I'm not so sure that this is just an Islamic thing. There are many cultures that have all kinds of "traditions", not only allowing, but encouraging much older men to be sexually active with very young girls. It's not all that uncommon in the U.S., and not just among the fringe religious groups.
Prostituting very young children, both boys and girls (and we are talking about PRE-pubescent) is a huge and profitable business with lots of participation from business class and wealthy men. It really is more of an exploitation thing of the most powerless and vulnerable class of humans, i.e., children. If it was truly socially unacceptable to Western Hemisphere, mostly christian societies, these chi...

I'm not so sure that this is just an Islamic thing. There are many cultures that have all kinds of "traditions", not only allowing, but encouraging much older men to be sexually active with very young girls. It's not all that uncommon in the U.S., and not just among the fringe religious groups.
Prostituting very young children, both boys and girls (and we are talking about PRE-pubescent) is a huge and profitable business with lots of participation from business class and wealthy men. It really is more of an exploitation thing of the most powerless and vulnerable class of humans, i.e., children. If it was truly socially unacceptable to Western Hemisphere, mostly christian societies, these child prostitution rings would collapse from lack of customers.