly evolving priest-abuse scandals of recent years yet I can't help but wonder if those too can be seen to be justified by those same biblical precepts condoning adult-child sex.
Perhaps you might find the same "generosity" of "spirit" to extend your prayers beyond Islam, and request of your deity of choice, the grace and wisdom for Christians and Jews "to repent of their sick evil ways, and to recant of their insidious belief in the blasphemous" Bible and Talmud if, truely, you were concerned for the religious endorsement of pedophilia.
