Islamic spokesmen in the West routinely insist that child marriage has no basis in Islam, and that Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, was not actually a child when he married her. In reality, child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
“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
Hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record 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.
“‘Un-Islamic’: Senate body rejects bill seeking ban on child marriage,” INP, October 10, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Interior and Narcotics Control in its meeting on Wednesday rejected ‘The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2017 moved by Senator Sehar Kamran and referred the bill to Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for any future review.
In a committee meeting held at Parliament House, Islamabad, Chairman Rehman Malik commented on the bill, saying no law shall be approved contrary to Islamic injunctions. “We cannot increase the age for marriage; the age which was allowed in Islam will be followed,” he remarked….
common sense says
Muslim women are treated as a commodity or are whores in Islam.
https://youtu.be/cPembXZMKv0
Tjhawk says
Was mo “thighing” Aisha for years before he went for the vag when she showed signs of puberty at nine?
I don’t know how reliable the information is, but I read somewhere that mohammed and his band of thugs really loved rubbing one off between the thighs of the small and helpless.
eduardo odraude says
Aisha was 9 lunar years old when the marriage was consummated. That is a few months less than 9 years as we define years today. So she may have been 8, in modern terms.
Tjhawk says
Thanks for placing this in the context of the times.
Muslims are always saying that you must place anything you find objectionable about islam “in context”. Then when you research to find the context, it only ever makes islam and mo seem even worse.
gravenimage says
God knows, this is often true.
eduardo odraude says
Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Pakistan, in terms of human rights, is one of the scariest countries in the world. Yep, the world seems to be coming into very dangerous times, with North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran. And perhaps other places all too soon.
Fred H says
Yes. Having been in Pakistan, I can describe it in one word: sinister
gravenimage says
Thanks, Fred.
Voytek Gagalka says
They should be rejected for that from the “community of nations,” since that decree (based on some ancient barbaric code) violates one of the most fundamental INDIVIDUAL right: to life.
Jim says
Agree wholeheartedly with Voylek. And yet have (or will) any of the mainstream media even have the courage to report on this story?
MFritz says
NEVER FORGET: These politicians are not all radicals or fundamentalists, no, they’re considered (and consider themselves) “mostly moderate” – and the ELITE of their country. Many of them were even
educated in Western countries.
gravenimage says
All true.
robeaver says
But we’re they leftist educated? That would be worse. A dirty left hook.
Glass it. Have corning pick up the pieces. Use in ashtrays.
The War I have been predicting comes closer.
Religion will indeed have its way with humanity. It’s destruction.
Appeasement has never worked with fanatics. Didn’t with Adolph. Won’t with MO. ( I assume you know about the followers as well)
And now the white house won’t mention islamic terrorism about 911. Hold your hand up if you think this will work. A little higher over there. Thanks.
MFritz says
Consider most “leftists” to be useful idiots these days. Especially feminists and Antifa. They don’t have any power and/or money. And most certainly no majority whatsoever behind them.
Those controlling and financing them are the problem. Such as Soros and other big business with a globalist agenda.
Most Western governments who want more immigrants, are most certainly NOT left or left leaning. (Especially not Merkels neoliberal government.) They also only serve as useful idiots of the globalist agenda. Which means cheap labour IN no matter the cost. They don’t care. Politicians are well off and they think the army and secret service can handle any problems FOR THEM.
Especially if most of the terrorist attacks are ONLY pointed against the population. And not politicians or their places.
No, the left is – currently – only useful because they want to believe in the “good” of the people. And to serve as cannon fodder to those hiding their true intentions.
mariam rove says
Their prophet was an animal and animal instincts are still with them today and centuries to come. m
Charles says
Sorry to change the subject. This just in. 2 days prior to the Vegas terror attack, George Soros placed $42 million dollar ‘put’ bet with the payoff being the stock decline of MGM shares. I have always suspected that George Soros was being funded to untraceable offshore accounts by Islamic State petro dollar rich Islamist Sheiks. If you were to conflate an overall motive of his “charities” and philanthropic causes, you can only come to this conclusion. His investment in ships to traffic Islamic human cargo from Libya to Europe, his investment in slander organizations like the SPLC, or ADL, his involvement with Antifa, BLM, etc…he does not care about these causes. He is paid handsomely to act as a proxy agent to “destroy us by our own hand”. George Soros has said many times, his only principle is money. He was told by his patrons to make this ‘put’ investment 2 days prior to a planned terror attack. I always suspected this was an Islamic State operation, and this ties George Soros to the event, and confirms my suspicions. Please confirm this put investment with the SEC. I have no ability to do so.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Senate body rejects ban on child marriage as “un-Islamic”
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Well, of course. There is nothing more Islamic than *raping children*. The “Prophet” Muhammed was himself a pedophile.
robeaver says
Yep bottom feeding filth. Previous post mentioned it(islam and Mo) being animal like. I don’t think an animal even, will have sex with a child of its species. So this is BeLOW an animal. The gutter sludge of life. Utter garbage. Excrement on the shoes of living things. Fetid scum. So low it is hard to express. A human usually can’t think in such repugnant terms. Perhaps Dante could do better. Alive today?
So I guess I would agree.
Nancy Albert says
Islam doesn’t respect women even at the level a male mammal respects a female! There is no rape or child abuse among large mammals. Only when the female enters estrus does the male copulate. (This may not apply to apes).
Islam is the Religion of Gonads. The central tenet is to legalize every form of copulation men can conceive. Children of both sexes, domesticated animals included. Slavery, murder and conquest included.
Lydia says
It’s like:
Senate body rejects ban on murder, torture, beheading, cutting off other body parts, rape, incest, pedophilia, beating those who are weaker, oppression of women, harassment, indoctrination, adultery, cannibalism, religious intolerance, jihad, terrorism, suicide bombings, threatening, invading, slavery, sex slavery, sex slavery of children, and child rape because the ban would be….. (drumroll please)…. un-islamic!
Boy, is that ever the truth!
(and I probably forgot a few items from that list)
(islam loves that stuff!)
aMan says
Just a few days ago son in law of ex-PM called Ahemdis and others “enemies of Islam” in National Assembly of Pakistan and demanded curbs and actions against them. The news has been removed from most Pakistani media but can be found here.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/complete-curbs-on-ahmadis-employment-demands-captain-r-safdar/
gravenimage says
Yes–Ahmadis are considered “heretics” for rejecting violent Jihad.
Manny says
Question: Why would a 54 year old man, experienced with lots of women such as Mo was, would want to have sex with a nine year old?
Answer: Because he was a pervert pedophile.
gravenimage says
Few of Muhammed’s relationships save his first were consensual.
After Kadijah, he mostly raped little girls, captives of war, and sex slaves.