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Germany finds 1500 cases of child marriage among Muslim migrants

Apr 7, 2017 7:42 pm By Robert Spencer

What exactly did the Germans expect? 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.

“Germany Moves To Ban Child Marriages After Finding 1500 Cases Among Refugees,” by Jacob Bojesson, Daily Caller, April 5, 2017:

The German government agreed on a proposal Wednesday to outlaw child marriages after finding more than 1,500 cases of immigrant minors having adult spouses.

The Central Register of Foreign Nationals has documented a surge in child marriages in recent years. As of July 2016, 1,500 minors of non-German background were registered as married, including 361 under the age of 14.

The largest group of child brides, 664 minors, come from Syria followed by Afghanistan and Iraq….

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  1. The Confessions says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    Child marriage occurs in Islam because of the Sunna of Mohammed.

    =================================
    https://theconfessionsweb.wordpress.com

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 10:25 pm

      Child marriages occur in Islam because Muslim men are nothing more than gonads on the hoof.

      • Katnis says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 4:10 pm

        Ha. Awesome comment.

    • billdeserthills says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 3:54 am

      If Germany began deporting the men for child marriage it would eventually hafta stop

      • Michael says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 4:03 am

        they should be arrested and tried and sentenced for rape. because that’s what it is if they are under the legal age in Germany. of course Muslims want ‘co-existing’ legal systems. when the law doesn’t apply to everybody, then we are f’d, and those girls are f’d in every way.

        did they rape a girl in Germany? the hell with their religion — meaning that literally, too. they must abide by the laws of Germany, not their f-ing Sharia law. yes, if they get political control, they can turn Germany into Germanstan or whatever and wave their flag and have their hell in Germany. but until? arrest, try, convict, and send back. let war break out over it if they want it. let’s get this game going while Germany is still Germany — and that goes for the rest of Western civilization.

        • Bob says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 9:54 am

          Like the UK – two legal systems in one country should not be allowed! But try telling that to the PC-bound politicians!

      • Myrtle says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 9:01 pm

        Parents, please, keep your daughters away from these beasts, if you love them and want to keep them safe.

  2. Michael says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    outlawing child marriages … won’t last. they’re Islamophobes … the outcries are already in full force, I’m sure. they’ll recoil, like the gutless non-wonders they are … don’t want to offend the rapists and abusers of children … God forbid — and Allah allow. That dirty, brutal, murderous, lying, violent Allah …

    Outlaw child rape? Oh my Allah! The Koran says it’s okay! This should be cause to burn Germany to the ground! Sharia law for everyone!

    One day, I hope people with half minds and more, go, enough … one day, I hope there is a violent reaction against these f’s who do this. People go, we’re taking our country, our lives, our humanity back …

    Will Germany have the guts to actually do this? Or back down in the face of charges of racism (against an ideology) and Islamophobia — which it’s not, of course. My god, I’m terrified of it. perfectly reasonable. I would be insane to NOT be terrified of what these practitioners of murder and violence are doing, and want to do …

    I always hope for the first real push back against these bastards …. let’s see what happens to their proposal.

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 10:28 pm

      I am stunned that they are talking about banning Muslim child rape (of Muslim children) when they seem totally disinterested in banning rape of German women and children.

      • nicu says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 11:17 pm

        Women and children when ” they live longer here ” as merkel calls Germans – have no worth !!! They only worry about the Muslims — they want to forbid child marriage , but there will be ” exceptions ” WTF ????

        • andra says

          Apr 8, 2017 at 11:22 am

          They are not planning forbidding child marriage in General. They only want to forbid the Muslims marrying children in Germany. But all those who come here with their child wifves are not meant with the new law.
          Merkel and her crew are far too frightened to lose their friends and contributors in Saudi Arabia, Kuweit etc.
          This law is just another “law” to Keep those “who have been living here for longer” calm and make them believe that this government fights against the stoneage views they are importing from all of the world.

  3. bipedant says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    Just one of the many odious aspects that is the fetid miasma known as Islam. The sickening beliefs and savage customs of this evil death cult is obvious to any right minded person. This brutal backward ideology has no place in a progressive civilization.

  4. God's Warrior says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    Miscreants will be miscreants. Thugs will be thugs.

    Our ‘laws’ do not govern them.

    Burning cars, welfare scams, street gang intimidation/assault, polygamy, wife-beating, honour-killing, pedophilia, necrophilia, pimping, murder/rape/slavery/robbery – it’s all halal if they can get away with it.

    They are not here to be citizens. They are here to be our masters. And they are complete idiots, so what does that say about us?

  5. jayell says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    ‘What did the German authorities expect to find’? Yet again Dr. Spencer sets out chapter and verse to reveal the institutional perversion of this pseudo-‘religion’, and yet the redoubtable Teutonic authorities cling on to their cock-eyed-optimist delusions like some flat-earth medieval ecclesiastics. Maybe it’s as well they just ban Dr. Spencer – a few centuries back they’d no doubt be burning him at the stake. One day the penny will drop – when St. Angela falls or gets pushed off her pedestal.

  6. Wellington says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    If only it were just 1500. Tip of the iceberg.

    • Michael says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 9:25 pm

      and will they throw the rapists in jail for following ‘their religion’? will they kiss the ass of Islam again? or will they actually call it for what it is? rape. pedophilia. brutality. and how about ‘wrong’ and ‘evil.’

      ‘oh, we didn’t know what the law was here. um, actually, we don’t follow your law … wait, no, we didn’t know what the law was, you see, and besides, you’re racist white supremacist Islamophobes and isn’t that illegal here and everywhere praise be to Allah’ … we should get some variations on that theme.

    • epistemology says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 11:24 pm

      Yes, they’re far more. But the Germans want to close their eyes, as always in history they insist on ignoring obvious facts. The unholy Koran justifies child marriage as the self-appointed prophet is the best of human beings. It’s plain to see but the Germans simply ignore these facts. It’s an Orwellian situation they invite those who’ll end their democracy. Nice future ahead. Some people never learn. But fortunately there are other movements, wait and see.

      Take care dear friend

      • Michael says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 1:10 am

        Well said, epistemology … may massive forces of good with those other movements. Yes, we shall see how this unfolds.

      • Wellington says

        Apr 8, 2017 at 9:18 pm

        You take care too, epistemology. And echoing Michael, well said what you conveyed.

        You know, right now it seems the fate of Europe lies in the hands of Eastern Europeans, like the Hungarians, the Czechs and the Poles. Quite a reversal of the usual course of matters over the centuries where European history is concerned. But wherever a hope of freedom, decency and common sense lie, there one should seize the moment, carpe diem and all that.

        Presently, the optimal place for this “seizure” is not Western Europe but Eastern Europe (minus the Russians, who though brave and possessed of a great artistic and intellectual tradition, should NEVER be counted on whenever freedom and its associates, like a sense of fair play, are in the mix). So, I wish Eastern Europeans well. They, along with America and Israel (you can forget Canada as long as the younger Trudeau is at the helm, with Australia and New Zealand up in the air right now), are the best hope for the preservation that the best mankind has ever produced will, in fact, endure.

        Always good to hear from you. I feel as though we are very close friends even though we have never met. Perhaps some day we will. I’d like that.

  7. mortimer says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    Pedophilia disguised as child marriage must be one of the evilest crimes against women.

    • Cynthia in California says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 10:29 pm

      Indeed. Check out Warren Jeffs and the other Fundamentalist LDS creeps in the Twin Cities on either side of the Arizona/Utah state border. You might start with first-person accounts of two women who actually managed to escape: Carolyn Jessop (her book Escape! see more about her at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Jessop) and Ruth Wariner (http://www.ruthwariner.com/), whose books I have read cover to cover in a mixed state of horror and rage.

      This sick cult is the closest thing we in America have to legalized child marriage.

    • G. Oleg says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 10:03 pm

      Exactly!

  8. Cynthia in California says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    My blood ran cold at Ayatollah Khomeini’s injunction, “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.”

    My God. Dios mio. Bozhe moi. Mein Gott. Sacre bleu. And whatever else I can think of.

    I reached menarche in the 8th grade. How on earth would I have dealt with, oh, cooking? coordinating a house? dealing with a man in bed???

    These poor girls. It’s *almost* unbelievable, but then we’ve learned that, in Dar al-Islam, the most awful is usually the most prized.

    • Michael says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 10:29 pm

      The most awful is usually the most prized. A truth about Islam that I will remember. Well said, Cynthia. Thank you

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 7, 2017 at 10:31 pm

      And just think, 90% of these child brides will have been genitally mutilated shortly before their odious husbands begin raping them. Sometimes even the day before.

    • Katnis says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 4:13 pm

      Jeanette – I think I was still playing with barbie dolls when I was 9 years old. I wouldn’t know what to do either. It’s dreadful to think about and I thank God that this was not my situation. We are lucky women.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 9:00 pm

      Islam is an excuse for every disgusting impulse of men to become a religious duty.

  9. tedh754@gmail.com says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    why do they even care? just submit to islam, become the majority in name only, and adopt sharia law and suffer the consequences. to you, obviously, it is more important to be not thought of as racist than live a free life.

  10. no_one says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    Islam is a satanic cult. Allah is satan.

  11. Paladin says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 1:14 am

    Germany! Wake the F up! You are actively importing pedophiles and sponsoring them with your welfare dollars. Child rape? Polygamy? Tossing gays and Jews off rooftops? Mowing people down with their cars? Morality police in the streets assaulting immodest women?! What more needs to happen before you fight back and say no more?

  12. Manny says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 2:40 am

    I doubt that whatever law Germany comes up with is going to be effective. “Marriages” will go on under the radar. But most likely this law will be over turned when Muslims become a near majority. The Islamification of Europe will go on.

    • Rufolino says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 3:23 am

      Yes indeed, Manny, of course such laws will be overturned when Islam becomes the majority. It’s only a matter of time, the demographics in Europe are now bound to make it happen.

      And at that point, when Islam begins to exploit our democracies against us, the war for the survival of civilisation will begin: the Cross against the Crescent.

  13. Benedict says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 4:49 am

    Once again we have to realize: Die deutschen sind unsere unglück!

  14. Tara says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 5:06 am

    European Islamic apologists are aiding and abetting Islamofascist terrorism. That’s a crime against humanity. They ought to be tried and punished.

  15. Susette says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 9:42 am

    Since these “religious” marriages aren’t legally recognized in Germany, then these moslems are using islam as a cover for pedophilia and rape of minor children. The economic costs are already exorbitant and will grow as these children have children. The emotional, behavioral, domestic violence, and suicide costs are incalculable.

    • plum says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 11:39 am

      not to mention the huge percentage of these individuals who are totally dependent on government
      financial support

      they are funding their own demise

      idiots

  16. Florida Jim says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 10:19 am

    Evil, lying people who rape little boys and girls {Google Mohammad’s past] They use reproduction as a weapon of mass destruction. many wives, many concubines, many whores for a day and every conceivable lie they can concoct to rule every nation they enter legally or illegally. Deport them all and follow the rules of Australia and New Zealand about muslims they have it right the rest are politically correct snowflakes who will one day be beheaded by by these muslim migrants.

  17. plum says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 11:37 am

    the Germans FOUND 1500….probably less than 10% of actual

    • Manny says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 9:54 pm

      Spot on!

  18. Angemon says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 11:54 am

    Only 1500? I guess they’re not looking hard enough…

    The largest group of child brides, 664 minors, come from Syria

    BUT MUH REFUGEES!!!!

  19. Katnis says

    Apr 8, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    Robert Spencer opens his article with the most obvious question: What did the Germans expect?

    Angela Merkel? Anyone? Anyone?

    • Manny says

      Apr 8, 2017 at 9:55 pm

      I really hope she loses.

  20. Lilythewise says

    Apr 9, 2017 at 11:56 am

    This disgusting practice shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere.
    Muslims have no business being in the west.

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