[Note: This story is actually from April 2016. We don’t usually post archival material; AINA has it dated as if it were a new story. Apologies for any confusion this may have caused.]
Why is this happening in Norway? Because Norwegian authorities don’t have the spine to stand up for their own principles and mores. They are letting Muslim migrants become the masters of the country, and 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
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has declared that girls as young as nine can be married. This is because 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.
“Child Brides Sometimes Tolerated in Nordic Asylum Centers Despite Bans,” by Alister Doyle, Reuters, March 11, 2018:
OSLO (Reuters) — Some child brides are living with older husbands in asylum centers in Scandinavia, triggering a furor about lapses in protection for girls in nations that ban child marriage.
Authorities have in some cases let girls stay with their partners, believing it is less traumatic for them than forced separation after fleeing wars in nations such as Afghanistan or Syria.
Some girls have also passed themselves off as adults….
Of 31,000 asylum seekers who arrived in Norway in the past year or so, 10 of those aged under 16 — the minimum local age for sex or marriage — were married and four had children, the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) said.
Of the 10 “some live in adult asylum centers, some in their own rooms and some with their partners,” it said in emailed replies to Reuters questions….
RichardL says
It all shows one thing: the solution to all of this can only be to separate islam from civilisation, i.e. to leave a islamic countries and export all Muslims to these shitholes.
roger woodhouse says
While all this is being allowed it only weakens our own laws.The more accepting of these outlandish Islamic customs the more they will force onto us.Our weak leaders must be removed and replaced with strong right of centre men with strong Christian principals.Christianity must once again take its rightfull place within our communities.Failing this ,strong leaders with a real sense of our history and an awareness of the threat posed by Islam
J D S says
When one bans something it I’d banned…not coddle
What has happened to Norway? The same thing that is happening all over Europe. Their leaders have lost their minds and desperately need psychological treatment. Or maybe they just need to WAKE UP.
mortimer says
Child marriage is disliked, apparently by both right and left in Norway… the plan is to raise the age of consent to 18 to stop child marriages entirely. However, the question remains: “WILL THE LAW BE ENFORCED?”
https://www.thelocal.no/20180306/norways-government-waits-on-change-to-marriage-age-law
“A majority in Norway’s Stortinget parliament has voted to postpone a change in law to make 18 years the absolute minimum age for marriage.
In accordance with current law in the country, 16 and 17-year-olds can apply for special dispensation to marry.”
roger woodhouse says
Reducing the voting age to 18 just proved how little of importance our politicians attached to the governance of our country if they could entrust such a decision to adolescents.
Chas49 says
I can remember when the citizens of Norway actually cared what went on in their country. SAD!!
Libsick says
It’s easier to keep women subservient if you impregnate them as soon as they enter puberty and keep them pregnant and barefoot and ignorant from a very early age through menopause. It also helps to contribute to the overwhelming of Western populations if you can assure continual moose lem babies from puberty through menopause.
Feminists should be OUTRAGED by this, but curiously, they don’t utter a peep about it.
roger woodhouse says
Just stop the welfare payments for the third child.We are in fact paying them to outbreed us
brane pilot says
The idea that countries admitting refugees and migrants are obligated to provide financial support for life, and alter their social norms to accommodate these foreign beggars has no precedent in human history.
Current policy is a serious and potentially fatal aberration based upon refugee and immigration law dating from the 1950s. These suicidal laws need to be abrogated ASAP or Europe and the USA have no future beyond joining the squalor of the Third World.
Gjallarhornet says
Islam is the problem. It is both true and untrue that the government of Norway is oblivious to the danger. Some, most maybe, of the ministers are. Others are not, however. One gets the impression that this BIG discussion in our time, which breaks friendships, get people fired and ruins parties, is going on WITHIN this government. They seem to fight over islam and what to do with it just as as vigorously as most other groups.
Some days when I hear them they plunge me into a depression – they seem just clueless. Other days, they suddenly seem perceptive and more than a little combative.
I think in someway, they are mirror of public opinion: there is clearly a movement towards greater understanding beneath the surface. As for the practice mentioned in the article, this is a remnant of policies of former governments, which have not been swept out of lower levels of state apparatus yet. There is no chance whatsoever that the current government would instigate such a policy,
Sentinel says
In the year that we celebrate women’s rights we find that one specific group have turned back the rights of women by a thousand years.
In another news outlet a father has been taken to court in Britain for subjecting his child to FGM twice, once as a part of his culture and secondly as a punishment.
Aside from it being remarkable that any Muslim is prosecuted for FGM it exposes the lie that this is anything but child abuse aimed directly at under-age females. This is one news story that won’t be reported on the BBC and the sort of report that Sadiq Khan wants to be withheld from the public, by use of his own fatwa.
Indiana Tom says
Because Norwegian authorities don’t have the spine to stand up for their own principles and mores. They are letting Muslim migrants become the masters of the country, and child marriage is Islamic:
If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
Please see exhibit A*, the current unpersonkind in Leadership of Team Peoplekind Canada, Misc. Justin Trudeau.
Timothy says
CILDHOOD BRIDE
Childhood bride sits shackled to a pedophile, the perfect example of a man, according to the Qur’an.
Roland says
Satan’s plan unfolding…
dumbledoresarmy says
Well, if you think it’s Satan’s plan… pray for it to be *defeated*.
Because if you identify as a Christian, what are you doing just sitting watching ‘Satan’s plan unfolding’?
Jesus told his disciples he was giving them authority to heal the sick, raise the dead and .. cast out demons.
Read Ephesians 6, read the book of James about the prayer of a righteous person.
Just sitting down passively, squeaking “Satan’s plan unfolding” doesn’t strike me as something that either St Paul or St James would have endorsed.
It’s Lent, right now.
Pray!
Pray for Norway! Pray for a spiritual revival that will affect every area of society – including the police, the military, the judiciary, and .. politicians!
Pray for the throwing-down of the strongholds of Islam. Pray for the binding and casting out of demons. Pray for people to be *liberated* from the spiritual confusion and fear that is Dhimmitude. Pray against the spirit of falsehood; pray for *truth* to prevail.
Why not? What’s stopping you?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Perhaps he is?
gravenimage says
Yes–we need to pray, and we need to act.
CRUSADER says
https://vimeo.com/240038648
CNN Says Suicide Bombers Get 72 RAISINS And Not 72 VIRGINS
(mad cap video….ending with David Wood and Irshad Manji)
gravenimage says
I am so sick of this bs. Houris are described as “modest” and “dark-eyed”–when have these terms ever been used to describe raisins?
dumbledoresarmy says
If it is suspected that a girl is under-aged, then she should be examined by competent – and non-Muslim!- female doctors and dentists, to determine her approximate *real* age. A gynecologist and obstetrician should examine her to determine whether she has suffered any form of serious injury to her genitals due to sex being forced upon her at an obscenely-early age.
If it is determined that she is below the age at which Norway recognises a marriage to be valid, then she *should* be separated from her owner-abuser. She must be told, by an interpreter – and a MUSLIM interpreter should NOT be used, it *is* possible to find non-Muslims who have learned the Afghan languages, Christian mission and aid organisations have such personnel who are perfectly fluent, and for Syrian Arabic there *are* Syrian Arabic-speaking Christians in Norway – that this is being done; that the ‘marriage’ is not recognised by the Norwegian state, because she is a child, not a legal adult. She should also be told that she will be *protected* from her abuser-/owner (and any children she has had, will come with her and be taken into temporary care with her).
Further: the ‘husband’ should be subjected to the same punishment he would receive if he were Norwegian; and his application for asylum/ refugee status should be flatly denied, and after he has been punished as per Norwegian law (jail term?), he should be sent right back where he came from.
The girl should be told that she will be protected until she turns 18, and that when she does turn 18, she must rejoin her ‘husband’ in her country of origin, or else – if she declares herself to have left Islam – she will be granted residency ‘on probation’ (and with access to counselling and ‘cult deprogramming’) until such time as her departure from Islam is deemed to be genuine. During her time in protective custody she should be given every encouragement and opportunity to *leave Islam*, with regular and consistent exposure to non-Islamic belief systems including Christianity; Mona Walters, ex-Muslim now-Christian in Sweden, might be enlisted to help devise a programme to encourage such girls to apostasise. If she does not leave Islam, then when she is a legal adult she must be sent back to her Muslim country of origin; she will go as an adult, and.. bed/ made/ lie.
gravenimage says
Excellent post, DDA.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, that all sounds correct.
abad says
Norway, Former Land of the Vikings, present home to Norwastan.
gravenimage says
Norway: Child brides living with their adult Muslim migrant husbands in asylum centers
…………………….
This is *just horrifying*. How can a civilized nation like Norway allow open pedophiles raping children in centers they are funding? I thought at least that the Muslims would be passing off their child brides as nieces.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… Norwegian authorities don’t have the spine to stand up for their own principles and mores…”
They have abandoned their own principles, mores and laws and replaced them with the entirely fluid principle of Cultural Relativism where every group can just do it’s own thing as it sees fit. Life is so easy for the authorities nowadays; – “hey, let ’em work it out for themselves!” is the casual attitude. One has to wonder, however, now that the authorities have taken the ‘anything goes’ approach, why do they still insist on following through with the arrest and prosecution of others in the general community who engage in sexual relations with children? Norway, Britain, Germany – it’s the same dereliction of duty and two faced approach to the implementation of the Law all over Europe – the consequence of an indoctrination process set in motion and sustained by the continent’s University incumbents.
Politicianophobia says
Absolutely disgusting–I hate Islam. Send them all back.