The whataboutery is likely to flow thick and fast over this post: what about the Roman Catholic priests who abused children on an industrial scale? What about all the other non-Muslim pedophiles, such as the mayor of College Park, Maryland? And so I must emphasize yet again, for those in the back, that I am not saying, and indeed, no one is saying, that only Muslims commit offenses of this kind. The difference between Yusuf Sacha and non-Muslim pedophiles is that Mr. Sacha can point (whether or not he chooses to do so) to passages in the Qur’an and Sunnah that justify the sexualization of children. 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.
“Yusuf Sacha, of Batley, jailed for 15 years for child sex offences,” by Mark Stanford, Telegraph & Argus, February 28, 2023:
A trusted ‘community figurehead’ found guilty of multiple serious sexual offences against children has been jailed for 15 years.
Yusuf Sacha, 69, was sentenced after being found guilty in a trial of numerous offences including rape, indecent assault and indecency with a child.
Sacha had stood trial in January charged with offences committed over three decades ago. The offences took place against multiple victims who were children at the time.
He was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court today (Tuesday).
Enquiries into Sacha’s offending began in 2019 after Kirklees Police received a report from a now adult victim, disclosing the abuse suffered.
Sacha, of Broomsdale Road, Batley, was arrested in February 2021 and later charged in October of the same year.
Detective Chief Inspector Ian Thornes, of Kirklees Police, said: “We welcome the sentencing of Sacha today for very serious sexual offences.
“In committing these awful offences he abused his status as a community figurehead and the trust that brought him in the most appalling way.
“We can only assume that in his arrogance he must have assumed his victims would not have the courage to speak out….
PRCS says
And, if not a British citizen, will he be deported thereafter?
Jayell1 says
Following the outing of the national grooming gang outrage after years of deliberate suppression in the UK MSM, there must be literally hundreds of noxious organisms like Sacha in British jails who have either been sentenced to deportation after completing their sentences, or who are liable to deportation but for some reason have escaped it. However, it seems that these specimens frequently escape it even if sentenced or have it delayed, as exemplified by the story of one of their victims who came face to face with her attacker in her neighbourhood long after he was supposed to have been kicked out of the country. This is hardly likely to have been a unique case. By the way, this character was a ‘trusted community figurehead’ was he? Anyone who knows anything much about the ‘Religion of Peace’ (sic), the dubious antics of their so-called ‘Prophet’ and the equally dubious antics associated their communities, should have a very good idea how we can ‘trust’ the likes of Sacha and his chums – if one is daft enough to trust them at all.
Keith O says
“noxious organisms” that’s a very apt description of mudslimes, will have to remember that.
James Lincoln says
Agree, Keith O.
May I add a few others:
Fetid, pernicious, putrid, pestilent, venomous, etc.
PRCS says
Yes, an ongoing problem that can only be fixed when the public stops electing/re-election those who allowed this to happen.
Deodata says
We can’t, we might have left the EU, but the European Court of Human Rights still stops deportations. Brexit incomplete.
BIKINIS NOT BURKAS says
Quran 65:4 authorises sex with prepubescent girls!
Is Allah the Moon God wrong?
Kepha says
Child sex is the next frontier of the sexual “liberation” (grooooaaaaannnnnnn). In time, the EmCeePeeCee community will hail this filthy critter as another martyr for “progress”. It probably helps that he’s Muslim.
PRCS says
+1
Ade Fegan says
“Trusted” by whom !?
Istvan Vogel says
Strange that the BBC did not mention this case. I don’t remember reading about this case in the National Newspapers either.
somehistory says
Just one look at the ugly mug, I have to wonder who would trust this example of satan’s seed.
No mozlum should ever be trusted, esp not around small children. Or young women; or a infidel woman, or young boys. Never trust a mozlum male to leave your children alone.
And it’s a bad idea to trust mozlum females around young boys; or if they can have power over young women to enslave them, or bring them in as a rape victim for their sleazy husbands.
Rule one;;; never, ever…trust a mozlum.
Keith O says
Remember the old adage about the eyes being the mirror to the soul?
That is one dark, nasty soul behind those eyes
This vermin’s eyes remind me of a petulant child, “how dare you arrest me for child rape!”
Makes my skin crawl.
somehistory says
I agree. Imagine how the poor children felt in his presence, and how they felt while he was satisfying his ugly, dark, nasty soul’s demon lusts upon them.
and these sons of satan have the gall to call it “marriage” when they are raping a little child
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“Rule one;;; never, ever…trust a mozlum.”
Rule number two: never, ever trust a muslim.
Before my first military deployment to the Middle East, a Navy A-6 Intruder pilot gave me that same advice.
Luckily, I took it.
somehistory says
Glad you did, James.
tim gallagher says
Just being a good Muslim and imitating that piece of crap, Muhammad, who I believe never actually existed, by using children for sex, as the imaginary Mo did with Aisha. islam is such a barbaric load of evil garbage and so this maggot would probably believe that his actions are quite OK . islam has to go. It is totally unacceptable in the more civilised, modern world world.
somehistory says
Tim, he’s worse than a maggot…he’s on a scale way below maggot dung.
tim gallagher says
That’s true, somehistory. It is islam though. Their hero, their scumbag chosen by their foul version of god, Muhammad, had sex with his child bride. islam is complete degeneracy in so many ways. How so many people defend the disgusting ideology is completely beyond me.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“How so many people defend the disgusting ideology is completely beyond me.”
Yes, a defense of the indefensible.
When challenged about islam:
Leftists will cancel you.
But…
Muslims will resort to violence.
somehistory says
Tim, that is true…it is islam and all that word means to mozljms.
James, The “canceling and the violence” show beyond doubt, the souls of those canceling and resorting to violence…and the ‘resorting” is not even below the surface, but right on top, along with the dirt and dead skin cells.
stevo k says
Thats quite a good sentence for a UK court, let me guess, the children were not white kids from a working class family
OLD GUY says
Muslim TRUSTED community figurehead? No such thing.
Ray Fowler says
mohanned was a paedophile, why hide the fact