UK: Muslim clerics agreeing to marry girls as young as 12, as long as parents don't tell anyone

As we have seen again and again, wherever Islamic law and Western laws conflict, it is Western laws that must give way. Child marriage is rampant among those who believe that Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur'an 33:21), but Islamic spokesmen in the West frequently assert that it is a cultural phenomenon that has nothing to do with Islam. They did not, however, tell the mullahs.

"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 child brides: Muslim mosque leaders agree to marry girl of 12 in Britain... so long as parents don't tell anyone," by Suzannah Hills in the Daily Mail, September 9 (thanks to David):

British Muslim mosque leaders are agreeing to carry out secret marriages with child brides as young as 12 in the UK, it emerged today.
In an undercover investigation, a Shite mosque leader agreed to marry a 12-year-old girl so long as she was a willing participant.

A Sunday Times journalist visited the Husaini Islamic Centre in Peterborough - the 'first Shite mosque in the whole of Europe' - posing as the father of a 12-year-old girl.

According to the newspaper, the reporter was told by Imam Mohamed Kassamali that 'under sharia [Islamic law] there is no problem' in marrying a 12-year-old.

But while he declared Islamic Law dictated a girl should see 'her first sign of puberty at the house of her husband', he admitted they would all get in to trouble if she went to police saying she was forced into the marriage.

He told the parents he would need to meet the bride and groom to be sure they were happy to go ahead with the marriage and urged them to delay having intimate relations until they were older.

When approached by the newspaper he insisted he would only have carried out the ceremony if it was allowed under British law and if both parties had not been coerced into the marriage.

But another retired Imam, Abdul Haque, who worships at the Shoreditch Mosque in east London, agreed to carry out the ceremony on the condition the parents kept it a secret from the authorities.

The Imam urged the undercover reporter to lie about the marriage and keep it a secret.

Haque said: 'Tell people it is an engagement but it will be a marriage.

'In Islam, once the girl reaches puberty the father has the right, the parents have the right, but under the laws of this country if the girl complains and says her marriage has been arranged and she wasn't of marriageable age, then the person who performed the marriage will be jailed as well as the mother and father.'

He then warned: 'Nobody should know about this and the girl must not complain... If she talks in school they will take the girl, social workers will take her and afterwards you and I will be in trouble.'...

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Buraq | September 9, 2012 7:53 AM | Reply

If she talks in school they will take the girl, social workers will take her and afterwards you and I will be in trouble.'...

Never mind! I'm sure Green Lantern will rescue child brides from the clutches of Sharia and Islam!

Clowns!

gravenimage | September 9, 2012 11:13 AM | Reply

UK: Muslim clerics agreeing to marry girls as young as 12, as long as parents don't tell anyone
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How much of this is already going on in the West? The Muslim women "Honor Killed" in San Diego had her first child when she was thirteen, and was probably married much younger. Certainly, her family lied about this when they entered the United States.

British Muslim mosque leaders are agreeing to carry out secret marriages with child brides as young as 12 in the UK, it emerged today.
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Why should this surprise anyone? Child "marriage" is rife in the Muslim world, on the model of the vile, pedophilic "Prophet".

In an undercover investigation, a Shite mosque leader agreed to marry a 12-year-old girl so long as she was a willing participant.
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Remember, in Islam "silence equals consent"—and refusing to "consent" so often leads to "Honor Killing". Even if these little girls were not far too young to make such a decision, these factors clearly make such the assertion that these girls are "willing participants" grimly laughable.

A Sunday Times journalist visited the Husaini Islamic Centre in Peterborough - the 'first Shite mosque in the whole of Europe' - posing as the father of a 12-year-old girl.
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Bravo the Times! This is *exactly* the sort of investigative reporting the media *should* be doing of Islam.

According to the newspaper, the reporter was told by Imam Mohamed Kassamali that 'under sharia [Islamic law] there is no problem' in marrying a 12-year-old.

But while he declared Islamic Law dictated a girl should see 'her first sign of puberty at the house of her husband', he admitted they would all get in to trouble if she went to police saying she was forced into the marriage.
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That would be the Ayatollah Khomeini, who said that Muslims should do "your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house".

And they would only "get into trouble" because the United Kingdom is still part of the civilized world—and not part of Dar-al-Islam—not yet, anyway.

He told the parents he would need to meet the bride and groom to be sure they were happy to go ahead with the marriage and urged them to delay having intimate relations until they were older.

When approached by the newspaper he insisted he would only have carried out the ceremony if it was allowed under British law and if both parties had not been coerced into the marriage.
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Uh...right. Never mind that the legal age for marriage in the UK is eighteen—sixteen with parental permission.

But another retired Imam, Abdul Haque, who worships at the Shoreditch Mosque in east London, agreed to carry out the ceremony on the condition the parents kept it a secret from the authorities.

The Imam urged the undercover reporter to lie about the marriage and keep it a secret.
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Lying to the Infidel authorities! Who would have thought? sarc/off

He then warned: 'Nobody should know about this and the girl must not complain... If she talks in school they will take the girl, social workers will take her and afterwards you and I will be in trouble.'...
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How terribly "unjust"! Just wait until Britain has Shari'ah law—then you will be able to "marry' all the grade-school girls you want...

God, I hate Islam.

exposesithlords | September 10, 2012 2:53 AM | Reply

never again wonder why little girls cover up like women in islam and schools need to "accommodate" headscarfs.

it's because they are not little girls but fully functional sexual objects according to Islam. gross.

the imam has nothing to worry from the british legal system.
the imam that systematically beat and tortured children doesn't even go to prison (in a tacit admission that islam's scholars even are barbaric savages that need "education").

see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19522688

whereas if you attack a foetus that the uk health service will remove from you for free so not a person according to some laws, you will get 10 years for not being a moslem doing it.

so in light of recent court cases make sure you are a moslem in authority before you beat children or foetuses and you wont need to visit prison at all.

Just like in Pakistan if you are not a moslem then beware.

see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19522688

exposesithlords | September 10, 2012 2:55 AM | Reply

sorry second link is this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19520068

bevc | September 10, 2012 10:06 AM | Reply

"A Sunday Times journalist visited the Husaini Islamic Centre in Peterborough - the 'first Shite mosque in the whole of Europe' - posing as the father of a 12-year-old girl."

Peterborough Cathedral contains the burial site of Queen Katherine of Aragon, daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand who drove the Moors out of Spain and reconquered Spain for their Christian kingdom. WHAT IRONY!!!!!

Stuart Parsons | September 10, 2012 2:01 PM | Reply

Of course these imams will not be taken to court. Meanwhile, I have been charged under Section 5 for causing distress because I have anti-Islam signs on my car.
Unfortunately I do not have Allah's protection.

dumbledoresarmy | September 11, 2012 5:00 AM | Reply

From the article -" he [this Shiite imam, aka DOM (Dirty Old Man)] declared Islamic Law dictated a girl should see 'her first sign of puberty at the house of her husband'.

That is: a girl will have been wedded and bedded - **used sexually** - before the poor little thing has even had her first period.

ICK.

Only a a man who is a sexual sadist, who is into *pain* in a big way, who gets off on screams, tears, terror and lots of blood, could possibly think that this sort of thing is a *good* thing - that it is something that *ought* to happen - that it *ought* to be the norm.

As any midwife or gynecologist what is likely to happen to the immature sexual organs of a prepubescent girl, if an adult male forces himself - repeatedly - upon her.

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