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How am I changing subjects? A PP said his first wife didn't let him marry others.  I said there is no evidence to say that was the reason he didn't. I keep saying that.

As for the marriage to Aisha, she collected on her marriage big time, so I doubt she was discommoded much. I am also wiling to believe that a 50-year old doesn't need a particularly strong reason to pair up with a young girl.  Most 50-year olds will sleep with the youngest legal option if they could.[/quote]

OK, gross. Now you're all but shrugging off Aisha's marriage as being a "guy thing."

Aisha was the daughter of one of Mohammed's top lieutenants. Yet you prefer to toss out the alliance theory in favor of your notion that a six-year-old enters marriage with dreams of "collecting big time." You also "doubt she was discommoded"--well hello sweeping assumptions based on no factual or historical evidence whatsoever. But it's OK when you do this, right?[/quote]
What she dreamed about, no one knew.  And who cares? That wasn't even her first engagement.

That she has reaped very big gains out of this marriage is an actual fact.

I don't actually have a theory on what drove her.  That wasn't my story.  I said we don't know whether Mohammed's first wife banned him from marrying others. That's my story, I'm sticking to it. [/quote]

Nobody is disputing that Aisha made out "big time." What we are questioning is whether she was HAPPY. See the difference?

It's hard to swallow your blithe assurances that she was probably not "discommoded much." Your "who cares, she was rich and anyway she was on her second engagement so it doesn't matter" is actually appalling.

PP, you've been accused of, effectively, misogyny twice on this page alone. In two different contexts, by two different people (me and someone else). As you defend the veil. Do you see a problem here?[/quote]
Perhaps you can read the stories she left behind and figure out whether she was. As it were, you are basing your opinion on how would you feel in this situation, and that's a false approach.[/quote]

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