It would have been surprising if the Diyanet had said anything else. 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.
“Turkey’s Religious Affairs Ministry, Authority Over Hagia Sophia Mosque And 2,000 Mosques Around The World, Part II – Statements On Women, Children: Girls Are Permitted To Marry, Become Pregnant At Age Nine; If ‘A Father Lustfully Kisses His Daughter Or Lustfully Hugs Her, The Mother… Becomes Forbidden’ To Him; ‘If He Beats You… Say: “I Will Do Whatever You Like,”‘” MEMRI, August 7, 2020:
The Diyanet’s website said that it was permissible for girls to be married and become pregnant when the reach puberty, and that the minimum age for this for girls was nine, and for boys was 12.[30] The pages were later removed from the website and replaced with a statement that females could get married at age 17 and males at 18.[31] In Turkey in 2018, it was estimated that 483,00 female children were married and that the same year more than 11,000 of them gave birth, of whom 167 were younger than 15 years old.[32]
Diyanet pages saying it is permissible for girls to get married and become pregnant when they reach puberty, the minimum age for which it says is nine.
In January 2016, a user asked the Diyanet via one of its websites: “What is the affect on one’s marriage of feeling lust when kissing one’s daughter?” Fetva.diyanet.gov.tr, the Diyanet’s official fatwa page, answered: “There is a difference of opinion over what happens to a marriage when the father feels lust when kissing his own daughter. According to some sects, for a father to lustfully kiss his daughter or lusfully [sic] hug her, it does not affect the marriage… According to Hanafis, in the event that a father lustfully kisses his daughter or lustfully hugs her, the mother of the daughter becomes haram [forbidden] to the father. But to reach such a conclusion, the holding must be such that skin touches skin, or that the covering is so thin that the heat below it is conveyed. Feeling lust while holding in a thick dress, or while looking at her body and thinking does not cause such a forbiddenness. Also the daughter must be more than nine years old. The sign of feeling lust is the awakening of the man’s organ, or if it is awake, for its wakefulness to increase, and for the woman’s heart to beat with excitement.”[33]
A Diyanet fatwa that reads: “In the event that a father that the father lustfully kisses his daughter or lustfully hugs her, the mother of the daughter becomes haram [forbidden] to the father.”
An entry on Islamansiklopedisi.org.tr, (“Encylopedia of Islam”) a website prepared by the TDV, said that it was not forbidden for someone to marry “a daughter from the former husband of the woman your son married.” One Turkish news outlet announced this ruling in May 2020 with the headline: “Marrying Your Step-Granddaughter Is Halal [Permitted]!”[34] Other outlets mocked the ruling, pointing out that the Diyanet ruled that homosexual marriage was forbidden while such marriages were permitted.
On June 12, 2020, Hüda Kaya, an MP representing the opposition HDP, said, addressing another controversy about Diyanet statements over LGBT people, said: “The Diyanet does not represent me as a Muslim. It is not legitimate… If the Diyanet is going to do its work, if it is going to speak in the name of religion, it should talk about the thievery and the rape of children. It should defend the rights of the boys raped in the Quran schools. It should talk about the corruption and the people who were wrongfully slaughtered.”[35] Others have opposed Diyanet statements and actions with protests and the use of the hashtag and slogan “#DiyanetKapatılsın [#ShutDownTheDiyanet].”[36]
A protester holds up a sign that reads “shut up, Diyanet.”
The March 2016 issue of a children’s magazine that the Diyanet publishes drew reactions for its praise of martyrdom. The magazine included an illustration that read: “May Allah be content with our martyrs, may their graves fill with light.” It showed a father saying to his son: “How great it is to be a martyr!” The son asks: “Would anyone want to be a martyr, dad?” The father answers: “Of course they would, son. Who would not want to achieve paradise!” The issue included lines such as: “The one who is martyred will be so happy in paradise that they will want to be martyred ten times.” And “I wish I too could be a martyr.”
Turkish academic Dr. Serdar Değirmencioğlu, referring to ISIS attacks in Turkey and Europe, Değirmencioğlu said, as reported in a March 2016 article: “They want to spread the message of ‘be a martyr’ with pictures, which they think will be more attractive to children… While Turkey is drowning in pain from these massacres, the Diyanet is trying to spread the ISIS mentality. The Diyanet is trying to spread among children the same mentality, which has opened the way for the deaths of hundreds of people.”[37]
In a cartoon in a Diyanet children’s magazine, a father says to his son: “Of course they would [desire martyrdom], son. Who would not want to achieve paradise!”
On January 1, 2019, it was reported that a book titled “The Prophet And The Young,” produced and distributed for free at a cost of millions of Turkish lira, told children that “it has been established that higher education in secular fields negatively effects religious belief and worship.”[38]
Diyanet Minister Erbaş has said that Diyanet Quran schools are “regions protected from Satan.”[39] While the Diyanet has started Quran schools for pre-schoolers age 4-6, some education researchers have warned that “the Diyanet’s program is not suitable for four-year-old children.”[40] Erbaş said, regarding the number of children that families should have: “We need to develop our population and make it solid in terms of quality and quantity by having three or four, certainly more than two.”[41]
On Women
The Diyanet and its representatives have made many statements about women, regularly prompting protests from women’s groups. In one case the Diyanet reportedly tried to keep a confessed rapist out of prison. İsmail Kaya, a former mufti for the Hazro district of Diyarbakır province, confessed to raping a woman whose initials are H.Y. and who was a teacher at a Quran school for girls, saying: “I obeyed Satan.” The Tele1.com.tr news website reported that there were claims that AKP MPs and Diyanet officials reportedly intervened, and that Diyanet officials threatened the victim, saying that they would dissolve her work contract if she did not withdraw her complaint. She did withdraw her complaint, the court ruled that “there was consent,” and İsmail Kaya was set free.[42] The Diyanet fired the victim anyway as well as Kaya, who was re-arrested and sentenced six months later to 26 years in prison over the rape.[43]
The Diyanet runs 81 provincial mufti’s offices and 326 district mufti’s offices, from which the ministry provides, among other things, “family and religious guidance for the establishment, protection, and strengthening of the family.” Turkish journalist Burcu Karakaş called some of these offices on the phone, asking for advice under the pretext of being a woman whose husband was beating her. Karakaş called the office of the mufti of Konya said that she was thinking of getting divorced because of the violence, and was told: “If it has become unbearable, consult with the elders [of the family]. Almighty Allah says in Surah Al-Nisa: Let the woman and man each try to overcome difficulties [by the help of] someone older than them. Young people jump to conclusions. We say that you should try to overcome the problem [with the help of] the elders in the family.”
Women protest in 2016 with signs that read: “Women will call to account the Diyanet and AKP, which are anti-woman and reactionary!”[44]
Karakaş then called the office of the Mufti of Çorum and said: “He raised his hand, he has not hit me yet but I am worried.” The preacher on the line told her: “In a suitable tone ask him why he is doing that. This is not a very big problem, you can solve it by talking. In the evening you can make something that he likes and speak calmly over tea.” When she asked what she should do if her husband beats her, the preacher told her: “If he beats you, do not react, get away from there. Go to your room. Try to cover up the event by saying: ‘I will do whatever you like.’ But bring it up again at a suitable time. Do not speak with an accusing tone. ‘I do not know how you want it. If I knew, I would do it that way,’ can be said.” When she asked whether it was necessary to call the police, the preacher told Karakaş: “No. You’ll solve such matters, inshallah. Trust in Allah.”[45] It was recently reported that these Family and Religious Guidance bureaus had received 66,625 questions over the seven years, or on average 26 questions per day, leading up to February 2020.[46]
İhsan Şenocak, a theologian for Diyanet, said in a sermon: “Does your heart shatter when your daughter walks down the street to school in pants?… What have you done to what was entrusted to you from Allah? You were happy when she got into a university… She will be a doctor, she will be an engineer… Okay, so you are happy about that. When your daughters walk with pants among the gazes of men, when young bucks are going after her, you’ve thrown your little one into hell.” He was later relieved of his duties at the Diyanet.[47]
Women protest the Diyanet in mid-2018 with signs that read: “Women will prevail, not your anti-woman, anti-child fatwas.”[48]
In August 2013, Dr. Halil İbrahim Karslı, a member of the Diyanet’s Religious Affairs High Council, said that “a woman’s body is a decoration” and for this reason she must cover it. Serap Güre of the Solidarity With Women Foundation (KADAV) replied: “Instead of women covering up, men should stop molesting [them].”[49] When asked whether forced marriages were valid, the Diyanet reported that there was a difference of opinion according to the sects. According to the Diyanet, while the Shafi’i, Maliki, and Hanbali sects do not consider forced marriages valid, the Hanafi sect, which is the majority in Turkey, reportedly does.[50]
It was reported on October 26, 2017, that Dr. Mustafa Karataş was appointed as an undersecretary to the Diyanet. Karataş had said of a woman who had had a miscarriage because her husband beat her: “Do not exaggerate. You should be punished in this world before being going to the other world.”[51] A Diyanet sermon said: “If any woman requests a divorce from her husband without a valid reason, the fragrance of paradise will be forbidden to her.”[52] In 2008, the website of the Diyanet said that “Feminisim is immorality.”[53] The Diyanet has issued fatwas and given sermons saying that it is a sin for unmarried couples to hold hands[54] and it is forbidden for unmarried men and women to shake hands.[55]
Women protest in early 2018 with signs that read: “You cannot legitimize rape!” and “What does the Diyanet want from women and children?”[56]
A woman working at the Diyanet said that she protected the rights of women to wear shorts and mini-skirts as well as the rights of members of the LGBT community “for the approval of Allah” and said that those groups need to be protected as much women who wear the headscarf. The Diyanet later made a statement that saying that her relationship with the Diyanet had been completely cut off because of her views.[57]…
Infidel says
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=JnHvw2srKmk
Infidel says
Must watch vid
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Turkey is slipping and sliding into the world of traditional Islam repleat with all its perversions and sadism. They will soon be another country of walking dead.
Antonio says
Unfortunately in Egypt,Iraq,Saudi,young Muslim girls readily practise mutta (legalized Islamic prostitution) with multiple men,making a lot of money.In CAIRO university graduates will not mind having sex by French kissing and all acts except entry.I was told by an young engineer who spends nights with alcohol etc etc but no entry.
Professors will spend few nights this way in order to pass willing students.The only pure and good people I believe are COPTIC Christians.
gravenimage says
In most places it is Islamic clerics that are pimping out the girls.
Here is just one story:
“In Iraq, religious ‘pleasure marriages’ are a front for child prostitution
This article is more than 10 months old”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/pleasure-marriages-iraq-baghdad-bbc-investigation-child-prostitution
It is more often the Imams or Mullahs who make a lot of money off this than the girls.
Wellington says
Proving again that the more Islam in all its “glory” is implemented, the more barbaric will be the result.
Message to ALL Muslims who might read this comment of mine: Your religion is beyond retrograde; it is despicable.
N.B., Dhimmi apologists for Islam should take note of this as well (but what are the chances, eh?).
john smith says
Well said Wellington.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Proving again that the more Islam in all its “glory” is implemented, the more barbaric will be the result.”
Yes.
And the correlation is not simply linear, it is exponential…
Walter Sieruk says
On YouTube.com there’s a song about this subject that contains good morals the title of the song is “Islam’s Not for Me.”
spiro says
This is the evil our country welcome ahead of persecuted Christians from what I have seen in various post
It wasn’t just Obama either even though
he was the most active in this
somehistory says
There are no words to describe just how evil is islam. Words. Many have lost their meaning, many have been watered down and the usage changed.
A child cannot get “married.” Marriage is between a “man and woman,” both fully adult and able to make decisions that affect the life of each for their entire existence.
When a a child is forced into this…or even if a child believes that such is a good thing…it is not “marriage.” It is rape and bondage. These children being forced into bondage and repeated rapes, forced to have children, is straight from satan.
But, even the word “satan” has been watered down by many who mock the claim of the existence of such an evil creature. However, just as the word marriage is used in order to make this practice of bondage and repeated rape of children “acceptable”….as many seem to imply by the total ignoring of this happening, even in the U.S. and other non-mosim nations……it doesn’t change the Truth.
The Truth is….molsims rape children at the instigation and inspiration, of the evil demon creature known for centuries as satan the devil. And approving of incest..to the point of a male lusting for his own daughter being enough to keep his wife away from him (what wife would want to be close after that?) is beyond disgusting and evil.
Anyone who believes or advocates for a male to have a child to rape and call it marriage, to rape and have children by these children, is evil of mind and heart. Actions, and even attitudes, have consequences.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Somehistory.
I often lack for words when it comes to the evil of Islam myself.
Wellington says
With you again, somehistory.
curious george says
somehistory
+1
gravenimage says
Turkey: Religious Affairs Ministry says it’s permissible for girls to be married at age nine
………………….
This is because the foul pedophile “Prophet” married little Aisha when she was six, and began raping her when she was nine. Marriage age in Turkey now is technically 18–reportedly one in three marriages in Turkey are child marriages. And this is likely to get a whole lot worse as Turkey fast re-Islamizes.
And we also see that rape is fine with this ministry. So is wife-beating:
“Turkey: Top Islamic religious body tells women to accept violence at the hands of their husbands”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/08/turkey-top-islamic-religious-body-tells-women-to-accept-violence-at-the-hands-of-their-husbands
European pagan says
When I was 9, I just wanted to play with my friends and with my dolls, and I think all the children are the same. Once I asked a muslim that he would give his 9 years old daughter for marriage with an older man, he said no, but the prophet was different ?♂️?
gravenimage says
In other words, it the “Prophet” were still around, he would let him rape his little 9-year-old daughter. *Ugh*.
Thanks for asking him that question, European pagan.
European pagan says
I asked him because I hoped that he wakes up and sees what kind of evil religion he has, but no… he was really brainwashed
gravenimage says
I think this is very common, European pagan.
E T says
In Justine Trudeau’s Canada an Imam at the Jaffari Mosque in Thornhill, Ontario, and “Alim” or a resident scholar at the mosque at 9000 Bathurst Street in the city of Vaughan, Sayyid Muhhamed Rizvi, is allowed to preach or spew:
He believes and openly advocates sex with a nine-year old girls is acceptable, IF it occurs within muta ( temporary) or da’im (permanent) marriage. Permanent marriage is preferred [ain’t that sweet], but sex with girls within a temporary marriage is permissible. The muta marriage is performed by an Imam for a fee.
Justine Trudeau says “Islam is not incompatible with Western secular democracy”. This feckless, evil, coward needs to understand, in Canada, a man having sex with a 9 year old is rape and the yo-yo receiving money for allowing and promoting sex with a child is a pimp of the worst kind.
E T says
Show me an Imam anywhere who says sex with a child is vile and I will let you ride my pet unicorn.
gravenimage says
This Mosque should be shut down, and Rizvi prosecuted then deported.
Dave Owen says
Good post
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic practice of an adult male Muslim having a marriage with a little girl who is only a child is clearly seen by most Westerners as a blatant action of child abuse of the vilest sort.
Nevertheless this heinous Islam tradition is accepted as “normal “in most of the Islamic world. Therefore, this may serve as an example of how the influence of Islam is able to warp the cogitation of the human mind to the extent that a person who is a Muslim might not be able to understand the obvious difference between right and wrong.
Such an awful thing as not having the discerning mental power to seethe clear difference is described in the Bible. For in Isaiah 5:20. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…” [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
An earlier jihadwatch.org article explains it well where it reads 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.”.
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 Muslims 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.
gravenimage says
+1
OLD GUY says
Wow let’s move to Turkey where men can now legally have sex with 9 yr. olds. What the hell kind of RELIGION or GOVERNMENT would allow or promote such a BARBARIC VILE and SICK practice.
Turkey is going to HELL under Erdogan leadership. The ISLAMIC dictatorships have to be the worse form of government and a living hell for the un-privileged citizens.
vcragain says
I’m afraid there is not one single thing that anyone can say to me that will change my opinion of this – these are filthy old men, nothing ‘religious’ about any of this, it is pure disgusting sexual practice -simply because they can & this is what they fancy doing- No consideration for an innocent child who has no clue why her body is being invaded – just dirty, dirty old men ! I wish the very worst kind of death for all of them – may their appendages shrivel & go gangrenous while they sleep……nothing is too nasty for their punishment !