This means that Switzerland will only see more child marriage, because as Muslim migrants stream into the country, many of them will bring with them certain attitudes. Child marriage is sanctioned in Islam.
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.
“20 minutes – Nesrin (17) remains a wife because authority does nothing,” En24News, November 7, 2019:
Every week, up to eleven people report to the Center for Forced Marriage, the federal center of excellence. One in three is still a minor. “There are more than ever,” says Anu Sivaganesan, 32, president of the Department of Forced Marriage. In 2018, the department looked after 119 cases of minority marriages. Most of those affected are Kurds from Iraq and Syria or they come from Turkey, Afghanistan or Somalia.
“The main reason for this is the cult of the virginity of women,” said the president of the office of forced marriage. In Switzerland, families see the danger that their daughter may have sex before marriage. Because here you do not live separately according to the sex. “In order to honor the family’s honor, the daughter is then married or engaged abroad as a minor,” said the President.
Two young women who were married as girls and live in Switzerland are Samira (19) and Nesrin (17). So that they can not be identified, their names and countries of origin have been changed. These are her stories.
Samira is Swiss and born here, her parents are from Syria. She was 15 when she was married by telephone to her husband in Syria. A year later, following pressure from the family, the ritual marriage abroad followed.
Last year, Samira became 18th. By reaching the age of majority, child marriage in Switzerland became legally binding. When the young woman realized that, she tried to commit suicide: “I swallowed my father’s pills. But I survived. “With the recognized marriage, her husband, who still lives in Syria, has been given the right to family reunification. He also wants to use this: he will enter Switzerland in the coming days. A disaster for Samira: “Why does Switzerland recognize my child marriage? I do not want to be married! “The 19-year-old is now trying desperately with the help of the office forced marriage to prevent the entry of her husband…
How can it be that Switzerland recognizes marriages without first examining them? Child marriage is not regarded as forced marriage in Switzerland and is therefore not prohibited. But the review of such cases by means of balance of interests is in the criticism. Anu Sivaganesan: “The balancing of interests usually lasts until the person concerned comes of age and the marriage is automatically valid in Switzerland as well.” The Greens and the SVP now want to act. “Basically, it has to be assumed that marriages of under 16 years old are a forced marriage,” says SVP National Councilor Therese Schlapfer. A similar motion was submitted at the end of September. The Department of Forced Marriage, Center of Competence of the Federal Government, sees the same. The department proposes not to recognize marriages abroad before the age of 18 in Switzerland….
James says
There does not seem to be any solution except to capitulate to the Muslims. The alternative is to face more violence, terrorism and propaganda assaults from the Muslims in Europe and their supporters in Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia or America, etc. Of course the Swiss could try to impose Western values on the Muslims, but that would be so easily circumvented. And all the globalist internationalist politicians are on the side of continued mass immigration. The Swiss would have to do things like leaving Schengen, enforcing their borders, stopping Muslim immigration, punishing crimes by immigrants. But that is not likely. The only people Europe seems willing to put pressure on are other Westerners, not on 3rd world migrants. To do otherwise would be racist and unjust. So simply decide what to do, resist the invasion or submit and pay lip service to Western values.
gravenimage says
James, if you think that submitting to the horrors of Islam will lead to less Muslim violence, you are much mistaken. (apologies if the above is sarcasm).
Wellington says
Seconded. Indeed, submission will only encourage Muzzies to more atrocities against the hated kuffaar (kafir).
The only way to deal with evil, and Islam is evil, is to stand up to it. With this approach you have a fighting chance. With any other approach you do not.
gravenimage says
Entirely true, Wellington.
revereridesagain says
Of course, should Samira be raped and impregnated by her “husband”, she will have NO rights over her own body, as there will be a fertilized egg inside her which is an “innocent human being” with “rights” she no longer possesses. To oppose forced underage marriage you have to recognize the girl as a sovereign human being with the right of ownership of all of her body, including her reproductive organs. If she is controlled by people who believe a god has delegated her body to the ownership of others, what rights does she have?
Samira is now trying desperately to assert her right as an adult who does not wish to be married — in effect, her right to “divorce” this stranger to whom she has been “legally” bound against her will — and that is being opposed by supposedly “enlightened” Westerners blathering about “a balancing of interests” even as the poor girl tries to commit suicide. (But of course, that is a “sin” for which she must be “punished”!)
The things people will do to preserve their comforting and empowering beliefs in supernatural intervention continue to horrify me. Perhaps the motive of the Swiss authorities is merely the preservation of their, well, “authority” and keeping a comforting peace with their Muslim invaders. But would these Swiss men and women opposing Samira’s freedom from the threat of rape do the same to their own daughters?
Apparently.
Infidel says
I thought that in Europe, like in the US, women won the right to abortion in all cases: in the US, even post-birth abortion is something whose legality is yet to be determined. But if you’re suggesting that all that can be overturned if the ‘husband’ happens to be a Muslim, it would be a surreal moment indeed. I can’t wait to watch the Left tear itself apart on this issue, while the Right ducks it altogether: wouldn’t wanna be pro-abortion, but wouldn’t wanna embrace Muslim pedos either
gravenimage says
Islam is not anti-abortion in many cases, either.
Infidel says
In case of women impregnated by Muslims, it is. In case of women impregnated by Infidels, it’s not
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“By reaching the age of majority, child marriage in Switzerland became legally binding.”
“Child marriage is not regarded as forced marriage in Switzerland and is therefore not prohibited.”
Time to change the law Switzerland. Two fundamentals of Western Civilization are: a woman’s right to choose who she marries and when, and that minors are always unable to form consent.
Battle says
Flavius Claudius Iulianus: +1 and +1
gravenimage says
It is grotesque that a child marriage becomes legally binding in Switzerland if the rapist can remain undetected until his victim reaches the age of 18.
Heidi says
Even though we have a law setting the legal age for marriage in Germany at 18 years old, the highest German court does not shy away from bypassing the law and giving people food for thought https://clarionproject.org/has-germany-just-okd-child-marriage/
gravenimage says
Awful, Heidi.
Richard A. O'Keefe says
The thing that puzzles me is that the age of consent in Switzerland is 16.
If a girl is too young to consent to sex, how can she be old enough to consent to marriage? How can a marriage she is not old enough to consent to *not* a forced “marriage”?
Carol the 1st says
Tricky questions. Is “diddling” considered “sex”? Is “consent to marriage” considered “consent to sex”? There’s an old video where a muslim describes indirectly witnessing/overhearing Ayatollah Khomeini’s one night “temporary marriage” to a four year old girl. Next day the great man sensed his disturbed feelings and kindly described the proper etiquette required for such a “dalliance”:
Khomeini Sexually Assaulting Crying and screaming 4 year old Girl,with parental consent MIRROR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60MC3bVFG6s
Merri-joy says
The Swiss Government and ALL Governments of the world have a DUTY of CARE to protect young girls!
The so called “Marriage of men to young girls is OVERT Peadaphilia!
IF the Muslim leaders were really seeking to HONOR GOD – the ONE TRUE GOD of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob – he ordained Marriage as between one man & one woman!
Shame on the Government of Switzerland!
Battle says
Merri-joy: +1
Walter Sieruk says
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.
Carol the 1st says
Some evil people need no excuse. Guilt-less psychopaths are likely able to indulge in pedophilia with ease (whether they actually act more frequently on such impulses is another question). This makes you wonder about how psychopathy ties in with ethnic/cultural differences but it seems there are few studies outside of North America. One article states:
“In 2015, Dr Robert Latzman and his team conducted a cross-national comparison of psychopathy across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United States. They found that behaviors were similar across different cultures, but also that there are possible cross-cultural differences in traits such as “cold-heartedness” in the Middle East.6” Here’s the link for those interested in this “deviation”:
6Latzman RD, Megraya AM, Hecht LK, Miller JD, Winiarski DA, Lilienfeld SO. Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: a cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States [published online October 29, 2015]. BMC Psychology. doi: 10.1186/s40359-015-0095-y
Carol the 1st says
Psychopathy among our “leaders” and the abundance of pedophilia per Jeffrey Epstein and his Lolita Express seem to show a link between talented psychopaths and such behaviour. It certainly looks like the world needs to find a way to weed these people out of leadership roles.
Carol the 1st says
I think muslim fanatics need to have their brains studied scientifically. In a video I watched the other day a neuroscientist describes how he accompanied an extremely well-qualified peer as she drove along with the bottled brain of John Wayne Gacey nestled beside her. She was to study his brain and he asked her what she expected she might find. She told him to always remember an important scientific principle (I forget exactly who first uttered it, but it went something like this):
“You don’t understand someone in death, you only can begin to understand them through the living brain”. In the video it showed a person going through a circular scanning machine.
Google shows this:
Scans Show Psychopaths Have Brain Abnormalities. … “Using MRI scans we found that psychopaths had structural brain abnormalities in key areas of their ‘social brains’ compared to those who just had ASPD,” he said. He noted there is a clear difference between those with ASPD and those with ASPD+P.
A link given was:
Scans Show Psychopaths Have Brain Abnormalities
https://psychcentral.com/news/2012/05/11/scans-show-psychopaths-have-brain-abnormalities/38540.html
[the article seems to refer brain area “activity” and not to physical structure]
Carol the 1st says
In the PsychCentral article below ASPD subjects (anti-social personality disorder) were described as “HOT-HEADED” whereas ASPD+P (plus psychopathy) were described as “COLD-BLOODED”. Does this translate as Latzman’s Middle East “cold-heartedness”?
Mario Alexis Portella says
Prophet Muhammad was nothing but a sick, raping pedophile and a murderer
gravenimage says
+1
Battle says
“Therefore whatever you would want men to do to you, do to them also,” –Saint Matthew 7:13
Battle says
Doesn’t the Swiss government have Family Court provided attorney for divorce filing?
Until the divorce is approved, I recomend as a body spray: ((13%(?) dehydrated pork fat)) Silver Bullet Gun Oil.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
“Child marriage is not regarded as forced marriage in Switzerland and is therefore not prohibited”
To civilized people forcing anyone, young or old, to marry against their own will is a humanitarian crime. But a new age is emerging for islam where sex with children ain’t so bad, and who needs free speech and religious liberty anyway, sarc off. This is how islam is corrupting the morals and laws of Western society, by stealth and political subversion, terrorism is only one facet of their jihad against us. This is all part of the islamic mindset, where misogynist control and terror against unbelievers is actually a crucial element of their “faith” and cultural unity. Islam is more akin to gangsterism than religious devotion, the muslim people are guided by a psychopathic god of self-interested bigotry and hate. I find it shocking and appalling that the West is selling out children for islam, the UK is the best-worst example of this. When I was young the “sexploitation” of even one kid was a dramatic crime that deserved the worst punishment the law can provide. But times are changing where all cultures are equal even though they aren’t, and where almost every POV garners respect even if it’s blatantly criminal but somehow connected to islam. This new paradigm is supposed to be eclectic and wise with its pretended good intentions, a kind of universal respect for the world’s cultures even if it kills us. It’s sad and infuriating that a humanitarian crime like child rape and abuse is politicized and debated rather than treated with disgust and swift action like it should be. But this is how muslims’ cultural jihad operates, like a skilled tap dancer that too often manages to evade criticism or legal ramification. The left has created an atmosphere of soft bigotry toward muslims that says they’re just too d*amn retarded to know the difference between right or wrong, let’s just ease these poor souls into our civilized society at their own pace. You won’t get such bigotry from Mr. Spencer, a man who has extended the hand of good will by proffering truthful exchange with anyone including muslims about these issues. God bless the man (I say god bless for those I admire or love even though I’m an atheist. It’s a curious thing I don’t understand myself, like an expression of my highest praise or good will for that person.) Instead of standing firmly against crimes against kids it’s swept under the rug as in the UK, all for the sake of multiculturalism with people who live for a religious cult that eschews multiculturalism to the point of mass murder and war. I readily admit, I don’t know much, I ain’t that smart. But one thing I do know with certainty is that the way islam treats girls and women is a humanitarian crime that the West must fight against completely. There’s no room for compromise with child/female abuse of any kind, or we ourselves become pigs just like those muslims that promote these sick ideas as godly truth to be followed.
“Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.” — Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology
And that’s just one more reason of many that make islamic ideology evil and why it does not deserve a welcome acceptance in our schools, our politics, or our neighborhoods, in my opinion. No debate, no argument about it. No moral and free nation should allow it to influence us when it so crudely threatens our own best nature and our national well-being, and we should be willing to fight to the death to defend our good moral principles and laws against it.
Michael Poulin says
Western elites WANT child marriage so they can have sex with children…their ultimate aim..Why do you think Jeff Epstein lasted so long????
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
There’s much truth in that. Islam has a way of tapping into some peoples worst nature, and sex with kids is no doubt a temptation to many of our leftists that shill for islam. I can’t count the times I’ve heard about some half hearted muslim or a recent convert who–after they got much more involved with the mosque and doctrines of islam–went on some rampage of murder or spousal abuse because islam gave them the green light in their own depraved mind. Islam has that effect for so many because people readily use religion to justify their own misdeeds, and when you have a god like allah then nothing is off the table. Islamic doctrines are so depraved in places and so bereft of good moral sense that it’s a menace to society, has been for 1400 years.
Carol the 1st says
Being anti-human it would attract frustrated misfits who crave more “self-expression”.
gravenimage says
Actually, child marriage by Infidels is *very* rare in the West.
pantar says
Michael Poulin muslim men are already marrying girls in Islamic countries and then bringing them back to the UK. The British government doesn’t want to appear islamaphobic so they don’t bother making any laws prohibiting this disgusting practice.
That being said, what’s to stop some British born white guy from converting to Islam, taking 4 young white girls to Pakistan, converting them as well, marrying all 4 and bringing them back to merry old England to live in his London flat?
And all thanks to the religion of peace and pedophilia.
gravenimage says
“Child marriage is not regarded as forced marriage in Switzerland and is therefore not prohibited”
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The marriage age in Switzerland is 18, so I don’t understand how this *isn’t* illegal.
Carol the 1st says
It seems they’re acting out globalism rather than openly confessing to it. No borders and therefore no laws or culture to defend?
Rolf Wittwer says
A Swiss survey among 20’530 persons (20 minutes-Newspaper) confirmed, that 91% are strictly
against Child-marriage. So they are against construction of islamic minarets too – after an according democratic voting by the Swiss Citizens in the year 2009.
No Muzzies Here says
Child marriage + ability to have 4 wives + free housing and benefits will lead to rapid population growth. Switzerland was once a nice place to visit. That will be changing.
OLD GUY says
Follow the money! The Swiss banks are loaded with muslim cash and don’t want to risk loosing it. If your a tourist you might want to take Switzerland off your travel plans or as I have most of Europe.
Carol the 1st says
They say the Chinese never place their chips on where morality lies but on where the money leads and lures.
Angemon says
Misleading – this is not Swiss families upholding Swiss tradition.
patriotliz says
Documented proof that ISLAM IS EVIL and has no place in the West. The WEST is SHOCKED! SHOCKED! and OUTRAGED by pedophile Priests which results in condemnation of the entire Catholic Church even though these pedophile priests and their enablers are SINNERS in the eyes of their religion and criminals in the eyes of Western Law.
BUT, BUT…. the West capitulates to child rape per the Islamic “religion” and per Islamic Sharia Law. What we have here is a case of low expectations of morality from Muslims. Ditto with regards to FGM, honor killing, torture/killing of infidels, slavery, polygamy, abuse of women, etc. and no one will OPENLY ADMIT that Islam is indeed EVIL. Muslims are not expected to be MORAL in terms of our Western sensibility of morals because everything about Western civilization is corrupt and evil—don’t you know? So WHO are we to judge Islamic mores? Let ISLAM take over…we apparently have ZERO moral authority over them when they invade our culture. We have submitted to Islam and the West has no self-esteem and thus we will be eliminated to make way for Islamization.
As Islam expands, the Free World shrinks. It’s a Darwinian thing…survival of the fittest not the survival of the most righteous, civilized or humane.
Carol the 1st says
They say psychopaths (shrewd, clever, manipulative, grasping, and cold-blooded) may have been the “warrior” breed of the human race. They aren’t “ill”, they are “different” and they have some distinct survival advantages over others – the humane majority.
In one video I heard mention of the Nordic “Berserkers” as an example (will have to look into that). Thank goodness for the Internet as nowadays there’s far more hope we can apply philosophy and sane thinking to this pointless, destructive scourge that knows how to “push our buttons”.