http://www.muhammadanism.org/Hadith/Topics/Marriage.htm
This may be embarrassing to modern muslims, but it is in fact a well-established fact of their history. Their prophet was a child molester. I have a 10-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter. If a 55-year-old self-proclaimed prophet wanted to cohabit with my daughter, I'd take a baseball bat to his head.
Yesterday, President Bush condemned the lack of rights for women behind the Islamic curtain. You cannot address the lack of rights for women politically without addressing the role of Islam in child marriage, female castration, and other abuses of women.
Try addressing polygamy, politically, as a subject without addressing the fact that underage girls are given to these old men sexually before age 14. You can't.
These abuses of women should be publicized, not hidden. And, I'm saying this not as a religious hater, but as a woman who lived for 10 years in Utah and saw at firsthand the abuses of polygamy against adolescent girls and the longterm ramifications on these young women.
Mohammed had sex with a 9-year-old girl. This is the basis of a tradition of female molestation that dates back a thousand years. Women in these scenarios are uneducated and without rights. They cannot rescue themselves. They lack economic skills. This is happening around the world, and in the U.S.
It's time to start telling the truth about it, even if it offends people.