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Iraq: Girls as young as 9 sold for sex in temporary marriages, Muslim cleric says “According to Sharia, no problem”

Oct 8, 2019 9:30 am By Robert Spencer

Shi’ites justify temporary marriage, mutah, by their reading of Qur’an 4:24:

And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. And those of whom ye seek content (by marrying them), give unto them their portions as a duty. And there is no sin for you in what ye do by mutual agreement after the duty (hath been done). Lo! Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

While Sunnis ostensibly reject this practice, it is rising among Saudis and in Egypt.

As for the girls being underage, why not? Muhammad did it: “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

“Scandal of young Iraqi girls sold for sex in temporary ‘pleasure marriages’ that can last as little as an hour – as one Shia cleric claims it is ‘no problem at all’ to wed a nine-year-old,” by Tim Stickings, Mailonline, October 4, 2019:

Young Iraqi girls are being sold for sex in temporary ‘marriages’ that can last as little as an hour, a BBC documentary has revealed.

Shia clerics were filmed offering ‘pleasure marriages’ in which men, usually banned from having sex outside marriage, can pay a dowry for an interim wife.

One cleric claimed it would be ‘no problem at all’ to marry girls as young as nine under Islamic law.

The practice is banned in Iraq but eight out of 10 Shia clerics who were approached were willing to carry it out – and one of them even offered to help procure young girls, the BBC News investigation found.

The religious rite dates back centuries, partly intended to allow men to have a legitimate relationship while away from their wives.

However, some Iraqi men and Shia clerics are now abusing it to give a veneer of legitimacy to child prostitution.

One cleric in Karbala, an important religious site in Iraq, told the undercover BBC journalist that girls as young as nine could be subject to the procedure.

‘According to Sharia, there’s no problem,’ he said, when asked if it was acceptable to conduct a temporary marriage with a young girl.

When the reporter voiced concern that he was exploiting the girl, the cleric told him: ‘No way’.

Another cleric, also filmed secretly, was asked if a temporary marriage with a 13-year-old virgin would be permissible under Islamic law.

‘Just be careful she doesn’t lose her virginity,’ the cleric replied, suggesting other forms of sexual interaction instead.

Asked what happens if the girl gets hurt, the cleric said: ‘That’s between you and her.’

Later in the documentary, that second cleric went even further and offered to help procure the girls as well as conducting the marriages.

Offering to take a photo of a girl and send it to the undercover client, he added: ‘Then when you come back, she’s yours.’

That cleric also reassured the reporter that there was no child exploitation taking place.

‘She was willing and you paid her,’ he said.

The length of the marriage must be specified in advance, and can be fixed at anything from one hour to 99 years.

Some girls said that clerics had provided them with contraceptive injections to ensure they did not become pregnant….

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  1. Debra Gour says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 9:46 am

    I just want to say that in Western Culture sexual relations with any girl under age 16 has always been called underage or sometimes rape. This is also forbidden & a man could be arrested & jailed if proven guilty. Men in our Culture used to respect & protect underage girls & boys from all types of abuse. We should never allow other religions or ideologies from foreign nations to dictate how we treat our young people !*

  2. Phil Copson says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 10:13 am

    “….in Western Culture sexual relations with any girl under age 16 has always been called underage or sometimes rape. This is also forbidden…”
    ——————————————————-
    Um, no it hasn’t…it was only in 2009 that the age of consent in Spain was raised from 13 to 16.

    On the other side of the pond, Jerry Lee Lewis famously (or infamously) married a 13-year old in 1957: Interestingly, he was so badly advised that he thought it would make it acceptable to the British press if he claimed that she was 15….

    • Trick_or_Treat says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 11:04 am

      Yes, and cases like that Woody Allen slimeball, and just straight out paedophile predation, while disgracefully being all too common, they are still the exceptions to our society’s culturall accepted and expected standards and ethics and are not culturally santioned. With islam however, this kind of sick shit is more the norm – standard, culturally accepted and sanctioned practice.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 6:27 pm

      The mere fact that Jerry Lee Lewis was so widely condemned means that most in the West did indeed consider this immoral behavior.

  3. Trick_or_Treat says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 10:37 am

    To paraphrase Graven Image :

    Oh God, how I f**king hate islam !

    • Herb L says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 10:49 am

      I have the same feelings about barbarians, but alas, it would be Islamophobic to say it about Islam, so I won’t say it. You can’t take my free will thoughts though, hahahahahahahaha.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 11:31 am

      I deplore your profane language which undermines the credibility and seriousness of our cause. Muslims are humans who have the wrong information. You are harming the counterjihad.

      • Jap says

        Oct 8, 2019 at 5:42 pm

        Mortimer, you got that spot on. When we lower our standards in that manner we are simply giving the enemy more ammo to point the finger of racism and bigotry at our side of the argument.
        Simple facts will always outweigh profanity laden emotions.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 8, 2019 at 6:31 pm

        Generally I agree that we should maintain high moral standards here at Jihad Watch–and posters here almost always do.

        The idea, though, that using the “f-word”–especially while blanking out some of the letters–somehow then negates the criticism rape of 9-year-old children is pretty questionable. Surely the one is a peccadillo at worst, and the latter a most vile crime?

  4. elee says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 10:50 am

    In the west females below a legislatively defined age are deemed to be infants and hence (1) asexual and (2) incapable of validly consenting to or voluntarily engaging in any sexual activity. These ages of consent are subject to frequent legislative adjustment. In Islam the disability applies to women of any age, due to the deficiencies of their minds. Taharrush and FGM enforce the scriptural disability. 3

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 11:27 am

    Islam is the only religion that canonizes pedophilia.

    One of the most disturbing things about Islam is that it does not categorically condemn pedophilia. Indeed, it cannot, for to do so would draw attention to the pedophilia of Mohammed, the founder of Islam.

    Mohammed had planned to marry a baby, but died as a result of an attempted poisoning before he could do so.

    Pedophilia is the sexual exploitation of children. The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders says that pedophilia is “an abnormal interest in children…a disorder that is characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies generally involving…children, or other nonconsenting persons. Pedophilia is also a psychosexual disorder in which the fantasy or actual act of engaging in sexual activity with prepubertal children is the preferred or exclusive means of achieving sexual excitement and gratification…Pedophilia is defined by mental health professionals as a mental disorder, but the American legal system defines acting on a pedophilic urge as a criminal act.”

    Please note the words: “the preferred…means of achieving sexual excitement and gratification.” From the age of 54 until 64, Mohammed preferred the very young Aisha to the rest of his large harem and sex slaves. He had fantasies about Aisha before asking for her hand. He passed these fantasies off as “revelations” from the Supreme Being.

    Mohammedans must imitate the pedophile Mohammed.

    • Ralph says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 11:51 am

      Well said, Mortimer, well said. Islam is not just another religion filled with nice people and a few bad apples. The entire barrel is rotten and the sooner the civilized nations recognize this the more likely they will be to resist successfully the Islamic onslaught. Germany, France and Sweden are beyond hope.

      • Alfonso Bedoya says

        Oct 9, 2019 at 4:31 pm

        Ralph, add the UK to the list, plus Minnesota in the U.S. Looks as if we are both “infidels,” “racists” and “Islamophobes.” As for me, I proudly display those labels. Islam is a corrupt and despicable “religion,” and I predict that at some point, the world will again be faced with fighting these godless pieces of $**t who have now infested what was once considered the “free world.”
        Charlie Hebdo was right all along.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 11:55 am

    Male Muslim marriage of an adult man to a young girl who is really only a child of common in the world of Islam. One of the “reasons” for this female child abuse in Islam is because of the corrupt and perverse wickedness in the hearts of men. This is seen and described in the Bible with reads “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9. [N.K.J.V.]

    Furthermore, another “reason” girl/child marriages occur with middle aged and even old men is because the founder and prophet of Islam Muhammad married a child. Muslims throughout history as well as in current times actually view Muhammad as a “perfect man” and a “great example for them to follow.”

    This well might prove the old saying to be true .The saying is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
    It’s also wise to remember prophet Muhammad did likewise engaged in brutal, ruthless murderous warfare. As do Muslim today such as the jihadist Muslim of ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah Hamas and so forth. Many that old saying, just sited above, also explains the excuse for Muslim terrorism in the world today.

    Jesus Himself Taught “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. Which might explain the vile child “marriage” of Muhammad and his violent and deadly behavior .Likewise also explains the twenty- first century Muslims who in child marriages and blood and murderous violence of Islam .As they see the prophet Muhammad d as their example of who to follow.

    With all this about the fruits of Islam along with fruits history reveals about the life of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad .It thus further appropriate to make known that it might be in keeping with teaching of Jesus that Muhammad could well have been an actual prophet . Nevertheless the very most important thing to understand is the Muhammad was not a prophet send by God . Instead Muhammad was a lying deceptive false prophet send by Satan to start a false religion to lead many people astray. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7:15.

  7. Infidel says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    Thank you, President Bush!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 8:27 pm

      You can’t blame President Bush for Muslim pedophilia. This dates back to the “Prophet”.

      • Ralph says

        Oct 9, 2019 at 11:53 am

        It was an addled Bush 43 who blathered that “Islam is a religion of peace”.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2019 at 12:19 am

          Sadly, many in the West have bought this Taqiyya. It was harmful that Bush did so; going from that to the implication that he created Islamic pedophilia is pretty questionable.

  8. European pagan says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 2:01 pm

    A normal man would never do this kind of things with a 9 years old CHILD. Only sick, disgusting, pervert pedophile men. And muthaa marriage is prostitution. We can see again that a this kind of religion is not from God.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 8:31 pm

      +1

  9. Rarely says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 2:36 pm

    There is absolutely no justification for having sexual relations with a 9 year old. What is an acceptable age? Civilized societies have made arbitrary decisions on this to prevent abuse. We may not have got it “perfect” but at least we are trying. One line is very clear though — if you, an adult male, find a nine year old girl to be sexually attractive to the point where you can’t control yourself you have a major league problem which can easily be straightened out by placing you in with the general prison population.

  10. SB says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 4:58 pm

    If an adult male finds a nine year old girl sexually attractive, quite simply, he is afraid of grown women.

    • Rarely says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 6:10 pm

      Personally, I couldn’t care less about the psychology involved. Paedophilia is simply not to be tolerated in civilized society. If you suffer from such “urges” then just suffer or get professional help. There is absolutely no justification for acting on them. And I don’t care if your mother breast fed you or not.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 8, 2019 at 8:40 pm

        +1

  11. Lotus says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 8:07 pm

    The Guardian has a good article about the BBC investigation.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/pleasure-marriages-iraq-baghdad-bbc-investigation-child-prostitution

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 8, 2019 at 9:05 pm

      Thanks for that link, Lotus.

    • Lotus says

      Oct 9, 2019 at 3:53 am

      A quote from to Guardian article:

      // After Reem’s husband was killed by an Isis bomb in 2016, she and her two children became homeless.

      Reem said that when she approached a well-known cleric for alms, he had sex with her and pimped her out to his friends. Reem doesn’t name the cleric, but describes him as powerful and well-known in her community. //

      How disgraceful. It gives the lie to the frequent Muslim claims that they collect alms to help, among others, widows and orphans.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 10, 2019 at 12:20 am

        Yes–more like a wolf among sheep than anything else.

        This is what Islam is like.

  12. gravenimage says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 9:07 pm

    Iraq: Girls as young as 9 sold for sex in temporary marriages, Muslim cleric says “According to Sharia, no problem”
    ……………….

    Horrible–but this is all mainstream Islam.

  13. TKF says

    Oct 8, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    Among the myriad other horrible, barbaric things Islam is…..it is first and foremost a huge Rape Mafia.

  14. Ian Marshall says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 12:51 pm

    Unfortunately, as usual with this kind of programme, there was NO discussion during or after the programme to explain this dreadful business – ie, the islamic tenets, sayings and doings of Mohammed, habits of everyday Muslims worldwide, etc. It was just another BBC programme, another OMG horror show, about dodgy foreign people. If it had been about cruelty to animals, people would have been phoning in asking how to contribute to its prevention.

  15. Ian Marshall says

    Oct 9, 2019 at 1:04 pm

    Um – just checked out the webpages [Mailonline & BBC] too, and again NO analysis or explanations offered. To our media it`s just News/Entertainment. It`ll be on ****** Gogglebox next.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 10, 2019 at 12:21 am

      Yes–the horrors of Islam are so seldom traced to Islam itself.

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