It is no surprise that an imam would be involved in this. 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.
“Imam in court over marriage ceremony involving girl, 14,” by Tessa Akerman, The Australian, December 4, 2018:
An imam who conducted a marriage ceremony between a 14-year-old girl and 34-year-old man has lost his Court of Appeal bid to overturn his conviction.
Ibrahim Omerdic was the imam at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Islamic Centre in Noble Park, in Melbourne’s east, when he solemnised the marriage in October 2016.
He contested the charge in the Melbourne Magistrates Court last year, arguing he had only conducted a religious blessing or “Nikah”.
He was convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment but released immediately with a two-year recognisance order.
Omerdic appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court in October last year, claiming the magistrate could not have reasonably found the ceremony was completed or that he had intended to perform a marriage.
The appeal was dismissed in April this year and Omerdic appealed against the decision in the Victorian Court of Appeal, claiming again that it was not a marriage under the Marriage Act and the ceremony was not completed.
Justices Kim Hargrave, Terry Forrest and Karin Emerton this morning found non-compliance with the formal requirements of the Marriage Act did not affect the solemnisation of a marriage.
“A celebrant can intend to solemnise a marriage while having no intention whatsoever of complying with the Marriage Act notice or certification requirements,” the court said in its judgment.
“Moreover, the applicant’s attempt to draw a distinction between an ‘Australian marriage’ and a Nikah is spurious in circumstances where he told the informant that the ceremony for a marriage and the ceremony for a Nikah are the same, except that he does not require ID for the latter,” the court said in its judgment….
nicholas tesdorf says
The struggle against this primitive and barbaric religion goes on without cease after 1.400 years.
JAT 349 says
They live the 21 century. Their minds are still in the 7th century.
JAT 349 says
They live in the 21 century. But their minds are still in the 7th century
J D S says
Sure muhammad (IF HE EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED) RAPED his child bride Aisha..but…but..but..how many others were there that fell victim to his savagery that is approved in islam. Find ANYWHERE in the teachings of Jesus where He said it was all right to rape anyone…
Islam???Why is this savage related, so called religion, still around after these many centuries??’ One main reason, and there are many others, is that Islam is still held up as an actual religion as religions are seen today and no lawmaker will touch it because most free world nations have laws protecting religion.
Can Islam be compared with any civilized religion known today? The answer of course is NO! Then why is Islam still around and seems to be thriving even in countries that once were known as Christian?
I have some answers to my questions but can JIHAD WATCHERS expound on this..A little help PLEASE..
tim gallagher says
I agree with your comment, JDS, and also with the comments of Nicholas and JAT 349. I remember writing to our politicians here in Australia way back in 2001 calling for a big reduction in Muslim migration. I received a letter back from a public servant in the Minister for Immigration’s office telling me that Australia’s immigration policy doesn’t discriminate on grounds of race, religion, etc. No surprise there. But I recall thinking that if you called Nazism( no worse than Islam as far as I can see) a religion then Australia ( and , no doubt, other western countries) could not discriminate against Nazis and would have to let them in because it’s a “religion”. We should discriminate. I share your exasperation that an ideology as evil and barbaric as Islam still even exists. It is like some primitive thing from the 7th century still existing in our modern, enlightened world. I think that part of why it still exists is this idea that all cultures are equal (as if) and diversity is wonderful. Such rubbish. This story about the 14 year old’s marriage made me think of Robert Spencer’s witty quip (which he often uses) “Are we diverse enough yet?” I’d love to see Islam become extinct.
Peggy says
I too have written to my member of parliament on another matter and got an insulting reply.
Basically treated me like a child and tried to pacify me.
I have written to Cadbury about being Halal and got an almost threatening reply from them. They told me they don’t tolerate racism. What’s that supposed to mean? Are they going to dob me in to the police?
Seriously, nobody is listening.
That’s why I have become a member of Australian Conservatives and will vote for Australian Liberty Alliance in the absence of a member of my party running as well as vote for the Australian Christians.
The more we walk away from major parties the more they will realize their mistakes. Scomo is starting to make noises about staying firm on offshore processing and recognizing at there is a violent part of Islam. Islam is all violent but at least he’s prepared to start somewhere.
What terrifies me is that everyone is saying how Labor is going to have a major win next year. Scott Morrison just finished saying how Labor is going to stop offshore processing. We’ll be back to square 1.
Maybe we should all write to Labor politicians and give them a warning to get off that dangerous course.
tim gallagher says
Peggy, I have been writing to various Australian politicians for years. As I said above, I first wrote in 2001. I wrote to John Howard and Philip Ruddock back in 2001. I have had a different experience to the one that you have mentioned. I haven’t felt that the replies I’ve received have been insulting. Back in 2001, very few people were showing much concern about Islam, so I was probably seen as an extremist and I wasn’t bothered by that letter which simply set out what the (stupid when it comes to islam) policies were. I have written to many politicians over the years, including Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, et al. I have included some of the quotes from the Koran calling for Muslims to kill non-Muslims because I don’t think they know this stuff. I believe I have got through to some of the politicians. Or maybe, it is just that the problems with Islam have become more obvious over the years. I recall that I received a letter from Morrison (well, from his office) when he was in charge of our border control and it wrote about how the government had been working to address the security problems Muslims were causing. It wasn’t dismissive of my concerns. I will never waste my time writing to the ALP fools. They seem to see the world in a completely different way to me. I have donated to Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives and to Q Society and ALA and also to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. I always let them know that I want an end to Muslim immigration. That’s the only answer I can see. Alas, like you, I suspect Labor will win the next election. I certainly worry for our future. But, hey, that’s the way democracy is. Too many people, who seem to know bugger all about Islam, will probably vote the ALP in. We just have to keep battling on, at least taking part in the battle, fighting for what we believe in. What you said about Cadbury just makes me think what idiots we are dealing with, in that , for the millionth time, Islam isn’t a race..I’ll probably vote for Bernardi’s party or One Nation in the upcoming election. The ALA can’t seem to make progress. Nor can Bernardi’s party for that matter, but I’m impressed when I see Bernardi being interviewed. I suppose I’m impressed by him as a person.
Deborah says
This just adds a Whole New Dimension to Child Abuse, doesn’t it? Parents, you’d better Watch Out for Your daughters! This is what’s coming to a Society Near You.
Andy says
If WE ALL TAKE A STAND like what is happening in France, WE can get our Judeo-Christian Countries back!!!
We don’t have to take what the globalists are doing to our countries anymore!
Andy says
Globalist Democracy Is CRUMBLING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMFdjqsY1e8
gravenimage says
This is not democracy.
Andy says
I saw this comment by Petar Kocic
Democracy is when 2 wolves and 1 sheep are deciding what is for dinner
mortimer says
Andy, stick to the topic and please stop posting IRRELEVANT MATERIAL NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE TOPIC AS IF THIS IS YOUR PRIVATE SITE. It is very inconsiderate. GET YOUR OWN WEBSITE.
Rotten Eye says
YOUTUBE has locked it out!
Les PAP says
first all the politicians have to change their thinking and return to how things were in the past.
secondly all law abiding citizens to actively inform members of parliament and opposition parties
that it is not a right to sit in gov but a gift by the voters and they will be voted out not at the next election but within a matter of weeks plus lose all wages and perks they have cumilated whilst in gov
No Fear says
Allah knows best.
Wellington says
Instructive how Mo’s creed and girls, not yet women, are so “simpatico.”
This alone should serve as a red light about Mohammedanism, though so many other “red lights” are easily “available” if one only scratches the surface of what the purported founder of the worst religion of all time reportedly founded.
So, scratch that surface and thereafter dig deep. If done so, much putridity will surface. Guaranteed.
mortimer says
Agree with Wellington’s word ‘PUTRID’ … child marriage is ‘PUTRID’ for million of girls who develop ANAL-VAGINAL FISTULA because of CHILD MARRIAGE. Islam is primarily responsible for this.
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/obstetric_fistula/en/
10 facts on obstetric fistula
Updated January 2018
Each year between 50 000 to 100 000 women worldwide are affected by obstetric fistula, an abnormal opening between a woman’s genital tract and her urinary tract or rectum. The development of obstetric fistula is directly linked to one of the major causes of maternal mortality: obstructed labour.
Women who experience obstetric fistula suffer constant incontinence, shame, social segregation and health problems. It is estimated that more than 2 million young women live with untreated obstetric fistula in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Obstetric fistula is preventable; it can largely be avoided by:
delaying the age of first pregnancy;
the cessation of harmful traditional practices; and
timely access to obstetric care.
gravenimage says
Australia: Imam in court over marriage ceremony involving 14-year-old girl
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More enabling of pedophilia. I hope the Australian authorities throw the book at him.
Benedict says
+1.
Yet another profound observation from cravenimage.
I hope the Australian authorities throw the book at him without adding charges for things the Imam hasn’t expressed in his ceremony.
Mirren10 says
*graven*image makes *many* profound observations here. Pity we can’t say the same of you, Beatrice.
”I hope the Australian authorities throw the book at him without adding charges for things the Imam hasn’t expressed in his ceremony.”
And what might those ‘things’ be that you’re so concerned about, Beatrice ? For me, it would be ‘things’ like, kill all those who leave islam, kill all homosexuals, slice off little girl’s clitoris’s, , etc, etc. This creep is a mohammedan, he doesn’t have to ‘express’ all these things, they are intrinsic to his foul religion.
tim gallagher says
I just want to say that I enjoy the comments of gravenimage and find that they add a lot to the exchange of ideas that goes on here at Jihad Watch. I would also add that gravenimage is generally very encouraging and positive in her attitude towards the comments of other people (which is important on sites like Jihad Watch) but also doesn’t seem to mind getting into a fight with various people who post on Jihad Watch and who deserve to be taken to task, such as that Mohammedan character, Ibrahim? and others. Keep up your good work, gravenimage, which I’m sure you will do
gravenimage says
Thank you so much, Mirren and Tim.
gravenimage says
Benedict wrote:
+1.
Yet another profound observation from cravenimage (sic).
I hope the Australian authorities throw the book at him without adding charges for things the Imam hasn’t expressed in his ceremony.
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The idea that marrying a 14-year-old child to an adult male has nothing to do with enabling pedophilia is simply grotesque.
But then, Benedict consistently fails to condemn Muslim rape–including that of under-aged girls.
Just today on this thread about Muslims exploiting young girls in Finland, he had this to say:
Questions: why are these “significantly younger girls” so easily contactable and rapable? Is it because they are in heat or because they don’t wear Muslim garb? Or is it because of indifferent parents and a culture that expects teenage girls to have a sex life and therefore provides them with free contraceptives in schools and other institutions? Or is it a combination of all these factors?
I’m just asking because young sex-craving Muslim men are too simplistic an answer.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/12/finland-police-warn-of-migrants-sexually-exploiting-young-girls-say-i-hope-this-will-not-result-in-more-racism#comment-2026979
Suggesting that under-age children are “in heat” and hence responsible for their own rape is appalling.
By the way, the main reason Benedict is going after me here is because I have opposed his saying that Western women need to wear the Burqa and Niqab–and that little girls should be forced to do so.
Also notable that they only posters here who over the years have called me “cravenimage” previously are Muslim trolls. Very telling.
katherine says
Yes, one can only hope that Australia, unlike N. America, does not have Liberal Leftist Judges sprinkled all over the continent.
What is most troubling is : judges who make decisions favourable to sharia law are not being hauled up for questioning – why are they betraying, not upholding their Secular parliamentary Constitution. Any legal practitioner who advocates Sharia should not even be practising law – licenses need to be revoked.
Many Muslim jihadists are studying to become lawyers simply to enable the subversion of legal practice and procedure from within – the West is not being vigilant enough to protect its own framework from such wilful insidious infiltration. By definition, Muslims ( sharia by obligation ) should not even be allowed to hold legal practice in a democracy since they are avowed to destroy all man-made laws.
Let’s see which Judge in Australia will be the first to declare that FGM and Paedophilia are human rights pertaining strictly to Muslims.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Katherine, my take exactly. I live in Europe, where the European Court of Human Rights has recently made it illegal to say that Muhammad was a paedophile. Of course, that opens the way for the complete undermining of both our legal system and our moral standards.
According to Spencer’s post, “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” Isn’t that also the ECtHR’s rationale for restricting Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff’s free speech? Child marriage is banned in the European Union, as it is in all civilised jurisdictions, i.e., anywhere with 21st century morals and norms. But as Mufti Amini continues, “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.” In other words, to preserve its ban on describing Muhammad’s having sex with a child as paedophilia, the ECtHR is going to have to lift the ban on child marriage. Even a halfwit Muslim lawyer will be able to get this through, using that disgraceful ECtHR ruling,
When already the European legal system stands condemned for its failure to protect its female population against the Muslim rape onslaught, and the ECtHR places Muhammad’s sexual conduct beyond the reach of language, then all is quiet on the Western Front, and Muslims may boldly open another down-under.
Muslims in Europe are inches away from claiming the right to f*ck children, well-armed with the ECtHR’s highly-irresponsible judgement against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff. And if legal slipperiness doesn’t deliver fast-enough capitulation, there’s always the preferred option, as the Mufti says, “200,000 jihadists ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.”
This is what you get into when you appease Muslim “sensibilities”. It is a grave, grave mistake to accede to ANY Muslim demand, ANY. Whatever concessions you’ve already made to them, roll them back *while you still can,* for they are only springboards to further demands till you’re on your knees, kissing their feet, literally, and paying the jizya for the privilege.
Anjuli Pandavar says
There we go. 16 days later: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13444/germany-child-marriage-law
Peggy says
They’ve already punished him and he’s trying to overturn it.
2 months prison (suspended) so it’s nothing then and he’s still not happy and appealing.
This has happened in Melbourne where Labor party is in office and they are the worst Muslim apologists. We’ve just had a state election here a couple of weeks ago and unfortunately Labor won again.
There is no way the describe the level of stupidity in this state.
In our electorate there was a Labor candidate who is Muslim and a woman in hijab was handing out how to vote cards. Labor didn’t win a seat in our electorate but they still did fairly well.
The rest of the state needs a lobotomy. Opposition ran on law and order issues and still lost.
I dare say we will see a lot more of slap on the wrist for child abuse in Victoria.
James Pierce says
“The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.”
Oblige them
gravenimage says
Muslims are *enraged* if they cannot rape children.
Vicky says
This is the result of Nation’s who invite islamists, then bow to their growing demands to be governed under Sharia law, instead of the host country’s law. It’s a deadly game played by fools, in which the host is always the loser.
Been There Got the Tee Shirt says
It bamboozles me how the females in the west do not get more exercised about these downright insults and misogynistic practices…it’s just like water rolling off a duck’s back.
Where are all these very well educated ladies? Are they all intimidated by their leftist friends who don’t seem to keep with history and our culture? When Chicago Fire is more important than meaningful news…enough said.
gravenimage says
Not for me. I’m a female in the West and I am not sanguine about these horrors.
somehistory says
They bring in old males and young girls and say they are allowing the old man to daily rape the child. And they call it “marriage.”
It is not “marriage.” It is prison and daily rape for the child…and the male is a raper of children.
moslims call it what they will, but the governments should call it what it is: extended and daily rape of children.
the perp who was told he was free to rape the child and the creep who “performed the ceremony” deserve a lifetime of prison in solitary.
gravenimage says
So true, Somehistory.
Meghan says
How can a grown man have sex with a child???? It is humane! It is torture when a child hasn’t even developed! Every man practicing this barbaric action should be executed or have his private mutilated!