June 24, 2008

Muhammad: Statutory Rapist or Pedophile?

Watch the Lebanese interviewer's uncomfortable squirm as a Saudi cleric answers his question about whether Islam would allow a 12 year old boy to marry an 11 year old girl.

Guess the answer?

If you watch the whole clip it appears that the Lebanese interviewer had no idea that Muhammed married Aisha when she was only six years old and then had sex with her when she was nine.

In fact, most Muslims don't know this. It's quite uncomfortable for them to talk about. Or, if they do, they justify it on the grounds that Aisha was somehow special or that nine year old girls were early bloomers way back in the day.

Right, we believe that.

Now, I'm no prude, and as long time readers know I have a bit of a problem with equating statutory rape with rape. If a 21 year old guy has sex with a 15 year old girl it may be wrong but it's not rape. In my ideal world sex with underage girls would still be illegal, but would carry only a misdemeanor penalty.

Another problem I have is labeling such an act child molestation. Since the young person is legally still a child then the sex act is something akin to pedophilia the argument goes. It's the kind of sophistry you'd expect from activists and lawyers but not laypeople with any common sense.

Throughout the vast majority of human history post-pubescent teenagers have been considered adults. Changing the law to reflect how infantile modern man treats its young people will not change millions of years of evolutionary fact.

But just as stupid laws and the imprecise use of words do not change evolutionary biology, neither does religious dogma. There is a line at which the normal male lust for young bodies becomes unnatural. The line which crosses over into pedophilia: a lust for the prepubescent.

Pedophilia is always rape, and I don't just mean statutory rape, I mean rape. It is a vile, disgusting, unnatural, abusive act. Pedophiles should be castrated.

A lot of what gets bandied about in the media as "pedophilia" or "child molestation" just isn't. For instance, many of the Catholic Priests accused of "molesting children" were actually engaged in homosexual acts with teenage boys. Wrong? Yes. Doubly so because of the trust relationship that should exist between clergy and the laity. But "child molestation"? Uh, no. At least not when you're talking about 14 year olds.

But at some age those "kids" are really kids. Physically, biologically, evolutionarily children. The cute little things that we are instinctively supposed to want to protect.

What's the age? I don't know. 14? Probably not. 13? Probably crossed a line here buddy. 12? Dude, see that line back there. 11? 10?

But having sex with a nine year old? You're a certifiable child molesting pedophile. At this point, the Islamic punishments I normally think of as "barbaric" seem perfectly appropriate.

Which leads us back to the uncomfortable truth Muslims don't want to face about Mohammed. Why they don't want to talk about their Prophet having sex with a nine year old. Because on some basic instinctual level they know that this isn't only the sign of a person with poor judgment, but of a certifiable mentally disturbed sick pervert!

Yes, Muhammad was a pedophile. Yes, Muhammad was a sick bastard. Yes, if Muhammad was alive today he'd be serving time in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary.

Thanks to Writer Mom. Let the hate mail begin!