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Nigeria: Muslim child bride, forced into marriage, poisons husband

Apr 10, 2014 6:40 pm By Robert Spencer

child-brideThere is no justification for murder. Wasila Umaru’s desperation, however, points up child marriage as the serious human rights abuse that it is.

And it has abundant justification in Islam. As I explained in detail here, few things have stronger attestation 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 being the case, Wasila Umaru’s fate is one that untold numbers of Muslim girls share. Yet Islamic apologists in the West frequently insist that Aisha was post-pubescent and much older than nine when Muhammad consummated the marriage with her, and the credulous Infidels go back to sleep — while girls suffer in Islamic child marriages all over the world.

“Child bride forced into marriage makes poisoned meal which kills groom and three of his friends in Nigeria,” by Chris Pleasance for the Daily Mail, April 10 (thanks to Darcy):

A child bride forced into marriage in Nigeria killed her husband and three of his friends by lacing a meal with rat poison, police said.

Wasila Umaru, 14, was married last week to 35-year-old Umaru Sani, according to assistant superintendent Musa Magaji Majia.

But when Umaru invited a dozen friends to celebrate in northern Ungwar Yansoro village, near the city of Kano, the teenager slipped the deadly chemical into a rice dish.

Umaru died the same day along with friends Nasiru Mohammed and Alhassan Alhassan, while another female victim, Indo Ibrahim, died in hospital hospital while receiving treatment.

Wasila admitted buying the poison at a local market and putting it into the food.

‘The suspect confessed to committing the crime and said she did it because she was forced to marry a man she did not love,’ Majia said.

Umaru is cooperating with police and likely will be charged with culpable homicide, according to Majia.

Child marriage is common in Nigeria and especially in the mainly Muslim and impoverished north, where the numbers increase in times of drought because a bride price is paid and it means one less mouth to feed.

Fifty percent of Nigerian girls living in rural areas are married before they turn 18, according to the U.N. children’s agency.

Child brides suffer difficult pregnancies and can often die in childbirth, the leading cause of death worldwide for girls aged 15 to 19.

They are also much more likely to contract AIDS and be subjected to domestic violence, according to the International Center for Research on Women.

Early and forced marriage is classified as modern-day slavery by the U.N. labor organization, and Nigeria’s Child Rights Act prohibits marriage before 18.

But the ruling is often ignored in favour of Islamic Shariah law that holds in most northern states.

No one in Nigeria has been prosecuted for marrying a child, including Sen. Sani Ahmed Yerima, infamous for divorcing a 17-year-old that he married when she was 15.

Yerima got the divorce so he could marry a 14-year-old Egyptian girl in 2010, when he was 49. He had to divorce one of his child brides because Islamic law allows a maximum of four wives at a time.

Many child brides are divorced to make way for another partner, and because of incontinence and other medical problems caused by difficulties during childbirth pregnancies.

According to local child rights advocates who say such girls are put out on the street.

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  1. Angemon says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    “A child bride forced into marriage in Nigeria killed her husband and three of his friends by lacing a meal with rat poison, police said.”

    If Rezali wants to be consistent, he’ll say that he doesn’t believe a word of this story and that the likelihood is that the man and his friends were tending to their own garden with rat poison before having the meal.

    • Rezali Mehil says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 9:41 am

      OMG, what a horror few days for Umaru Sani.

      The marriage was obviously sanctions by Wasila’s parents, who will have received the normal Islamic respect. Further, she was received into his household with much pomp and ceremony.

      Imagine what the loss of their son by their daighter in law has done to their mind and position in the community…Oh my days …the horror, so so sad.

      That murdering bit*h deserves no mercy, the full weight of the law must be brought on this horrible toad.

      How dare she…she would have been asked at the point of the nika contact whether she accepts her man… a “no” at that point would have been the end to the matter…but she CHOSE to go ahead with the marriage and …in time she would have learned to love him.

      In all likelyhood she had a boyfriend whom she liked and it complicated matters. Marriages are ordained by Allh SWT and she has betrayed her God too.

      As to the reference that some Jewess killed Muhammad SAW by piosioning his leg of Lamb…what was it with her? He rescued her from the excesses and prision like hold on her by her brother and father. He got rid of them infront of her, He freed her, and then gave her due respect by marrying her.

      They made sweet love like only the prophet SAW could …was it so much to ask your wife to cook for you? And where did she get the damn piosion from?

      It is little wonder that few trust the Jews (although I bear them no malace… I am a good muslimah like that).

      Well let her rot…she was 14 …not 6 …she knew what she was doing …it was 1st degree dastardley murder .

      As for your “she was too young BS” …save it …kuffara in the UK normally lose their virginity at 12 …and many are pregenant (out of marriage at that age)….tell them … not us.

      More Later …

      Rezali…

      • Wayne says

        Apr 11, 2014 at 1:35 pm

        Your comments just confirm to me how sick you Muslims are. So brainwashed by this evil religion. Look at Afghanistan. Girls don’t make it past the third grade. All this because your dastardly prophet couldn’t control himself and married a six year old girl. He even married his adopted son’s wife.

      • Islamisdeath says

        Apr 11, 2014 at 5:54 pm

        You poor sick death cult zombie! These girls get no CHOICE as you put it in all capitals. They are sold by their parents to some disgusting pedophile for money or goods or favors. Should this girl have said no she would have been honor killed. Appears she killed him after they had been married in which case the bridal night rape by the pedophile she was sold to drove her over the edge. Because she lives in one of your barbaric countries she will likely die a truly gruesome death after being raped God knows how many times while in prison.

        Of all the death cult zombies who post here You exemplify your death cult the most. May you find the true God someday.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 13, 2014 at 12:49 am

        The repulsive Rezali Mehil wrote:

        OMG, what a horror few days for Umaru Sani.

        The marriage was obviously sanctions (sic) by Wasila’s parents, who will have received the normal Islamic respect…
        ……………………………..

        All this means is that this poor young girl was betrayed by her Muslim parents as well as by her rapist “husband”.

        More:

        Imagine what the loss of their son by their daighter in law has done to their mind and position in the community…Oh my days …the horror, so so sad.
        ……………………………..

        And such an upstanding child rapist! What a terrible loss to the Muslim “community”.

        More:

        That murdering bit*h deserves no mercy, the full weight of the law must be brought on this horrible toad.
        ……………………………..

        And it would make no difference to Rezali Mehil if Wasila was *nine years old* rather than 14. She has many times lauded the horrific “Prophet” for having raped a grade-school age child, claiming the rape was “sanctioned by Allah”.

        More:

        How dare she…she would have been asked at the point of the nika contact whether she accepts her man… a “no” at that point would have been the end to the matter…but she CHOSE to go ahead with the marriage and …
        ……………………………..

        What crap. Many Muslim girls who resist forced marriage are *Honor Killed*. Rezali Mehil knows this, but hopes that we don’t. And in Islam, “silence equals consent”, so if a child is too terrified to say anything, this is considered “consent”. *Ugh*.

        Never mind, also, that a child cannot know what she is consenting to, in any case.

        More:

        …in time she would have learned to love him.
        ……………………………..

        Why would a child “learn to love” *her abuser*? What Rezali Mehil means is that she should have learned to keep her mouth shut.

        More:

        In all likelyhood she had a boyfriend whom she liked and it complicated matters. Marriages are ordained by Allh (sic) SWT and she has betrayed her God too.
        ……………………………..

        Rezali Mehil believes that any union between a rapist and a child, sanctioned by her parents selling her to her abuser, is “ordained” by the sadistic deity “Allah”. *Ugh*.

        More:

        As to the reference that some Jewess killed Muhammad SAW by piosioning his leg of Lamb…what was it with her? He rescued her from the excesses and prision like hold on her by her brother and father.
        ……………………………..

        Talk about projection! It is in Islam that a woman is utterly controlled by her male owners—fathers, brothers, and husband.

        More:

        He got rid of them infront (sic) of her, He freed her, and then gave her due respect by marrying her.
        ……………………………..

        What could more endear a woman to a man than massacring her family in front of her? Does Rezali Mehil even realize how utterly barbaric this is? Of course not—she’s a pious Muslim…

        More:

        It is little wonder that few trust the Jews (although I bear them no malace (sic)… I am a good muslimah like that).
        ……………………………..

        What crap. This Muslimah want to see the genocide of the Jews, just like every other pious Mohammedan.

        More:

        Well let her rot…she was 14 …not 6 …she knew what she was doing …it was 1st degree dastardley murder .

        As for your “she was too young BS” …save it …kuffara in the UK normally lose their virginity at 12 …and many are pregenant (out of marriage at that age)….tell them … not us.
        ……………………………..

        Rezali Mehil has trotted out this rot before, despite the fact that there are absolutely *no* statistics to back it up.

        She is pushing the idea that all little children have sex, and hence they have to “married off” to adult rapists.

        What a sickening—and utterly false—vies of the world. And *this* is the Islamic view of little girls—*horrifying*.

  2. Guy Macher says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    God bless this brave little girl!

    • Jerry says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 4:44 pm

      Amen

  3. JamesonRocks says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    Sounds like self-defense to me.

    • dlbrand says

      Apr 10, 2014 at 9:04 pm

      Indeed. So too, rejection of the way of the “Prophet.”

      I pray, somehow, this child comes to know, there is a God in heaven who loves her, cares deeply for her and the quality of her life–who never would ask her, far less command her, to comply to the sunnah of the prophet of Islam.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 10:05 am

      That’s exactly what I thought, after all, it’s not like the girl has any legal recourse whatsoever in the f’ed up islamic parts of Nigeriastan.

    • VLParker says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 3:04 pm

      I agree totally. This is nothing but a kidnapping. IMHO she had every right to use deadly force to free herself from bondage.

    • Jerry says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 4:53 pm

      A child is handed over by her parents into sex slavery.

      A non-consential marriage followed by non-cnsentual sex is rape.

      The “husband” is no more than a sex-slave master, and his friends are his accomplices.

      In the circumstances killing them is an act of self-defense, in the circumstances, especially since “Islamic Law” or “Sharia” offers no redress to the victim.

      In any event, “Sharia Law” in that context is more akin to “Shabaria Law”.

      (Shabaria is a desert nomad’s curved cut-throat knife).

  4. Elise says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    Where are the cowards and liars from CAIR? Child brides are prevalent among all Muslims, not just with radical Islam. Ask the women in Aceh about so called moderate Indonesia, where women are forced to undergo female genital mutilation as well as marriages that last for an hour in all parts of Indonesia.

  5. gerard says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 9:02 pm

    “There is no justification for murder.”
    Debatable.

    • dlbrand says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 12:40 am

      Roger that.

    • georgina says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 6:07 am

      I agree. Debatable re: his friends. As for her killing the man who raped her, justifyable homocide, not murder.

  6. Tradewinds says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    I believe Mohammed met his end by poison. A Jewish woman, whose husband, brother and other male relatives were beheaded by Mo, poisoned his goat stew! If anyone has other info on that I’d like to read it. The woman who offed Mo should be celebrated in history books.

    • Salah says

      Apr 10, 2014 at 11:19 pm

      You’re right, here’s the full story:
      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/muhammads-death.html

      • dlbrand says

        Apr 11, 2014 at 12:43 am

        Yup.

        Have yet to check your provided link above out, but, all the same, ‘ well informed on the details of the event.

        He had her killed–That too, those, as they say, “with knowledge” (with respect to Islam), affirm.

  7. bobm says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    A Jewess poisoned mo; fair enough!

  8. Champ says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 11:54 pm

    How tragic for this precious young girl …yeah islam brings nothing but hell on earth.

  9. No Fear says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 3:31 am

    If poison was a suitable way to rid the world of gangster prophet Mohammed who married a nine year old then poison is a suitable way to get rid of a 35 year old man who wants to screw a 14 year old kid. I would have done the same thing in her situation. It was self defence.

  10. Carmen Sporidis says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 4:31 am

    what about self-devence, killing the soul of a child doesn’t count? Sorry for saying they deserve it

  11. Angelbird says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 4:38 am

    Mohammed was a paedophile. and so to is any savage that violates a young and innocent child

  12. angelbird says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 4:40 am

    This proves Mohammed was a paedophile,

  13. bill says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 4:56 am

    The sad thing here that no one seems to recognise, is that she will surely get convicted and will be lucky not to be executed

    • devonoagon says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 7:37 am

      exactly. had it been her husband or father that killed her, it would be an honor killing with little or no justice done, but since she killed her husband and friends, she’ll probably be hung or stoned.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 13, 2014 at 4:02 pm

      Bill wrote:

      The sad thing here that no one seems to recognise, is that she will surely get convicted and will be lucky not to be executed
      ……………………………..

      You are *quite right*, Bill.

      That she is just 14 years old and had been abused by her “husband” will *not* be taken as mitigating factors under Islamic law.

      If she is tried under Nigerian law, she *might* have a chance—if she is tried under Shari’ah, she is lost. They will want to make her an example for any other raped child who might consider any sort of resistance.

      This happened in Kano, which seems to be mostly under Shari’ah law:

      “Hisbah and Sharia Law Enforcement in Metropolitan Kano”

      http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/summary/v057/57.4.olaniyi.html

      Things do not look good…

  14. Jan Sobieski says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    Some commentators are surprised at the blind obedience and defense of any moslem act of barbarity. If you follow the news ( not the media) , CAIR and unholy imams, all would know that no islamic deed is ever deemed evil. If the murderer and pediophile Mohammed did it, it is acceptable to the deity he created. Unfortunately, the totalitarian barbarian did not adopt some of the more humane elements of the Old and New Testaments — a sure sign that his moon cult is not a continuation or true outgrowth of the earlier Scriptures! he was just trying to add some “antiquity” to his ravings (a common theme in ancient times).

  15. Jan says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 5:55 pm

    “There is no justification for murder”.

    Really ?

    I beg to differ.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Apr 12, 2014 at 4:37 am

      I’ll have to agree with you there, Jan.

  16. Me says

    Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 am

    This is my full exegesys from the Sunnah about child marriage in Islam: https://www.facebook.com/notes/agnostic-view-on-islam/islam-and-child-marriage-summary-links/620794327964384

  17. gravenimage says

    Apr 13, 2014 at 3:45 pm

    Early and forced marriage is classified as modern-day slavery by the U.N. labor organization, and Nigeria’s Child Rights Act prohibits marriage before 18.

    But the ruling is often ignored in favour of Islamic Shariah law that holds in most northern states.

    No one in Nigeria has been prosecuted for marrying a child, including Sen. Sani Ahmed Yerima, infamous for divorcing a 17-year-old that he married when she was 15.

    Yerima got the divorce so he could marry a 14-year-old Egyptian girl in 2010, when he was 49. He had to divorce one of his child brides because Islamic law allows a maximum of four wives at a time.
    ……………………………….

    Yes—the Nigerian law against child marriage means so little that it is flouted by Muslim “lawmakers” themselves.

    More:

    Many child brides are divorced to make way for another partner, and because of incontinence and other medical problems caused by difficulties during childbirth pregnancies.
    ……………………………….

    “Incontinence”—these are often fistulas, caused by the baby rupturing the birth canal and the rectum when the mother is too young and small to be able to properly give birth.

    There are fistula hospitals in Africa—not surprisingly, run by charitable Infidels—and the cause is almost always child pregnancy, exacerbated in many cases by infibulation. In other words, the cause of most of these horrors is *Islam itself*.

    Fistulas do occur in the West, but they are extraordinarily rare, and the problem is usually detected early and fixed surgically, or by having the mother give birth through Cesarian Section. Not so in Dar-al-Islam. Many girls and women die from fistulas, and those who survive are often incontinent for all bathroom functions and rejected by their families.

    More:

    According to local child rights advocates who say such girls are put out on the street.
    ……………………………….

    Keep *this* in mind next time some lying Mohammedan tells you how Islam “respects” women.

    A little girl, forcibly married to her rapist, then abandoned on the street because early childbirth damaged her body or because her “husband” decided he wants some fresh meat.

    God, I hate Islam.

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