“Prosecutor Catherine Duffy outlined how Jafari had told the neighbour: ‘Look, she’s four-years-old and she loves it.’ ‘The defendant walked off down the street laughing and making a masturbating gesture,’ she told Bradford Crown Court.”
If this were a non-Muslim purveying child pornography, would he have avoided jail? What do you think? And where did Ali Jafari get the idea that it was amusing and sexually exciting to see a little girl being raped? Could his reverence for Muhammad have led him to think of children as sexual objects? Islamic apologists in the West routinely deny that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and go through all sorts of contortions to deny the evidence of the texts, but the fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world, even by the directorate of religious affairs in once-“moderate” albeit now rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey, most clearly shows their dishonesty. The Diyanet wouldn’t approve of child marriage if it weren’t Islamic, as it explains in its own defense. And child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
“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.
These kinds of incidents are where such thinking leads.
“Man showed ‘vile’ video clip to neighbour of girl, 4, being raped,” by By Jo Winrow, Telegraph and Argus, November 19, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A 22-YEAR-old refugee has avoided jail after admitting showing a neighbour a “vile” video clip of a four-year-old girl being raped.
Ali Jafari, who fled Iran, was living in a hostel at Cross Lane, Great Horton, when he was sent the three-minute clip depicting the clearly distressed young girl in March last year.
But instead of deleting it, he saved it in a password protected area on his phone and showed it to a neighbour, who reported him to police.
Prosecutor Catherine Duffy outlined how Jafari had told the neighbour: “Look, she’s four-years-old and she loves it.”
“The defendant walked off down the street laughing and making a masturbating gesture,” she told Bradford Crown Court….
[The judge] sentenced Jafari to a two years in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered that he be placed on the sex offenders’ register for ten years and be subject to a sexual harm prevention order for the same period.
Jafari, who had no previous convictions in this country, must also completed 250 hours of work in the community and 40 rehabilitation activity days.
Barrister Rebecca Young said that Jafari claimed to have kept the video clip as he was going to report it to police. He also kept screen shots of the video being sent to him and the messages that were sent with it.
At the time he replied, “Oh God repent”, she added.
She said Jafari was adamant he had no sexual interest in children, but it was conceded that the single video was “serious enough”.
“It comes down to ill-judgement and immaturity on his part,” she added.
Or something like that.