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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And I will add, I make no apologies for Muhammad. If you study his life (read Karen Armstrong's books), you will have profound respect for the way he lived his life. His first wife was 40 yrs old. He wanted to show his community that it was permissible and encouraged to marry widows. Many in his time would not. His youngest wife was 14 and that was Aisha. Aisha's father was the one who approached Muhammad to ask that he marry her. Aisha herself wrote of her love and admiration for Muhammad.

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His first wife was an extremely wealthy widow and Mohammed's status increased commensurately when he married her. His youngest wife was engaged to him at age nine and the marriage took place a few years later - many think when she was 12 (menstruating) and 14 is an outside estimate.

This is an example of why "sitting down with an imam" is not going to provide an unbiased perspective. Instead you will get selective spin.[/quote]

PS. I'm not the previous poster. But the facts that I've cited are well known, they are consistent with the previous poster's facts, and they have been accepted history in the Muslim world for centuries. [/quote]

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