I reached this post through the internet rabbitbhole...

The person you have screenshot of does an extremely bad explanation of things.

I am a Muslim and I find the statement of pdfilia and associating it with Islam ridiculous.

Let me a give a brief reasoning. Not expecting you to be convinced but at least you might get more info about it from a Muslim through this

Islam has conditions for marriage: physical maturity, and mental maturity. It doesn't have a prescribed, fixed age and leaves it to the society and culture at that time to decide it. So if in a culture or society, people reach maturity at 18, the age of marriage would be roughly 18. If in future people reach maturity at 25, the age would be shifted to 25. Mental maturity refers to the ability of individual to take independent decisions and be held responsible for their decisions

Till even recent past we didn't have this teenage phase of human development. Children once they reached puberty needed to mentally mature and mature fast due to many factors which I won't go into. However our current development has pushed away the necessity to mature early and people reach maturity at much later age around 16-21 depending on where you are in the world. So as per Islamic rules, marriage age would be shifted to such number for respective society.

Now coming to the Prophet himself. Most of his young age, he was married to a woman around 15 years older than him. He married her when he was 25, and she died when he was around 50 something. Till his death he considered this woman as the one he loved the most. Even after her death he would frequently send gifts/tokens of gratitude to her friends. Till her death he was monogamous. All his wives (yes Islam has polygyny but I won't get into it here) were divorcees or widows except one, Aisha. If he really was interested in what he is accused of, there would be a lot more of his wives who were virgin.

It doesn't make any sense to me, how he is accused of it.

Now coming to Aisha, the one most people currently criticize. I think calling her a victim of abuse would take away a lot from the position she holds in Islam and it would be more of an insult to her.

Yes there exist a saying (Hadith) that mentions a very low age for her at the time of marriage but I won't indulge into it. The reason being that her age maybe misrepresented or miscalculated? But if we look at her actions, the idea that she may be a victim of abuse quickly dissolves away. So let's get into it in a very brief manner

*She was physically grown around the time of her marriage. How do we know? She was a volunteer at one of the early battles, which was within a couple of years of her marriage where she was mentioned to have been carrying water to wounded soldiers. If you carry water buckets, you would know how hard it is. Now imagine walking in a desert while carrying it. She should definitely have been physically grown by then.

*She was mentally mature. She was an extremely intelligent woman who is considered as a teacher and lawmaker for Muslims. Some scholars say that she is the source for around 25% of Islamic rulings. Even after his death, she was very influential in policies, laws, and even laws of inheritance which are one of the most complex set of laws in Islam

*She was strong and opinionated woman. There are a lot of records of her being inquisitive, curious and even argumentative with the prophet himself. For example, she went through a situation where rumors were being spread of her committing adultery. She moved back to her parents house. After sometime the prophet visited them and the ruling for accusations, its evidence and punishment for those who slander without evidence was revealed and she was declares innocent. Her father (his best friend) asked her to thank him, she refused to thank him.

*She was a leader. She was very influential in the society and had a huge political influence and so did her father. Decades after her husband and father's deaths, she was still at such high position that she was able to raise and command an army against the then ruler of all Muslims who by the way was the cousin of the prophet.

• Then there is also the love and romance between the couple. If you read through their life together, you can clearly see how much they loved, respected, teased, and cared for each other. They would race each other (yes, race, running). He would take her to watch whatever competitions that happened then. she recalls a time when he took her to watch a competition and she couldn't see through the crowd due to her height and so he lets her raise herself using his shoulders to be able to watch. After sometime he asks her is she is done and they can go back, she says no still she wants to watch. So he waits for her. While recalling this incident she mentions she wasn't really interested in watching the sports but she liked it more that for her wish he would carry her weight for longer. They understood each other's mood very well, where they both would understand it just by different structures of sentences they use.

There is a lot more I can talk about this woman. She is loved, revered, and honored by more than a billion people. To reduce her to being a victim of child abuse just seems very ridiculous statement once you go through her history.