Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that forced marriage and child marriage have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Odd, then, that with the massive Muslim migrant influx into Sweden that there would be a steady increase in both. Why don’t the peaceful and rapidly assimilating moderates rise up and put up a stop to this? And why do Swedish authorities never seem to ask themselves such questions?
Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.
“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.
“Sweden Sees Rise in Forced and Child Marriage Reports,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, September 7, 2018 (thanks to Ken):
According to the National Suppression of Honor Prevention of Childhood and Forced Marriage, a hotline set up for victims, the number of calls from those wanting to get out of forced or child marriages has steadily increased in Sweden.
Set up just over four years ago, the organisation’s hotline has seen 101 children and young people come to them for help in getting out of forced marriages between 2014 and 2018, SVT reports.
This year, however, the number of calls has dramatically increased with the hotline operators claiming to have received 132 calls relating to child and forced marriages, which is set to pass last year’s total of 139.
Despite being able to identify 101 potential victims of forced or child marriage, both of which are illegal in Sweden, only six cases have actually seen court convictions.
Although the absolute figures are relatively small, especially compared to other Western nations with more developed forced marriage and child abuse problems, they are significant in formerly low-crime, low-population Sweden. With just 9.9 million residents — a figure that has lately seen a historic rise — the whole nation is the population equivalent to the U.S. state of Michigan….
In March, the Swedish parliament voted to totally ban the recognition of any child marriages from overseas, despite some objections from parties within the governing coalition who wanted to propose special exemptions.
SB says
That girl looks 7 or 8 years old. So sad she has to be covered up. Breaks my heart. Islam = pedophilia. No more importation of pedophiles.
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Felix Contreras says
This must be the delusion our lord Jesus Christ talked about because since the jihadist arrived here in the USA, and it doesn’t matter if you came here illegally, Crying, or on your CAMEL but get out of our country. These jihadist are here to divide us even more so and using it to there advantage. We need to be on total alert with these killers. They are here to conquer, submit or kill us. There is no doubt. We have to fight together and using there tactics even though we need to get our mind to regress back to the 4th grade mentality. I am out of tolerance and I find myself getting angrier daily. I have lived here all my life but the minute these jihadists come here this happens. Go figure. thank you Barack Osama Hussein he is part of that brotherhood of ignorance.
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gravenimage says
Agreed, SB. Muslims want little girls to “look modest”, but have no problem selling them off to old pedophiles. *Ugh*.
Elizabeth Taylor says
In America, when parents get divorced, the parents both have attorneys while the children have none…the parents are adults and therefore have a choice…the children are left with whichever parent wins custody and whatever child support the court decides…there is no question about which is the better parent or what standard of living the children are used to…think about that…it is only when the parents battle over custody that their needs are considered…in my humble opinion, this drop in parental standards and protection of children,is a setup for the child marriage and pedophilia as you see in California attempting to make pedophilia legal…
gravenimage says
The courts *are* supposed to take into account the needs of the child in custody cases.
SB says
A kid should be a kid, not someones sex toy.
gravenimage says
So true.
mortimer says
This is another example of how NORMATIVE ISLAM is NOT compatible with modern societies. So why be a Muslim?
Moreover, we must ask the LEFTARDS “WHY DO YOU SUPPORT ISLAM IF OVER 60% OF ISLAM IS ILLEGAL in the MODERN WORLD?” (Examples are: child marriage, slavery, jizzya, Sharia punishments, halal slaughter, etc.)
Islam DOES NOT FIT with MODERNITY … so why be a BACKWARD MUSLIM?
James Lincoln says
Mortimer,
I would be interested to know about the remaining 40% of Islam that IS legal in the modern world. Perhaps you are correct but it sounds rather generous.
gravenimage says
I don’t think the percentage is anywhere near that high…
Porky The Crusader says
A little mistake, More likely 99.9%.
mortimer says
LEFTARDS who support Islam are supporting PEDOPHILIA.
mortimer says
Anyone in a child marriage should lose the right to live in Sweden and lose the passport. Same for first cousin marriages.
gravenimage says
Absolutely agree about child marriages, Mortimer.
JAT 349 says
Maybe the leftist dopes will give up their daughters to the muslim pedophiles?
SJ says
Yuck…but it is coming. Then they will have children screaming like RAGE LUNATICS like the photos of paid leftists screaming at Kavenaugh hearings. Ha! Now they can be compared side by side with Islamic RAGE BOY at protests.
gravenimage says
Sweden sees steady increase in reports of forced marriage and child marriage
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This is sickening, but should not surprise. What is more Islamic than forced marriage and child rape?
That there have only been six convictions out of over a hundred reported cases is shameful. I’m sure the reported cases are just the tip of the iceberg, as well.
Garfield says
In other news: sticking your hand into an open flame will.produce painful burns.
Who’d a thunk it!?
TWG says
Every time I read about this subject, it makes me think back to what I was doing and how my mind worked as a 6, 9, 10 year old girl. I was focused on doing my homework & chores, riding horses, swimming in the rivers, hunting, fishing, cooking, sewing…… and I was too busy fighting the boys to have any sort of thoughts otherwise. I had no ideas about anything sexual in nature. The thought that, as a little girl of 6 or 9 yrs, I might have been *purchased* for use as a sex toy slave makes my heart sink.
It is just sickening to me how moslems treat children. No wonder their children grow up to be the heinous monsters that they are. It’s what they marinate in from birth, and it’s all they know about life. Hatred, racism, bigotry, misogyny, sexism, beastiality, necrophilia, violence, terror, dismemberment, murder….., CHILD ABUSE, PEDOPHILIA……
There is no cult on earth that is more evil and heinous than islam.
gravenimage says
I was molested and raped when I was eight. The only good thing is that the culture was not condoning this evil, or I might have lost hope altogether.
Lorensacho says
Sweden must have a death wish.
Vicky King says
This is what muslims plan to germinate in America. They are not assimilating, they are infiltrating…changing our surroundings as we sit numbly by.