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 all right, 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.
“Lost childhood and education: Child marriages in Bangladesh,” by Sumon Corraya, Asia News, December 6, 2016:
Dhaka (AsiaNews) – “I lost my childhood, I wanted to go to school. I loved studying, but my parents received a good proposal and organized the wedding despite my opposition”, Sumi Akter, 17 year old Muslim girl married off when she was 14 tells AsiaNews. Hers is one of many cases of child marriage, a scourge that afflicts the whole of Bangladesh society.
Poverty and traditional Islamic culture are the main factors driving families to arrange marriage for girls at an early age. The phenomenon cuts across all religious communities, except for Catholics who do not support early marriages.
The practice is especially widespread in the Islamic community. Sumi today is the mother of a two year old, has two sisters and two brothers. She said that her father, a simple worker, “could not carry on maintaining the family. So they made me marry hiding my real age. ” She risked her life at birth, due to severe bleeding. She’s was care of, but the child was born under-weight and has had several problems. For all these reasons, she says, “I strongly oppose the passage of the law authorizing the marriages before age 18”.
The reference is to a law approved last month by the Dhaka authorities. According to the draft of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act – 2016, the juvenile marriages will be permitted only in “special circumstances”, such as “accidental or illegal pregnancies”, so as “to save the honor of the girl.”
According to current provisions, the legal age for marriage is 21 years for males and 18 for females. Several activists complain that the bill would legalize forced marriages to repair for pregnancies that are the result of sexual violence, which is widespread in the country.
Official figures show that Bangladesh is the Asian country with the highest rate of child brides. 52% of brides are under 18 years old and 18% under 15 years old….

Allan says
That was a timely reminder that Islam is a child molester religion. And it’s still true that Labour, the “Liberals”, the Democrats, and so on are eager to patronize the child molester religion. Their opponents to the right should not hesitate to reinforce the association every day.
Saleem Smith says
Unfortunately child molestation is permitted in Islamic theology and law. If Muhammad did it, then it is okay according to Muslim theologians. We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty know that Mohammedanism is a fraud.
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
Islam the religion of killers says
“52% of brides are under 18, 18% under 15”
This should go down well in Germany with “Berlin’s New Secretary of State is Pro-Sharia Law Conservative Muslim,” as in the previous post,
The sexy looking gorgeous “Muslim rising star of German politics Sawsan Chebli” doesn’t know what she has missed out on ….
Blangwort says
More to the point: how old are the husbands of those “brides?”
Damocles Junior says
I think we should look at this whole issue in terms of the following;
1, The low life expectancy in Bangladesh
2, The lack of any real employment or educational opportunities in Bangladesh
3, The need to form some sort of economic unit as in a family.
BUT, They will have continue to have unsustainable population increase including individual large families so as to have someone to look after the parents in their old age.
Because of the population explosion and general poverty in this poverty ridden hell hole they will want to emigrate to the West, the English Midlands in particular as well as Canada, USA and Australia.It is bad enough having them come here but they should not be permitted to bring these customs with them, that is child brides and arranged marriages often to family members. Obey our laws or be deported.
If they want to maintain tradition way back in Bangladesh that is OK, perhaps the feminists can go there and try and sort it out for them. (Ha ha)
gravenimage says
With respect, DJ, I don’t think any of those social issues explain *child rape*. Instead, it is Islam that sacralizes pedophilia on the model of the vicious “Prophet”.
gravenimage says
Child marriage widespread in Bangladesh: 52% of brides are under 18, 18% under 15
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Pedophilia is rife in Islam, and all on the model of the foul “Prophet”.
Rod says
Most of those child marriages are probably to first cousins and nieces.
f c king says
Hopefully, Hussein Obama won’t do any behind the scene mass immigration visa give aways to this wonderful lot, before we are rid of him.
Angemon says
Assuming her more devout coreligionists don’t kill her first… Anyway, “illegal pregnancies”? What circumstances make a pregnancy “illegal”?
gravenimage says
And in many cases this is rape, and the girl is required to *marry her rapist*.
dumbledoresarmy says
OFFTOPIC, but I’m posting this at the ‘leading edge’, in this and several other of the most recent threads, in hopes of reaching more people quickly.
There is a prayer vigil being held in Sydney tomorrow (Aussie time), 13 December, in connection with the recent atrocity committed by Muslims against Copts – the bombing of a church in Egypt.
SHOUTOUT TO MY FELLOW AUSSIE JIHADWATCHERS.
If you live in Sydney, and if you are reading this anytime before midday 13th December 2016, you have an opportunity to step forward and show solidarity with our persecuted fellow Infidels in Egypt.
In the wake of this latest mass-murderous attack upon Copts, by Muslims, in Egypt, the Coptic community in Sydney, Australia, is holding a *prayer vigil* tomorrow evening (Aussie time) – 5 to 7 pm on the evening of Tuesday 13 December, at their church in Bexley, southwest Sydney.
Here is an exact copy of all relevant details of the Event, as advertised by the Coptic Diocese of Sydney and Affiliated Regions.
“”Participation in the Prayer Vigil for the 25 Christians killed and 35 injured in the blast following the explosion that hit St Peter’s Coptic Orthodox Church next to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbassia – Egypt on Sunday 11 December 2016 during the Holy Mass
“Dear Beloved,
The Coptic Orthodox Dioese of Sydney & Affiliated Regions is deeply saddened by the explosion that hit St Peter’s Coptic Orthodox Church next to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbassia – Egypt on Sunday 11 December 2016 during the Holy Mass killing 25 Copts and 49 injured in the blast
“HG Bishop Daniel has called for a Prayer Vigil and invited Politicians & Leaders of Churches from all denominations to support in sharing in the grief of the Coptic Orthodox Church globally.
“HG Bishop Daniel would appreciate it very much if you could attend the Prayer Vigil on Tuesday 13 December 2016 at St Mary & St Mina Cathedral – Bexley [suburb of Sydney] from 4:00PM to 7:00Pm
“Following the Prayer Vigil, HG Bishop Daniel and the Reverend Fathers will accept condolences for the Martyrs of the Coptic Orthodox Church from 7:00-9:00 pm.
“Then together with the congregation HG Bishop Daniel and the Reverend Fathers will pray the midnight prayers and tasbeha from 9:00 – 11:00 pm.
“Your participation is very much appreciated.
Thank you
“Please pray for us
“Secretariat
Coptic Orthodox diocese of Sydney & Affiliated Regions”
If you can possibly manage to be there – whether you identify as a Christian, or whether you identify as atheist, or as Jewish, Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist – then: be there.
Show solidarity with our suffering fellow infidels. Hug the Copts and let them know you know what is happening. Let them know that you feel both grief and anger.
The larger and broader the attendance at this event by persons who are not Copts but, rather, average Aussies of all stripes, the louder will be the message sent to our Aussie authorities, a message indicating that they ought to apply whatever pressure they can, to the Egyptian government… and also, a message indicating that we are more than willing to offer asylum to *Copts* who want to leave Egypt, and that we would *much rather* admit Copts, than their Muslim persecutors, oppressors and murderers.
This event should be *packed out*. The Copts there should be outnumbered ten to one by their supporters, by fellow Infidels offering condolences and encouragement.
gravenimage says
I hope all good Infidels who can make it go to show their support!
claudia leone says
Mohammad can easily be a finctional character.
If there is so great insistance about aisha’s age in the hadiths (though some seem to make her older) then such hadiths have been most likely created to JUSTIFY pedophilia. It wasn’t normal and it has never been … but powerful pedos needed some laws to justify their acts .
gravenimage says
I don’t think it really much matters whether Muhammed was a historical figure or not–Muslims believe he was, and commit all sorts of savagery–including child rape–on the model of the “Prophet”.
claudia leone says
According to current provisions, the legal age for marriage is 21 years for males and 18 for females.
what makes males so precious that they need to wait 3 more years to marry? lol
Florida Jim says
The civilized world calls it child abuse Muslims call i love or directed by Mohammad. The muslims only deserve other muslims and why pretend otherwise.