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:
“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).
Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, “Best wishes and Allah”s Blessing and a good luck.” Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah”s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).
Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.
Likewise the influential website Islamonline.com in December 2010 justified child marriage by invoking not only Muhammad’s example, but the Qur’an as well:
The Noble Qur’an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: “And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women, if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated” [Qur’an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur’an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A’isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.
Other countries make Muhammad’s example the basis of their laws regarding the legal marriageable age for girls. 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.”
Iran’s 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 to give their own daughters away accordingly: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.” When he took power in Iran, he lowered the legal marriageable age of girls to nine, in accord with Muhammad’s example.
“Jirga gives minor girl in vani to settle dispute,” by Nisar Ahmad Khan, Dawn, April 27, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):
MANSEHRA: A local jirga in Shamali area of Battagram has decided to marry off an eight-year-old girl to a 26-year-old man to settle a dispute between two families.
Local sources said that the jirga was held last week to settle a dispute, which was result of the second marriage of the father of the minor girl. They said that father of the minor girl eloped with a married woman few years ago.
The custom of handing over women to rival party for settling a dispute is called vani in the area. The practice is still common in remote parts of upper Hazara.
“We have registered an FIR against a cleric, who solemnised the marriage of Farnaz Bibi with Sadiq Shah, and 12 other people including family members of both the bride and bridegroom,” said Jehanzeb Khan,” the district police officer of Battagram, on Sunday.
He said that Meherban Shah, the father of victim girl, contracted second marriage with the wife of Sadiq Shah some three years ago and fled the area.
The official said that local elders convened a jirga to settle the feud in accordance with the local tradition last week. The jirga issued a decree to hand over the minor daughter of Meherban Shah to the former husband of his second wife, he said, adding the knot was tied in the same jirga.
The official said that Syed Mehboob Shah, the maternal uncle of the victim girl, approached police to register an FIR on Saturday.
He said that FIR was registered against 13 people including Maulvi Ghufran Shah, Sadiq Shah, Nanga Shah, Mudasser Shah, Syed Ali Shah, Mehtab Shah, Akbar Shah, Zubair Khan, Younas Shah, Yousaf Shah, Bashir Shah and Meherban Shah.
Mohammad Rafique, the SHO of Shamlai police station, told journalists that raids were being conducted to arrest the people, nominated in the FIR.
Mr Rafique said that though nikah of the minor girl was performed in the jirga yet the wedding ceremony was scheduled to be held after some time.
Jay Boo says
You might not hear about this at Brandeis University.
Not only are their students required not to listen to speakers who criticize Islam,
their students are forbidden to think thoughts that mock the religion of Islam.
Angemon says
“MANSEHRA: A local jirga in Shamali area of Battagram has decided to marry off an eight-year-old girl to a 26-year-old man to settle a dispute between two families.”
Don’t worry, all is fine, muhammad didn’t rap… *ahem* “consumed” the marriage until Aisha was 9 (lunar years BTW, they’re shorten than our solar years), so as long as the pedoph… *ahem* the groom can keep it in his pants until she’s 9 no knowledgeable muslim will ever condemn him.
Disgusting filthy degenerates. I can’t tell what’s worse: the involved parties seeing no wrong in marrying an 8-year-old to someone old enough to be her father or thinking it’s wrong but excusing themselves with “muhammad did it so it’s halal”.
David, Thailand says
While even Muslims agree that Mohamed consummated his marriage with Aisha when she was 9 years old, it is rarely mentioned that he had regular non-vaginal sex with her since their marriage 3 years earlier, when she was 6 years old.
The only thing that matches the pedo prophet’s repugnant abuse of young girls, is the desire of 21st century Muslims to proudly defend and emulate him.
Jay Boo says
200 Nigerian school girls kidnapped in the name of filth called Islam.
How is that for a bus poster.
See just how fast they will be released when ‘moderate’ Muslims loose their ‘free pass’ not to be criticized and the religion of peace’s dirty laundry is displayed in public.
St. Michael Defend Us says
“Mr Rafique said that though nikah of the minor girl was performed in the jirga yet the wedding ceremony was scheduled to be held after some time.” What does this mean? Does this mean that the girl was publicly raped, but that her legal standing and her rights (whatever they are) as an actual wife are still pending?
Islamisdeath says
Nikah is a marriage contract. The contract in and of itsself does not mean he has raped her yet. Apparently they are going to have a wedding after which he will take her home and rape her.
mortimer says
Islam uses reverse logic to uphold forced child marriage in spite of psychiatry, obstetrics and human decency proving it to be WRONG.
They argue that a pedophile and highwayman from the 7th century was a moral example and therefore nothing he did could be wrong regardless of science or common sense.
Guy Macher says
Warning to Muslim barrow perverts! That’s my real name. Do not dare be in my presence with your pre-school age “wife”. C apiche??
ibn Muslim says
I wonder what is wrong if a young woman grows up in love? How can one reach an “emotional maturity” in a loveless environment?
In West, instead of marrying, young women engage in promiscuity and adultery – most henious are “one night stands”! Where is love in that?
BTW, how old was Eve when Adam had sex with her?
Silvia says
You wonder what’s “wrong” with a grown man RAPING A CHILD???? When you are that perverse, twisted and morally abhorrent, you obviously can’t comprehend what’s wrong and what isn’t. When you are that depraved, you obviously don’t see females as more than a HOLE so you can’t understand what’s “wrong” with this.
Adam and Eve probably didn’t exist and if they did, they had the understanding of talking beasts. If that’s your authority and justification for forcing children to marry and to people they never chose for themselves and aren’t capable of choosing, you are hopeless but that was already obvious.
Islam is the new Black Plague.
ibn Muslim says
You obviously do not know the distinction between loving sexual intercourse and a brutal and violent sex, which is rape.
It baffles me why young women should not be enjoying their bodies in a loving relationship with a Muslim. At younger age it is also easier to teach women obedience – a good wife is an obedient wife.
Medina says
There is no such thing as “loving” intercourse with a child; a child is physically and emotionally too immature for the true purpose of the sexual act. But then the purpose of the act in your Muslim world is the same as raping a goat: for the perverse enjoyment of an act which will some day land you in hell.
ibn Muslim says
> a child is physically and emotionally too immature
No, from the age of 9 people should be encouraged to have sex. Regarding the “emotional immaturity” – that’s what I was trying to convey in my original post with: “How can one reach an “emotional maturity” in a loveless environment?”
To grow in love and to continue growing in love – that’s the purpose of marriage! You would rather have teenage adultery outside marriage that marriage? You really are perverted!!!
Islamisdeath says
” from the age of 9 people should be encouraged to have sex”
Oh my God you sick twisted minion of satan. Children learn love by being raised in families where they learn about love and respect. Sex you animal is not love. Certainly in mature adult relationships sex is part of love. It is not possible for a 26 year old man to love an 8 year old child he has never met. An 8 year old child doesnt even know what the kind of love you refer to is.
Ibn you are a strait up pedophile.
God save us from satans minions like ibn muslim
thomas_h says
Can you actually get sexually aroused by the idea of “sex” with a nine year old girl? If so you would no doubt have nothing against sodomizing a little boy, or a goat – anything that moves. Or even if it doesn’t move – like the dead woman in Sweden some months ago whose body a moslem pig used for “sex”.
Another question: Would you allow a grown-up man to use your nine year old daughter’s body as a substitute for woman?
Gosh, you are a pig. Just as your degenerate “prophet” muhammad.
gravenimage says
The criminally psychotic ibn Muslim wrote:
I wonder what is wrong if a young woman grows up in love? How can one reach an “emotional maturity” in a loveless environment?
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The love an eight-year-old child should experience is that of her family, nurturing her, not the “love” of a pedophile *raping her*, you sick f*ck.
The idea that a child cannot experience love unless she is being sexually abused by a deviant is *grotesque*.
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In West, instead of marrying, young women engage in promiscuity and adultery – most henious are “one night stands”! Where is love in that?
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This moral idiot believes that if second graders are not being raped by their “husbands” that they are out having “one night stands”. Unbelievable. But not surprising—Muslims understand *nothing* about the innocence of children.
And why would they, when their clerics say that they can “marry” school-girls, rape “beardless boys”, and even sexually abuse *infants*? *Ugh*.
More, in reply to Silvia:
You obviously do not know the distinction between loving sexual intercourse and a brutal and violent sex, which is rape.
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There is no way for an adult male to have sex with *an eight-year-old* that is *not* brutal and violent. She is a little girl, and not physically able to have sexual intercourse without intense pain and damage. I know whereof I speak.
In fact, this has *killed* little girls:
“Afghanistan: 8-year-old bride of mullah bleeds to death on her wedding night”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/afghanistan-8-year-old-bride-of-mullah-bleeds-to-death-on-her-wedding-night
Moreover, there is no way for a little child to “consent” to a “marriage”. Note that in this case it was a tribal council of barbarians who sentenced this little girl to this abuse.
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It baffles me why young women should not be enjoying their bodies in a loving relationship with a Muslim.
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You *sick bastard*. Eight-year-old children are not *enjoying their bodies*—their pedophile rapists are the ones doing that.
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At younger age it is also easier to teach women obedience – a good wife is an obedient wife.
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One of the few honest things the sickening ibn Muslim has said—*of course* it is easier for an adult male to force *a frightened child* to “behave” than a grown-up woman. Does he even realize what he is admitting to here? Of course not…
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> a child is physically and emotionally too immature
No, from the age of 9 people should be encouraged to have sex.
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God, what a sick pedophile. Many girls are damaged to life.
And note: this tribal council was not “encouraging” this little girl to have sex—they were selling her to a fully grown man who would force himself on her. *Ugh*.
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Regarding the “emotional immaturity” – that’s what I was trying to convey in my original post with: “How can one reach an “emotional maturity” in a loveless environment?”
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This is something that I have noticed over and over again with emotionally stunted adults—either emotionally unstable Westerners or those brought up under a perverse creed like Islam, is how often they fail to recognize that children are (naturally and normally) emotionally immature.
The same people who believe that adults should be allowed to abuse small children often also believe that children should be punished if they aren’t completely toilet-trained as young toddlers, or that they should have their limbs amputated if they pocket a candy bar.
There’s something particularly stunted about these unhealthy individuals—and their abuse of children, both physical and sexual, is marked.
Of course, this is a *crime* in the civilized world—whereas it is *sacralized* in Islam.
georgina says
I think you are a troll. No self respecting man would believe that the rape of a young girl is ‘love’.
The clue to this is consent. If ‘western women’ want to have sex, that is their choice, if a young girl is raped, that is not her choice. And no young girl would ever want to have sex with an old man – muslim or not.
Mirren10 says
It’s instructive that every time a mohammedan posts on JW, they amply bare their utter moral depravity for all to see.
I needn’t elaborate, because Silvia has said it all.
If you ever have a daughter, or if you already have one, I shudder for the poor child’s fate. You are sickening, mohammedan.
ibn Muslim says
If YOU ever have a daughter, or if you already have one, I shudder for the poor child’s fate.
You would rather have your daughter whore around, be an adulterer and have one night stands than enjoy a loving marriage with a God obedient man since her early age?
You are sickening, INFIDEL!
Islamisdeath says
Straight up you are a pedophile you fit the description perfectly!
Being a piece of property used for sexual enjoyment since childhood IS NOT a loving marriage. Clearly muslims have no clue at all what love is. How utterly sad for satans followers
John C. Barile says
Ah, ibn Muslim–your reasoning is flawed, it’s not a matter of being a child bride or a whore; nor of being loved as a mere object or possession, instead of being loved as an equal partner. Nor does childish dependency and passivity equal virtue. It’s the twisted values you hold that are sick.
John C. Barile says
Now that I think of it, you nauseate me.
John C. Barile says
To be either a child bride or to be immoral? What silly nonsense; what moral rot.
gravenimage says
More from the repulsive ibn Muslim:
If YOU ever have a daughter, or if you already have one, I shudder for the poor child’s fate.
You would rather have your daughter whore around, be an adulterer and have one night stands than enjoy a loving marriage with a God obedient man since her early age?
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My God, pious Muslims are sick bastards. ibn Muslim believes that if little children are not sold to pedophiles that they will be slipping out of their second grade classes in order to “whore around”. This Mohammedan understands *nothing* about the innocence of little children.
And he considers a pedophile who would rape an eight-year-old child to be a “God obedient man”.
This would be “Allah obedient”, of course—no other person of faith believes that God wants them to rape little children.
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You are sickening, INFIDEL!
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This shows that Islam is not merely immoral—instead, it represents the *complete inversion of morality*.
And ibn Muslim is not alone—his foul coreligionist Rezali Mehil has also described the terrible rape of little nine-year-old Aisha by the fifty-three-old “Prophet” as “holy matrimony ordained by Allah SWT”.
This is normative Islam. *Ugh*.
georgina says
Is this a rhetorical question? Of course I would prefer to have my daughter to enjoy her voluntary sex life, anything rather than her getting religion – or being with a ‘ God obedient man’ – shudder.
Elke Scheidt says
You are a disguting pervert and pedophile. I wish I could get my hands on you!
Mickey Rayfield says
No, a young GIRL should grow up in love; that of her family under the protection of her parents. A nine year old should not be forced into marriage with anyone, that is not love- that is abuse, rape, and coercion. How anyone can think otherwise only shows how base and ignorant they are of reality.
In ‘West, young women……..’ young women are far different than little girls; and who they engage in sex with is their choice. As for adultery, put up the proof or shut up. Islam allows men to marry for a day or a few days so they can have sex while away on business showing them to be callow, honor less, hormonal driven animals instead of being men. Real men honor their vows, real men honor their women and they don’t rape and use little girls.
BTW Adam and Eve were created as adults, so does that answer your question? Nice dodge, but no cigar.
mark says
The inhumane practice of child marriage is one reason why I wonder how people cope who don’t believe in a final judgment wherein God will mete out justice. Jesus had special imprecations for those who harm children. It comforts me that his prophecies will come to pass. They will, because he is the Prophet Indeed.
dumbledoresarmy says
Re the infinitely-revolting mohammedan above who has claimed that ALL non-muslim females “whore around”, commit adultery, and engage in one-night stands.
That claim is FALSE, vilely false.
I was born in 1963. I grew up in the so-called swinging sixties. I was and am a devout Christian. I was a virgin when I met – at age 17 – the man who is now my husband; we courted for a good many years *without* leaping into bed with each other, and I was a virgin (**and so was he**) when – in our early twenties – we married. No-one forced me to marry him; he and I *freely chose each other*.
I have been steadfastly faithful to him for 27 years and *he has been faithful to ME*; and because he is a decent and honorable and loving man I have NO fear that he would ever, ever, ever cheat on me.
And guess what: because Christianity teaches *monogamy* I don’t have to worry – as a Mohammedan wife *does* have to worry – that my husband will one day bring home some teenager and install her in the household as a second, third or fourth “wife”.
furthermore: I am quite sure that I and my husband not that unusual. Many, many non-Muslim persons both male and female choose to exercise a quite strict self-control in sexual matters. And the thing is: we do it NOT out of fear but of our own free will; out of self-respect and respect for others.
I am sure that many, many other non-Muslim women, of assorted faiths or of no faith, here at this forum, could say similar things of themselves…and of their sisters, cousins, mothers, friends. That adultery (married people being unfaithful) happens but that many, many married non-Muslims do *not* commit adultery. That many people, before they marry, do NOT indiscriminately sleep around.
Thought for the day: I wonder, when mohammedans spew filth at non-Muslims, accusing us of being universally sexually immoral, whether it might not be just another instance of mohammedan *projection*? They project onto us their *own* rampant lusts; just as they project onto us their own megalomaniacal desire for Total World Domination, their own plotting and scheming and murdering.
Reality Check says
You are absolutely right in your last paragraph, DDA – there is a lot of projection going on.
n 2000 – 2001, I lived in Qatar, in the Persian Gulf. Muslims drink, whore and chase women all the time in complete violation of the instructions of their faith.
Oh, and they have one-night stands, all the time, and I know it as they boasted about it. If I saved a penny for every time I saw a Muslim cruise the city in his car, trying to pick up every walking woman in sight, I would not have to work for the rest of my life.
They are deeply immoral beasts, most of them, YET they think that we are the most immoral creatures alive. I have never seen the same amount of rampant lust in my Christian world. In fact, I have never seen any lust at all – not even men following women and shouting from their cars. Judging from my experiences, this is a Muslim specialty, not a Christian one – yet they keep projecting, projecting, projecting and thinking that no matter how immoral they are, we are even more immoral than they are.
You should see how they switch to a defensive mode when they can’t deny that their world is immoral anymore – they start mumbling: “Hey, there are good and bad people everywhere, blah, blah, blah.” It’s utterly pathetic. They whore shamelessly, like the worst of animals; yet they can’t face the truth about themselves.
gravenimage says
Very true, DDA.
I have also just celebrated my twenty-fifth anniversary with my beloved husband—so has frequent JW poster Champ.
I have always been completely faithful to my husband—and it’s because I love him, *not* because I’m afraid he would “Honor Kill” me if I were not.
The Muslim claim that they are more moral than Infidels is *utterly false*.
Forced marriage, child marriage, the “Triple Talaq” summary divorce for Muslim men, polygamy, temporary marriage, rape of Infidels, sex slavery—all of this is completely normative islam, and it is far more immoral than *anything* one finds in the West, even at its worst.
PRCS says
27 years?
Pah!
Rookie.
Guest says
ibn Muslim, are you insane? Sex with a minor is always RAPE, whether or not there was some kind of ‘consent’, because a minor is not in a mental position to understand what they are ‘consenting’ to. As for the obstetric horrors young girls go through, just read up a bit and see whether you still agree!
But thanks for showing yourself up like this, it’s helpful to our cause.
ibn Muslim says
One has to train to get sexual stamina – to be a truly heavenly man, who could have sex with 72 virgins in one night.
If it’s good for Prophet (pbuh), it is good for me. Also prophet Joseph Smith had many wives, although from ages 14 onward. Anyhow, Aisha quite liked it 🙂
To think that you know the will of Allah better than the Prophet (pbuh) amounts to blasphemy.
John C. Barile says
Ahh–training yourself to be a shahid, I see. Well, get on with it, then–only, I sincerely hope that you detonate yourself prematurely.
John C. Barile says
Insh’allah.
gravenimage says
And yet more from the horrifying ibn Muslim:
One has to train to get sexual stamina – to be a truly heavenly man, who could have sex with 72 virgins in one night.
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This is the Islamic concept of a “truly heavenly man”—a pedophile who rapes children in order to build up his stamina so that he can keep up with the Houris (whores) in paradise. *Ugh*.
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If it’s good for Prophet (pbuh), it is good for me.
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This is the whole problem with the Islamic concept of “goodness”—it is entirely based on the model of a war-lord, rapist, slaver, caravan raider, pedophile, assassin, and mass-murderer. And we see the horrible results of Muslims following the baleful example of the “Prophet” every day.
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Also prophet Joseph Smith had many wives, although from ages 14 onward. …………………………………
Of course, no Muslim would be allowed to consider anyone after Muhammed to be a prophet. But they will use any example to try to condone their evil.
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Anyhow, Aisha quite liked it
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Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. Despite the fact that Islamic texts must be quite bowdlerized, little Aisha’s distress is quite clear. After Muhammed “married” her when she was just six, she became seriously ill; she recounts her hair falling out. And then she grimly notes that she was fetched from her play one day when was nine, and that the women of her family “handed her over” to the “Prophet”.
There is not a single Islamic text—not in the Qur’an, Hadith, or Sira—where Aisha says she “quite liked” any of it.
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To think that you know the will of Allah better than the Prophet (pbuh) amounts to blasphemy.
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Most of the decent Infidels here are quite familiar with what is considered the “will of Allah”—raping children, stoning women, and slaughtering Kuffar. *Ugh*.
Elliott says
Philip: He probably ‘detonated’ just by typing “72 virgins”. He knows that they are still there, because ALL the Jihad suicide idiots who have blown themselves to hell, were not aware that ALL bullets and (I believe) ALL explosives have minor quantities of pig’s fat in them. Thus there are no shahids in the “p@ss-be-upon-him’s” heaven.
Ibn-Muss is a sick, sick guy, and if he’s in the neighbourhood, watch out sheep, goats and camels!!!!!!!!?
Angemon says
“If it’s good for Prophet (pbuh), it is good for me. Also prophet Joseph Smith had many wives, although from ages 14 onward. Anyhow, Aisha quite liked it 🙂
To think that you know the will of Allah better than the Prophet (pbuh) amounts to blasphemy.”
Actually, it’s a much worse blasphemy to claim that someone else after muhammad was a prophet. That’s one of the reasons ahmadi are considered to be heretics and actively persecuted in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Looks like mr. ibn “wannabe pretend” muslim didn’t do his research.
“Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, ‘The Israelis used to be ruled and guided by prophets: Whenever a prophet died, another would take over his place. There will be no prophet after me” – Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 661.
PRCS says
I have no reason to think one way or the other, but could ibn Muslim just be a troll?
I kinda think he/she/it might be here jus to jerk a few chains.
dumbledoresarmy says
That *is* possible.
Which hardly makes him any less creepy…
gravenimage says
PRCS, you could be right. Certainly, there *have* been some very obvious fake Mohammedans who show up here from time to time just for the purpose of jerking people’s chains.
But I also believe that many decent Infidels—even the very savvy ones who post here at Jihad Watch—simply can’t believe that Muslims are capable of thinking like this.
But everything ibn Muslim has said here is absolutely normative Islam—and his “moral indignation” over decent Infidels for not recognizing the “superiority” of Islam does appear to be genuine.
nabi sange says
Oh, I see. It’s better than MooHamMad did.