First, the question of fact. Was Muhammad a pedophile who kept sex slaves?
Hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:
“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).
Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, “Best wishes and Allah’s Blessing and a good luck.” Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah’s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).
Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.
And as for sex slaves, the Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty.” (Qur’an 33:50)
Muhammad took female Infidel captives as sex slaves: “Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, ‘Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a (hostile) nation (to fight), then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.’ Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives. She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet. The Prophet made her manumission as her ‘Mahr.’” (Bukhari 5.59.512) Mahr is bride price: Muhammad freed her and married her, i.e., raped her.
But in this as in all such cases, the facts don’t matter. Michael Craven of the Leftist hate group Tell Mama UK claims: “There was a definite tarring of the Muslim community as a whole as rapists and paedophiles.”
Did Batten say anything about the Muslim community as a whole? No. But this is a common tactic of Islamic apologists and their Leftist Useful Idiots: claim that any analysis of how jihadists and Sharia supremacists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify terrorism and other violence (including the rape of Infidel women) tars the entire Muslim community with responsibility for their crimes. There is no reason why this should be so, and it isn’t so, but it plays well with the British government and media, and that’s all that matters to Tell Mama UK and its Craven spokesman.
“Ukip leader Gerard Batten calls Muhammad a paedophile at Tommy Robinson rally,” by Eleanor Busby, Independent, July 15, 2018:
Ukip’s leader has called the prophet Muhammad a paedophile at a rally for jailed far-right leader Tommy Robinson.
Gerard Batten, an MEP for London, told protesters campaigning for the release of Robinson in London that “rape gang members are predominately followers of the cult of Muhammad”.
In remarks prepared for the rally in London on Saturday, Mr Batten claimed the founder of Islam was “a paedophile who kept sex slaves”.
His comments were called “deeply disturbing” and “worrying” by an anti-Islamophobia group.
In a speech provided to The Independent by Ukip, Mr Batten said: “The great British media do not want to talk about the group identity of the rapists, or the ideology that inspires them.
“The rape gang members are predominately followers of the cult of Muhammad.
“They can justify their crimes to themselves because their ideology tells them that non-cult followers are lesser human beings.”
Mr Batten added: “The founder of their cult was himself a paedophile who kept sex slaves. And he is held up to be a perfect model for them to follow for all time.
“But we, the infidels and kaffirs, are not supposed to talk about it. And people who do face possibly criminal prosecution under our so-called ‘hate laws’.”
Campaigning group Hope Not Hate called the speech “shocking” on Twitter, added that his comments about Muslims were “vile”.
Michael Craven, of Tell Mama UK, which monitors anti-Muslim incidents, said he was disturbed by the “inflammatory” remarks about the prophet which he said had been received with cheers.
He claimed one attendee of the rally shouted: “We should hang them all”.
“It was deeply inflammatory. There was a definite tarring of the Muslim community as a whole as rapists and paedophiles,” Mr Craven told The Independent….