I am muslim. This is what we muslims think about it:
We don't know the exact age of Aisha. The ages of the wives of the prophet are documented in hadith. Hadiths are saying of the sayings and actions of the prophet that have been collected by people. The problems with hadiths is that there are mostly chains of narrators, and they have been collected 200 years after the death of the prophet in modern-day Uzbekistan. We follow them as long they have a 'strong' chain of narrators. The Koran mentions nothing about hadiths so they are to be regarded as a secondary source of legislation.
Child marriages were common all over the world in that time. Mohammad as a man of his time and place could have taken over common practices like these. We modern-day muslims are not really in a position to condemn it, because we are brought up with different norms and values. Basicly, there was no concept of pedophilia in that time.
We don't know the exact age of Aisha. The ages of the wives of the prophet are documented in hadith. Hadiths are saying of the sayings and actions of the prophet that have been collected by people. The problems with hadiths is that there are mostly chains of narrators, and they have been collected 200 years after the death of the prophet in modern-day Uzbekistan. We follow them as long they have a 'strong' chain of narrators. The Koran mentions nothing about hadiths so they are to be regarded as a secondary source of legislation.
Child marriages were common all over the world in that time. Mohammad as a man of his time and place could have taken over common practices like these. We modern-day muslims are not really in a position to condemn it, because we are brought up with different norms and values. Basicly, there was no concept of pedophilia in that time.