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Australia: Muslim pleads guilty to marrying 14-year-old girl

Apr 20, 2017 10:36 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Did you know that a 14-year-old child can legally marry in New York State?

Child marriages are happening all over the West because of numerous loopholes. Child brides are a norm in many Muslim states, and when appalling incidents such as the one reported below leak out, they serve as a reminder of how much Islamic doctrine has spread and taken root in the West, where women should be safe and protected by universally accepted principles of human rights. Women and young girls suffer the most under sharia — a fact that Western feminists pretend doesn’t exist.

“Melbourne man pleads guilty to marrying 14yo bride in wedding at Noble Park”, ABC News Australia, April 18, 2017:

A 34-year-old Melbourne man has cried in court while pleading guilty to illegally marrying a 14-year-old bride in an Islamic wedding last year.

Mohammad Shakir pleaded guilty to going through a formal ceremony of marriage with a person not of marriageable age at Noble Park last September.

The “wedding” was conducted by former imam Ibrahim Omerdic.

As part of Shakir’s plea, two charges were withdrawn by prosecutors in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

They included allegations Shakir had sex with the girl between September 30 and October 1, following their wedding.

Shakir, who has been in custody for six months, shed tears after entering his plea during what was to be a pre-trial committal hearing.

He was helped in court by a Burmese interpreter.

The complainant, who was in court, also wiped tears from her eyes.

Imam charged over child marriage
Omerdic, 61, is charged with conduct that caused a minor to enter into a forced marriage.

The Muslim cleric, who was Imam of the Bosnian Islamic Society and Noble Park Mosque, has since been sacked.

At the time, the Board of Imams Victoria issued a statement against forced and child marriages.

“Underage marriages are illegal in Australia. As Australian Muslims we are required to observe and respect the laws of Australia,” the statement said.

The board said imams should meet both the bride and groom in person before the marriage ceremony to ensure they are of marriageable age and both consented……

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  1. Paul N Silas says

    Apr 20, 2017 at 1:13 pm

    As there are many who understand Islamic law on this site, I have a question.

    How many goats do I offer a man for one of his daughters?

    I know not funny, which is the point. All human life has value, male and female! Thus females are not to be treated like goats or anything less than the image of God.

    Anything else is barbaric

  2. Allan Mandrowski says

    Apr 20, 2017 at 1:51 pm

    What the feck is going on in Australia. I remember visiting Sydney and Melbourne 10 years ago and hardly saw any muslims. Now it seems to be rife with the vermin.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Apr 21, 2017 at 1:04 am

      When I lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, two Iraqi immigrant men were convicted of marrying underage girls (about the same age as in the Australian case). The men professed no understanding that these marriages were not legal in the US. The men went to prison.

      It is difficult to acculturate muslims to civilized countries.

  3. Romans says

    Apr 20, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    The Qur’an and Islamic laws were written for pedophiles to perform what their darkened hearts desire

  4. JMB says

    Apr 20, 2017 at 5:26 pm

    I am sure that this prosecution just represents the “tip of the iceberg”. Yes, the Islamic authorities here make a lot of statements condemning this sort of thing (as well as terror) and try and let us know that Muslims obey Australian laws. The reality of course is quite different, many Muslims here refuse to even obey traffic laws, like why should we have to have a Driver Licence.

    My understanding is that most child marriages hat happen in Australia are solemnised back in the Middle East. Then of course there is still the matter of having a sexual relationship with a child, even in marriage it will be totally against Australian laws.

    Our PM, has made it clear that migrants to Australia will need to comply with Australian values, sorry Mr PM, how do you enforce this, best they don’t come here in the first place.

  5. Lilythewise says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    Australia should simply deport Muslims. Muslims seem to cause trouble everywhere they go.

  6. Jeanette says

    Apr 21, 2017 at 7:10 pm

    This must have been a “mercy marriage,” because the bride is very long in the tooth for a Muslim man’s taste.

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