As I have said, there is great evil in the Christian doctrine of absolute and permanent damnation. Islam takes all the worst elements of Christianity and makes them worse and unchanging.
Trauma is on all sides. Your parents beat submission into you, because to do otherwise is to risk eternal damnation. As an adult, you are expected to exercise no freedom of individual conscience. There is no “exploring” in the creed whose very name comes from submission. You can expect violence if you do not do as others around you do.
And within such an environment, no moral growth is possible. You have to be free to explore, to be curious, to understand for yourself how and why moral codes come about. All of this is sternly rejected and punished (in theory: as I have said before, the only good Muslims are bad Muslims).
And in the relationship between the sexes, it is force, trauma, rape and violence. At age 50 or so Muhammad “married” Aisha. At age 53 or so he fucked her. This was almost certainly before puberty. He was fucking a child who in this country would have been in third grade, would have been reading “Ramona the Pest” and watching the Cartoon Network or Disney. Edit: I read farther down in that link that he, the Great Prophet, loved to watch his 9 year old bride, with whom he was sexually active, play with dolls.
Ponder that. Not all religions are created equal. There is no basis in historical fact or philosophy to assume this is the case, other than a sophistry very congenial to those who believe nothing is worth fighting for.
And this is at the CORE of their doctrine. I read within the past year about a Yemeni man marrying a 9 year old and causing so much internal bleeding from fucking her that she died from blood loss. No doubt, his heartstrings being so sensitive, and his love so deep, he was profoundly wounded by his loss, and his next marriage was to an eleven year old.
The root problem with pedophilia is that it inherently represents a failure of emotional development. The children you are attracted to are at roughly the age where you yourself lost your battle with trauma. In Muhammad’s case, that was apparently before age 10. Perhaps it was precisely that trauma–my guess would be getting sodomized by an older man, as indeed still happens in Afghanistan as an open part of their culture to this very day–which led him to the mountains. Whatever he brought back, it was anything but the creed of a loving, caring, welcoming, just God.
Islam asks of the modern world a very basic question: what do you believe? What is worth fighting for? Are ANY of your developments in the realm of political freedom, freedom of conscience, equal justice before the law worth anything? Are any of your cultural creations worth a pile of spit? How would anyone know, when you persist in shitting on them? Are your women worth defending? Your children? How openly can we spit in your faces and expect you to forgive us, not knowing that we meant it fully? How easily can a vastly more powerful economic and military world be undermined from within, and at that virtually openly?
How fucking stupid and decadent are you?
It’s an open question. We all need challenges in life. Islam is a challenge to the world. In its pristine form, it is absolutely incompatible with peace and anything like human decency, especially where women and children are concerned, but even where adult dissenters are concerned. Fear can be the only prevailing emotion among those who believe that their only choices are submission and eternal hell.
The only comforts are those of sacrifice and sadism, particularly in the de facto human sacrifice of unbelievers, who like animals of old are decapitated in public as spectacle and for religious edification. Or perhaps they are hung from trees like the Nordic captives of old, without the solace of having their suffering cut short through strangulation. They are denied even that infinitesimal kindness.