The victim was nine years old. This may have been because Chand Babu’s reverence for Muhammad led him to think of children as sexual objects. Islamic apologists in the West routinely deny that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and go through all sorts of contortions to deny the evidence of the texts, but the fact is that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world, even by the Diyanet, the directorate of religious affairs in once-“moderate” and now rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey. This most clearly shows those apologists’ dishonesty. The Diyanet wouldn’t approve of child marriage if it weren’t Islamic, as it explains in its own defense. And 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.
“Teacher’s husband booked for sexually harassing nine-year-old, Times of India, July 17, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
PILIBHIT: Following the orders of inspector general of police, Bareilly zone, Prem Prakash, Pilibhit Kotwali police have lodged an FIR against four persons, including the husband and two sons of a Quran teacher, in connection with a case of sexual harassment of a nine-year-old student.
In her complaint, the minor’s mother had said she used to send her daughter to a private religious coaching centre in Pakadia locality in Pilibhit city for Quran lessons. There, she was allegedly sexually harassed by the teacher’s husband, identified as Chand Babu.
About a fortnight ago, she noticed that her daughter seemed listless and started to say no to attending her Quran classes. It took her a while to make her daughter explain the reason for her reluctance to attend her lessons. It was then that she came to know that her daughter was being sexually harassed by her teacher’s husband, Chand Babu.
The woman said while teacher Shamim Mullani was busy preparing lunch, Chand Babu would take her daughter to another room and sexually harass her. He would threaten to kill her if she dared to reveal the truth to anyone. The child was too terrorized to speak about her ordeal, alleged the complainant.
When the woman approached her daughter’s teacher to complain, she was allegedly thrashed and abused by Chand Babu and his sons, Merab and Ilu. The trio also threatened her with dire consequences if she went to police, the complainant said….
gravenimage says
India: Husband and two sons of Qur’an teacher sexually harass nine-year-old girl during lessons
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If it was good enough for the “Prophet”…
Glad this case is being prosecuted. If this happened in neighboring Pakistan, this would almost certainly not be the case.
Rarely says
I guess they forgot to tell the v9 year old’s parents that the teaching of the koran came with labs.
SAE says
Funny in a sick sort of way…but that’s all of Islam. So ludicrous.
elee says
Paedophile bastards. HEY WORLD, this could happen to YOUR child. It could also happen to YOU. Oh and……don’t bother worrying about human rights, in Islam neither the kafir nor his children are human.
somehistory says
This is what the children of satan do. Just following their father’s commandments.
Truly disgusting demonic creeps.
And the poor child…first, having to listen to and “learn” the filth from the unholy book, and then experience its “commands” first hand from these sons of satan.
SAE says
Couldn’t agree more.
Eur says
Probably the parents of the raped girl will demand that the rapist marry the girl because now it is deteriorated merchandise and the honor of the family is stained.The rapist is the culprit but in this type of cases the parents who demand that the rapist marry the girl are accomplices of that act and that society is a real shit infects.
Kesselman says
When the civilized world comes across this pedophile conduct it has to be treated as a severe crime. Luckily, India is the sole decent nation in the entire region.
Linda says
It’s so sad.
Politicianophobia says
It is 2018.
Garfield says
How sad…..saw the picture of the girl covered in black and thought oh yeah it’s trash day.
Islam wants women in garbage bags. It’s not normal.
Andy says
It’s not normal for Western Judeo-Christian Heritage Nations.
If they want to wear garbage bags/bee keepers suits, apologies to garbage bag manufacturers/bee keepers, they should stay in majority moslem countries but we all know Islam just wants to dominate.