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Iraqi cabinet approves draft law allowing marriage of nine-year-old girls

Mar 11, 2014 9:15 pm By Robert Spencer

protestingchildmarriageI explained in detail here that few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage. That is one reason why we see support for this barbarity recently in Pakistan and Turkey (and elsewhere), as well as in Iraq.

“Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law in Iraq,” by Suadad al-Salhy for Reuters, March 8 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.

The group’s protest was on International Women’s Day and a week after the cabinet voted for the legislation, based on Shi’ite Islamic jurisprudence, allowing clergy to preside over marriages, divorces and inheritances. The draft now goes to parliament.

“On this day of women, women of Iraq are in mourning,” the protesters shouted.

“We believe that this is a crime against humanity,” said Hanaa Eduar, a prominent Iraqi human rights activist. “It would deprive a girl of her right to live a normal childhood.”

The UN’s representative to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, also condemned the legislation. Mladenov wrote on Twitter the bill “risks constitutionally protected rights for women and international commitment”.

The legislation goes to the heart of the divisions in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, as Shi’ite Islamists have come to lead the government and look to impose their religious values on society at large.

It describes girls as reaching puberty at nine, making them fit for marriage, makes the father sole guardian of his children at two and condones a husband’s right to insist on sexual intercourse with his wife whenever he wishes.

Islamic tradition depicts Muhammad as saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).

And also: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1854).

The legislation is referred to as the Ja’afari Law, named after the sixth Shi’ite imam Ja’afar al-Sadiq, who founded his own school of jurisprudence.

The draft was put forward by Justice Minister Hassan al-Shimari, a member of the Shi’ite Islamist Fadila party, and approved by the cabinet on February 25.

It must now be reviewed by parliament, but the draft could very well languish, with national elections scheduled for April 30, and vocal opposition among secularists.

Shi’ite religious parties first attempted to pass a version of the law in 2003 under U.S. occupation, angering secular Iraqis and prompting protests. Since then, amid Iraq’s turmoil, the tug-of-war has continued between Iraq’s secularists and Islamists.

Iraq’s current personal status law enshrines women’s rights regarding marriage, inheritance, and child custody, and has often been held up as the most progressive in the Middle East.

The proposed new law’s defenders argue that the current personal status law violates sharia religious law.

“This is the core of the freedom. Based on the Iraqi constitution, each component of the Iraqi people has the right to regulate its personal status in line with the instructions of its religion and doctrine,” said Hussein al-Mura’abi, a Shi’ite lawmaker and Fadila party leader.

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  1. boakai ngombu says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    is anyone certain that Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lust) existed?

    • Rania Kadret says

      Mar 14, 2014 at 10:14 am

      Please stop referencing this type of behavior to Islam, this is a Shiite practice, but as always you have to twist and mince words, Muhammad did not marry a child.

      http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/17/muhammad-aisha-truth

      http://iranian.com/posts/view/post/29674

  2. richard Sherman says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 9:38 pm

    Having sex with nine year olds is foundational to Islam…the sociopath MUHAMMAD loved having sex with nine year olds…so every devout Muslim lusts after nine year olds…

    • MrIpe says

      Mar 12, 2014 at 3:59 am

      Muhammad actually had sex with Aisha when she was only 6 years old. The “prophet” used the little poor girl for masturbation by thighing.

    • Jerry says

      Mar 12, 2014 at 2:40 pm

      But the true glory to the “Prophet” and “Allah” is if you marry them at six!

  3. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    Dar al Islam: paradise for pedophiles.

  4. Casey says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    Biologically I don’t get this at all and really puts any woman at risk for uterin/bladder diseases, unsafe pregnancies, and other disorders. Women were not made for any marital acts biologically at all at this age or are capable at all for safe pregnancies. From what I understand, the safety concerns don’t drop for women until the late teens.

    • Salah says

      Mar 11, 2014 at 11:53 pm

      You’re right. We also should notice that Aisha narrated thousands of ahadith (hadiths), most of them begin with something like: “While I was menstruating…”
      She was probably suffering from some sort of chronic hemorrhage.
      On the other hand, her old husband seemed to enjoy menstruating women!!!

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/04/muhammad-and-menses-mahomet-et-les.html

  5. Salah says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 11:46 pm

    “We believe that this is a crime against humanity,” said Hanaa Eduar

    That’s because Islam is a crime against humanity!

    • Champ says

      Mar 11, 2014 at 11:48 pm

      Agreed, Salah!

      • Salah says

        Mar 11, 2014 at 11:57 pm

        Champ, only 3 types of people would disagree: ignorants, criminals and/or perverts.

    • Rania says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 1:11 pm

      http://www.thegoldencalfspeaks.com/

      you should observe this as well

  6. Jay Boo says

    Mar 12, 2014 at 12:22 am

    MO’s PEEBUH-ing
    Puu Puu Buh Pervert Puppets pretending to be pious

  7. Descendantofacrusader says

    Mar 12, 2014 at 7:35 am

    And for barbarity such as this we invested untold American blood and treasure in the “Iraq War” in bestowing the gift of democracy on savages such as this! This is living testament to the extreme American naiveté involved in the false idea that we can and should solve all the world’s problems, even when a 7th century, Satanic pervert is the root cause of such barbarity in fostering the need to sexually violate 9 year old girls. Disgusting! Oh well: “Islam is a religion of peace”……right President Bush?

    • Rania says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 1:15 pm

      we are savages, sweetie you are the savages, with all your mormons and your precious Mary who was a whore, he son was a bastard according to the Talmud
      when our Islamic civilization flourished you were living the dark ages .
      http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture18b.html

      http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Academic/Courses/Fields-of-Study/Southwest-Asia-and-Islamic-Civilization
      http://archaeology.about.com/od/iterms/qt/islamic_civ.htm

      • Rania says

        Mar 18, 2014 at 1:16 pm

        we are savages, sweetie you are the savages, with all your mormons and your precious Mary who was a whore, he son was a bastard according to the Talmud
        when our Islamic civilization flourished you were living the dark ages .
        http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture18b.html

        http://fletcher.tufts.edu/Academic/Courses/Fields-of-Study/Southwest-Asia-and-Islamic-Civilization
        http://archaeology.about.com/od/iterms/qt/islamic_civ.htm

        http://www.mei.edu/content/islamic-civilization

  8. I saw says

    Mar 12, 2014 at 8:10 am

    Only the use of nuclear weapons can eradicate the stench of Islam.

    • Kalliope says

      Mar 12, 2014 at 11:14 am

      Absolutely disgusting post. Is this an argument for genocide?
      How are you any different than Muḥammad?
      How are you any different than Hitler (who admired Muḥammad)?
      How are you any different from the Muslims who want to kill all non-Muslims who refuse ʾIslām?

      • Rob Crawford says

        Mar 12, 2014 at 11:32 am

        Because he wants to end the rape of children, not promote it.

        I notice you voiced no objection to the rape of children, just to someone being “too extreme” in calling for its end.

        (Does your imam know you’re posing online under the name of a Greek goddess?)

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 12, 2014 at 12:23 pm

        Some people recognize their enemies for what they are, some don’t.

  9. fair_dinkum says

    Mar 12, 2014 at 8:22 am

    paedophilia written in law.

  10. Paula Gibbs says

    Mar 12, 2014 at 2:36 pm

    What do you suppose Muhammad did to Aisha between her ages of 6 and 9? Perverts aren’t known for their high morals!

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 12, 2014 at 10:57 pm

    Iraqi cabinet approves draft law allowing marriage of nine-year-old girls
    ……………………………..

    Aren’t you glad we spent all that American and coalition blood and treasure to liberate Iraq? Why, this is almost as wonderful as Afghanistan—that other Muslim country that we liberated—talking about reinstating stoning!

    But why should we be surprised? Shari’ah is written into the “constitutions” of both countries.

    More:

    “We believe that this is a crime against humanity,” said Hanaa Eduar, a prominent Iraqi human rights activist. “It would deprive a girl of her right to live a normal childhood.”
    ……………………………..

    *Of course* it’s a crime against humanity—but it’s also perfectly islamic.

    More:

    The UN’s representative to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, also condemned the legislation. Mladenov wrote on Twitter the bill “risks constitutionally protected rights for women…
    ……………………………..

    Not exactly, as I noted. The Iraqi constitution has an out—a single line that states that no law may violate Shari’ah.

    More:

    It describes girls as reaching puberty at nine, making them fit for marriage…
    ……………………………..

    This is a *very* important point. Westerners often believe that when Muslims claim that little Aisha had reached puberty before her marriage that they are claiming that she was older—but in most cases they are not. They are just—implausibly—claiming that a third-grade girl is an adolescent.

    More:

    …makes the father sole guardian of his children at two and condones a husband’s right to insist on sexual intercourse with his wife whenever he wishes.
    ……………………………..

    Both normative Islam—including marital rape.

    More:

    The proposed new law’s defenders argue that the current personal status law violates sharia religious law.

    “This is the core of the freedom. Based on the Iraqi constitution, each component of the Iraqi people has the right to regulate its personal status in line with the instructions of its religion and doctrine”…
    ……………………………..

    Islam is so Orwellian—where forcing school girls into “marriage”, raping your wife, and taking her children is regarded as “freedom”…

    God, I hate islam.

  12. Cindy McCoy says

    Mar 13, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    Evil, vile and disgusting!! What else can be said about a people who decides that it is okay for grown men to marry nine year old girls???? The devil is dancing today at this new up-date. I’m surprised that the suicide rate among muslim women is note at a higher rate than it is. Evil and vile, just as gross as those old men.

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 1:08 am

    Above, I observe a mohammedan under the moniker “Rania” attempting disinformation, taqiyya and tu quoque.

    Unfortunately for the likes of “Rania”, they have to explain away why so many mohammedan countries, in many parts of the world (Africa, Middle East, South Asia) all practise the ‘marriage’ of very young – even prepubescent – girls to much older men, and why the example of mohammed the Mad’s “marriage” to nine-year-old Aisha is routinely cited as justification for the practice, especially when any not-quite-so Islamic or western-influenced persons attempt to oppose it or legislate against it.

    A very full discussion and refutation of the denials and obfuscations used by the likes of “Rania” may be found here.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/05/really-really-wishing-aisha-werent-nine.html

    “Really, Really Wishing Aisha Weren’t Nine”.

    Quote: “the Islamic sources that Muslims consider most reliable overwhelmingly support her having been nine.”

    Contemporary Muslim practice:

    “The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that over half of the girls in Afghanistan and Bangladesh are married before they reach the age of eighteen.

    “In early 2002, researchers in refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan found half the girls married by age thirteen.

    “In an Afghan refugee camp, more than two out of three second-grade girls were either married or engaged, and virtually all the girls who were beyond second grade were already married.

    “One ten-year-old was engaged to a man of sixty.

    “In early 2005 a Saudi man in his sixties drew international attention for marrying fifty-eight times; his most recent bride was a 14-year-old he married in the spring of 2004.
    “Child marriage enjoys the sanction of law and custom.

    “Time magazine reported in 2001: “In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, fourteen for boys..”.

    “In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise the minimum age for girls to fourteen, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move…”.

    And here is another jihadwatch story, about a Muslim marriage “officiant” in Saudi Arabia who seems quite convinced that Aisha was nine when ‘married’.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/06/saudi-marriage-officiant-muhammad-married-aisha-when-she-was-six-and-had-sex-with-her-when-she-was-n.html

    One may note too that Quran 65.3/ or 65.4, in describing the period of waiting that a divorced female must observe after divorce, includes the time that applies to those who have *not yet* menstruated, and the traditional, orthodox commentaries on that verse make it quite plain that it is held to refer to *prepubescent* girls, i.e. girls who have been wedded, and bedded, and then divorced…all before achieving menarche.

    • Rania says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 5:26 pm

      first of all Rania is my real name you moron

      and yes I am an orthodox Muslim, Sunni

      we dont practice Taqqiya this is strictly a shiite practice and Aisha was married at 12 and conceived the marriage at 16 +

      Shiites call her a prostitute and they are the ones behind these false stories, go educate yourself before uttering nonsense

    • Rania says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 5:32 pm

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euf1o9RnhEM

      http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2014/01/26/inveterate-shiite-iranian-jew-hatred/

      This concept is sometimes referred to as Taqiyya. Proper Taqiyya is permissible in Islam, but it is not an obligation and it is not a virtue. While in Shiism, Taqiyya is a an obligation, a praised virtue, and an important doctrine in Shiism. Taqiyya has played an significant role in the history of Shiism and Shia books.

      In Islam, Taqiyya is permitted as a means for individual Muslims, living in exceptional conditions of persecution, to protect their lives. However, proper Islamic Taqiyya does not allow Muslims to twist the beliefs of Islam. More specifically, that means a Muslim should not write a book about Islam and twist or lie about the beliefs of Islam under the excuse of Taqiyya. Proper Taqiyya does not allow him to do so.

      The Shia have taken this permission and mis-applied it. What is wrong with the way Taqiyya is practiced by Shia:

      (a) Some of the early Shia scholars have incorporated Taqiyya in their classical reference Shia books about the principles of Shiism by softening their beliefs in order to make their beliefs not too objectionable to Muslims . This is extremely dangerous and Islamically unacceptable. It has resulted in Shia today not knowing the true beliefs of Shiism. When Shia scholars today read such mild classical books, they say the writers must have used Taqiyya. In other words, what was intended by Shia to deceive Muslims is today deceiving the Shia themselves.

      (b) In Islam, Taqiyya is intended to be practiced only under limited circumstances, as an exception to the general rule about openness and honesty. Whereas, for the Shia, Taqiyya is the rule, not the exception of the rule. For Shia, the twisted form of Taqiyya is a prescribed duty and a pillar of their faith. Shiism could not stand without it. They learn the principles and methods of Taqi’ah and they practice it.

      (c) Taqiyya is permitted to protect Muslims. The Shia are practicing it to hide their Shia beliefs, not the Islamic beliefs.

      In support of their twisted form of Taqiyya, we find the following in Shia’s classical reference books:

      In a narration, Shia falsely attribut to the 8th Shia Imam, Ali bin Musa, he said: “ The one who is not wari (pious) has no religion and the one who does not practice Taqiyyah has no Iman ( deep faith).” So he was asked, “O grandson of the Messenger, until when (is one required to practice Taqiyyah)?” He replied, “Until a certain day (i.e. the day Imam Mahdi appears). Whoever does not practice Taqiyyah before the appearance of Imam Mahdi, is not one of us.” (Kashf al-Ghummah Al-Ardabili, pg. 341).

      “Nine tenths (90%) of religion (Shiism) is Taqiyya (dissimulation), hence one who does not dissimulate has no religion.” (Al-Kafi vol.9 p.110)

      “He who conceals his religion has saved it, and he who makes it public has destroyed it.”

      “A believer who does not practice Taqiyya is like a body without a head.” (Tafseer al-Askari)

      “Mix with them (i.e. non-Shia) externally, but oppose them internally.” (Al-Kafi vol.9 p.116)

      “Taqiyya is necessary and the one who abandons it is excluded from the religion (of the Shia).” (Ehsan-ul-Fatawa Fi Shaeah-e-Aqa’id, p. 26)

      “The most beloved thing on the surface of Earth is Taqiyya.” (Usul Kafi, Part 2. Kitab Imaan wal Kufr, Bab Taqiyyah, Line 12, Riwayah 4, page 217, New Iranian Edition)

      “The Imam has mentioned that Taqiyya is the coolness of his eyes.” (Usul Kafi, Part 2, Kitab Imaan wal Kufr, line1, Riwayah 14, page 217, new Iranian Edition].

      Concerning the verse, “Verily the most noble of you in Allah’s sight is Atqakom (the most God-fearing)”, the Shia mis-interpret the word “Atqakom” by falsely claiming that it means: “whose deeds are done by Taqiyya.” (Al-I’tiqadat)

      It is interesting to contrast this with Allah’s statement in the Holy Qur’an: “Surely those who hide from people the clear proofs and guidance, which we clarified in the Book (Qur’an), will be cursed by Allah ….” (2:159)

      Prophet Mohammad said: “Whoever is asked for knowledge and conceals it will have a bridle of fire around his neck on the Day of Judgment.” (Abu Dawood and Tirmizi)

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