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You are not backing any of your emotional claims and just keep repeating how cruel, abhorrent and "bad" what things that differ from what you perceive as "right" are (also slurs). Also calm down with the hate speech ("summarily executed").
Calm down (if this not just a rhetoric you are using since you know you have no logical ground) and use your brain.
You missed the whole point that whatever morality you are holding is subjective. If you accept yours as valid, it means you cannot disagree with whatever morality others may have because they followed the same process as you to have theirs since it is subjective to them and their context. If you disagree with your views being subjective, you are invited to demonstrate how they are objective.
You postulate that a 9 year old is not an adult. Today I agree with you. Kids spend a lot of time at schools, watch cartoons, play games etc. So by the age of 9 they have no experience of the world and cannot be responsible of a household. At the time however things were completely different, they were directly confronted to life, had responsibility caring for their brothers and sisters and working. You can still find pictures of 3 year old working in the US from the late 90s.
They matured faster then compared to current days.
The question is at what age do we reach adulthood? Even in current days, with children living in somewhat comparable conditions, many disagree. Each country decides what is the legal age, which is different from its neighbours (and even differs within the country, eg. the US) but that is what each society decided. You claim there is a universal and atemporal age? The world and history disagrees with you. So at that time and in that society they decided the rule was to reach puberty. You don't like it? It's normal, it's subjective.
Just a note: Islam doesn't fix the age of consent but says the norm of the society should be followed. Which means the condition of reaching puberty cannot be applied wholesale today, and the local customs should be followed.
This question was directed to you and you evaded it.
False, they can amongst women and only of necessary if men are around. You might bicker about this but this is normal since you are not familiar with the concept of حياء (there isn't a word for it in English and gets mistranslated as shyness) and the respect of women.
False, Islam came and changed that. They can inherit properties instead of being inherited themselves. And whatever women possess, whatever money they earn (of course they can work) is solely theirs and the husband has no right whatsoever on it. She can come from a rich family, the husband still has to provide for her and the house. Of course both can agree to share however they see fit, it's up to them but she had every right to just keep her money.
They can and they can even ask a judge and get divorce.
Wrong answer. You can say "I don't know" if you don't know.
Not true for all. Islam forbade taking free people as servants, exception for prisoners of war since there was no prison system. Also in many occasions pushed to free slaves, for the expiation of sins for example. Islam put the framework so that in the end many of those who had servants when Islam came had none over time. People bought some in order to free them: a notable example is Bibal ibn Rabbah, an Ethiopian slave bought to be freed by Abu Bakr (the 1st Caliph); he later became the treasurer of the state.