By Andrew Bostom
Having just read the Prologue (available here, not without irony, at a website whose name ends with "..Trashy Books") to Sherry Jones "The Jewel of Medina," one hopes (against hope) that perhaps (as observed aptly by Diana West), and polygamy, but seems utterly unaware that she is doing so having adopted in her own warped fashion - albeit, not "deferentially" enough - an apologetic narrative for Islam's foundational (and living) debasement of women. Thus her "narrative" dramatization has Ali (who became the fourth "Rightly Guided Caliph, revered by Shi'a) utter to a "nervous and faint" Muhammad, "Wives are easily acquired. You will find another child-bride."
For the hadith sources of this sacralized pedophilia, see the following:
Source: Andrew Bostom
Having just read the Prologue (available here, not without irony, at a website whose name ends with "..Trashy Books") to Sherry Jones "The Jewel of Medina," one hopes (against hope) that perhaps (as observed aptly by Diana West), and polygamy, but seems utterly unaware that she is doing so having adopted in her own warped fashion - albeit, not "deferentially" enough - an apologetic narrative for Islam's foundational (and living) debasement of women. Thus her "narrative" dramatization has Ali (who became the fourth "Rightly Guided Caliph, revered by Shi'a) utter to a "nervous and faint" Muhammad, "Wives are easily acquired. You will find another child-bride."
For the hadith sources of this sacralized pedophilia, see the following:
Sahih Muslim, Book 008, Number 3311:
'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) married her when she was seven years old, and she was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, and her dolls were with her; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old. Read more ...
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