Few aspects of Islam that contradict Western laws and principles of human rights 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.
The imam tells the girl to obey the laws of Islam. He doesn’t say anything about Australian law. How likely is it that any of the people involved in this marriage will become loyal, productive citizens of Australia’s secular society?
“Shocking moment a girl, 14 ‘marries a Muslim man 20 years older than her in the back room of a mosque – after he paid her family for her with a gold necklace,'” by Jacob Polychronis, Daily Mail Australia, May 22, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
A shocking video shows the moment a 14-year-old girl is allegedly forced to marry a man 20 years older than her at the back of a Melbourne mosque.
The video seized by police from the alleged groom’s phone shows the traditional Islamic ceremony by a prominent Muslim marriage cleric last year.
Imam Ibrahim Omerdic, 62, has faced court accused of forcing a minor to enter marriage.
In video shown in court and obtained by 7 News, a timid teenage girl sits quietly as her groom-to-be signs papers presented by the Imam.
The underage girl’s mother watches on, after the groom allegedly paid to marry her daughter with a $1,480 gold necklace.
The Imam asks the child bride if she takes the man – who she reportedly met only a few days prior – ‘to live together and live according to Islam.’
She answers ‘yes’ and is told by the Imam that as a wife, she now has a duty to ‘obey’ her husband.
Family and Communities Services received 60 reports of illegal ceremonies involving 57 children between 30 December 2014 and January 31 2017, 7 News reported.
A total of 23 children wed in illegal ceremonies were under the age of 16, including four under the age of ten….
marina says
Islam is sickening and so was Mo who started all this.
Roderick MacUalraig says
Yeah, their perfect man, LOL. Muslims are the nastiest people on Earth.
Proud Anti-Islam says
Muslims are NOT people. They are evil beasts.
gravenimage says
Muslims are people. They are just people who have embraced utter evil, and so behave worse than beasts.
VRWC member77 says
Off topic but EXTREMELY important. I hope Robert mentions something about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuOwRx6gX8
gravenimage says
This is shocking, VRWC member77.
It was known how old this Jihadist was at the time–that is why he got life in prison rather than the death penalty. This is bogus.
You can send stories directly to Robert using the “Contact Us” box at the right hand or bottom of this page (depending on screen configuration). I hope Jihad Watch does cover this story.
Benedict says
“How likely is it that any of the people involved in this marriage will become loyal, productive citizens of Australia’s secular society?” –
However, they will become very productive demographically, since they breed like mosquitoes, as Mullah Krekar from Norway put it.
I wonder BTW if it is the kind of mosquitoes that transmit parasites, that the Mullah is talking about?
boakai ngombu says
the parasites of domination and distraction from attaining true “one flesh” union and (at the least) appreciation of one another because of prurient intent, will be passed on.
is there any marriage like this extolled among the brothers?
the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) will be gay as the girl’s youth and will is battered.
and the old man will seek the guidance of muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) to justify his insensitivity to what could’ve been treasured.
James says
Why didn’t the girl have the protection of Australian law ?
TheBuffster says
She does have that protection:
“The video seized by police from the alleged groom’s phone shows the traditional Islamic ceremony by a prominent Muslim marriage cleric last year.
“Imam Ibrahim Omerdic, 62, has faced court accused of forcing a minor to enter marriage.”
But the Muslims who practice child marriage don’t care about Australian law. They practice their own laws and try to keep it to themselves. As long as they live in their own communities among like-minded Muslims, there’s the possibility that they’ll get away with it unless some brave dissenting Muslim rats on them – brave, because if he or she gets found out there will be hell to pay from the stricter community. Or the marriage may come to light through some accidental means.
The growth of tight, closed Muslim communities makes it easier for strict, orthodox Muslims to live by Shariah law as far as is possible in regard to family law and customs (lopping off thieves’ hands or murdering gays, apostates, and adulterers being usually too risky for most).
Nevertheless, some people do rat out child marriage, or it’s found out by other means and goes to court.
What happens after that, however, I’m not sure. I’d like to know what kind of penalty is handed down in these cases, and what happens to the underage girl.
gravenimage says
True, Buffster.
But how many other girls in Australia has this happened to, where police have not found out about such “marriages”? I’m sure it is rife.
Sarah says
“The imam tells the girl to obey the laws of Islam. He doesn’t say anything about Australian law. How likely is it that any of the people involved in this marriage will become loyal, productive citizens of Australia’s secular society?”
They will not become loyal, productive citizens. They never had any intention of this. We all know this. The only people denying this truth are the Greens and the Australian Labor Party and others of their ilk (which often includes The Australian Liberal Party too).
This is why Pauline Hanson has experienced a resurgence. It is why Cory Bernadi left the Liberals and started his own super conservative party. It is why the Labor Party and the Liberal Party continue to bleed votes and support by the Australian people.
The grace period given where they have time to wake up and face the truth is rapidly fading. Accountability for their actions is coming nearer and soon. We will hold these traitorous politiican’s accountable for their actions and the betrayals they commit against our nation.
I notice that Anne Aly (a Labor Party federal MP who is a Muslim and a so-called terror expert) is finally starting to change her tune slightly. This is a woman who has brayed with fury and ire in Parliament at any suggestion of Islam being any sort of threat to Australia. I note that in the last few days ‘Dr’ Aly has started admitting that terrorism is defined with elements of Islam itself.
Its not enough to ever make me vote Left ever again, but its a start.
mortimer says
Close down the mosque and confiscate everything and turn it into a dog kennel.
mortimer says
Pedophilia by another name is still pedophilia.
R Cole says
The feminist would probably put on an Islamic headscarf in the girl’s honor – and call it progressive.
The Left are under orders – it’s mass immigration at all costs and universal values, such as the protection of children is not on the cards any more.
In Germany, children are being sold into marriage as well.
The paradise of diversity it turning out to be a nightmare. If the other, is a Muslim immigrant, it’s carte blanche.
gravenimage says
Video from Australia: Muslim girl, 14, forced to marry man 20 years older
……………………..
Thank goodness the police found this video.
What will happen to the pedophile, the Imam, and the girl’s mother, who sold her daughter for a necklace?
And what will happen the to the girl herself? Certainly, she is not safe with her vile family.
God, I hate Islam.
Lioness says
Filthy, disgusting pedophiles, child molesters. The parents too. And I bet the poor girl had undergone FGM somewher on a kitchen table a few years prior. Child protective service should remove the girl, and the entire lot should be deported to some islamic hellhole, where they belong.
Pong says
Personally I don’t think that every 14 years old girl is the same. I think it is a hypocrisy to accept that it is ok for a 14 y o to be sexually active, as long as her boyfriend is about the same age. Some 14 y o are quite ready to marry physically and mentally. But… the law is the law and if some group ignores the law, it affects all of the society. And what about school? A married or pregnant student is not accepted by law or culture.
The other important question is – was the girl under any kind of pressure to get married, because if she was – another law was broken. Unfortunately, whatever will happen now, the girl will also be a loser.
We must obey the law, but free to criticise one. I don’t have an answer, but something is not right. Religion aside, in some places 14 is ligal age for marriage, in others it is illigal. Sexual promiscuity is a norm with many girls having one or more STD before they reach legal age. By what criteria we make those laws ? Maybe we should leave it to parents and protect the girls the same way as we do from any form of abuse ?