Muslim cleric: "It is permissible for the girl at the age of 9 or 10 to marry"

Just yesterday Muslims on Twitter were excoriating me for my "ignorance," "lies" and "hate" for saying that according to the Islamic texts that Muslims consider most reliable, Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha when he was 54 and she was nine.

"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

Muslims take this seriously and imitate Muhammad in this. Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: "Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed."

The Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl "a divine blessing," and advised the faithful: "Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house."

The Qur'an also It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” (65:4).

So will the Muslims defending Islam from scurrilous "Islamophobic" charges that it sanctions child marriage excoriate Yassir Barhami with the same furious contempt with which they went after me yesterday? Of course not. And this is neither personal nor singular: Islamic apologists routinely feign furious indignation at infidels who dare to point out aspects of Muslim belief and practice that are quite obviously true. It is simply a tactic of intimidation, to which they so often have recourse because it so often works.

"Egypt sheikh says girls should be married, have children starting at 14-years-old," by Joseph Mayton for Bikyamasr, September 29 (thanks to Lachlan):

CAIRO: An Egyptian cleric and member of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting Egypt’s new constitution has said that girls 14-years-old are permitted to have sexual relations under Islam and has proposed reducing the marriage age limit as a result.
“It is permissible for the girl at the age of 9 or 10 to marry,” Yassir Barhami said in discussing a woman’s sexual reproduction and his interpretation of Islam.

The Salafist – ultra-conservative – preacher claimed that under Islam when a girl begins to ovulate she is ready for marriage.

He added during a television debate on Dream TV last Tuesday that “marriage of a girl would not be a supplement for education,” but added that it “was better” to marry a girl young “than falling into sin with customary marriage.”

The cleric cited the Qur’an in arguing that any girl who is menstruating should be married and begin having children.

At the same time of advocating the marriage age be dropped to 14-years-old, he argued that the Salafist Constituent Assembly is also pushing for a law that denies “slavery against women” in the new constitution.

Manal al-Taibi, a now resigned member of the Constituent Assembly, said that this call is the promotion of child marriage and is akin to rape.

She has resigned her position on the assembly in protest to the overuse of Sharia law, or Islamic law, permeating the drafting process.

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descendantofacrusader | September 29, 2012 5:32 AM | Reply

The idea that male hormone-driven bestiality may be permitted and perpetrated on innocent girls is nothing short of disgusting and, what is even more so, is having a president who promotes and condones such behavior with statements like "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Further: since he, the 7th c "prophet" of Islam, immortalized such base human behavior my marrying and consummated his marriage to 9 year old Aisha, I guess we can all expect it to become common place here in America also. Vote - vote - vote in November!

sheik yer'mami | September 29, 2012 9:42 AM | Reply

Its this guy again:

Salafi Leader Yassir al-Burhami calls for Christians to be treated as infidels in the new Egypt
after the downfall of Mubarak

And how were they treated?

How was that again with the Jews of Medina?

Jewish men were beheaded, and their women and children would be distributed among the Muslims. About 750 Jews were murdered in the marketplace in Medina, and heaped into a common grave.

http://www.fighthatred.com/recent-events/national-political-hate/981-salafi-leader-yassir-al-burhami-calls-for-christians-to-be-treated-as-infidels-in-the-new-egypt-after-the-downfall-of-mubarak

LemonLime | September 29, 2012 11:23 AM | Reply

"The Salafist – ultra-conservative – preacher..."

Um, waiter, I need some more qualifiers to go with my Islamic omelette here.

What would you like, sir?

Oh, the works -- catsup, mayo, mustard, horseradish, and give me some of that "extremist", and "radical", and "hardline", and "Wahhabi", and "traditionalist", and... oh.... what else you got?

We have "Islamist" and "fundamentalist"....

Right -- them too.

And what'll your friend have?

Oh, I'll just have an Islam Straight Up, No Chaser, thanks.

Marylou | September 29, 2012 12:11 PM | Reply

What kind of a perversion compels whole countries full of grown men to despise grown women -- but crave sexual relationships with children and animals?

LittleDon | September 30, 2012 1:25 AM | Reply

Muslim cleric? You are a SICK MOTHER F'R and You need to Stop Worship of YOUR Devil God!
God Bless America!!!!

Steffen Larsen | September 30, 2012 2:10 AM | Reply

Where are the usual posts demonstrating to us that Aisha was MUCH older than nine, and that girls reached puberty earlier then than now ...or the opposite, and that the clerics really only misunderstand Islamic law, and that the salafis really are only a very minor minority notwithstanding their massive success in the elections , and that we have have missed the context, and that ...oh why bother.

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from Marylou | October 1, 2012 3:36 AM | Reply

Yes.

He might natter on about 'ovulating' but very, very few girls of 9 or 10 have started their periods, even among the well-nourished children of the modern Western world.

Small, thin,underfed and neglected little girls such as one sees in the poorer classes of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Yemen - where many children are malnourished - are definitely NOT going to be developing breasts, let alone starting their periods, until they get into their mid to late teens. One of my own grandmothers was very small and thin as a child, so she told me; I remember her saying that she did not get her period until she was 16 or 17.

So all those adult men - middle aged, often, men in the forties and fifties - who insist on screwing skinny, flat-chested little nine year olds and ten year olds who haven't even started menstruating, are ...**sick**. They've got to be, because a girl that age is thin and flat, without a bosom. And one hates to think what sort of damage is done to her underdeveloped body when a man forces himself on her. Even worse, in a place like Egypt, where she's probably been infibulated.

It's SICK for a man to go for a child rather than an adult, fully developed female. (It's possible that they want the girls this age because they - the men, that is - prefer boys, not women...).

I can only conclude that in Islam, the desire to HURT and dominate has eclipsed everything else; that these guys *get off* on the pain and terror and screams and blood that they are causing; and they can overpower, beat up on and break these little girls - physically and emotionally and psychically - far more thoroughly, easily and effectively than they could dominate and break even a teenager.

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