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.
Might all this (and there is much more) acclimate someone to thinking of young children as sexual objects?
“Feds Go Looking for ISIS, Find Child Porn Instead,” by Katie Zavadski, Daily Beast, January 5, 2016:
A North Carolina teen suspected of providing material support to ISIS, Hamas, and a branch of al Qaeda was instead busted for child porn.
In October, federal agents searched 18-year-old Ameer Abu-Hammad’s home and electronic devices seeking evidence that he was providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. When agents confronted Abu-Hammad at college, he asked them if they would also search his phone for “other stuff,” according to a criminal complaint.
“The agents asked him to clarify and soon afterwards, he admitted that he had additionally used the phone to view pornogrpahy online that included minors,” the complaint continues, adding that Abu-Hammad allegedly said he prefered his laptop for adult porn and his phone for kid porn.
“The youngest child he recalled having seen within pornographic images was a child of approximately 9 or 10 years of age,” the complaint said. “Hammad admitted that he had been viewing child pornography for roughly two months.”
Graphic descriptions of the pornography found on Abu-Hammad’s devices note that it featured children as young as six to nine months. Agents said they found approximately 39 images on his devices, featuring mostly young girls.
Agents also say they found a document entitled “Finding Children Sexually Attractive.” The document “explained that being asexually attracted to children does not make you a monster,’ however, sexual contact with children is illegal and child pornography is dangerous and harmful both to the individual with the sexual attraction as well as the children depicted.”
When he was questioned why he allegedly looked at child porn, agents say Abu-Hammad responded, “Because I have problems.”…
“You know they’re executing journalists so they can stop US airstrikes and arming kurds?” he allegedly wrote after American journalist Steven Sotloff was beheaded by ISIS. “& they claim that those journalists are spreading lies against the Islamic State. But what do i know? Im [sic] only a Jabhat al Nusra fan.”…
In another post, he allegedly declared that he has “no problem” with “recklessly switching to my extremist side.”
“I’m an Islamic knight not a fucking nerd!!” he wrote….
According to the complaint, this may have meant a desire to go to Syria. It claims he told a presumed ISIS member that he “desire[s] death as much as you desire life.” When the alleged militant seemingly invited him to Syria, Abu-Hammad responded “Soon…. inshallah.”…
“ISIS are a group of pissed off Muslims, whether you like it or not,” he allegedly wrote February 2015 in response to a video of an ISIS execution. “& even if they are misguided or brutal, its [sic] haram to ally yourself with the kuffar against them.”…

Chabuco says
Mohammed? Pedohammed!
Jane Fant says
Just like Mohammed, Ameer Abu-Hammad is a pedophile! Aren’t most of them?
Shane says
His defense should be that he is a good Muslim and Islam allows Muslim men to have intercourse with 9 year old girls. Let’s see how the courts handle that defense.
Bezelel says
“In another post, he allegedly declared that he has “no problem” with “recklessly switching to my extremist side.”” I’m not even going to make an amateur diagnosis of this dude. It doesn’t take a pro to see something dreadfully wrong. If he was a Christian the MSM/enemedia would be on it 24/7. This guy is of the protected class of people, which only encourages more of the same. How many more of his clones do we walk past unknowingly in our daily routines? Not a good time to disarm.
خَليفة says
One has to wonder, does Islam make its male followers pedophiles ? Islam teaches the ideal man had a 6 year old bride, condones “thighing” of infants and sex with young women. Does Islam, thru some twisted process transform normal males into pedophiles?
Or are pedophiles drawn to Islam because it condones child/infant sex. If you don’t already know there is no minimum age of a female to get marry or have sex in Islam.
In either case Islam is a sexually perverse belief system.
Oliver says
Since he told the agents to search his phone-hopefully recorded- send him to the general population of a good prison; doesn’t matter the sentence. He will probably have an accident in a week. A fatal accident.
AND NOBODY SAW ANYTHING; HE WAS ALONE.
Could not happen to a better college student. And probably not paying any tuition and getting a Pell grant and student aid.
Karen says
So the tough talking ‘Islamic knight’ (snicker) is just a disgusting perv. Dope.
vcragain says
“The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage”
You know what they never say is that the reason these men like this nonsense is because they love the idea of raping a virgin, and the smaller that child’s body orifice is the more they are thrilled by the idea –
it is the DIRT that we women fight against all the time – their physical PLEASURE & EXCITEMENT is what matters – This is so disgusting it makes me vomit. This is the very antithesis of what a religion is supposed to teach – focusing on their bodily functions , not their souls ! This is where DIRTY western males get their kicks too – what is wrong with people that they do not realize that in pursuing stuff like that they are actually destroying their own souls ? You become what you pursue – you will BE what you are teaching your own consciousness to be – if you dabble in disgusting, you will BE disgusting !!!
Angemon says
I imagine that if a non-muslim 18-year-old college student had consensual intercourse with a 17-year-old girl claiming to be older he’d find himself on the frontpage of HUffPo or Salon with the headline “PEDOPHILE RAPIST!!!” faster than he could say “wait, she’s what?”. But I guess “social justice” “warriors” and “progressive” websites have their own priorities…