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Nigeria: Muslim cleric shares Facebook post about how a five-year-old girl raped an adult male

Jun 11, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Clearly Dr. Mansur Sokoto is trying to justify the practice of child marriage, which 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.

“Sokoto Cleric Sparks Outrage For Sharing Story On How Five-year-old Girl ‘Raped’ Adult Male,” Sahara Reporters, June 7, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A Sokoto State-based Islamic Cleric, Dr Mansur Sokoto, has sparked outrage on social media for sharing someone’s Facebook post, which narrated the story of how a five-year-old girl raped an adult male.

Although the story portrayed the five-year-old girl as the one, who seduced the adult male, many commentators said it was a case of an adult raping a minor and portraying the victim as seductress.

Dr Sokoto, who has a large following on Facebook, shared the post at a time there is a growing condemnation against rape across Nigeria.

Many see the post shared by the cleric as an attempt to change the narrative on rape and blame women and girls for the scourge….

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  1. Rishi Sarin says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    islam is a Religion of Lust, Violence. Blind Belief & Blind Faith…
    A religion born out of fear, insecurity and lust for power .
    A fucking bigot who copied Jewish and Christian beliefs and created another faith knowing well how stupid followers can be. A dark faith which celebrates hatred of life and extols the non existent afterlife…

    • Uma Maheswar Nakka says

      Jun 12, 2020 at 2:10 am

      You are very much true

    • william carr says

      Jun 12, 2020 at 7:03 am

      Just basic Islam it is always the woman’s and of course always the Jews fault too

  2. spiro says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    This is to insane to even earn a comment
    Once again the religion of the insane

  3. Rarely says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 3:39 pm

    Too incredible to believe that he would even say such a thing. A clear candidate for Monster-of-the-Year and we aren’t even half way through.
    It’s now open season on 5 year olds ?????
    What’s next ???

    • E T says

      Jun 12, 2020 at 3:13 pm

      Thighing babies is a fun past time for the barbarians.

  4. owensgate says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    There’s a new level of stupidity in the World, let’s call it “Hyperstupidity”, because I’ll go on record here saying a “five year old girl” cannot even form the IDEA of “rape” in her mind, let alone force coitus on an adult male. Period. Full stop. One wave of delusion after another. What a sickness is islam.

    • Carole Brown says

      Jun 12, 2020 at 1:46 pm

      It is just as you say and I don`t understand how there are so many followers of this heinous so-called religion because it is so evil and has no regard for the well being of human life, women and girls in particular!

  5. Mobuyus says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 4:24 pm

    This sack of shit is as foul as his death cult.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 5:18 pm

    Nigeria: Muslim cleric shares Facebook post about how a five-year-old girl raped an adult male
    ……………….

    How did she “rape” him? Was her hair uncovered?

    What he means is that an adult Muslim male raped a little five-year-old child, but it was her fault because he was so aroused by her prepubescent charms.

    God, I hate Islam.

  7. keith O says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 5:19 pm

    This is nothing more than the sick fantasy of a pedophile.
    Just imagine the reaction from the world if this was put up by a non Muslim.
    AND, the big question is HOW DOES THIS NOT BREACH FARCEBOOKS MORAL STANDARDS????

    • E T says

      Jun 12, 2020 at 3:16 pm

      EXACTLY—There are lots of monsters in the tech business.

  8. mortimer says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 6:02 pm

    Dr Mansur Sokoto needs a psychiatrist. Islam should be psychoanalyzed.

  9. RichardL says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    I think there is a lot of wishful thinking on the part of Old Teacozy. Although he would wait until his rapist is 9 years old.

  10. tim gallagher says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 6:30 pm

    My immediate reaction to this report was, just like Mortimer’s and spiro’s comments up above, this guy is fucking insane. Yeah, right, a 5 year old girl, raging with lust, raped a man. Yeah, that makes sense, if you are completely insane. But I find so much of Islam’s disgusting views about the way human life should be lived, completely insane. Evil is a better word for islam, but, a lot of its primitive garbage (honour killings, the calls to murder non-Muslims, the child brides, and so on,) are just fucking insane by any even slightly civilised view of life. Islam is off the charts in its evil and its sheer insanity. I suspect that, even way back in the 7th century, a lot of Islam’s garbage was seen by civilised people as evil and insane beyond belief. It is hard to believe some of the sick garbage that these Muslim maggots come out with, this man’s evil garbage being a clear example.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 11, 2020 at 8:10 pm

      tim, maybe we should just refer to islam as “evil insanity”.

      • tim gallagher says

        Jun 11, 2020 at 11:28 pm

        I think you’re right, James. It’s that mad or bad debate you get when dealing with some criminals. Islam is definitely both mad and bad. On this case, this absolutely extraordinary, truly unbelievable rubbish that this Muslim clown has said, that a 5 year old girl “raped” a man, I was thinking how ludicrous this is. I was wondering, did the girl have a knife, did she force herself on this poor grown man, did she overpower him and have her way with him. It is amazing that this Muslim clown could say something as self-evidently absurd as what he has said. But these Muslim spokesmen often do come up with stuff which would lead most people to say, did he really say that? It is definitely some other, very sick, planet, not the one most of us live on, that they inhabit.

  11. Naram-Sin says

    Jun 11, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    Muslim logic: Man forces himself on a innocent child. This means:
    1. the 5 year old raped the adult male
    2. because the child raped the adult male, the Jews are responsible.
    3. because the Jews caused it, Muslims murder unsuspecting Christians in a foreign country thousands of miles away.

    News Media Logic: Because Muslims killed Christians, it is Trump’s fault because he is a racist.

    Democrat Logic: Because of the forgoing the US has to apologize and impeach Trump.

    Facebook Logice: Because of the forgoing Robert Spencer has to be banned again.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 11, 2020 at 7:02 pm

      Just brilliant, Naram-Sin.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 12, 2020 at 8:30 am

        +1

  12. Uma Maheswar Nakka says

    Jun 12, 2020 at 2:17 am

    Isn’t it idiotic, how can a 5 year old know about sex and can she dominate an adult male.
    Definitely it is other way round and no doubt.

    These Muslim men are master craftsmen capable in manipulating everything, including religious scripts.

  13. Patrick B. Ludwig says

    Jun 12, 2020 at 3:49 am

    Mahomet was NOT a pedophile. He was a power driven and evil predator who wanted to force anybody who met his fancy into sexual submission.
    At best, he was a common criminal, comparable to a robber or war criminal taking pleasure in humiliating his victims with rape.
    A depraved and disgusting character fully responsible for his acts.
    Do not give him the grace of a medical condition, aka. pedophily – to explain his actions.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 12, 2020 at 2:46 pm

      Patrick B. Ludwig wrote:

      Mahomet was NOT a pedophile. He was a power driven and evil predator who wanted to force anybody who met his fancy into sexual submission.
      ……………………….

      There are two types of pedophiles. The first is very rare: someone who is *only* attracted to prepubescent children.

      The second is much more common: some creep who takes advantage of anyone who they can easily coerce and abuse–this may include children, the frail elderly, the disabled and mentally disabled, and those who are emotionally disturbed.

      The “Prophet” was not the former–he also married and raped other than underaged girls.

      But the idea that he was not a pedophile is *quite* false–most men who are even marginally mentally healthy will not touch a prepubescent child–so Muhammed *was* very much a pedophile.

      More:

      At best, he was a common criminal, comparable to a robber or war criminal taking pleasure in humiliating his victims with rape.
      ……………………….

      Yes, this describes this thug. This is not inconsistent with his being a pedophile.

      More:

      A depraved and disgusting character fully responsible for his acts.
      Do not give him the grace of a medical condition, aka. pedophily – to explain his actions.
      ……………………….

      *Anyone* who rapes a child is a pedophile–he need not be *exclusively* attracted to prepubescent girls.

      • E T says

        Jun 12, 2020 at 3:22 pm

        Hanging is good.

  14. OLD GUY says

    Jun 12, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    How can a man of God/Allah make such an ignorant and vile statement about a child rape. A five year old girl is not a rapist of an adult male, that is only the dream of a vary sick pedophile. Islam is truly the guide for pedophiles and violent criminals, it justifies all sorts of ugly actions by men who should be locked up forever.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 13, 2020 at 1:53 am

      God and Allah are not the same figure. Islam preaches just this sort of abuse of women and girls–Judaism and Christianity, not so much.

  15. islamic mirror says

    Jun 13, 2020 at 6:06 am

    a hadith depicting Muhammad lying next to a dead woman in her grave, as well as pointing to hadith categories called “intercourse with a dead woman,”
    Muhammad had sex with a dead Aunt fatima (ali’s mother ).
    Allah was the slave of muhammad. Muhammad made sex with his dead aunty fatima (ali’s mother ). How a man can do this? Satan was born in the form of muhammad.
    ” The Muslim legal text, al-Sharwani’s Hawashi,
    confirms that sex with a dead woman is not sinful or wrong according to Islamic law. This law is based on the example set by Muhammad. According to the hadith, Muhammad had sex with a dead woman before she was put in the grave.
    The gravediggers were so embarrassed that they proceeded to bury the woman’s corpse and the prophet with dirt, exclaiming, “O Prophet, we see you do a thing you never did with anyone else.” Muhammad answered: “I have dressed her in my shirt so that she may be dressed in heavenly robes, and I have farewell intercourse with her in her grave so that the torments of the grave may be alleviated from her.” Recently a new law was proposed in the Muslim Brotherhood dominated Egyptian parliament. It would allow for “farewell intercourse” with a wife’s dead body. Obviously Muslims know very well about this demented practice by Mohammed. Postmortem sex is apparently a traditional value within Islam. Civilized people call it necrophilia and it’s a criminal act. for whom he had a sick and unhealthy attraction to her.
    Look also Sahih Muslim 34424 (the same case of sex with dead aunt) Commentary of Imam Al-Nawawi on the Hadith Sahih Muslim: Book 003, Number 0684
    Muhammad having sex with his dead Aunt in the Grave. [“Kanz Al Umal” (The Treasure of the Workers, by Ali Ibn Husam Aldin, commonly known as Al-Mutaki Al-Hindi. He based his book on the hadiths and sayings listed in “Al-Jami Al-Saghir,” written by Jalal ul-Din Al-Suyuti.)
    “‘I (Muhammad) put on her my shirt that she may wear the clothes of heaven, and I slept with her in her coffin (grave) that I may lessen the pressure of the grave. She was the best of Allah’s creatures to me after Abu Talib’… The prophet was referring to Fatima , the mother of Ali. “The Arabic word used here for slept is “Id’tajat,” and literally means “lay down” with her. It is often used to mean, “Lay down to have sex.” then most any debased activity is halal.
    Hadith : ( it is told by Ibn Abbas , who was Muhammad (saw)’s cousin and one of biggest Scholars of Islam . He wrote Tafsir on Quran )
    Read this beautiful Hadith :
    Narrated by Ibn Abbas :
    The Prophet said : ” I (Muhammad) put on her my shirt that she may wear the clothes of heaven , and I slept with her in her coffin (grave) . She was the best of Allah’s creatures to me after Abu Talib “… The Prophet was referring to Fatima ( mother of Ali ) .
    After that act , Muhammad said that because he slept with her , she has become like a wife to him , so she will be considered like a ” mother of the believers “.
    —————-
    Reference : ” Kanz al-Umal ” , by Mutaqi al-Hindi ;
    ” Al-Hujja fi Biyan al-Mahujja “, by Abu Qassim al-Asbahani ;
    ” Al-Jami al-Saghir “, by Jalal Al-Suyuti

    Very depraved man. No father will ever commit such henous crime to have sex with dead daughter
    Hadith Sahih Buchari volume 2, book23, number 374
    Vol 1,book 5,number 259
    Narrated by Anas bin Malik
    We were (in the funeral) of one of the daughters of the prophet and he was sitting by the side of the grave. I saw his eyes shedding tears. He said,”Is there anyone amongyou who did not have sexual relations with his wife last night?” Abu Talha replied in the affirmative. And so the prophet told him getdown in the grave. And sohe got downin her grave

  16. islamic mirror says

    Jun 13, 2020 at 6:12 am

    Those who understand urdu/hindi
    Google
    Dead wife aur choti larkion say sex wali Pakistani Kitab

    Enlish Translation : Sex with dead wife on both sides is permissible.
    Sex with very young girls, is not punishable. if there is any punishment, it should be minor because, a man did not enjoy the girl..
    Ruining of young life is not considered in islam. A Pakistani devote muslim father sent her daughter to do Masters of Religious Studies. She got very disgusted a syllabus book by imam shafi .Streamed in Urdu on Harris Sultan mulhid u tube channel Austrailia . Very brave lady who revealed for this video.
    19 Apr 2020
    dangerous information Is video main aap ko Pakistani MA ki kitab dikhaonga jis main murda biwi aur bachi kay saath sex ki ijaaat dee ja rahi hay.
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