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UK: Shi’ites demand removal of BBC documentary on temporary marriage, it’s “disrespectful” to Shi’ite Islam

Oct 19, 2019 4:00 pm 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

The BBC so far is not complying with the Shi’ite demands to take down this documentary, but expect it to cave in soon. Not to do so would be “Islamophobic.”

“17,000 sign petition demanding BBC removes from iPlayer its ‘pleasure marriages’ expose on how Iraqi Muslim clerics sell young girls for sex because it’s ‘disrespectful’ to Shia Islam,” by Martin Robinson, Mailonline, October 15, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

More than 17,000 people have demanded the BBC take down a documentary about young Iraqi girls being sold for sex – calling it ‘disrespectful’ to law-abiding Shia Muslims.

The corporation broadcast ‘Undercover With The Clerics – Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade’ on October 3 – an investigation into sexual exploitation of children and young women by clerics in Iraq.

Journalists caught clerics offering ‘pleasure marriages’ to girls as young as nine – where men banned from sex outside marriage can pay a dowry for an interim wife.

The practice is banned in Iraq but eight out of 10 Shia clerics who were approached were willing to carry it out, the BBC World investigation found.

But now more than 17,000 people have signed an e-petition demanding the BBC removes the show from iPlayer.

The petition to the change.org petition – set up by ‘Mo K’ – accused the corporation of ‘cherry-picking’ […] ‘misguided men who do not represent Shia Islam in any way’.

But a BBC spokesman told MailOnline it won’t be deleted and said: ‘This thorough investigation was conducted over an 11-month period and exposes the sexual exploitation of children and young women. The documentary fully complies with BBC Editorial Guidelines.’

The petition said the programme was made to ‘tarnish the image of Iraq and Shias worldwide’.

It claimed the women and girls in the show ‘did not know that it was being used to belittle Shia Islam’ and their words ‘would be used against their faith’….

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  1. DHazard says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    Life would be absolutely unbearable for publicly devout Muslims if there weren’t loopholes in Islam. In Islam the letter of the law matters way more than the spirit.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 8:17 pm

      Yeah–because marrying up to four women and girls; instant, no-strings-attached divorce, and an unending parade of sex slaves is not enough for pious Muslims.

      • mortimer says

        Oct 20, 2019 at 12:50 am

        Agree with GI, but it’s not just the ‘limit’ of chattels allowed. ALLAH’S APOSTLE PERMITTED IT, so it has divine blessing as long as Mohammed’s words are remembered..

        Mohammed at first instituted temporary marriage for his jihadists who ‘missed their wives’. Then later, Mohammed cancelled the practice of temporary marriage (a form of prostitution). Shortly before Mohammed’s death, he REINSTITUTED ‘muta’, temporary marriage.

        The REINSTITUTION of muta was NEVER CANCELLED OUT, so it REMAINS IN EFFECT … even for Sunnite Muslims.

        This mullahs thinks that people will hate Islam if they know their dirty secrets. Let’s admit it … he’s right. They will hate it if they find that Islam has a ‘religious prostitution’ teaching. A muta marriage can last only an hour if need be.

    • El Cid says

      Oct 21, 2019 at 2:45 pm

      A key point of the article is the statement: It claimed the women and girls in the show ‘did not know that it was being used to belittle Shia Islam’ and their words ‘would be used against their faith’…”

      Lefists and so-called Feminists who promote Islamic culture do not understand that it is not enough for these women and girls to be treated as chattel slaves, but they must also defend their oppressors.

      And, they do it!

      Nothing could be more removed from Western values.

      • Angemon says

        Oct 22, 2019 at 4:48 am

        “Lefists and so-called Feminists who promote Islamic culture do not understand that it is not enough for these women and girls to be treated as chattel slaves, but they must also defend their oppressors.”

        ironically, that (leftists and “feminists”) tends to be the demographics who spearhead the “fight” (i.e., whine on the internet) against “internalized sexism”…

  2. MS MADELEINE DUNN says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    No this is not to denounce Shia religion, it is to expose misogyny, sex slavery and child abuse. When will these people wake up? I realize in muslim dominant countries they have to keep their mouths shut, but here is their chance to break away from this crap, when they are living in Europe. Or, perhaps that is what they fear. The Euro muslims will secularize.

    • Jayell says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 5:56 pm

      How can it be possible for followers of a ‘theocracy’ (that ipso facto presumes all its authority from ‘God’ or ‘Allah’) to ‘secularise’? Because if you dispense with the ‘God’ you automatically lose all presumed justification for the ideology. And if the (‘theocratic’) ideology then continues to function minus its sole source of presumed validation (‘God’; ‘Allah’ or whatever), it is then proved that its presumed validation was bogus from the outset by virtue of the fsct that it’s clearly dispensible. Which then reduces the entire ifeology to the status of a scam. Which, looking at the dubious career and charscter of its founder, not to mention all the ridiculous inconsistencies in the dogma, has been clearly evident all along. Incidentally, it’s curious that this documentary comes from the islam-infested BBC, and that this deplorable cesspir of an organisation has actually demonstrated something resembling moral integrity by not taking it down. Or could it be that it’s hit on a conflict of interest with its other source of contamination, feminism?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 8:22 pm

      Most Muslims have no interest in breaking away from the horrors of Islam, unfortunately.

      • Jayell says

        Oct 20, 2019 at 4:21 pm

        1. Their dogma doesn’t allow them to break away.
        2. They don’t see their ‘horrors’ as ‘horrors’.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 20, 2019 at 7:49 pm

          Right on both counts Jayell.

  3. keya says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    If Shi’ites are so offended by the documentary then they should look into the offending verse which so belittles women and girls.But they will do nothing. After all it is the word of Allah.

    • FYI says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 6:20 pm

      “The word of allah”

      Do ants speak Arabic?Of course not.
      Well,they can in the koran.
      “Oh ants!Enter your dwellings lest solomon and his armies crush you,unperceiving”
      koran 27:18

      Did solomon have an Air Force of Birds?Of course not.
      Well,he did according to the koran
      “Solomon’s armies of the JINN,humankind and BIRDS..”
      koran 27:17

      was the moon ever split in two?Of course not.
      Except in the koran it was…

      “The hour drew near and the moon was split in twain” koran 54:1{my addition “Twas a cold and misty night and the Abdools were out and about,grasping in the darkness,groping..groping,anything female without a hijab”}

      Does the Sun set in a muddy pool?Of course not.
      Except in the koran it does

      Can a newborn infant speak like an adult?Of course not.
      Except it can in the koran.
      koran 19:29-30
      “He spake:lo!I am the slave of allah.he hath given me the scripture and appointed me a prophet” said the INFANT{dawa folk insist this statement is from Jesus:but it isn’t an adult speaking}

      “The word of allah”?

      “And above it are Nineteen”{koran 74:30.Nineteen what?Nobody knows..}

  4. SAFI says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 5:58 pm

    I began watching that documentary on youtube but it got taken down before I could finish all parts. Pretty disgusting stuff… Those muslims who demand it be censored at least they seem aware of how bad this makes their religion look, there could be others who think this is normal and nothing to hide. Ayatollah Khomeini had officially decreed that islamic child marriage was approved by Allah and he even practised it himself.

  5. Wellington says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 6:06 pm

    Shiite Islam, Sunni Islam too, is disrespectful to the spirit and entire corpus of humanity.

    Islam is the longest-lived ideological sham in human history. Anyone wishing to proffer another, which puts Islam in second place in this regard, go ahead and do so. Try it. I aver it can’t be done.

    Yes, here Mo’s creed is the “clear winner” as I view things. Those who view this “matter” differently, give it a shot. Yeah, do so.

  6. Jap says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 6:09 pm

    I was always taught that fear of the truth coming out is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
    So of course if islam is so pure,then why are they so terrified of little things like their rape of children being telecast for all to see.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 8:25 pm

      Few Muslims actually feel badly about this–they just don’t want the ‘filthy Infidels’ to know about it–until it is too late.

      • Westman says

        Oct 20, 2019 at 12:10 am

        That’s it.The message is: “We’ll destroy anyone who says we can’t do what the Prophet did and Shariah allows, and we’ll destroy anyone who says we do it!”

  7. Sun says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 6:14 pm

    Another good documentaty worth to watch:

    https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/080544-000-A/qatar-s-influence-on-european-islam/

    “Qatar Charity, a Middle-Eastern NGO founded in 1992 and present in 70 countries, provides humanitarian aid and development to those in need. But a leaked USB key that surfaced in 2016 reveals another side to the organisation: Islamic centres funded across Europe with links to the Qatari state.”

    (Available on youtube as well )

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 8:28 pm

      Thanks, Sun.

  8. Jack Holan says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 6:33 pm

    The Left and Muslims are Masters at omission and rewriting past and present to create an illusion rather than the picture that reflects fact!

  9. John says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    Isn’t it ironic that the BBC won’t investigate the Muslim rape gangs targeting British girls and defending those girls in the UK, but they are defending the Muslim girls in Iraq.
    Are Muslim girls in Iraq more worthy of protection than UK girls in England?
    Even though they are right to highlight the mistreatment of girls in Iraq, it doesn’t mean the BBC aren’t hypocrites and a disgrace.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 8:29 pm

      I very much take your point–but just seeing the BBC dealing with *any* Muslim savagery is surprising.

    • Cicero says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 6:37 am

      Perhaps because the BBC is stuffed mainly by Sunni Muslims ?

  10. European pagan says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    It is good when people see it how disgusting shia is.

  11. Battle says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    Those poor children have to be with those pigs.

    The imams are criminals perpetrating human child trafficking prostitution.

    • elee says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 11:49 pm

      +1

  12. gravenimage says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 10:09 pm

    UK: Shi’ites demand removal of BBC documentary on temporary marriage, it’s “disrespectful” to Shi’ite Islam
    …………………

    Why should anyone “respect” sacralized prostitution–including of children? Here is more about this BBC documentary:

    “In Iraq, religious ‘pleasure marriages’ are a front for child prostitution”

    BBC investigation exposes Shia clerics in Baghdad advising men on how to abuse girls

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

    That this is so often done at Muslim shrines is especially disgusting–but should not surprise.

    (Never mind this article saying that Muslims are “abusing” Shari’ah law to do this–they are not. But Islam always has to be given a pass, even in the most otherwise hard-hitting exposé)

  13. Lydia Church says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    The problem is with islam, not the exposure of it.
    If that were not the case, there would be nothing to expose!

    • Lotus says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 10:43 pm

      Excellent remark.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 19, 2019 at 10:49 pm

      So true, Lydia!

  14. tim gallagher says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 12:13 am

    I get that these Muslim barbarians try to tell everyone, including people like us who live according to civilised values, that Islam deserves to be respected. The problem is that so many people in our non-Muslim, civilised countries actually believe that islam deserves to be respected. Barbaric Islam doesn’t deserve to be respected in any way whatsoever. If only far more people in the non-Muslim countries knew how foul islam is (such as this grotesque temporary marriage scam and all the other barbaric Islamic practices), then our countries would tell Muslims to get stuffed with your calls for respect. I can’t see anything in Islam that deserves respect. It is like some backward, barbaric left over from mankind’s distant past, even though we are now in the 21st century.

  15. Krishna says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 1:08 am

    Actually BBC responded not to remove docummetry becuase they complied with BBC editorial policy

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 1:12 am

      True, Krishna–the BBC page for this documentary is still up:

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/undercover-with-the-clerics

      I hope the BBC does not cave.

  16. James says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 3:16 am

    In Minneapolis there is some evidence that Ilhan Omar temporarily married her own brother for the sake of immigration scam. The practices of Islam can be brought into the West that easily.

    • J D S p says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 10:15 am

      This writing alone, not to mention all the sword verses and many other insane Muslim writings (Didn’t muhammad say somewhere that he thought he was crazy?,(IF HE EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED)), should be enough to outlaw Islam in the U.S., in fact all western nations….but guess what??? Is lam is classed, along with sane religions, as a RELIGION. .SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT THAT!!!!!

  17. Trick_or_Treat says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 5:19 am

    What gall! More hide than one of our 6 meter saltwater crocodiles! And hasn’t anyone tapped one of these cretins on the shoulder and pointed out to them that this happens to be a western society country they are living in, and that such practices are disrespectful and offensive to OUR particular founding values and community standards? Or, yet again, doesn’t that matter? Only THEIR particular ‘sensitivities’ must have precedence.
    They should be told, and in no uncertain terms, if this is the type of activity they want to propagate and engage in, then F**K OFF back to whatever god-forsaken islamic sandpit they came from and do it over thete, but DON’T DO IT HERE! Because we are NOT going to tolerate it!

  18. Angemon says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 5:22 am

    17,000 sign petition demanding BBC removes from iPlayer its ‘pleasure marriages’ expose on how Iraqi Muslim clerics sell young girls for sex because it’s ‘disrespectful’ to Shia Islam

    “Disrespectful”, but not untrue. Or unislamic – they’re upset their practices are being brought to the light. Can you imagine the face on the so-called “imam of peace”, and all the other taqqyia peddlers who cake a name for themselves denouncing sunni islam and presenting shia islam as being completely in line with Western core values?…

  19. Larry says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 7:28 am

    Interesting choice of words. “Cherry-picking.” No pun intended?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 8:06 pm

      It took me a second–then I got the reference. *Eww*.

  20. Dov Berrol says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 7:45 am

    Can someone please inform the Muslim Ummah that the entire ideology of Islam is too disrespectful to non-Muslims?

  21. Giacomo Latta says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 9:44 am

    I’ve always heard of temporary insanity but the Beeb proves that there is such a thing as temporary sanity, especially given its track record. Let’s hope its not as temporary as it probably is. But who knows? Maybe one of the random victims of a knifing by muslims was a BBC pooh-bah.

  22. Or Else! says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 10:03 am

    Islam blesses horrors of many stripes, but this particular abomination should negate ANY claim to supremacy….save for supreme evil. If an ideology started today, and one of its precepts was that child marriage/rape was a-ok with their “god”….it’d be laughed out of the room before being investigated fully.

    If anybody’s “cherry-picking” Islamic texts, it’s the apologist looking for “peaceful” verses that appeal to the West’s version of peace. And we know those cherries have all been abrogated anyway.

  23. Jim says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 10:41 am

    You to think this is isolated? This comes from source texts. This is Islam. There should be a global investigation on Islam regarding this issue. This is not just Iraq.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 8:06 pm

      So true–this is not just Iraq.

  24. Goofy says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    The notion of Allah being the same god as God of the Jews and the Christians hinges on the acceptance of Prophet Muhammad’s claim to be a descendant of Ismael. There is no evidence for that. Therefore we have to rely on a comparison of the commands of Allah and of the Jewish and Christian God to prove or disprove their possible sameness. Allah’s prescription for a “religious” contractual formula of prostitution doesn’t fit into the picture of the Jewish and Christian God, who as opposed to Allah is not unknowable, but who is known to the Christians as we read in John 14:8-10. This is just to take one example. Allah’s paradise is a whorehouse for men. In Christianity there will be no eternal life for those who commit themselves to sexual immorality as encouraged by Islam.

  25. Benny S says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 3:41 pm

    This report is currently available to watch on Amazon. It is free if you are a prime member.

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