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For goodness' sake, are people really going to try and excuse the rape of a 9 year old girl just on the basis that lots of people were doing it?

I'm surprised people are taking their moral relativism this far. There is no way it would ever be OK to sexually abuse a 9 year old. It is unnatural and perverse to have any sort of attraction to a child of that age. It will always be abusive to the girl whatever point in history it happens at.

I think the whole world has gone mad.

As has been said, it was a political marriage not one based on attraction, and muhammed had a precident of marrying older women: his first being 40 when he was 25, his second being 55 etc. It's reasonable to assume he wasnt attracted to the 9 year old and merely gritted his teeth, as for whether or not he should be blamed for doing so: it is hard to judge someone for doing something everyone in his time period+region had been raised to consider it ok. It's hard to blame a person for not knowing and abiding to the sexual morality of the 21st century when he was born in the 6th.