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
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.
“Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking,” by Matthew Lee, Associated Press, September 3, 2021:
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused.
U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have identified numerous incidents in which Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the “wives” of much older men. While child marriage is not uncommon in Afghanistan, the U.S. has strict policies against human trafficking that include prosecutions for offenders and sanctions for countries that don’t crack down on it.
One internal document seen by The Associated Press says the State Department has sought “urgent guidance” from other agencies after purported child brides were brought to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. Another document, described to the AP by officials familiar with it, says Afghan girls at a transit site in Abu Dhabi have alleged they have been raped by older men they were forced to marry in order to escape Afghanistan.
The State Department had no immediate comment on the documents or the veracity of the details in them. Officials say that they take all such allegations seriously but that many of them are anecdotal and difficult to prove, particularly amid the crush of Afghan evacuees at multiple locations in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.
An Aug. 27 situation report sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad as well as military command centers in Florida points to potential issues involving young girls and older men, some of whom claim to have more than one wife at Fort McCoy, a sprawling 60,000-acre (243-square-kilometer) Army base in Wisconsin. Relevant portions of the document, titled “Afghanistan Task Force SitRep No. 63,” were obtained by the AP.
“Intake staff at Fort McCoy reported multiple cases of minor females who presented as ‘married’ to adult Afghan men, as well as polygamous families,” the document says. “Department of State has requested urgent guidance.”…
At the same time, U.S. officials in the United Arab Emirates have expressed similar concerns, sending a diplomatic cable to Washington warning that some young Afghan girls had been forced into marriages in order to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover….
Wellington says
Western feminists will be nowhere about this, so stupid and hypocritical are Western feminists.
But American males need to be neutered so misogynistic are they. Right.
Westman says
I doubt that all US males singing, “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman”, could satisfy the schadenfreude desires of the feminists yet enter a Muslim male, with or sans weapon, who declares his hatred for the “Great Satan”, and they go all atwitter with anticipation.
gravenimage says
I am no fan of these “feminists who stay quiet in the face of Islamic savagery, but do you have any indication that they actually all want to get together with Jihadists? Citations, please.
Westman says
Not “get together”, rather import.
Westman says
I also think that, although feminists have done their best to weaken them, feminists secretly are repelled by the thought of relying on weak men. Perhaps they believe men fleeing Aghanistan will be physically strong and socially passive, a strange hybrid that Islam does not produce.
gravenimage says
Actually, Westman, recognizing equality does in itself not make men weak.
Then, if you believe that “marrying” little girls and abusing women is indicative of strength, I have to respectfully disagree.
Fitna says
@Wellington,
They should be stepping up-but most are either unaware or because they-like the rest of us, realize they’re facing an enemy which doesn’t play by the same rules the rest of us do.
Feminists can protest all they want in western nations and while some men might hate them they have little to fear in terms of being directly attacked by non-Muslim men.
Muslims however, are not afraid of our laws nor do they have any respect for women. To them it’s an invitation to beat them literally. So I think most feminists are well aware they’re putting their lives on the line for exposing Islam for the pedophilic and misogynistic ideology that it is.
The problem is that law enforcement and our politicians are still lagging far behind when it comes to understanding Islam. They truly don’t understand how dangerous it and Muslims are. But the global riots over cartoons of their pedo-terrorist prophet should’ve clued them in that Muslims are not rational actors, they’re really just a bunch of violent religious lunatics.
Frankly if overnight every western person suddenly ‘woke up’ and understood Islam the way we do, then they’d be looking for ways to contain and then remove Muslims as soon as they could.
If we want to protect our families, our freedom and way of life, deportation is the only solution for most Muslims. [I’m willing to have a vetting process and allow those who pose no harm to us to remain if they leave Islam. But with the caveat that if they show any signs of jihadism, then to throw them out the same day.]
But that’s the whole crux of the matter-it’s because the vast majority of people really don’t understand Islam that we have dumb politicians defending them and inviting more in as refugees/migrants while ignoring their criminal behavior…learning is a slow process, esp. at the population level.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“I’m willing to have a vetting process and allow those who pose no harm to us to remain if they leave Islam. But with the caveat that if they show any signs of jihadism, then to throw them out the same day.”
Yes, *true* muslim apostates, who can add value to the United States, could actually be useful in the anti-jihad effort…
Fitna says
Agreed James,
I’ve known a good number of Muslims over the years (mostly through work) and I’ve learned to read them really well. Ofc most Muslims do hide their true feelings and intentions but over time the truth does creep out.
Many of them are firm adherents to Islam, most of them cannot be reasoned with. But a few that I became friends with were more westernized and open-minded and through discussions they began to realize that Islam was evil and dangerous and effectively became apostates. A couple of others were very secularized/integrated and you’d almost never know they were Muslims aside from their names.
It’s human (for us) to become tribal at times and see “all Muslims” as the bad guys but there are some good ones and even a few who might have some allegiance to Islam but are actually pretty harmless.
So a vetting process would be a reasonable solution since it’d be wrong to throw out truly peaceful Muslims (who might easily leave Islam) and force them to live with psycho Muslims who are no different than the Taliban, esp. if they’re female.
Just as it’d be wrong to force a child bride to live with her rapist, just because she was forced into this evil religion. They are still human and suffer immensely.
Though unfortunately western nations esp. our leaders are still not even at the level of thinking of deportations and vetting, though they really should. Right now all they’re trying to do is appease the bullies from Islamic and Leftist groups.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
For those who say quid pro Joe Biden doesn’t care about human trafficking, I Always retort, “Yes he does! He’s 100% IN FAVOR OF IT!!”
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
These Brown Male Supremacists surely need our help and sympathy.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Lol, good one!
rubiconcrest says
The men should be returned to Afghanistan. The women or ‘girls’ should be put in foster care. What’s the fuss about? Our laws or their religious beliefs? No kowtowing to Islam. To heck with what our Muslim ‘friends’ or ‘allies’ in the ME think of it. Like the only thing I think Bush said about Islamic terror I agree with, ‘your either with us or against us’.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Child Brides should have the marriagesd annuled. Afyer all, they are now in the United States. Polygamous Marriages should also be annuled. If one of the Polygimouis- wives wishto remai9n wiyth the man,let them sort it out, utonly onel, and this should a result i a new marriage as the polygimous one has been annuled. Ken
Infidel says
That may be what should happen. Is that what actually happens?
gravenimage says
+1
Ade Fegan says
I expect we will allow it .. They will not be separated and they can rape kids here with the protection of the law on the grounds of religious freedom (and cultural diversity).
Thin end of the wedge
Infidel says
How does that legally work? If 50 year old Ahmatullah comes here w/ his 12 year old wife Nusrat, are we simply gonna recognize her as that, and leave her w/ him? Or will child protective services kick in, w/ all that it entails – from teaching Nusrat remedial English to putting her up in fostercare and so on? Or would Nusrat attend school, and talk to her 6th grade classmates about her husband? And those girls go home and ask, “Mommy, why can’t I have a husband?”
I really hope that once Trump is back, as many of these are deported back to Afghanistan. It’s not our problem that the Taliban runs that place
gravenimage says
Too often what happens is insane sh*t like ths:
“Germany: Muslim migrant child brides discovered, refugee workers say marriages should remain”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/germany-muslim-migrant-child-brides-discovered-refugee-workers-say-marriages-should-remain
“Child marriage is not regarded as forced marriage in Switzerland and is therefore not prohibited”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/child-marriage-is-not-regarded-as-forced-marriage-in-switzerland-and-is-therefore-not-prohibited
I hope the US is not that far gone.
James Lincoln says
Infidel says,
“I really hope that once Trump is back, as many of these are deported back to Afghanistan.”
Or at least some other muslim majority country…
Terry Gain says
There is also a concern about polygamists. I think Biden should put Romney in charge of that problem. In regard to child brides I understand Bill Clinton has some valuable personal experience regarding sex with underage girls. Perhaps he and Hillary should be assigned that file.
Infidel says
Why not just pardon Ghislaine Maxwell and put her in charge of Afghan child brides?
Terry Gain says
The silver lining in this sad story is that Americans will now learn something about Islamic law.
somehistory says
There is a simple solution. It matters not if the girls are telling the truth or telling a big whopper in order to get away from these slime maggots.
Take the girls away from their rapists. Tell the maggots that they have two choices: one, they can go out to a plane and get on for a ride back to the stan, or they can take a long walk on a short pier and swim their way back.
These maggots are pedorapists and will not change, or even see the need to change, and they will end up demanding to have their religious “rights” to keep these children to rape. Send them packing before they make new victims.
If the maggot has several “wives” and they are all adult women, take all but the first one away as a victim of bigamy. If any complain, give them the same choice as above.
Reziac says
I would add “Here the penalty for sexually misusing a woman is castration and burial with a pig” and watch them fall all over themselves trying to jump off the pier.
Infidel says
?????
somehistory says
the ones giving them the ultimatum could be dog handlers with their most aggressive breeds trained to attack males in dresses, beards, and that islam look of death in the eyes.
If those “deciding” can’t come up with a plan, they could visit this site and find out the best ideas.
tim gallagher says
Well Muslims and their child brides are just straight out illegal in our civilised western countries. So you either throw the Muslim male, the husband, into jail as a pedophile, which he is, or, maybe to get rid of the barbaric scumbag, you throw him out. The girls would need protection, so I guess some kind of foster care would need to be found. This sort of crap shows the Muslim supremacist attitude, which they all have, where the vermin think that islam and allah’s barbaric law takes precedence over the western, civilised laws. Muslims don’t belong in any non-Muslim country. They can live their crappy lives in their own backward, primitive countries where they can continue to live their knuckle dragging lives. Just keep them out of our countries.
gravenimage says
Afghan evacuees bringing their child brides into the United States
……………
So what happens now? Are we just going to let these Muslim thugs keep on raping these children?
Then there are the somewhat savvier ones who will claim that these are nieces or some such. This is what an Iraqi migrant did with his child bride when he entered the US. A few years later when she tried to get a divorce he murdered her and claimed the killer was an “Islamophobe” who threatened her because she wore a Hijab.
God, I hate Islam.
“California: Muslim gets life sentence for killing wife in murder initially blamed on “Islamophobia””
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/california-muslim-gets-life-sentence-for-killing-wife-in-murder-initially-blamed-on-islamophobia
Alfredo says
The depravity of Islamic law isn’t apparent to the followers of “prophet” Muhammad. That’s why they see nothing wrong with pedophilia.
As the professor proudly proclaims that the prophet “wrote the marriage when Aisha was 6 and consumated the marriage when she was 9.”
According to Sahi Bukhari 7.62.88.
Falsafa says
The legal age to marry in Turkey is 18. Just because some imam spoke nonsense you make full page story out of it. Stop spitting nonsense to suit your bigotry. You are pathetic!
Check Burry says
Oh I see, so it does not happen, so all is well.
born saturday says
F*** your mohamed, F*** your koran, F*** your ramadan, F*** the birthday of allah, and F*** your mosques….
born saturday says
thats what you say for a filthy, perverted religion like this…
tim gallagher says
Well said, born saturday. I share your point of view.
Ecosse1314 says
So you agree that mohammed had a child bride though.
James Lincoln says
Falsafa,
What is legal in Turkey – and what is actually happening – are two different things.
“40% of girls under the age of 18 in Turkey are forced into marriage, according to Turkish Philanthropy Funds.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12766/child-brides-turkey
tim gallagher says
So you, Falsafa, seem to be saying that you don’t think girls under 18 years old should be married off. So you are obviously not a real, true Muslim. Are you some kind of nasty apostate because your degenerate pedophile prophet, Muhammad, when he was 50 years old married an 8 year old girl, so, since that piece of crap, Muhammad, acted that way, then that is all perfectly OK for degenerate Muslims who are supposed to imitate that “perfect” man, allah, the Devil’s, chosen one. So Maybe you, Falsafa, are one of those nasty apostates and should be killed as your barbaric load of crap of a religion says should happen to people who are not true Muslims. Of course, every Muslim should leave Islam, that evil, barbaric religion and join the more civilised non-Muslim members of the human race..
gravenimage says
Note that the appalling “Falsafa” does not actually condemn child marriage–he just pretends that it does not exist. He also sidesteps the question of child marriage among Afghan Muslims by absurdly pointing to Turkey.
Then, he also hopes we don’t know that the marriage age in Turkey is just 18 on paper. The fact is that more than one in five females there is married off as a child. Is “Falsafa” fine with that? Most likely.
After all, the foul “Prophet” himself married a six-year-old child and began raping her at nine. Pious Muslims cannot say anything critical about Muhammed, and I very much doubt that “Falsafa” here would want to.
As for Afghanistan, child marriage *is the norm*. An estimated 57% of girls are “married” as children.
Is “Falsafa” going to condemn this? Don’t hold your breath…
OLD GUY says
I’am sure our government can overlook the child bride thing for islam. It would be islamophobia to do otherwise and we can’t have that.
What happened to the idea that laws applied to everyone regardless of religion or being a politician?
Not vary convenient is it.