"The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)." -- Bukhari 7.62.88
This is Muhammad's example. It will be essentially impossible to keep Muslim men from emulating his example as long as he is held up as the supreme model for conduct (cf. Qur'an 33:21).
Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "Child marriage still an issue in Saudi Arabia," by Joel Brinkley for the San Francisco Chronicle, March 13:
Saudi Arabia has a serious child-marriage problem.It's emblematic of the nation's struggle between modernity and traditional Islam. But the lives of thousands of little girls are being destroyed as the Saudi government ponderously debates a solution.
Child marriage has been acceptable, even encouraged, in many Islamic states since the religion was born. After all, among the prophet Muhammad's dozen wives was Aisha, who is believed to have been 6 or 7 years old when the two were married. But in Saudi Arabia, at least, the practice slammed headlong into modern values last spring, when a Saudi court refused to nullify the marriage of an 8-year-old girl from Unaiza to a man in his late 50s.
Over the past few years, long-standing social practices in Saudi Arabia have been thrown into the glare of world opinion, embarrassing the state and forcing at least cosmetic changes.
In 2006, for example, a judge sentenced a young woman to 200 lashes and several months in prison for being alone in a car with a man she was not related to, where they were attacked and she was raped. Opprobrium from around the world rained down on Riyadh. President George W. Bush asked: "What happens if this happens to my daughter? I'd be angry at a state that does not support the victim." King Abdullah commuted the sentence.
In 2008, one of the nation's most senior religious authorities directed that two reporters for a mainstream Saudi newspaper be executed for publishing stories suggesting that religions other than Islam are worthy of respect. Once again, the cleric's remark spawned international outrage, and the cleric's order was ignored. Then came last spring's court ruling on that 8-year-old wife....
Saudi Arabia is hardly the only state facing this problem. Last year, Turkey made it legal for 12-year-olds to marry, if their parents agree. The Turkish Statistical Institute estimates that one-third of the state's brides are under 18. In Yemen and Bangladesh, even among some sects in Burma, child marriage is commonplace. The victims, in those places and elsewhere: little girls who are forced into wasted, often miserable, lives....
Which Islamofasicts put that rule up about Turkey?
Ugh. Such a great country that could have really grown from a curious nerd to a cool kid in terms of Western culture, ruined by Islamism and jihadists.
Saudi Arabia, that was no surprise.
Child marriage has been acceptable, even encouraged, in many Islamic states since the religion was born. After all, among the prophet Muhammad's dozen wives was Aisha, who is believed to have been 6 or 7 years old when the two were married...
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Well, kudos to Joel Brinkley of the San Francisco Chronicle for mentioning the baneful example of "the Prophet", rather than just chalking it up to "tribal" or "cultural" customs, as is so common in the media.
Of course, this perceptive point is somewhat undercut by the following:
"The Turkish Statistical Institute estimates that one-third of the state's brides are under 18. In Yemen and Bangladesh, even among some sects in Burma, child marriage is commonplace."
No mention that in Turkey, and Yemen, and Bangladesh—and, yes, even Burma—this is all perpetrated, in every case, by Muslims.
Well, kudos to Joel Brinkley of the San Francisco Chronicle for mentioning the baneful example of "the Prophet", rather than just chalking it up to "tribal" or "cultural" customs, as is so common in the media.
I agree 100%. Such truth-telling is pretty much non-existing in mainstream-media outlets.
Gravenimage - Joel Brinkley's in your part of the world.
I hope you will be communicating with him and with his editor to commend him for the writing and the publishing of *this* statement -
"Child marriage has been acceptable, even encouraged, in many Islamic states since the religion was born.
"After all, among the prophet Muhammad's dozen wives was Aisha, who is believed to have been 6 or 7 years old when the two were married."
All Mr Brinkley needed to add, here, was this - 'and nine years old when the marriage was consummated', for his article to say all that needs to be said.
Every US jihadwatcher should be commending the San Francisco Chronicle for bringing this fact - the baneful influence, in the Islamic world, of the example of Mohammed's wedding of little prepubescent Aisha - to the attention of their readers. Make sure you tell them that the canonical Muslim sources say, and Muslims firmly believe, that Mohammed took Aisha to his bed when she was NINE; and that the Quran includes a passage which speaks of girls who have been married, and divorced, before even achieving menarche.
If a Muslim wishes to follow the example of Mohammed, he should not penetrate his wife until she is aged nine. He is however allowed to satisfy his urges by inerting his trouser-minaret between a younger girl's thighs and rubbing until he ejaculates. He should then make the girl clean the ejaculate up, as recorded in Bukhari.
"Last year, Turkey made it legal for 12-year-olds to marry, if their parents agree."
This is not true. What kind of newspaper is this? There's no such law in Turkey. Last year? When? Who? Age of consent in Turkey is 18. It can be 15 if parents agree. Some people privately marry with unofficial, Islamic weddings but they are arrested when they are caught.
There's no such law in Turkey. This is ridiculous.
But but........ Saudis are 'our friends':
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/28614_Our_Friends_the_Saudis
Muslim men are afraid of grown mature women (their
mothers) so they marry female children (who won't
emasculate the little they have left to emasculate).
Classic Freudian and Eriksonian
Stage 1 of Oral Fixation...
If a Muslim wishes to follow the example of Mohammed, he should not penetrate his wife until she is aged nine. He is however allowed to satisfy his urges by inerting his trouser-minaret between a younger girl's thighs and rubbing until he ejaculates. He should then make the girl clean the ejaculate up, as recorded in Bukhari.
....OR THE BOOK OF ROMAN POLANKSI
WHEN I WAS NINE, GOD...BELIEVE ME HOW I WISHED
I HAD A 'TROUSER MINARET'....(I STILL DO)...
Who the hell are you 'hammer and sickle' at 4:03? So we are Islamofascists are we? What does that make you then? Lover of Jihad, suicide bomber, legal child molester and, oh yes, defender of the supreme cultural oasis that is Turkey! Take yourself off to some middle eastern hell hole if you are not already there and leave us to our civilised way of life, which you do not even begin to appreciate and understand.
Moral MO. What an example for TowelHeads. pbuh--not!