Refuting the Claim that Prophet Muhammad was a Pedophile

[فداء الرسول]

Aisha’s Dolls


Aisha (peace be upon her) brought her dolls along when she moved into the Prophet’s
house. The Islamaphobes use this as a proof, as if Aisha (peace be upon her) bringing her
dolls proves that she was an immature girl. However, this is not true. Aisha (peace be
upon her) was a mature woman, as she stated in her own words. The fact that she brought
along her dolls does not at all disprove this.


Many mature girls have dolls; we just call them “stuffed animals” nowadays. It is wellknown
that sexually active young women in America love to receive stuffed animals—
such as teddy bears—from their lovers. In fact, a recent survey carried out by Travelodge
and published in Sky News showed that 15% of adult women sleep with their teddy bears.


[13] I don’t think I really need to prove this, since everyone knows that young adult
women love teddy bears and other stuffed animals.



But just for the sake of being thorough, I cite the example of the surgeon at the University
of California Irvine who would hand out teddy bears to women fighting breast cancer.
This same idea was adopted at many other hospitals; Wendy Mitchell, the former
program manager for the Center for Women’s Health, commented about the patients:


“Their eyes well up with tears of joy. They take the teddy bear and hold it to their chests
hoping this teddy bear from their doctor, this power of touch, will get them through this.”


[14]


The point is that Aisha (peace be upon her) bringing her dolls along—or even playing
with them—does not prove anything at all, especially when we factor in that she lived
over a thousand years ago. According to About.com, it was just a couple decades ago that
girls used to play with Barbie dolls up until their teenage years. Denise Van Patten
writes:

It was with great reluctance that I packed up my Barbie dolls in their doll trunk
for the last time at 14. Back in Barbie's early heyday, in the 1960s and 1970s, my
story wasn't unusual—girls often played with Barbie until their early teens.


(About.com, http://collectdolls.about.com/cs/bar...bieoutgrow.htm)


So we see that in the 1970s, girls as old as 14 were playing with Barbie dolls. And a
hundred years ago, the average age at which girls stopped playing with dolls was
substantially older. And a thousand years ago, girls—and even young women—had few
other ways to spend their free time, and thus, playing with dolls was routine. They had
no other source of entertainment—no MTV, no shopping malls, no internet. Today, girls
outgrow dolls very fast, because of all the other more catchy gizmos people have to
entertain themselves with. One reference website states:


The toy dolls that existed before the 1700's served chiefly as playthings for adults
as well as for children…The first dolls specifically for children probably were
made in the 1700's.


(How Stuff Works, http://reference.howstuffworks.com/d...cyclopedia.htm)


So in ancient (and not so ancient times), it was not at all unusual to see young adult
women playing with dolls. As we can see, the fact that Aisha (peace be upon her) played
with dolls does not in and of itself prove that she was an immature girl



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13 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2240697.html
14 http://www.ohsuwomenshealth.com/news/bears.html