You are in a religion where you are so ashamed of your prophet that you scramble to twist Quran and hadith verses that don't fit a 21st century world view. There is no Muslim, including you, that will accept that Muhammad married a six year old; they will do mental gymnastics to make her older because they cant believe that their role model would do such a thing.
Same thing with Muslims' response to ISIS and Al Shabab: "they're not real Muslims or they've corrupted Islam". The fact is that they follow the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad to the letter. You Muslims just cant believe this is what your religion looks like.
Ok? Your religion is so bad that practicing it as your supposed to is considered extreme and radical. That's what you belong to.
it was not 6 when she consumated the marriage it was 9 as some people believe. secondly the definition of womanhood was different at that time. you were considered of marriagable age as soon as you got your period. Aisha was 9 when she got her first period and they asked her if she agreed with this marriage and if she understood what it was.
Unlike this time of age, people were grown up at a young age. now grown ass people in their 20's are still considered to be babies.
Secondly nobody is twisting and turning anything. The questioning of aishas age has nothing to do with fitting western 21st century values in which 12 year olds get their cherry popped in the bushes. It all comes down to math
Ibn Sa‘d has stated in the
Tabaqat that when Abu Bakr [father of Aisha] was approached on behalf of the Holy Prophet, he replied that the girl had already been betrothed to Jubair, and that he would have to settle the matter first with him. This shows that Aisha must have been approaching majority at the time. Again, the
Isaba, speaking of the Prophet’s daughter Fatima, says that she was born five years before the Call and was about five years older than Aisha. This shows that Aisha must have been about ten years at the time of her betrothal to the Prophet, and not six years as she is generally supposed to be. This is further borne out by the fact that Aisha herself is reported to have stated that when the chapter [of the Holy Quran] entitled
The Moon, the fifty-fourth chapter, was revealed, she was a girl playing about and remembered certain verses then revealed. Now the fifty-fourth chapter was undoubtedly revealed before the sixth year of the Call. All these considerations point to but one conclusion, viz., that Aisha could not have been less than ten years of age at the time of her
nikah, which was virtually only a betrothal. And there is one report in the
Tabaqat that Aisha was nine years of age at the time of
nikah. Again it is a fact admitted on all hands that the
nikahof Aisha took place in the tenth year of the Call in the month of Shawwal, while there is also preponderance of evidence as to the consummation of her marriage taking place in the second year of Hijra in the same month, which shows that full five years had elapsed between the
nikahand the consummation. Hence there is not the least doubt that Aisha was
at least nine or ten years of age at the time of betrothal, and fourteen or fifteen years at the time of marriage.”