Akkurat dette med profeten og barnebruden skal vi ikke rope så veldig høyt om i vesten, siden det var innafor i Europa med barnegiftemål til ganske nylig. Det var mangt og mye som ble praktisert i middelalderen, men der vi må si stopp, er når folk forventer å kunne drite i dagens lovverk og samfunnsstandard, utfra hva som var greit dengang da. Det var en gang helt innafor å brenne hekser på bålet. Det gjør man ikke lengre i vestlige land, men i enkelte land i Asia og Afrika, foregår det enda at lynsjemobber prøver seg på det.
At profeten kosa seg med en niåring, eller at vestlige adelige gifta seg i alder ned til 4 år, er egentlig irrelevant.
Fra Wikipedia:
Some of the child marriages recorded include:
Aisha, betrothed to Muhammad at the age of 9 in 623 CE.
Margaret Beaufort, (age approximately 7) was married to John de la Pole (age 7) in 1450 by the arrangement John's father.[5] The marriage was annulled in 1453.
Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, betrothed in a wedding contract at age 8 days old, she was officially married at age 12 in 1476.
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (age 6) was married to Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (age 4) in 1477. She died at age 10 and he, as one of the Princes in the Tower is believed to have been murdered at age 10.
Rukhmabai was married in India to her husband when she was 11 and he was 19. After a lengthy court battle, the marriage was dissolved by an order from Queen Victoria and the publicity helped influence the passage of the Age of Consent Act, 1891 which outlawed child marriages across the British Empire.
I den katolske kirke, var lavalderen for giftemål fram til 1915 12 år for kvinner og 14 år for menn.
Johan-Kr