The mayor is, of course, right about that. The migrants are “people like you and me.” He does not, however, address these facts:
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.
Will anything be done to protect the little girls at this Monheim school? Or would any such measure be “Islamophobic”?
“Monheim: Parents against refugee containers on school grounds,” translated from “Monheim: Eltern gegen Flüchtlingscontainer auf Schulgelände,” by Peter Hild, WDR, September 28, 2023:
The city wants to convert containers on the site of a school center in order to accommodate 80 refugees there in the future. Many parents see this as endangering their children’s safety.
Due to the increasing number of refugees, the city of Monheim wants to accommodate 80 refugees in an existing container facility on the site of a school center from next spring. The city council initiated it last week.
However, many parents are outraged about this and expressed their displeasure in the residents’ question time at the council meeting. However, Mayor Daniel Zimmermann (Peto) is sticking to his plans.
Zimmermann cites, among other things, the low conversion costs of 150,000 euros for the container facility, which currently houses additional classrooms. The refugees are “people like you and me” and are neither dangerous nor at risk, Zimmermann rejected parents’ demands for a security concept.
Since the increased reception in 2015, there have been no problems with refugees in the city, according to a city press spokesman. More than 80 percent of the current 830 refugees are accommodated in rented apartments, “but we simply can’t keep up with renting anymore,” the spokesman continued.
In addition, there are currently no other urban areas available for refugee accommodation. It is said that renting a property or moving the containers is significantly more expensive than the urban solution.
Many of the approximately 80 parents present whose children attend the school center there expressed concerns at the council meeting, even about rape or abuse, and fear conflicts with traumatized refugees and thus stress for their children. Zimmermann called these fears “unfounded.”
According to the city, the mayor wants to talk to the outraged parents again in the next few weeks, for example at parent meetings. However, according to Zimmermann, this will not change the city’s decision to soon accommodate refugees in containers on the school grounds.
Westman says
Are these refugees Muslims ot Ukrainians? There are a million Ukraine refugees in Germany, 37% intending to remain, another 34% staying until the end of the war, and another 27% undecided.
There may be an interesting competition spring up between Muslim and Ukrainian men for women partners.
Muslim women may find themselves with greater marriage options and a new culture that would have no hesitation to stop Muslim exploitation of its own, “of age”, or, underage women. An honor killing of a Muslima married to a Ukrainian would likely result in full punishments.
tim gallagher says
Has to be one of the most idiotic, meaningless statements a person could make. Yeah, those Muslim pakistani rape gangs in the UK, and all those Muslim rape gangs in all other western European countries were all people, but they were nothing like the average civilised, law abiding non-Muslim citizens at all. People that believe the sort of barbaric garbage that islam teaches people, which is fit only for primitive knuckle draggers, such as kill the non-believers, and child marriage is fine and dandy, and infidel women and girls can be raped and that’s find, are not people just like civilised non-Muslims. Muslims and non-Muslims have far different mentalities in far too many cases. People in Monheim are about to learn the hard way that these are lawless, evil Muslim invaders with completely barbaric outlooks on life. You would think that everybody would know this truth by now. There is enough evidence by now.
somehistory says
Right, Tim. They are human…people…but they are of a *kind* not like the average “you and me.”
If they were “like you and me,” they would not be invading other places, but would stay at home, make the best of what they have and if they still needed to move, would apply according to the laws.
And they would not view all others as unworthy of any rights, but fair game for rape and murder.
tim gallagher says
Spot on, somehistory. People who are brought up on all the barbaric, evil content of islam, which deforms their minds into becoming monsters who think that kiiling non-believers, marrying young girls, and all the other garbage that islam teaches is OK, are not like the average non-Muslim at all. But, by now, people everywhere should have woken up and realised this. Some people just seem to be unbelievably slow learners. That is the problem. If everyone had woken up by now, then Muslims would have been shut out of all non-Muslim countries and the trouble Muslims bring would be solved. Oh well, maybe one day all the sleepwalking fools in our societies will wake up.
James Lincoln says
They’re people, just not like “you and me” – as long as they remain in islam.
FYI says
“Who are the people in your neighborhood..in your neighborhood..in your neighborhood
Who are the people in your neighborhod?
They’re the muslims that you meet… on the rampage down your street
They’re the people that we hear each day”
“allahu akbar,allahu akbar..”
Westman says
You must play an instrument to rhyme and get the phrasing that smooth.
nicholas tesdorf says
The migrants are not “people like you and me’, they are Muslims.
Hudders. says
This is madness!!!
Lusty, low iq, medevial minded muslim ‘migrant’ males, allowed near young boys & girls?
It doesn’t take even a little brain power to imagine what is CERTAIN to happen.
Are the authorities this blind/idiotic?
-Or………
VictorMc says
NO the so-called ‘authorities’ are what has been laughingly called “politically correct”
You don’t actually believe they live anywhere near these people, do you?
Hudders. says
Well said Victor sir!
Jim says
Leftists and globalists always deny that culture matters. They do their best to destroy any culture except Marxist ideology, which we can see today in their embrace of gender identity theories, open borders, suppressing conservative and moderate ideas, insistence that any opposition to mass migration of other cultures is purely racist. A friend of mine also said that people are pretty much the same everywhere, although he thought Jews were not quite the same. But this is simply because the left wants to eliminate any other culture but their own. They want cultural conflict as a means of creating disputes for them to solve and create outcomes dependent on socialist control of society. So of course they welcome the they are just the same as we are argument. The politicians themselves probably do not live anywhere near an Asylantenheim and would not allow one to be built near their homes. Their homes are protected by walls, alarms, guards and police. They do not want to be affected if some of the new citizens are actually not like everyone else.
VictorMc says
Apart from a few extremist Muslims does anybody actually believe this garbage from 6th.C book called ‘The’ Koran? Probably translated and reworked a zillion times before and after.
Rather like all bibles and ancient scripts.
somehistory says
Not anything like “all Bibles.” when the dead sea scrolls containing the Book of Isaiah were discovered and “translated” by those who could read it, it was almost identical to the more modern versions of the Bible.
The God of the Bible, has had His *book* maintained so we could know what the “ancient” people knew about Him and His reasons for what He does. So we could know and believe in Him and His Son.
The Bible is a Holy Book.
the book of islam is one of degrading filth, violence, hatred and demonic evil.
Tony Rice says
Although the article mentions Muhammad married Aisha when she was 6 ( he 54 ) it does not mention he initially fancied her when she was 4 and asked her father then for ” her hand in marriage “, which ceremony took place when she was 6. How is it that Allah’s standards can be so adrift from what is regarded as acceptable? Morals should not change so drastically with time.
libertyORdeath says
What is the real game here with these useful idiots who gleefully assist with the suicide of their culture in any way they can?
I basically refuse to believe that they don’t know that what they’re doing is critically destructive to their family, friends, neighborhoods, countries, societies and cultures.
They don’t ACTUALLY believe that replacing their fellow citizens with third-world migrants will improve their countries, lives, or futures, do they?
What’s in it for them long-term? It creates jobs for the worthless and unemployable kids of the upper class I guess, but how long can that last?
I think the real answer for the non-aristocratic self-hating Westerners is that they just hate US so much they enjoy ruining our lives and the societies our forefathers built regardless of the suffering it causes for themselves and those they care about.
What a pathetic life to live.
I hope they get to you first Mayor Moron.
tgusa says
Carl Jung coined it. Mass psychosis. Jung warned that modern society was prone to collapse due to a pandemic of delusional ideas. Jung believed that the United States was particularly prone to society breaking delusions.
“Anything new should always be questioned and tested with caution, for it may very easily turn out to be only a new disease; that is why true progress is impossible without mature judgment,”
Man was he right. He basically predicted it all and he died over 60 years ago.
tgusa says
“Greater than all physical dangers are the tremendous effects of delusional ideas, which are yet denied all reality by our world-blinded consciousness,” Jung wrote. “Our much vaunted reason and our boundlessly overestimated will are sometimes utterly powerless in the face of ‘unreal’ thoughts.”
To me, that spells big trouble. All thinking citizens of Western nations, prepare accordingly.