I've been reading the Quran more in my free time every now and then, not only because I know some Muslims, both online (like from here, of course) and also from my school, and want to know more of what they believe, but also because of my personal curiosity regarding what I see as heresy, to better understand what false teachings attempt to misguide others away from The Lord Christ. Most of the stuff in the Quran I'm already rather acquainted with regarding how Islam stands on familiar topics; things like the stories of the Old Testament or how they view the Messiah, Jesus, for example. However, I've become more troubled in my perception of Islam just as plain heresy by a rather big issue that always seems to come up rather when I hear debates regarding Islam or other sorts of conversation regarding it, that makes me really not like it in comparison to the other heresies and false beliefs I've read up on. This isn't necessarily just about Muhammad and Aisha, but more-so the "culture" of the faith as a whole in regard to child marriage, and the Quranic disposition of it. People well-read on the Quran may already know, then, what I'm going to bring up, and that is a verse you can find in Surah At-Talaq, the sixty-fifth Surah, near the very beginning of it, that's giving advice on the marriage of women. This verse is the fourth of the Surah, and it reads (text taken from Dr. Mustafa Khattab's translation):
>As for your women past the age of menstruation, in case you do not know, their waiting period is three months, and those who have not menstruated as well. As for those who are pregnant, their waiting period ends with delivery. And whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make their matters easy for them.
This just seems disgusting to me. Why does it brush this off as a normal thing, that those who have not undergone menstruation (children) are people who are okay to marry and have sex with? What the hell? Is this really thought of as acceptable? I thought a lot of this stuff was just drummed-up lies and it was just a few cases that weren't actually, really endorsed by Islam, but no, this is literally just pedophilia. Like, I knew of the Aisha thing, but I didn't know the Quran specifically endorses this in of itself. I've tried to understand this better with other commentary from the modern Muslim perception on the topic of child marriage, because I thought that maybe I am just confusing myself and getting things wrong, but this additional research only really reinforced my belief that there is disgusting stuff being endorsed and commanded here because of this teaching. The website "IslamQA" has a section about such a thing. I had to translate it since it was in Arabic, but, long-story short, its only concluding justification for when a married woman can be fucked is "when she can handle penetration". So, as long as the little girl can handle it, it is okay for her to be fucked, according to Islam. I mean, really? Is this really what is believed? This seems really fucking dreadful. Am I misunderstanding something here?
>As for your women past the age of menstruation, in case you do not know, their waiting period is three months, and those who have not menstruated as well. As for those who are pregnant, their waiting period ends with delivery. And whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make their matters easy for them.
This just seems disgusting to me. Why does it brush this off as a normal thing, that those who have not undergone menstruation (children) are people who are okay to marry and have sex with? What the hell? Is this really thought of as acceptable? I thought a lot of this stuff was just drummed-up lies and it was just a few cases that weren't actually, really endorsed by Islam, but no, this is literally just pedophilia. Like, I knew of the Aisha thing, but I didn't know the Quran specifically endorses this in of itself. I've tried to understand this better with other commentary from the modern Muslim perception on the topic of child marriage, because I thought that maybe I am just confusing myself and getting things wrong, but this additional research only really reinforced my belief that there is disgusting stuff being endorsed and commanded here because of this teaching. The website "IslamQA" has a section about such a thing. I had to translate it since it was in Arabic, but, long-story short, its only concluding justification for when a married woman can be fucked is "when she can handle penetration". So, as long as the little girl can handle it, it is okay for her to be fucked, according to Islam. I mean, really? Is this really what is believed? This seems really fucking dreadful. Am I misunderstanding something here?
