India: Rich Muslims buying girls for temporary marriage

This article says that this practice of temporary marriage, i.e. prostitution behind the hypocritical fig leaf of a "marriage" with a time limit, violates Islamic law. However, it is actually an established Shi'ite concept that is also prevalent among some Sunnis. We saw it taking place in Egypt last summer. It is also rising among Saudis, even though Sunnis ostensibly reject it.

Shi'ites justify temporary marriage, mutah, by their reading of Qur'an 4:24:

And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. And those of whom ye seek content (by marrying them), give unto them their portions as a duty. And there is no sin for you in what ye do by mutual agreement after the duty (hath been done). Lo! Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

They see in this marriage as something contracted by means of payment ("give them their portions") for a specified time by mutual agreement.

"How Arabs buy 'wives' and dump them in a few weeks," from Mid-Day.com, December 28 (thanks to Vankat):

Mumbai: A month-long investigation by MiD DAY journalists has revealed a twisted form of human trafficking that involves rich Arabs, greedy Qazis, sham marriages, agents and girls lured into the flesh trade or those looking for a quick buck.
The modus operandi: set up a temporary or time-bound wedding to a rich Arab. The affluent Arab offers a negotiated amount for the services of a 'wife' during his stay in India. The price for the 'booty' varies from Rs. 15,000 to nearly a lakh for the 10-day marriage. Girls from poor families are sold like commodities to the Arabs, many of whom arrive on tourist visas from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar. While this may seem shocking to many, the women involved in this latest form of flesh trade are often willing participants.

The Arab and The Qazi
These predators have been perpetrating a blatant crime under the veneer of nikaah, abusing the Islamic rules of marriage. Abusing the sanctioned provision which allows a Muslim man to have four wives at a time, many old Arabs are not just marrying minors in Mumbai and Hyderabad, but marrying more than one minor in a single trip to the country.

The Pimp and The Victim
A healthy stream of women keep flowing into the city from all parts of the country to solicit the Arab clientele who have turned Mumbai into a sex haven. For as little asRs 2,000 per job, scores of women line up every evening hoping to catch the eye of the adulterous tourist.

Over a month-long operation, Kranti Vibhute posed as a would-be bride and Bhupen Patel as her friend trying to help her get the deal. They found that these deal brokers, prostitutes and Qazis have been running this business quite explicitly.

A Qazi, who solemnises the weddings and also facilitates the divorce proceedings, takes 50 percent of the negotiated price as his cut. The agent, who sources the girls, takes 25 percent of the balance amount.

The pimps, cab drivers and sub-agents charge Rs. 500-1,000 per deal.

The Arab gets a sex slave for a temporary period, who he calls his 'wife', and takes her on a vacation with him. Once the honeymoon period is over, he brings her back dumps her with a 'talaaq' and goes back to the Qazi's office for a new bride. The girl gets her cut and lines up for the next husband to come her way.

The Qazis solemnise these sham marriages, in violation of Islamic principles of nikaah and talaaq. A woman cannot be married off to another man unless her first husband gives her a divorce, or she has sought khula (separation) and has completed the iddat period (a gap of at least three months and 13 days).

Victims?
Owing to abject poverty and wretched living conditions, many women are forced into the world of flesh trade. While some girls have fallen victim to the flesh trade, tricked by the promise of monetary benefits and a better standard of living, others have chosen the path to make a quick buck.

During the course of the operation, MiD DAY discovered that several women, who were once sold as brides to Arabs, have now turned into agents and pimps. The women now scout villages and cities looking for fresh blood to incorporate into the trade.

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salah | December 31, 2012 9:49 AM | Reply

The Pimp and The Victim?
What's wrong with being a Pimp? Allah himself used to play that role!

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/10/muhammads-pimp.html

apran | December 31, 2012 11:40 AM | Reply

"These predators have been perpetrating a blatant crime under the veneer of nikaah, abusing the Islamic rules of marriage."

There is no abusing the Islamic rules of marriage for the Arabs, because they are following the Islamic rules. They pay the dowry, they marry in front of a witness, and they do the ijab qabul procedure, the bride says "I give myself to X" and the groom say "I accept". And they divorce their wives by saying "talaq" 3 times in a row. It is very Islamic, so Allah will be pleased with them.

As for the women, may they be tortured in hell because they are not observing their 3 month iddah period as Allah does not know how to test whether the women are pregnant or not except by waiting for 3 months.

Islamic legal marriage can be considered as a legalized prostitution, no surprise as women are considered as toys or animals or tilth where you can come as you like.

Islam is a perverted religion, created for satisfying men's lust.

apran | December 31, 2012 11:57 AM | Reply

The Arabs also come to Indonesia to practice temporary marriage, although the girls may be older than those in India.

David Dowse | December 31, 2012 4:29 PM | Reply

Temporary Marriage = Legalized Prostitution

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I have no problem with that. They do it in Nevada, and while I have never availed myself of the "services" there in that wondrous locale, I'm, nonetheless, not going to pretend to deprive a Muslim man of his enjoyments, religiously "inspired" or otherwise.

What irritates me is all of the misogyny and violence we hear of associated with "girls and Muslims" (check Sweden, for example).
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Of course, underage girls (and YES! That's 18 now, damn it, by fairly broad consensus, at least in the States) are not be held accountable whatsoever for this, whether they're selling themselves or someone else is doing the dirty deed. They're just vulnerable, young, pitiful girls who fall prey to debauchery and vice.

David Dowse replied to comment from David Dowse | December 31, 2012 4:33 PM | Reply

oops...

"are not be held " = "are not to be held"

Happy New Year

desidude replied to comment from David Dowse | December 31, 2012 5:32 PM | Reply

I too believe in legal prostitution, but these are mostly underage muslim girls in India being sold to rich arabs.

Often the muslim parents are so in awe that their darling little girl will get to mate with the master race of arab men, that they gladly hand them over to these arab perverts, rather than being married off eventually to another Indian. Yes, their is subtile racisim involved as the arabs are the race of muhammed, the master of perversions.

Of course the money 15 k rupees to 100k rupees also helps , thats about $300 to $2000 US dollers. for the rich arabs this is chump change but for the poor parents this is at least one month to a year salary.

Perhaps because of the money involved this is attracting the Hindus working girls as well.

dumbledoresarmy | January 1, 2013 6:47 PM | Reply

Nonie Darwish discusses Islamic 'marriage' in her book on sharia, 'Cruel and Usual Punishment'.

Essentially, in Islam 'marriage' = 'f***ing'. That's the exact literal meaning of the word nikah, which is (so she says, and she grew up speaking Arabic in Egypt and has checked the texts, she ought to know) the commonest word for 'marriage (if one is to call it that) in the core Islamic texts.

A 'marriage' contract is a 'f***ing contract'.

And there are simply different varieties.

The form that vaguely corresponds to what westerners and most other cultures think of as 'marriage', is open-ended; that is, it's entered into without a time limit being specified, and it *may* last as long as the partners' lifetimes.

However, the man under that arrangement, precisely because *no* time-limit is actually specified, is free to terminate the relationship unilaterally at *any* moment...via the triple talaq. Rosemary Sookhdeo in her book 'Secrets Behind the Burqa', on Muslim women, specifically based on research among Muslim women in the UK, says that many men use the *threat* of the talaq as a way of terrorising and emotionally manipulating their wives...because, of course, a repudiated woman is both destitute and shamed, her family of origin will blame *her* for her being repudiated.

In the 'temporary' 'marriage' the woman knows from the get-go that the 'relationship' is not going to be permanent: for the length of time that they will be 'married', or to be blunt, the length of time during which he can legally f*** her, after which he will recite the talaq to dissolve the 'relationship', is stipulated upfront, right there in the 'contract': measured in hours, days, weeks, months, perhaps even in some cases a period of years...

The whole sordid business ought to be mercilessly satirized.

Further: a poster above asked what happened to any resultant children of a 'temporary "marriage"'.

Miriam said the women try not to get pregnant.

But some of them probably do.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that if this happens, the man is under no obligation to acknowledge or support the children born to his 'temporary' 'wife' (whereas the children born to the woman with whom he has an 'open-ended' not specifically time-limited contract belong exclusively to him and his family, and if he gets tired of the woman and uses triple talaq to get rid of her, the children may remain with her for a while, if very small, but once they reach a certain age, he takes them and they are his).

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