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on the day of her marriage.

Now, according to Islamic law, according to Sharia law, if you're playing with toys, you're still a child.

You're not mature enough, right?

But she was still playing with dolls when she got married.

And so, you know, it is a really poor argument, an incredibly poor argument.

And the thing is, and this is one of the differences between Christianity and Islam, is that Christianity allows us to incorporate new knowledge and to develop our understanding of things.

So we've developed an understanding of childhood development.

And that's why Christian countries have increased the age of consent.

because we can learn, we believe in learning, right?

Whereas Islam is fixed to the prototype of Muhammad.

And so if Muhammad did something, unless he expressly prohibits it for you, like for instance, Muhammad had 11 wives,

but then prohibited every other Muslim to only having four wives, which is kind of good for him, isn't it?

You know, a bit like a Joseph Smith move, founder of Mormonism.

But if Muhammad did it and he didn't prohibit it for you, then you can do it.

It doesn't mean you have to do it, but it means you can do it, which means that there isn't a Muslim reason to say you can't have sex with a nine-year-old child if she's got precocious puberty.

Right?

Now, the thing is, if you study childhood development, we now know that adulthood kind of emerges between sort of 18 and 24.

That's why everybody feels like they're 20-year-old their entire life, is because the brain finally stops developing around 24 years old, sometimes a bit earlier, sometimes a bit later.

And that's why everybody feels in their heads that they're still 20, even though everything about their body is telling them that they're not.

Right?