Why? Because child marriage is Islamic.
“Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria
“There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law in many countries permits girls to marry only from the age of 18. This is arbitrary legislation, not Islamic law.” — Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law
There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” — Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council
“Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.” — Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology
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.
“Opposition of Clerics to Amending the 9-Year-Old Girls’ Marriage Law in Iran,” NCRI, August 9, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
NCRI – Some members of Women’s Parliamentary Fraction have reported that the clerics do not approve the parliament’s plan to amend the age of marriage.
The Vice-President of Women’s Parliamentary Fraction, Fatemeh Zolghadr, in an interview with ILNA News stated that the religious references (Marja) do not approve the change in the age of marriage.
The member of Women’s Fraction, Tayebeh Siavashi in an interview with KhabarOnline also stated that the plan to amend the age of marriage has been rejected….
According to Iran’s laws, the minimum age of marriage for girls is 13 years, but there are also provisions such as “the parental authority for children” which allows girls to marry at the age of 9.
The Vice-President of Women’s Fraction admitted that, “We have girls who are married to 40, 50, or even 60-year-old men with the permission of the father at the age of 9 due to court’s disagreement while nobody complains or opposes against such cases.”…
vyx says
Islam is what will help legalize pedophilia in the U.S. The Left is already trying to normalize it, however, we will have to accept it because it’s part of Islam. Feminists will praise the concept, and claim that sex at an early age is healthy and actually good for a child.
God help us all.
Karen says
Yes, the feminists and leftists have become very predictable; before they even open their mouths we know who they will side with. So it’s not very shocking to see ‘feminists’ happily accept Islamic FGM, for example, as merely a harmless religious symbolism. Once you understand that the goal is to destroy all traditional Western institutions by any means necessary, even by aligning with Islamists and Jihadists and assisting in increasing their power and influence, then the picture becomes very clear.
lukas says
ironically in the 3rd world their feminists were vocal against fgm practice.
Westman says
A reasonable lawful age for Muslima marriage will never be established as long as they are considered to be the continuous property of males.
Muslima = Property.
utis says
In the 7th century, what with war, plague, famine, and risky childbirth, marrying girls close to post-puberty may have had a rationale. That and short life expectancy. The only rationale for pre-pubescent marriage is to keep the product (virgin wives) sellable before cousin Abdul or Uncle Habib turned them into second-hand merchandise.
This is the 21st century! They don’t travel abroad using horses or camels. They use guns, not scimitars for their big wars. Even jihadis use motor cars and explosives, when they’re intelligent enough to operate them. Every muslim country would like to be a nuclear power.
So why use camel-thief principles for breeding humans?
Robeaver says
Exactly. Well said. Why bring 14th century beliefs into modern times? Because they have faITH. Such a good thing. Perhaps satin is on their side? He likes depravity, so I’ve been told. Been told on this site, a lot.
Anyone has/had/knows any nine year old girls? Now imagine.
Sickening. Throwupable.
Time for war.
gravenimage says
Good post, utis.
Eur says
Islam causes me nausea. Keep Muslims away from children.
somehistory says
They admit these are *children*…but since the dirty old…not men in any sense…creatures, beasts, want children to rape, all for them is approved.
It isn’t “marriage.” it is rape, daily rape, weekly rape, until the girl dies are is replaced by another child.
islum is the devil’s beast and moslums are the devil’s children. Such evil delight satan must experience when his nasty, filthy, sons rape poor little children to death.
The “lake of fire reserved for the devil and his angels” has room for these disgusting human beasts.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Somehistory.
John A. Marre says
Civilized countries have age barriers, and civilized countries have no apologies for their civilized behavior. “Clerics” are supposed to know right and wrong, but unfortunately their gutter religion is on the side of immoral behavior.
Muslim 2017 says
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Allah says in the Holy Quran in Surah (Chapter) 61:8, “They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.”
No matter how much hate you Islamophobes spew everyday – Allah will grant the believers superiority in the earth.
Barry says
Moron.
somehistory says
Please don’t insult poor morons. Just call him what he is. A moslum, slave of satan the devil.
gravenimage says
Muslim wrote:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Allah says in the Holy Quran in Surah (Chapter) 61:8, “They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.”
No matter how much hate you Islamophobes spew everyday – Allah will grant the believers superiority in the earth.
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What is the “light of Allah” as this pious Muslim sees it? Given the story above, it is clearly *raping children as young as nine*. **Ugh**.
And what does he see as “hate”? Objecting to the rape of children. *Appalling*.
WorkingClassPost says
Yes, GI, they have an obsession with the world hate, I wonder where they get that from…
carol says
I think it’s called “PROJECTION”.
gravenimage says
So true.
Norger says
Yes exactly. It’s just mind boggling that Mr. Muslim can invoke a “Most Gracious and Most Merciful” God in defense of child rape. This is a perfect example of Islam’s depravity, substituting the morality of a 7th century pedophile for basic human decency.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Norger.
WorkingClassPost says
Hey, the jokes about islam are on the other post…this one is serious, it’s about child abuse.
carol says
Islam itself is a joke. That’s why they prefer not to be schooled in humour.
Larry Deans says
Man, are you in for a rude awakening. Do you even have enough of a mind to just consider the possibility that you and Islam are wrong? I believe you are in for a big surprise when you die. I do not mean to insult you, but just ask you to do some soul searching. Learn, think.
gravenimage says
Iran: Muslim clerics oppose raising girls’ age of marriage eligibility from nine
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Of course this is the case. The Ayatollah Khomeini reportedly married a ten year old child.
There is nothing more Islamic than pedophilia. The “Prophet” himself married little Aisha when she was six and began raping her at nine. That is what this law in Iran is based on. Changing it is a tacit criticism of the “perfect man” of Islam.
Laura says
I wonder if a muslim man has ever thought to ask himself, ‘I wonder if maybe Muhammad was WRONG?’
James says
In a *civilised* society, disgusting barbarities like this would not be so much as discussed, let alone be regarded as morally good, or, worse yet, as worthy of imitation. The natural instinct is to protect the defenceless, But that has been so eroded in the West, that defences against paedophilia are in serious danger of collapse 🙁
It is unbelievable that the clerical paedophilia scandals a few years ago led to a ton of (thoroughly well-merited) indignation and condemnation, whereas this atrociousness causes hardly a ripple.
Lorn Ferguson says
I have a GREAT IDEA TO SAVE MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS!!!!! I work in a maximum security prison, it houses many “sex offenders” and the general public WOULD BE SURPRISED HOW INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE IT IS to house them every year!!!!!! We can put all the sex offenders on a plane… Fly over Iran….. Put a Parachute on them (optional), then push them out! GERONIMO!!!!! I’m sure the Iranians will take them in cuz OUR SEX OFFENDERS MOSTLY FIT INSIDE THEIR CULTURAL “NORMS”!!!! IT WILL SAVE US MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND GIVE THEM WHAT THEY DESERVE. THEY CAN ADD TO THEIR ALREADY DEPLETED GENE POOL!!!!! What’d ya think of that Idea? lets get it passed it’ll pay for itself……LMAO….After working with scum for years you start to look for alternative solutions, even if we know it won’t come to fruition……still a good idea I think……
afrostreetwise says
How can any Muslim person come across this verse and still remain A muslim? How do they live with themselves?
Fair views TH says
Marrying young girls is a way to enslave them. The husbands can easily beat them if they disobey in any way. Islam is all about enslaving slaves.
Muslims are themselves being enslaved to kill the the infidels and the apostates.
Beauregard says
This article displays why the Mormon Church does not condemn Islam or child Marriage there are similarities to the 2 beliefs even though the Mormons basically leave others alone & are not trying
to achieve world Domination.
gravenimage says
The orthodox Mormon Church no longer engages in polygamy or pedophilia–just fringe splinter groups.