Smith was right, except for his statement that this was in the Qur’an. Child marriage is obliquely referred to in the Qur’an’s dictum that the three-month waiting period for divorce applies even to women who have not yet menstruated (65:4), but Muhammad’s marriage to six-year-old Aisha is not in the Qur’an. Nevertheless, 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.”
According to Amir Taheri in The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution (pp. 90-91), 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.
Note also the witless comment of 2GB’s program director David Kidd as he fired Smith: “We won’t be needing you, you can’t call a Deity a paedophile.’’ Muslims do not consider Muhammad a deity, and indeed, think the very idea offensive. Will Kidd now also have to be fired for offending Muslims?
“Shock jock Michael Smith dumped over prophet slur,” by Eamonn Duff, Sydney Morning Herald, June 28, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Broadcaster Michael Smith has been dumped from a guest slot on radio station 2GB after he referred to the prophet Muhammad as a paedophile.
Smith had been booked to present Chris Smith’s afternoon program for three weeks starting Monday.
However, he has revealed on his website that 2GB’s program director, David Kidd, phoned him on Friday evening and allegedly said: ‘‘We won’t be needing you, you can’t call a Deity a paedophile.’’
Mr Kidd declined to comment when approached by Fairfax Media on Saturday.
Smith’s controversial outburst came during an on-air exchange with Ben Fordham on Thursday. ‘‘The prophet Muhammad was a paedophile, a pederast, a sexual offender, a man who promoted the idea that it was OK to marry a six-year-old and consummate the marriage when the little girl was nine. And that’s written into their books, it’s part of the philosophy … the Koran. It’s factually correct,’’ he said.
Smith remarked that he was legally permitted to make the comments having previously been cleared by an Australian Communications and Media Authority investigation, following an almost identical rant when he was the 2UE afternoon host in 2011.
But his latest blast triggered a barrage of angry calls from listeners, and led to scathing criticism from veteran presenter Ray Hadley at the start of his program on Friday morning.
‘‘I value the worth of this station in the community … and sometimes I’ve been guilty of tarnishing its reputation … for that I’ve apologised,’’ he said. ‘‘… I want to go on record today and completely distance myself from Mr Smith’s comments as well. Yesterday I was insulted by what was said … and I’ve got to speak out against it.’’
Smith, however, is refusing to apologise for the comments.
He said on his website on Saturday: ‘‘I’ve thought about what I said in answer to Ben’s question. I think it’s wrong for a man in his 50s to have sex with a nine-year-old child. It is wrong, it’s a crime and it should be called out for what it is’’.
Smith told Fairfax he stands by his on-air words and the comments that followed on his website. He said he was unsure whether he had also now lost his guest slot on Fordham’s show in the future….
David says
I would love Robert to debate his boss, David Kidd about Muhammad. Mr Kidd doesn’t have a clue, he wouldn’t last 2 minutes.
Angemon says
“However, he has revealed on his website that 2GB’s program director, David Kidd, phoned him on Friday evening and allegedly said: ‘‘We won’t be needing you, you can’t call a Deity a paedophile.’’”
“You can’t call a Deity a paedophile”? Seems like mr. Kidd is insulting islam in a far worse way than mr. Smith did. Claiming muhammad to be a deity is making him a partner with allah, which is the worst sin in islam.
In any case, mr. Smith is absolutely right:
“Smith, however, is refusing to apologise for the comments.
He said on his website on Saturday: ‘‘I’ve thought about what I said in answer to Ben’s question. I think it’s wrong for a man in his 50s to have sex with a nine-year-old child. It is wrong, it’s a crime and it should be called out for what it is’’.
Smith told Fairfax he stands by his on-air words and the comments that followed on his website.”
Bravo, mr. Smith. Bravo!
Charli Main says
I expect he should be grateful for “small ” mercies.
Calling Mohammed of Islam a paedophile, homosexual pervert only cost him his job.
In Britain, he would of been arrested for inciting racial and religious hatred and become a long term guest in one of Her Majesty´s prisons.
Wellington says
And, CM, in a Muslim country he would most likely be dead by now.
kikorikid says
Looks to me like you are dealing with intellectual fascism
from two sources, The Cultural-Marxist Left, and the
“Sharia Compliant” fascist of Islam. Better put on your Big-Boy pants,
and get busy taking your country back.
David says
I sent the radio station, 2GB, feedback regarding this, saying he shouldn’t be sacked for the truth, so at least they got my viewpoint on it. I actually often listen to this station, normally it is a good station. The encouraging part is he was cleared by cleared by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in an investigation to say it, so at least they looked it up & found it to be factually correct.
john spielman says
It will be up to Australian listeners of this radio station to demand a reinstatement of this courageous man to his job.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
**Pointing out** that Mohammad was a sexual predator is not the same as **calling** him one.
tpellow says
Will West’s MSM and their journalists’ trade unions support Australian broadcaster, Michael Smith’s’s freedom?
After all, the West’s journalists rallied to the cause of Islamic broadcaster, Al Jazeera, in the recent case of journalists who were arrested, tried and convicted for supporting Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?
Jay Boo says
The MSM puppets such as BBC and Al Jazeera sponsored NPR cut and paste their stories verbatim from the Al Jazeera website.
The coverage of the “journalists who were arrested, tried and convicted for supporting Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt” are just one example.
The MSM wish to rewrite history, one lie at a time.
umbra says
Michael smith blew the lid on union corruption in Australia (though not the journalist union) which in part has led to the present royal commission into union corruption. Therefore, he is despised by the overall leadership of the union movement. No union will come to save him.
G Orwell says
I think that most Muslims do treat Mo as a deity, even though they do not consciously believe it. The fact that insulting him is called blasphemy as opposed to sacrilege shows a lot.
Dom woods says
Is it accepted and recognised as fact that Mohamed dis as claimed marry a six year old bride and consummated in same way we know it ie vaginal sex at nine??
Jay Boo says
“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).
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This seems to indicate that the ‘Prophet ‘ had an enforceable written contract and that along with the ‘will of Allah’ would suggest that we infidels have no right to question or criticize his perversions.
The supposed story that Aisha’s hair falling out is strange.
Why would a young girls hair fall out … malnourishment and starvation is a possibility.
More likely she was prepped up to appear to have a more boyish appearance to appeal to Muhammad’s insatiable lust.
IQ al Rassooli says
Jay Boo
Based upon my research (according to Aisha, her hair was lost for three years) hence your idea of boyishness is impractical
The best explanation is actually the simplest:
Aisha lost her hair because of the SHOCK (in some cases extreme shock can even turn hair WHITE within hours) of a SIX years old little girl being given to 50 years old man to be MOLESTED!
I am more than happy if someone has a better explanation!
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
IQ al Rassooli says
Michael Smith should take BOTH his boss and the station to court for UNFAIR Dismissal!
No human being on Earth can (based entirely of the Islamic scripture as shown above) can refute or disprove his statements regarding the DEPRAVED mentor of Islam.
In fact based upon 30 years of researching these subjects I have come to the conclusion that no human being that walked this beautiful Earth was as Despicable, Degenerate, Debauched, Evil, Sadistic, Immoral and Vile as Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah !
Shame on those Politically Correct scum bags that fill our Media who are actually OUR worst enemies: the TRAITORS within!
The audience of the station is its LIFE BLOOD! If they disapprove (as well they should) they should make their voices heard and never again listen to this slavish station to Islam!
If enough listeners have the integrity and decency to do so, the station will close down as it deserves!
SUE ME!
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
umbra says
Fortunately he has not been charged under Australia’s racial discrimination laws (which evidently covers religion), specifically section 18c. Australia is almost as dhimmified as the UK.
WTD says
Australia is making waves in other recent reports, including this 60 minutes episode:
video: Forced Marriage, Part 1
video: Forced Marriage, Part 2
video: Forced Marriage, Part 3
Unfortunately, certain programs are prepared, but according to this site, never air:
Aussie jihad cell funded for 19 years by taxpayers
mortimer says
By quoting the hadiths and Sira, Muslims admit that Mohammed was a pedophile. By marrying children, Muslims prove they accept pedophilia as normative and approved by their deity. By accepting the divorce of pre-menstrual girls (!), Muslims incriminate themselves as approving of pedophilia.
PRCS says
There are at least three things wrong with the article:
1)
From the headline: “dumped over prophet slur”.
From the article’s body: “after he referred to the prophet Muhammad”.
While it is obvious that he was fired for insulting the self identified prophet of Islam, I did not find the word “Islam” in the article. Why not? Shouldn’t that have been “the Muslim prophet Muhammad”? Does the author ever use the phrase “the prophet Jesus”?
Is slurring prophets a crime in Australia? If so, why? And would that include Guru Nanak Nev ji, and Buddha? Or would that apply only to Muhammad?
2)
Smith was NOT fully correct in what he said, and with just a little more research, he could have been. As RS noted: “Smith was right, except for his statement that this was in the Qur’an.” And now, it will likely always be alleged–by the usual suspects–that he was TOTALLY wrong.
3)
“veteran presenter Ray Hadley…was insulted by what was said” and felt compelled to speak out against it. So, why wasn’t he challenged to explain exactly what was said that insulted him?
Reality Check says
You would think Australian authorities would be more lenient with their own people after the Sydney gang rapes and especially after the pious Muslim mother of the two gang rape leaders, Baria Skaf, screamed in court upon her sons’ conviction:
“It’s not a crime to f*** a white wh**e!”
Alas, human memory is so short – especially on a governmental level.
Jay Boo says
The PC leftists want so much to rewrite Islam.
Muslims don’t mind as long as they understand their place.
The PC leftists even claim Islam is peaceful.
That is ok as well.
Muslims are reading from a different script.
Walter Sieruk says
A claim by Islamic scholars as well as jihadists is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Quran in the way the words are arranged and thus it can only be of God. This claim should be answered.
First, all someone has to do is examine some of the great works of literature to fine much written beauty. Such as the Greek epic poet Homer with his Iliad and Odyssey and then Virgil who produced the Aeneid has beauty. Even one of the non-Bible books in the Apocrypha called The Song of Three Children is also very beautiful. Thus just because someone sees a work that is written in great beauty doesn’t mean it’s inspired by God.
Second, the scholar Edward Gibbon wrote after an examination of the Quran that it is an “incoherent jumble of fable and precept and declamation which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, sometimes craws in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds…” The writer Thomas Carlyle wrote the Quran is “A wearisome jumble, crude, incondite [with] endless iterations [and] longwindedness…” Likewise, the philosopher David Hume was NOT favorably impressed after reading the Quran.
[Source of the three scholars mentioned – Secrets of The Koran: Revealing Insight Into Islam’s Holy Book .56,66, by Don Richardson]
Furthermore, the following should be taken into consideration.
Of course the Muslim who reads the Quran will see great beauty in the way the words are arranged. This is, in part, because of the power of suggestion after being told so many times that the Quran is so beautifully written. That’s an old brainwashing method, repeating and being told that same thing again and again. Since he or she is always being told the same lie will end up believing that lie. In addition to that, the Imams try to discourage their people from reading other works, such as the Bible, so then they don’t have much or anything to compare or contrast the Quran with. Of course there are some Muslim’s that do read other works, but they are exceptions and they read other things only after they were already brainwashed by the Imams. In short, the Muslims can’t read the Quran objectively because their Imams have programmed them to have a strong bias towards it.
Reality Check says
Excellent post!
Arjay says
Just coming over the media wire. The three Jewish children have been found. Dead. They have been murdered by their Muslim kidnappers. It is over the boys’ bodies have been found.
My condolences to the people of Israel and the boys families.
dumbledoresarmy says
Way back when, the Dutch were terribly shocked when Ayaan Hirsi Ali, in an interview with “Trouw”, called Mohammed a “pervert”.
From “Infidel”, chapter 16, ‘Politics’:
“But Johanna and Maarten were woken up by the neews, “Hirsi Ali Calls Prophet Muhammad a Pervert”.
“Trouw had just run the interview about religion that I had given weeks before. In the interview, I talked about the Ten Commandments in the Quran, the version [or, more properly, perversion/ parody – dda] of the Ten Commandments passed on to Muslims by the Prophet Muhammad. I described him as a cruel man who demanded absolute power and who stunted creativity by limiting the imagination to only what was permitted. I discussed aspects of his life. Conveniently, Allah helpfully indicated that Muhammad should marry the wife of his adopted son, Zayd.
“He [Allah] also allowed the Prophet to marry the six-year-old daughter of his friend Abu Bakr, and to consummate that marriage when the girl, Aisha, was only nine.
“Aisha’s description of the scene is truly pathetic: she was playing on her swing in the garden when her mother called her and placed her on the Prophet’s 54 year old lap. I said, “By our Western standards, Muhammad is a perverse man, and a tyrant.”….
and, later in the same chapter:
“When some of my Liberal colleagues in Parliament started saying nasty things – and it wasn’t everybody – I did stay silent.
“But then one man looked over at Gerrit Zalm and asked, “Don’t you think we should protect her [Ayaan] from herself?”
“I saw red. I said, **”What surprises me is that not one person in this room has asked, ‘Is this true?’ If the Prophet Muhammad went to bed with a nine-year-old, then according to Dutch law he is a pedophile.** {my emphasis – dda}. If you look at how the Prophet Muhammad ruled, he was a lone ruler, and autocrat, and that is tyranny. As for being protected from myself, that is condescending and inexcusable.”…
“After the meeting, Frank de Grave came up to me and said, “What have you done! Why did you say that?”. I told him, “Because it’s true. I’m not going to apologize for the truth”.”
There it is.
Might be worth letting Mr Smith know he’s in good company, the company of an apostate from Islam, who said *exactly* the same thing as he did. Indeed, perhaps even more strongly.
Let’s repeat those passages from her book:
“He [Allah] also allowed the Prophet to marry the six-year-old daughter of his friend Abu Bakr, and to consummate that marriage when the girl, Aisha, was only nine.
“Aisha’s description of the scene is truly pathetic: she was playing on her swing in the garden when her mother called her and placed her on the Prophet’s 54 year old lap. **I said, “By our Western standards, Muhammad is a perverse man, and a tyrant.”** {my emphasis – dda}….
YES.
And – “I saw red. I said, **”What surprises me is that not one person in this room has asked, ‘Is this true?’ If the Prophet Muhammad went to bed with a nine-year-old, then according to Dutch law he is a pedophile.** {my emphasis – dda}. If you look at how the Prophet Muhammad ruled, he was a lone ruler, and autocrat, and that is tyranny.”
Repeating:
If the Prophet Muhammad went to bed with a nine-year-old, then according to Dutch law [and the law of all other modern western countries – dda] he is a pedophile.** {my emphasis – dda}. If you look at how the Prophet Muhammad ruled, he was a lone ruler, and autocrat, and that is tyranny.”
EXACTLY.
dumbledoresarmy says
Might be fun to try writing letters to the editors of 1/ the Sydney Morning Herald 2/ the Age 3/ The Australian and 4/ the (Sydney) Telegraph, citing either the passages from Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel” that I have just quoted above, or else citing, with a very brief and colourless intro, the passages from the Sahih Bukhari account of Aisha’s “marriage” that Mr Spencer cited when introducing the posted article. Point out that the Quran does not mention the subject in so many words – though in the passage on the post-divorce “waiting” period it takes child “marriage” for granted – but that the Hadith certainly do.
dumbledoresarmy says
And Muslims in Australia are busily practising – behind closed doors – underage “marriage” of girls, to the tune of probably hundreds if not thousands of cases.
We haven’t come across any nine or ten year olds…yet…but there are plenty of cases of girls well under the age of 16 being married off, and maritally raped by much older husbands, both within the country and also outside of it (after said girls are packed off to dar al Islam).
Here’s one case that managed to get onto “Sixty Minutes”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673948/How-Sydney-teen-13-kidnapped-father-taken-Syria-forced-marry-cousin-escaping-violent-terrifying-ordeal-18th-birthday.html
‘How a Sydney teen, 13, was kidnapped by her father, taken to Syria and forced to marry her cousin before escaping violent and terrifying ordeal on her 18th birthday’
(note: the girl’s mother was one of those naive *idiots* who marry a Muslim and convert to Islam. Utterly, dismally typical story).
And an overview
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/it-is-the-young-flesh-they-want/story-e6frg8h6-1226949239039
‘It is the young flesh they want’
• ANNE BARROWCLOUGH
• THE AUSTRALIAN
JUNE 14, 2014 12:00AM
“Girls as young as 12 are being forced into marriage in Australia or sent overseas to wed.”
There are *some* forced/ underage marriages among Hindus and Sikhs in Australia, but it’s pretty damn obvious from the article that the overwhelming majority of this garbage is being perpetrated by Mohammedans. Shaming and law enforcement will work with the non-Muslim groups; but given the intensity of mohammedan devotion to the sacralised example of mohammed and their sentimentalising of his vile abuse of Aisha and total inability to see it as anything wrong at all, I don’t see mohammedan attitudes undergoing a paradigm shift anytime soon.
Myself, I think we should also start talking about Mohammed’s enslavement and rapes of Rayhana, Juwariyya and Safiyya.
*None* of these women consented to be in his harem, not by any rational understanding of the word “consent”. They were not underaged, like Aisha; but Mohammed’s so-called ‘wedding night” with Safiyya was *nothing* but a brutal, sadistic rape of the sort indulged in by a psychopath, given that the very same day he had had her*husband* tortured to death. A man who murders another man – not in face to face combat in the battlefield, but tormented slowly to death as a bound captive – and *then* takes that man’s grieving, terrorised young widow to bed the *very same night* and rapes her and stuffs her into his harem as a “trophy”, is nothing but a sadistic thug of the very most disgusting kind.
It is time that Muslims got it through their cult-addled skulls that when we kafir see Mohammed do these things, we feel NO admiration for him at all. WE feel, instead, absolute revulsion, disgust, and fury at the spectacle of the abyss of evil. *They* can sentimentalise and romanticise the murder of a man followed by the same-day rape of his widow; *we* do not, we see crime piled on crime.
Anthony Connor says
Dear DDA:
Spot on, as usual. I seriously doubt that if letters were written to the newspapers along the lines that you suggested, they would be published.
Citizen Warrior says
On Michael s Facebook Page he has received Death Threats…I wonder if the Australian Federal Police are following up on that?
I protested to the Radio station when I first read about this, to little avail; i’m sure
they will just ignore protesters and carry on as usual…
Brian Hatherly says
Smith is perfectly right…..a fifty+ year old having sex with a 9 year old girl is paedophile no matter how you look at it
Re-instate Smith.he said the truth..Mohammed is not a diety
never has been never will be
lisa says
I am sick and tired of the discussions about the quran ,it shouldn’t be a discussion at all, Australia is NOT an Islamic country ,stop giving them all that attention in the media
Cindy Mccoy says
What the hell!!!! Get fired for speaking the truth???? Oh, I see the islamic people don’t want you to speak at all!!!! Who the hell do these people think they are??? If they want to run things in their country that is fine, I never plan on going there!!!! But don’t come here and tell us how and what to say things. This is America, not the middle east. If you want things to be like they are in the middle east……. then go to the middle east and stay there!!!!
kikorikid says
Correct, They don’t want us to speak at all. They are
Totalitarian-Supremacist Islamic Jihadis. They demand
your silence. You silence is “Sharia Compliant”, say
anything, you are not “Sharia Compliant”, you have
committed “Blaspheme”, therefore, “I KEEEEEEL You! (Jeff.D)
Carolyne says
While we still have free speech, and who knows how long that will be the case, we shoud shout it from the rooftops : Your prophet was a fraud. A warlord who raped children. Nothing more. A charlatan who acquired a rag-tag group of losers who looted, killed and raped. How disgusting that anymore would wish to emulate him.