Indian woman makes historically correct comment about Islam's prophet and enrages Muslims

Nupur Sharma made an historically accurate comment on TV a few weeks ago about Islam's prophet Muhammed, and now Indian Muslims would like to cancel her . . . forever. 

What Sharma said was that Muhammed married Aisha when she was 6-years-old [and he was already in his 50s]. She was playing with dolls when he first saw her and Aisha's father asked that Muhammed please wait until she was older before having sex with her; so he waited three years until she was nine and then consummated the marriage.

That information is in the Hadith--the text which explains the chapters [suras] in the Koran, but somehow it angers Muhammed's followers when it's mentioned.

Sharma's remarks have outraged Indian Muslims and over a dozen Islamic nations. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is experiencing immense blowback over her words about the pedophilic behavior of Muhammed.

Her crime was to accurately paraphrase Islamic scripture

On Sunday, the BJP suspended Sharma from the party along with the head of BJP's Delhi media unit, Naveen Kumar Jindal [no relation to Bobby], for publishing a screenshot of her comment in a tweet.

The BBC called Ms. Sharma's comment 'offensive,' but if it's historically true, why are Muslims offended? Are they experiencing cognitive dissonance regarding their prophet and only feel anger toward those who point out his pedophilia? Is it that they know what he did was wrong but need to transfer blame to those who mention it?

In a statement, the BJP said it was "against any ideology which insults or demeans any sect or religion" and added that it did not "promote such people or philosophy." But Islam clearly insults and demeans other religions, particularly Judaism, saying that Jews are descended from apes and pigs. They also include Christians, but slightly less vehemently. 

So even the BJP are comprised of hypocrites, but perhaps they need to be in order to avoid violence.

Indian diplomats have said the comments did not reflect the stand of the government and that they were "views of fringe elements." But Nupur Sharma, 37, is hardly a fringe element. Until her axing from the party, she was a highly sought-after "official BJP spokesperson." She had appeared on many TV debates where she represented and defended Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Sharma earned her law degree at Delhi University [GO COBRAS!] and began her political career in 2008 as president of the students' union as a candidate of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), which is the student wing of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh movement.

But make no mistake: Nupur Sharma's life is in danger. Islamic extremists will not let this go in spite of the veracity of her comment, and India will do little to nothing to stop it. 

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