KIDDIE PORN

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

In 2002, the Southern Baptist Convention held their national meeting here in St. Louis. During that meeting, the Rev. Jerry Vines, a former president of the Convention, caused a firestorm of controversy:

Criticism of Islam’s founding prophet by a Southern Baptist leader has prompted Muslims to accuse the denomination of bigotry.

During a Monday evening conference at the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, the Rev. Jerry Vines told conventioneers “that Islam is not just as good as Christianity.”

“Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives — and his last one was a 9-year-old girl,” said Vines, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida, and a former Southern Baptist Convention president.

The convention’s president has rejected calls to repudiate what a Muslim group called “bigoted” and “hate-filled” statements.

The local religious left, led by Missouri Episcopal Bishop George Wayne Smith, came down with a serious case of the vapors.

Missouri Episcopal bishop George Wayne Smith led an interfaith defense of Islam and the Prophet Mohammed during a news conference June 12, called in response to an attack on Muslims by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

Standing before the altar in Christ Church Cathedral, Smith spoke on behalf of the Interfaith Partnership in condemning the statements and expressing solidarity with “our Muslim brothers and sisters.” He then spoke as Bishop of Missouri, saying, “The statement violates our understanding of the Christian faith, which proclaims a God who calls us to love one another and to break down the barriers that separate us.’”

A guy I know added this.

The Rev. Dr. Warren Crews, the diocese’s ecumenical officer and president of the Interfaith Partnership, said he did not want the messengers (delegates) to the Baptist meeting to go away from St. Louis thinking that such bigotry was tolerated here.

But…Mohammed had a nine-year-old…wife. How on Earth can anyone justify that, Bishop?

Questions from at least one of the reporters in the audience, representing a Baptist publication, prompted Smith and others to explain the historical and cultural context of Mohammed’s betrothal to a young girl. ‘To equate Mohammed’s marriage with pedophilia is horrific,’ said Smith, repeating earlier statements by Hayat that the marriage was not consummated until the girl was of age. He added that betrothals of children were common in Mohammed’s day as a way to unite families. He explained that such customs are not practiced by Muslims today.

Sucks to be you, George.

Muslim “child-marriage”—euphemism for pedophilia—is making headlines again, at least in Arabic media: Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, just issued a fatwa asserting that there is no minimum age for marriage, and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”

Appearing in Saudi papers on July 13, the fatwa complains that “Uninformed interference with Sharia rulings by the press and journalists is on the increase, posing dire consequences to society, including their interference with the question of marriage to small girls who have not reached maturity, and their demand that a minimum age be set for girls to marry.”

Fawzan insists that nowhere does Sharia set an age limit for marrying girls: like countless Muslim scholars before him, he relies on Koran 65:4, which discusses marriage to females who have not yet begun menstruating (i.e., are prepubescent) and the fact that Muhammad, Islam’s role model, married Aisha when she was 6-years-old, “consummating” the marriage—or, in modern parlance,raping her—when she was 9.

The point of the Saudi fatwa, however, is not that girls as young as 9 can have sex, based on Muhammad’s example, but rather that there is no age limit whatsoever; the only question open to consideration is whether the girl is physically capable of handling her husband/rapist.

Are we talking about an entirely theoretical situation here or does this depraved crap actually happen? Apparently. Sometimes little girls even die.

Nor is this just some theoretic, theological point; the lives of many young girls are being destroyed because of this ruling. Recall, for instance, the 13-year-old girl who died while her much older husband was copulating with her (it was later revealed that, due to her reluctance, he was tying her up and “raping” her—as if there is another way to describe sex with children); or the 12-year-old whodied giving birth to a stillborn; or the 10-year-old who made headlines by hiding out from her 80-year-old “husband.”

Here’s the deal.