Yep itβs me. We support our Prophetβs ο·Ί marriage to Aisha at 9. No big deal. She was a woman through and through https://t.co/UbsjGTZ2KE
— The Muslim Cowboy (@MercifulMessage) January 22, 2024
Absolutely cannot be cancelled for this take:
Dassss rite heathen:
Oy vey don't bring us into this:
Surely criticizing the Prophet Mohammed is a good idea:
Cbf effortposting so browse yourself.
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I'm not even that great with stats, but this thread is embarrassing. When your sample has a lot of low numbers, that tends to drag down the mean, also known as the average. So life expectancy at a given time and place being in the vicinity of ~30 does not mean that most people just up and dropped dead at thirty, and it certainly doesn't mean that most females experienced menarche at the age of seven in reaction to a high rate of infant mortality.
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You know you're talking to a when the person doesn't understand averages or per capita
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Marrying people off at that age back in 6th-7th century Arabia was fairly standard for everyone. Muhammad married off his own daughter at age 9 too, and this was before he married Aisha.
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Ironically this was practiced to ensure you got an unfricked wife because they're still undeveloped at that age
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