Did you know that if a fifty-year-old man only marries a nine-year-old girl one time he's not really a pedophile? Yup, that's the reasoning of a Dutch court, in ruling that Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the heroic Somali-Dutch activist against Islamist abuse of women, should not have used the word "pedophile" to describe Mohammed. According to the blog Dutch Report, the court decided that: "It looks like if [Hirsi Ali] with the use of these words (pedophile) has sought the limits of the permissible. The term pedophile has been chosen unfortunate because for that there would be the need of a pattern, although it is in the story (the Koran) a one time event".I didn't realize that choosing a six-year-old to marry (and then consummating the marriage when she was nine) was "a one time event." I thought marriage was a sort of a long-term deal. But then this is Holland, where divorce only requires a three-day waiting period. So maybe Mohammed divorced his nine-year-old bride...(Read Full Post)