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.
“Erdoğan’s radical Islamist ally Erbakan deems 14-year-old children suitable for marriage,” Duvar English, June 26, 2023:
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ally, radical Islamist New Welfare Party’s (YRP) leader Fatih Erbakan in 2020 stated that 14-year-old children can get “married” because they reached “sexual maturity.” His statements caused a great reaction on social media and among opposition politicians when it was resurfaced on Twitter.
Speaking on a Youtube program he participated in at the time, Erbakan said, “For years in Anatolia, our ancestors have married at the age of 14, 15, 16 and established happy homes. Since a 14-year-old has reached sexual maturity, her consent is valid. This is how it has been done in Anatolia for centuries.”
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Gökçe Gökçen reacted to Erbakan’s statements and stated that his ideology is “the real threat to children.” She added, “Those who are endlessly searching for ways to have sexual relations with children have been placed on the parliament by Erdoğan. We have to raise the struggle against this terrible threat and weave a social democratic politics.”…
CogitoErgoSum says
I assume Muslims also have no apology for a Muslim man being allowed up to four wives at a time and to have as many slave women in his harem as he can afford. I’m just wondering if those female slaves have to be at least 14 to do whatever their owner wants them to do.
Hoi Polloi says
Sexual maturity meaning the age at which he wants her, yet another child, in his bed. Imagine the follow-up: “But she looked 14. How was I to know she’s 3?” Or: “Why keep birth records? The records hinder the claim that she’s legal!”
Tatanka says
Muslim males are sexual predators, the lot of them. pedophilia , homophilia, necrophilia and sex with animals. everything goes .
These Satan worshippers just don’t have no morals, prophet mohammed righthand of the Devil( piss be upon both) thought them well
somehistory says
Yes. Perverts in every way; they exclude nothing. Indecent and demonic in the extreme.
John Smith says
Khomeini just didn’t make it legal for men to marry girls of nine, he also made it legal for men to have sex with animals. However sex with an animal did come with conditions. For example, if a man had intercourse with a sheep, once he’d ejaculated in the sheep he must kill it. Which I find a bit hard especially if he’d fallen in love with that particular sheep. Then you weren’t allowed to eat the meat of an animal you’d had sex with, or sell the meat to anyone in your village. But it was fine to sell it to someone in the next village.
What a beautiful religion islam is.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, what kind of man would kill or sell his beloved sheep once he’d had sex with it? What kind of monster could do such a thing? But then I suppose anyone who would have sex with an animal is capable of just about anything – including becoming a Muslim cleric.
Hoi Polloi says
Do you suppose that’s what all those halal monitors in slaughterhouses are actually doing? Seems likely.
Hudders. says
And just think, many of your fave Supermarkets now sell the vast majority of meat products ‘halal’ too.
Think of what we are being fed and unknowingly, millions feed to their families also.
Phew! It beggars understanding.
No wonder the Bible (A TRUE HOLY BOOK.) warned us not to ‘eat food offered to idols.’
Hoi Polloi says
Yes. I haven’t had lamb (which I love) for years now because it’s almost 100% halal.
somehistory says
Once again, I say it is not ***marriage.****
I don’t give a hoot, a bean, a tutti-frutti or any other thing one might give or say, it is not marriage to rape a child. To buy a child, even from the cradle, to force the child to satisfy the lust of anyone…no matter the age of the luster…is evil, demonic, despicable, depraved, immoral, and the worst kind of child abuse. And it is not “marriage.”
Would that there could be a super-guy who could fly around the earth and every time some raper of children was about to do harm to a baby…girl or boy…or to a child of any age, the super guy could do a landing on him with a beatdown which would leave him wishing he had never been born. And then to ensure that the rapist would never even think of it again, just croak the foul creature.
mozlums make every excuse in the world…and many not of this world…to rape little kids. It’s a foul and feculent maggot of a human who does these things and makes up excuses why others can do them.
Others may disagree, and that’s okay….freedom of belief, freedom of choice, freedom of speech…but i pray that some day, really, really soon, Jesus will make these leeches…worse than leeches, they are snakes…know the full and total meaning of His words about what is going to be for those who “harm these little ones.” I pray He will make it abundantly clear He meant every word He said about it being “better for that one to have a millstone tied around his neck and be cast into the sea.”
I will not apologize for believing what I believe to be the absolute Truth.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Fully agree w/ you. Islamic marriages ain’t the same as non-islamic marriages: the former is often pedophilia, while the latter is not
somehistory says
thank you, infidel
Hoi Polloi says
No apologies necessary for truth.
somehistory says
Thank you, HP. Appreciate it
born saturday says
in europe muslims think from 11 or 12 at the latest 13 the infidel girls are ready for dawa rapes if anyone in this world apart from them know what a dawa rape includes…. young women as 10 are put through dawa rapes in my ghetto and there has been younger…
it is a profitable bussiness because these underage girls are prostituted after the dawa and bring the muslim teen gangs endless money…. you should see the cars and motorbikes they ride to get an idea…. let alone the kinds of weaponry they get hold of…
if they took them for marriage i would not protest that much but many areas of europe have become a bit like thailand in the muslim version which is a lot more horrific for the kids and women taken advantage of….
Keith O says
So now Erdogan has said that a girl of 14 is open for rape.
This must mean he’s into older women.
According to his chain of thought that would make a 20 year old a cougar!!
All jokes aside, this is probably one of the most perverted and sickening sides to this perverted death cult.
Raping children is, as far as I’m concerned, a one way ticket to the inner suburbs of hell.
VictorMc says
Turkeye (yes) is advertising for your money to ‘enjoy’ a holiday in their paradise.
I do hope you enjoy their sun and Muslim insanity.
OLD GUY says
My guess is that the 10 years olds plus will need to be careful as someone these muslim rapist can’t do the math.