None of the organizations dedicated to combating it dares face why it’s so prevalent. My latest in FrontPage:
It was an emblematic incident: the News Agency of Nigeria reported Wednesday that “the Chief Imam of the Nasrul-lahi-li Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT), Abdul Azeez Onike, says Islam supports underage marriage.” Onike said thus at a press conference launching his new initiative, “Ending Violence Against Women and Girls,” which was “organised by NASFAT with support from UNICEF.” Is UNICEF troubled by Onike’s support for child marriage? Not enough to keep from working with him. This was yet another example of the abject failure of global “human rights” organizations to confront the uncomfortable fact of why child marriage is so common in some areas of the world: because it is sanctioned in Islam.
Onike himself made this clear, insisting “that the Islamic scripture was clear about marriage” and calling for people to refer to Islamic texts “instead of using contemporary standards” to determine whether or not child marriage was an acceptable practice.
If Abdul Azeez Onike said this in the U.S., he would be excoriated as an “Islamophobe.” But in reality, child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
Numerous Islamic authorities worldwide attest to this. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.
Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria, has said: “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this.” An Iraqi expert on Islamic law, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, agrees, saying: “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.”
So does Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent Muslim cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council: “There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”
Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology has declared flatly: “Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.”
These authorities say these things because 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.
Yet despite all this, worldwide organizations dedicated to ending child marriage universally fail to acknowledge its justifications in Islam. The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights never mentions Islam in connection with child marriage. UNICEF doesn’t, either. Nor does the international network Girls Not Brides or the International Women’s Health Coalition. The latter does say: “Child marriage occurs in every region of the world, and is practiced across cultures, religions, and ethnicities,” and while that is true, no religion or culture offers as much justification for child marriage as Islam does.
Until that is acknowledged, the root causes of this problem will never be addressed. And more girls will suffer.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
I say “We” (every non-Muslim) should openly, publicly and repeatedly embrace the concept with, “Well, if it was good enough for Mohammad, it should be good enough for everyone!”. Over and over and over again. The faux outrage at the truth being pointed out will, of course, be shrill, vociferous and vicious, but that too is to be “Highlighted”. Especially when Torah and Old testament references to what today may be considered “Child Brides” are negatively portrayed as “You Too’ism” can be portrayed as, “Looks like Mohammad was right”. In other words, get all of them to admit the reality of where the concept originated and, in which world view, is still, to this day, embraced.
Wellington says
In sartorial form, the photo above says as much about the true nature of Islam as most any photo can (N.B. photos of beheadings, sawed-off necks, being burnt alive and being thrown off high buildings constituting some exceptions to this rule).
Again is demonstrated that a picture so many times is worth a thousand words. Does here and so I will proffer no more words since they would be superfluous.
gravenimage says
This little girl has to be immured in a Niqab lest she “tempt” adult Muslim men. Such sick stuff.
Wellington says
Yep. Very sick but very Islamic.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Wellington.
Hoi Polloi says
Mind-boggling, this acceptance of the notion of toddler temptresses. I have written to western entities to say I will not spend a penny with them since they began selling this clothing.
Infidel says
In the previous story, I noted that until Pakistan has the guts to confront China on its treatment of Uyghurs, it has no business protesting ‘islamophobia’ – real or imagined – anywhere else. Similarly, as long as groups such as ‘Girls not brides’ and ‘International Women’s Health Coalition’ refuse to confront islam over its institutionalization of child rape (I refuse to call it marriage), they have no business lecturing ‘the patriarchy’ (whatever that is) about the rights of women!
gravenimage says
The Dirty Secret of Child Marriage
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And Muslims don’t often even make much of a secret out of this. In Muslim country after Muslim country, and attempts at curtailing child “marriage” are foiled by Islamic clerics–because they know there is nothing so Islamic as child rape:
“Philippines: Islamic scholars invoke the Qur’an in opposing law forbidding child marriage”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/11/philippines-islamic-scholars-invoke-the-quran-in-opposing-law-forbidding-child-marriage
“Turkey: Religious Affairs Ministry says it’s permissible for girls to be married at age nine”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/08/turkey-religious-affairs-ministry-says-its-permissible-for-girls-to-be-married-at-age-nine
“Malaysia: Islamic authorities say minimum age for marriage can’t be enforced as it is not specified in Islam”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/malaysia-islamic-authorities-say-minimum-age-for-marriage-cant-be-enforced-as-it-is-not-specified-in-islam
“Muslim cleric: “Allah permitted the Prophet Muhammad to marry Aisha when she was 9 years old””
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/12/muslim-cleric-allah-permitted-the-prophet-muhammad-to-marry-aisha-when-she-was-9-years-old
[the above story is from the “Palestinian territories”–GI]
“Australia: Imam in court over marriage ceremony involving 14-year-old girl”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/12/australia-imam-in-court-over-marriage-ceremony-involving-14-year-old-girl
“Ghana: Muslim cleric held for helping force 12-year-old girl into marriage”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/ghana-muslim-cleric-held-for-helping-force-12-year-old-girl-into-marriage
There are thousands more such stories–from all over the world.
Wellington says
I wonder, gravenimage, how long Islam can stand up to a scrutiny that it has never had to endure before. Minus the colossal error of Western Leftism, I would say not very long, but Western Leftism continues to give Islam cover over and over and over again. Look at a moron like AOC as an example, blaming Israel and not Hamas or any Muslim nation for being an apartheid state.
gravenimage says
I *hope* more Westerners wake up to the savagery of Islam, Wellington. But yes–this whitewash from the Left is the biggest impediment to that.
RegT says
Comment on child marriage made on Jihad Watch: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/06/the-dirty-secret-of-child-marriage
First, the Left supports islam because pedophilia is so endemic to the Left, with its lack of any moral code. Sex with children is common even in Western civilization. As we have gotten a glimpse of from the whole Epstein debacle, many, many “elite” leaders of government are known to have practiced pedophilia – doctors, lawyers, priests, ministers, and CEOs, as well. Epstein’s “client list” has included at least one President of the United States of America. The whole MBLA – “Man-Boy Love Association” (I gag to even type that) is an artifact of Western society that places it squarely in the islamic camp.
Second, less us not forget the islamic “wisdom” and expertise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, when he was the Supreme religious leader of Iran. He wrote a book in two volumes of proper rules of conduct for muslims [“Tahrirolvasyleh”, fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990] In it, he had this to say: “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable.”
So, while mohammed may have married Aisha at six, you know damn well he had sex with her before full penetration vaginally at nine “consummated” his (rape) marriage. Does anyone truly believe he didn’t at least sodomize her at six or seven? Khomeini must have believed he did, or he would not have said what he said in his rules of conduct. I seriously doubt she was an oral virgin for more than a few moments after he gained physical custody of her, either.
I think that many adherents of islam, starting with mohammed (whoever he might have been in reality, an individual or group who came up with the idea of islam) were probably incapable of sex with adult women, perhaps due to size or physical incompetemce. Sort of like how Bill Gates named his company after his own equipment: Microsoft
islam is a sick, perverted, sexually debased death cult that really needs to be eradicated, either by sequestering all muslims who wish to practice islam to a single island somewhere (Madagascar, perhaps), or by terminating every last breathing muslim who wishes to practice that death cult.
James Lincoln says
Correct, gravenimage.
Leftism is the big reason that islam survives – and even thrives – in the West.
The other reasons are *grossly uninformed* conservatives – and a few JFK type Democrats…
Hoi Polloi says
RegT, that’s long been my perception of the reality of the practice, as well. Pedophiles by nature love the power of perverting perception and reality.
gravenimage says
RegT, most leftists I know are in deep denial over Islam being a threat–including its being a threat to children.
As for the idea that the “North American Man-Boy Love Association” is influential–even mainstream–you are mistaken. NAMBLA has, happily, all but ceased to exist–it has no local chapters.
notnolib says
This “mohammed” creep sounds much like Joe Biden. According to his VP, he’s a rapist.
gravenimage says
For what it’s worth, this site says this is not the case.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/harris-hasnt-called-biden-a-racist-or-a-rapist/
Do you have links to her saying this? I can’t find any actual quotes.
Hoi Polloi says
Again thank you for letting these people speak. “International Women’s Health Coalition…..“Child marriage occurs in every region of the world, and is practiced across cultures, religions, and ethnicities,”
Practice Noun: The customary, habitual, or expected procedure or way of doing of something. Verb: 1. Perform (an activity) or exercise (a skill) repeatedly or regularly in order to improve or maintain one’s proficiency. 2. Carry out or perform (a particular activity, method, or custom habitually or regularly.
In what part of the US is child marriage, particularly and especially marriage of infants practiced in any sense? And no fair redefining to point to teenagers who have been granted the legal right to marry. Occurs is pushing it given that I have never heard of a single case in the US of a man “marrying” an infant (although it is bound to have happened, especially with the influx of muslims).
Putting out such a preposterous claim to avoid facing islam with all its horrific teachings and practice regarding women and children is unconscionable for an organization that purports to concern itself with women’s health.
Hoi Polloi says
And to be clearer, I am disputing even the idea that this is marriage as accepted by this commission and its cohorts. “Marriage, noun: The legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship.” Given that infant and child marriage is illegal in the US and prosecuted under the auspices of our culture and legal system, marriage to infants is neither practiced nor occurring. It is commission of a crime and to say otherwise to avoid the truth of sharia and its many highly criminal adherents is abhorrent.
gravenimage says
Good questions, Hoi Polloi.
OLD GUY says
The problem with Islam’s child marriage is that the 9 year old that the 55 yr. old muslim man chooses for his wife doesn’t have any say in the relationship. Most often the child bride is sold into the relationship by the parents, Child marriage in islam is nothing other than sex slavery of children and rape.
Michael Copeland says
“When I want a sex slave”, says Egyptian Salafi sheikh Huwayni, “I go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.”
(Translating Jihad, 11 June 2011)
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/04/islams-sex-slaves-in-britain/
gravenimage says
A nine-year-old child is too young to consent to marriage, in any case.
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.]
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
A jihadwatch 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.
Andrew Blackadder says
I have seen, in Malaysia, a wee girl, no older than four years of age, about one metre tall, covered from head to toe, in islamic garb, so I guess the people of Malaysia think that the men of that religion may go nuts if they see the face, and body, of a four year old girl, so at least they are admitting that muslim men commit pedophilia as a normal practice between the sexes.
I only assumed this was a wee girl as I could only see her eyes, that stared at me as we passed each other on the street, in Kuala Lumpur.
When a child is in danger of being sexually abused by the men of her culture and country, and the people, the Mothers, can see this happening, then you know something is seriously wrong with that culture, and religion.