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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
You seem to think that asking for a clear-cut answer is the same as trying to "make Islam look bad" and must be part of a broader agenda to "make Islam look bad."  I disagree. If there's something controversial in any religion, it needs to be identified, not swept under the rug with nonsense about what Delaware did hundreds of years ago. What's relevant in 2013 is, what do practitioners of any religion believe in 2013? We need to be upfront about these questions, and not shut down debate by attacking peoples' motives or, as PP said, accusing them of spewing and then walking away.
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What I object to is precisely the Delaware/Richard II analogy. I agree that Muslims today take different views on child marriage and have never said otherwise.

Let me try again to explain what's wrong with the analogy. For people who live in Delaware in 2013, the child marriage laws of several centuries ago have absolutely zero relevance and have been 100% repudiated. For *some* but not all Muslims today, what happened 1300 years ago is still relevant, because it was how Mohammad lived. There is a big difference in how history is relevant to the first group but not the second group. 
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