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.
“A Lebanese student accused of child sexual abuse after marrying a girl, 12, facing 25 years in jail,” by Sarah Crawford, The Daily Telegraph, October 9, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):
A LEBANESE student who married a 12-year-old girl faces a maximum jail term of 25 years after pleading guilty to persistent sexual abuse of a child.
The 26-year-old, who can’t be named to protect the girl’s identity, pleaded guilty via a video link from Villawood Detention Centre to Burwood Local Court this morning.
He originally faced 25 charges of sexual intercourse with a child after marrying the girl in a religious ceremony at her 62-year-old father’s Hunter Valley home in January.
Prosecution, however, withdrew the 25 charges today and replaced it with one count of persistent sexual abuse of a child.
Outside of court a crown solicitor, who declined to give her name, said the one charge encompassed the individual counts and did not “lessen” the seriousness of the offence.
It is alleged the student met the girl through her father, a Muslim convert, while attending a mosque.
The student was arrested after he tried to apply to become the girl’s legal guardian at a Centrelink office in February.
The girl’s father has been committed to stand trial for procuring a child for sex and accessory before the fact to sexual intercourse with a child.
The Muslim cleric who performed the marriage ceremony was fined $500 after pleading guilty to the offence of solemnisation of a marriage by an unauthorised person….
Michael Copeland says
“We are Muslim. We are different.
The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors”,
Saudi national Homaidan Al-Turki, convicted in Colorado for keeping a sex slave.
It is victimization and bigotry, you see.
Charli Main says
“The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviours”,
Of course !!! lets not upset the Muslims.
Sex with animals and dead women should be de- criminalised for Muslims.
After all, they have the democratic “human right” to practice their religion. Anything else would be Islamophobic and religious and racial bigotry.
Nicu says
Exactly ! Muslims are upset for everything : crosses in Christian countries for example .
The worst ideology next to the Nazis !
They want tolerance but are not willing to accept others : obsolete !
No space for them in our world and the 21st century !
Jovial Joe says
There should be no freedom of religion but instead freedom of belief. That way if your belief is criminal and you act on it you can be duly prosecuted. None of this ‘it’s my right to practice my religion’ crap.
Christine Godinet says
As a Christian, I have to say that I agree with you Jovial Joe, especially when, in the name of a religion people are being murdered, raped, abused, little girls are being sold into marriage, animals are being brutally killed and no go zones are being set up – and this is in Western Nations.
Every one should be free to believe as they want, unless that belief incites violence to others, including animals and that violence is acted on.
It amazes me how Western Nation leaders are bowing down to everything this evil, sadistic and pre medievil religious cult are demanding, (part of the deception of course), even claiming they have added great things to the very fabric of our society, (Like what, I’d like to know? If they checked out the history of Islam they would see that all they have ever added is destruction and violence), allowing them to set up Nazi loving organisations on school campuses that allow students to call for death and violence to Jews and hail hitler, and to march through major cities with a mannequin of a woman hanging on the back of a truck, and yet they have even passed laws where Christians can’t wear necklaces with crosses on to work, or take Bibles to school to read if they chose, and even taking out books written by Christians authors from school libraries. Bet the Koran is still there with it’s call to violence and hatred.
I can barely believe that this religion that sets everything the west fought and died for back to the 1st century and before, (check out the Assyrians in the Bible – a mirror image of Islam), is being given such a foothold.
People need to rise up and say ENOUGH.
jacksmith says
i want to start a religeon where bigotry is the topic. where you can practice bigotry in the safety of you fellow bigotrists. you can complain about different religeons, and spread your belief about said religeon, when a muslim or a christian complains about our religeon, we have them arrested for opposing our religeon, in which we have the right to judge people any way we see fit, as long as we do not act on this judgement.
btw i think that belving in something is not a religeon until you build your life around that which you praise
PGuud says
BEN AFFLECK says: How about more than a billion people [Muslims] who aren’t marrying 12-year-old girls? Huh?! Whattaya gotta say to that?! HUH?!! Gotcha, punks! I know what I’m talkin’ about. I’M BEN AFFLECK, for cryin’ out loud!!
And Hollywood extols this POS.
Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.
Jaladhi says
Where is the Western media defending the “Muslim values”?? They must be Islamophobic!! Oh, those poor Muslims they are just emulating their god Mo/allah! What’s wrong with that?? Don’t they have freedom of following their religion? LOL…
R Davis says
WELL DONE ROBERT SPENCER !
Great Article :
The Independent Thursday 9. 2014
Meet Thea, Norway’s 12- year old child bride.
An estimated 39.000 child brides are married every day.
60% of girls will marry before their 18 birthday.Dramatically affecting their health & life opportunities.
ioLnews September 15. 2014
Dhaka – Bangladesh approves child marriage laws.
Dhaka – Bangladesh on Monday approved a law setting a 2 – year jail term for anyone involved in marrying a girl aged under 18 years of age.
The responsible GROWNUP people from all over the world & there are many of them are working tirelessly to stop the practice of giving girls away so as to become some mans comfort & chief cook & bottle washer in life.
THESE GIRLS ARE THOUGHT OF & TREATED LIKE THE HEIFER IN THE BARN.
R Davis says
The police need to roundup everyone else who was involved in the arrangement of this marriage – including the parents of the girl.
They all need to be charged & sent to prison for a while, so as to show everyone in Australia that WE MEAN BUSINESS.
When Australians visit other countries over seas – we hope & expect that they respect the traditions of the host nation in a civilized way.
Therefore I have the same expectations of anyone who comes to Australia.
Find out what can & cannot happen in Australia & if it does not suite your customs & way of life, Australia may not be the ideal destination for you.
Think about it.
GP says
Muslims are a protected species, they will bring their culture to Australia and force it down your throat, and they have. Tolerance, and the right not to be offended? I am offended when I see women in full burkas and others wearing the hijab and muslim men with their wild eyes, unkept facial hair, and fanatical frenzy. If you know what they believe in and what “their bible” the Koran commands them to do, how could you not be “Islamophobic”, it is just common sense and self preservation. However, Obola has rolled out the red carper for them in the US.
Jen says
“Muslim men with their wild eyes.” LOL. You mean perverted, rape-y eyes?
I used to live next to a mosque and whenever I’d walk past and there were groups of Muslim men gathered outside, waiting for their mosque service to start, they would leer at you in this repulsive manner and sometimes make sick comments. The way I dress is fairly typical of a western women. Not baggy and long outfits like *their* women, but not extremely tight or revealing of anything either. Muslims are always making comments about how western women are “wh*res” or “uncovered meat.” I can only imagine that their Islamic views of women inform their behaviour. Look at poor Sweden- over 1,000 women raped in Stockholm by Muslim immigrants in the first 7 months of 2013 – over 300 under the age of 15.
They say their women should cover themselves for their own “protection.” I can almost believe it. That’s because their men have a reputation for behaving worse than animals!
Jen says
http://www.dailystormer.com/immigration-has-made-sweden-the-rape-capital-of-the-world/
Milva says
You are absolutely right!
ts says
According to the Shiites, Aisha poisoned and so murdered “the perfect man”, the Prophet himself.
Aisha was not punished for that glorious deed and remained highly regarded all her life for her wisdom.
So one can conclude that all underage Muslim girls, forced to marry older men, can just do the same without punishment, if unsatisfied.
That story ought to be told more often.
Darcyward says
These muslim perverts have been at it in the west forever! When I lived in London 2008-2014 they unearthed several Pakistani Muslim pedophile rings who were only abusing young white British girls all who were wooed with drugs car rides and clothes.. These youngsters were all at risk girls which made them throw always in UK society… When the first story broke in 09 I wasn’t surprised at all what surprised me is finding out the police knew of this one gangs activities for years but were fearful of arrest and name and blaming these animals for fear of human rights thugs calling them bigots racists and my personal favorite islamaphobe! This UK govt pisses its self when they find major crimes that go on in those enclaves …weirdly enough they label these savages as “Asian males” to get away without say the M WORD! Sickening but true! Also there when Trojan horse scandle broke.. That muslim extremist were being put in charge of secular schools and forcing the veil and Virial jihadist doctrine down children’s throats…again no arrests but an enquiry …. It’s since gotten huge and so many school are found to be rag head run with all the ideology that now now the govt is timidly investigating.. Again no arrests deportation nada… And we’re a close second behind this craven country! Deport deport deport! Impeach impeach impeach!
Salah says
“The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for…a pedophile.”
The truth about Muhammad is out of the bottle, no jihadist can save Islam anymore. Islam *is* falling, it’s just a matter of time.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/03/pedophile-muhammad-mahomet-le-pedophile.html
saturnine says
Islam may be crumbling, but its toxic effect on societies will linger for many generations. Here’s a recent article about attitudes in modern Egypt which are both dismaying and cartoonishly absurd.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/tales-trash
Michael Copeland says
This is the state case:
“There is no law in Australia that is above Australian law.”
Sydney police, prosecuting muslim for having 12-year-old “wife”
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/02/07/australia-lebanese-muslim-man-in-jail-for-illegally-marrying-a-13-year-old-australian-girl/#comments
This is the muslim case:
“If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land.”
–Mustafa Carroll, Texas, Council on American Islamic Relations
http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/we-are-above-the-law-of-the-land/
The law of the land has to prevail.
mariam rove says
The Muslim cleric who performed the marriage ceremony was fined $500 after pleading guilty to the offence of solemnisation of a marriage by an unauthorised person….
That is it! He is the one who should go to jail for 25 years as well. M
islamisdeath says
My thoughts as well. He will do it again.
R Cole says
Engaging in the various Islamic marriage practises – I would have thought – for western converts – would be like going down the rabbit hole.
Such as first cousin marriages: – would a westerner convert – permit their child to be married to their first cousin?
For western society – this kind of marriage is one of the high taboos.
Then there is the marriage of a child: – where those from parts of the Islamic world may be confused – a westerner would be in no doubt that this would be a criminal act.
Indonesia does not respect child marriages – an Imam who ran an Islamic school – took one of the little girls for his second/ third wife – was jailed.
He was in his thirties at least – and the older wife #2 ca. – looked no more than 17-18 yrs.
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Aisha was never able to bear children — physical ‘maturity’ was no doubt a factor.
One Yemeni girl of 12 years – bled to death within a few short days of her marriage – to a man in his 20’s.
Ralph says
And meanwhile, here in Australia, the Muslimism in their Slave Rags, poor little petals, are squealing and whining and trying to make out that they are so terribly, terribly persecuted.
What it boils down, so far as I can determine from the reports in the press, is that a lot of them (quite rightly) have been getting looked at funny, and some of them have been directly verbally challenged, or are finding that people steer warily clear of them in public because of their flaunting of their badges of membership in The Allah Gang, the Beheading Gang (it doesn’t seem to occur to them that people may be avoiding them, because of wondering whether a beheading knife is lurking in the handbag or under that voluminous garment); there *may* have been one episode that would qualify as an actual assault; but not *one* of them has suffered anything anywhere *near* the appalling mistreatment that Muslims are dishing out to non-Muslims all over the world right now.
Given that in the US and in the UK there have been, now, in the past year and a bit, three cases in which non-Muslims – one off-duty soldier, and two women, one very elderly – were simply *pounced upon* by Muslims in public, in broad daylight, in the street, in the workplace, and in the back garden, and beheaded, and with Islamic State crowing and threatening and beheading hostage after hostage, I think that non-Muslims are fully justified in steering clear of – and keeping a cool and beady eye upon – such uniformed members of the Allah Gang as might be encountered in the daily round.
I guess in some ways the fact that so many Muslims insist on wearing their Gang Uniform makes it easier to keep an eye on them…It’s the ones *not* in the uniform but still fully committed to the Gang’s goals and methods, who are the most dangerous, because not so plainly visible.
ANSWER…
When I said, the ones not in uniform, I was thinking first and foremost of when one is walking down the street or ambling through the local shopping centre (mall) or stepping onto a bus or train, surrounded by strangers.
A person in allah gang uniform – a man in beard and pajamas and Muslim cap, or similar, or a woman in some variant of the Slave Rag (especially the full-on versions, rather than a mere headscarf that, if lightly wrapped with some head-hair still visible, is *no different* from what an orthodox Jewish lady might wear, or an elderly Greek granny) – is easy to see and recognize as part of the Mohammedan Mob. And one can therefore exercise due caution.
But what I was thinking of where the Nu’aym bin Mas’uds: the men (or women, for that matter) from whatever background (**including “white” background**) who have converted to Islam but have chosen *not* to reveal their new allegiance.
Who are flying entirely undercover, for whatever reason?
Suppose Samantha Lewthwaite doffed the slave rag, put on normal western woman’s street clothing, did her hair and makeup and then was sitting on the bus next to you. Unless you’d recently looked at her “Before Islam” mug shots…would you recognize her?? How could you possibly tell she was a Muslim?
Remember: what I’m thinking about here is Joe Blow in the street or in the mall, on the bus or on the train, looking at the people in the vicinity. If a western convert to Islam is *not* wearing the gang uniform, and they walk past you in the street or sit next to you on the bus – *how will you even know who they are*, in that sort of situation? Until and unless they attack you or someone else, you have NO WAY of knowing.
And, reality check, you also *can’t* just assume everyone you see in the street who is “brown” or “black” is a Muslim, because, mate, many of the sons of Jacob look *EXACTLY* like the sons of Ishmael (I noticed this when looking at pictures of Israeli Jewish soldiers killed in the recent skirmish in Gaza; the *only* difference – and it isn’t one you would necessarily pick at forty paces – is the expression in the eyes, for everything else, bone structure, coloring, is very, very similar; which is *why* Muslim men, **in Israel** have been able to “pass” as observant- Jewish men in order to sucker Israeli girls into marrying them and then – SURPRISE!). Put a clean shaven Arab Muslim and a secular Jew in standard western street clothes and you’re not going to be able to pick one from the other at 100 paces or even fifty paces, *unless* perhaps you make eye contact and get a nasty vibe off one but not off the other.
A tall slim black woman in ordinary street dress might be a devout Christian like Mrs. Daniel Wani, or a secular or Christian black American (fifth or sixth generation American) or she might be a Muslim who’s not wearing her Slave Rag. How are you going to tell in ten seconds at forty paces?
Here in Australia we’ve got Copts and Assyrian Christians and Lebanese Christians; not all of them signaling their identity by a cross pendant, etc. Ditto Hindus: not all wear the bindi or other religious “badge”.
Suppose a Muslim from Egypt, Iraq or Lebanon, or from India/ Bangladesh/ Pakistan/ Fiji doesn’t wear the Gang Uniform; *you* tell me how you’re going to distinguish the latter from the former, say a Copt from an Egyptian Muslim or a South Asian Hindu from a South Asian Muslim, not in conversation, not in the workplace, but from among strangers casually passing you in the street.
*That’s* the specific context I had in mind when I said the non-uniformed members of the allah gang are more dangerous than the uniformed members; because you *really can’t spot them quickly and easily when out among the general public*.
No Fear says
Comment from an Australian (me):
“Book him Danno !”
Christine Godinet says
The fact that the cleric was only fined $500 is astounding. He initiated the wedding and he should have been the one to say – NO – this is not happening.
He is as guilty as the parents and took part in the crime as much as they and the student did.
$50,000 or $500,000 would have been more to the point. At least they would think long and hard before they did it again.
$500 is neither here nor there. Hang – the tax we, the non-muslims, pay to have most food certified as Halal for their benefit is probably used to pay those kind of fines – so pretty much – we’re paying his fine.
Just what the Muslim’s think should happen.
Jerry says
Sounds like Australian Islamophobia.
After all the Caravan Robber, Slave Hunter and Trader, Murderer, Rapist, Torturer and Paedophile who became the self proclaimed Prophet and the Perfect Example of an Islamic pretend to be “Human Being” married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage by repeatedly raping her since she was nine,
so how dare the Australian Islamophobes interfer with such righteous and honourable raping tradition when the victim in this case an already old lady of 12?
Holly Qur’an indeed.
pumbar says
Or “wholly Qur’ap”.
fair_dinkum says
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/norways-12yearold-child-bride-thea-has-gone-viral/story-fnixwvgh-1227086576221
clever
Ralph says
If he likes young girls this much; than send him on to allah for the 72 virgins… This way you will not have to feed the B@$TARD…
Fred says
Mormons marry that young . Ask Mutt Rom$ey
mhash says
Paedophiles sheltering themselves thru religion.
marshallchare says
Child marriages are not sex slavery. Minors can consent to sexuality. They do it all the time with one another in modern society because there are no other legal option for them. So it’s legal for ‘children’ or minors to engage in sex with one another and the possibility for consent is acknowledged. This possibility does not disappear based on the age of the couple and needs to be acknowledged for adult minor relationships. Not acknowledging consensual sexuality for minors is ageism bias and a direct result of liberal feminism.
http://egomoral.com/feminism-and-age-of-consent-laws-in-modern-culture/
Dave says
Far worse than the beheadings of terrorists, far worse than the misdeeds of a group of fanatics which truly don’t represent mainstream Islam and far worse than any sayings and Hadiths condemning the Prophet of God Muhammad of child sexual abuse, God forbid, is the shameless racist attacks against 2 billion innocent people belonging to the Islamic Faith who neither accept nor condone what you attribute to them.
Deliberate intention to stir up hatred against 2 billion people is a far heinous crime against humanity than anything we’ve seen from a handful of fanatics. It’s easy to condemn 2 billion people when one is arrogant, proud and filled with utter ignorance that those 2 billion people have no interest whatsoever in terrorism and are sincere good people and deserve our welcome and friendship.
History is replete with how Islam brought benefits to humanity if one cares to read about it but I suspect people filled with hate against 2 billion people who want to lump them with a handful of fanatics wouldn’t give credit where it’s due.
Documents about Aisha are not historically proven documents and there is no factual legal report upon which to base these felicitous claims other than Hadiths which carry no authority except to the person who believes in them. Hadiths are not authenticated and not an authoritative source of information and should not be relied upon to accuse someone. Muhammad was a Prophet that was prophesied in the Bible yet Christians who oppose Him ridicule Him not knowing by doing so they ridicule their own Bible. The priests and Mullas are the false prophets of religion and it is their blindness that has corrupted it not the Prophets Themselves. Blame the Mullas and priests but Muhammad and Christ are free from blame.
I am neither Christian nor Muslim but I accept both as from the same God and will not stoop to condemning 2 billion people and their Faith and Holy Book, who are INNOCENT! because of some fanatics. Christ taught love and so did Muhammad. Don’t forget the papal wars and the inquisition here if you want to talk about religious wars and violence. Christians beheaded and burned at the stake also so those who’ve got blood on their hands shouldn’t be so eager to jump,on the bandwagon of condemning Muslims when their own Faith is replete with violence that matches if not exceeds ISIS.
attempting to turn west against East is the worst crime anyone could possible commit as it is creating lasting hate and prejudice towards completely innocent people and don’t ISIS do just that?? Then why follow their example??
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