There is a lot of arguing back and forth in the West between Islamic apologists and critics of Islam over the age of Aisha when Muhammad married her and when he had sexual relations with her. Islamic apologists do their best to claim that she was older than nine, which is what the sources that Muslims consider most reliable say. But the only reason why it really matters is because Muhammad is imitated.
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.
“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. Nowadays in the West there are elaborate efforts to deny all this. An Islamic scholar/apologist named Joshua Little has constructed an elaborate argument from close study of the chains of transmitters (isnads) of various traditions about Aisha, claiming that those traditions, despite appearing in Sahih Bukhari, the hadith collection Muslims consider most reliable, are actually inauthentic. Little’s argument, however, is absurd and self-contradictory. He acknowledges that the hadiths are late and unreliable from a historical standpoint, and even admits that the chains of transmitters, like the stories themselves, were freely forged. Then he bases his whole argument for the traditions being inauthentic even on Islamic grounds on the basis of the isnads that he just admitted could be forged. He claims to be able to know when and where they were forged based on their contents, and constructs his argument for their inauthenticity based on that. This is highly speculative at best, and will never do anything to erase the impression among Muslims that Muhammad left his followers this example.
Little also denounces people he calls “Islamophobes” for making much of Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha. He ignores the primary reason why anyone cares about this: not because, as he claims, “Islamophobes” contend that Muhammad’s example forces Muslims to condone child marriage, but because all too many Islamic authorities do condone child marriage. 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.
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
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.
“Uttar Pradesh: Police arrest Bhondu Rehman for raping 1-year-old child in Bahraich, victim hospitalised,” OpIndia, February 19, 2024:
On Sunday (18th February), the police arrested a 50-year-old man named Bhondu Rehman for the rape of a 1-year-old child in Nanpara town in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh.
As per reports, the incident took place on Saturday (17th February) evening. The victim was playing at that time. Rehman took the child to the field under the pretext of feeding her.
He then raped the 1-year-old. After the condition of the child deteriorated, Rehman dumped her body in the field and fled the crime scene.
Upon learning about the matter, the victim’s family immediately notified the police and admitted her to the Community Health Centre (CHC) Nanpara for immediate medical attention. She was later transferred to Lucknow Medical College for better treatment.
A police team, led by Mithilesh Kumar Rai, reached the crime scene and began a probe into the matter. While speaking about the matter, Superintendent of Police (Bahraich) Vrinda Shukla informed, “An incident of rape of a 1-year-old child has come to light in Nanpara police station area.”
“The crime was committed by a 50-year-old man. The police were informed about the matter…The accused has been already arrested. Given that the girl is just 1 year old, we are transferring her to Lucknow for better treatment,” she added….
SC says
Lets get back on subject. I think evey human being can agree with a adult male raping a 1 year old should be a 100% mandatory death sentence world wide. No excuses, no arguments, no rituals You get shot or hanged upon conviction.
Ernie says
+1
Bud says
+1,
After castration with the same rusty, crude instruments they use for FGM on little girls.
No anesthesia.
Keith O says
+1
࿗Infidel࿘ says
💯
I’d support an “instant justice” here – a mob just torturing him to death. What the police should do is release Rahman to a hostile mob, & let them handle him, & send him to allah
Keith O says
Yup, let him join Allah, Mo and all their vermin mates in the inner suburbs of hell.
Mike says
Execute him on the spot!!
bill says
Absolutely, but the namby pambies in charge in most countries do not like the DP it hurts their feelings
Tony Rice says
How on earth could a man rape a child of 1 yr old, doesn’t seem physically possible to me, the mind boggles as to what happened. But whatever, the man must be dealt with in such a way he can’t do anything like it again. Apart from the mental query as to how he could physically do such a thing, the question equally arises as how could he even go through the thought process of it, even the thought let alone the planning and EXECUTION. Unbelievable.
Joe says
The Gazans raped babies on 10/7/23, and they are widely cheered for their depravity.
Boxer says
Come on, folks, how do you rape a one year old baby? I don’t want to be crude, or perverse, or write something perverse, but think of it: you put it in the mouth? Come on! Too small! Sorry, but this is hard to believe, much as I would want to.
From The Other Side of Town says
Boxer, the rape of babies is nothing new in this wicked world. As you notice in the above article, the poor child’s body was cast off after the destruction this man did to it to make rape thorough. Sorry to be so blunt.
Keith O says
Unfortunately Boxer, there are recorded cases of this sort of thing in western countries as well.
Jennifer says
Why do they leave the children unattended, knowing that foul vile, Islamic men do these things?!
John Smith says
I was thinking the same thing Jennifer, but I can’t see any parent leaving a 1 year old baby unattended. I can only assume that rapist was either part of the family, or was supposed to be looking after the baby.
Steve Brown says
They truly are Satan’s disciples,mi hope the faily can have their vengeance, cutting his bits off and ramming it down his throat after dipping it in Pork fat.
Yogi says
Sick , sick !!and filth like this is importing to Europe and US. !! Watch your daughters and granddaughters in civilized countries, is outrageous…
Mike says
Not just that, also your sons, and non-binary kids, and pets, and farm livestock for crying out loud! The perverted One-Ayatollah-Too-Many himself said about as much!!
Goofy says
Another incident of Islamophobia?
Fobia are fears without reason!
All the vile acts committed by Muslims make any and all caution and fear well understood!
Troybeam says
My question:Why would any parent allow a man of 50 take their 1 year old daughter away from the home in the first place. Are Muslims so trusting to allow this or are they very simple minded as to not think to protect their children from predators… family or not.
Their daughter is now damaged for life if she lives thru this attack, shame on Islam and followers that think its OK to rape and kill just because a person some 1500 years ago states its a right for males to do whatever to a female of any age.
1500 plus years and not a single thought to distinguish teachings that are morally wrong and change them to protect the women and children, but hey those that have read and learned Islam is a cult know that will never happen because once again in Islam it means death to those that want to try and it is stated not to change a word.
Mike says
Some Muslim apologists state that it was common among world cultures for adult men to marry and have sex with 9-year-old girls.
However, that’s bullshit. For example, the Visigoths (a Germanic tribe) ruled Spain circa AD 418-711. The Visigoths agreed that a woman should be 20 years old before being allowed to marry.
As well, archeological research has shown that most Indo-Europeam cultures of the last two millennia have generally allowed girls and women to marry between the ages of 17-21.
Even in most cultures which gave made exceptions to this, girls aged 15 or 16 we’re permitted to marry with their parents’ permission (and then, usually to boys of about the same age, and not to adult men.)
This makes sense because a girl’s hips don’t fully widen until she is in her late teens, and her body (and mind) hasn’t fully developed until then, so she shouldn’t be having children before that.
So, when some Muslim apologists say, “Western age of consent laws are just arbitrary,” or ” Joseph wed Mary when she was 12 years old” (nowhere in the Bible does it say that), then they’re just talking through their hat. It’s BULLSHIT.
They are either honestly misinformed, or else they’re practicing taqiyya on gullible non-Muslims.
Mind watch says
The whole thing is so sickening. To my mind, In view of Muhammad’s rapes, killings and pedophilia, why would anyone wish to even look at the Quran? let alone interpret it to give some credence to that psychopath Muhammad. In view of what he did, and in view of the dreadful way Hamas killed innocents on the 7th of Oct, the Quran should simply be thrown in the bin – it is even too ridiculous to accord it a sense of dignity / perverted significance by burning it.
The origins of this depraved hell-born, pseudo – religion so obscure – 99% unlikely at best. It’s laughable. Those who defend, follow, worship and praise it have I feel, lost all their sensibilities, acting on programmed ‘auto-pilot’. They appear to have this blind, unstoppable, obsessional intent to legitimize and establish this ‘Islamic Law’ nonsense that is neither an ordination of any actual God, nor an actual inherent, innate aspect of one’s life / existence.
This Islam seems to have been cut off at it’s ‘baseless roots’ and has become a ‘floating’ free for all issue for anyone to join in and promote it. They seem unaffected by it’s obvious nonsense , and probably don’t even know (or care about) the masses of people killed in its name. It’s inciting atrocities that would even put Hamas to shame!
What kinds of people are they? And knowing that Muhammad killed, raped and tortured etc, why do so many Arabic people name their sons ‘Muhammad’?
Though a little speculative, I can’t help but feel these are the repugnant symptoms of a ‘downward’ spiralling society somehow augmented with this repulsive ‘woke’ disease – seems norms, values, rules, regulations, have been pushed aside and personal whims and depraved urges allowed to flourish.
Unfortunately I don’t feel there is any ‘heavenly intervention’ that can keep centering behaviour – one’s ‘infinitely mutable’ mind can take repulsive, depraved behaviour to any depth it wants to. It seems this is kind of history repeating itself – this behavior goes from madness to malice, and wars, where at last all this depraved self – indulgence life abuse is knocked out of people, and a slow climb back from the pits to a ‘liveable centering’ resumes.
Sorry for huge deviation. As for the rape of a 1 year child, its one of the most repugnant, animalistic things of ever heard of. Whether he needs execution or imprisonment I can’t decide -wouldn’t he be insane? Surely no amount of testosterone would make a ‘normal’ person do this? But then again, he’s a product of Islam, a brain twisted Muslim, so what would one expect.
somehistory says
the poor baby. First, why would any parent believe that some slimy male would need to take a baby….and baby she is…to a “field” to “feed her”?
A child of that age is usually fed by the mother. That part boggles the mind…why believe this ghoul was going to “feed the baby”?
The nhs and the cdc have decided that a male pretending to be female can nurse a baby, and no harm done (which is ridiculous in the extreme) The mindset that gives a monster control over a baby’s physical needs is beyond comprehension.
This sack of maggot castoffs deserves nothing less than to be chopped up in little pieces while still breathing and feeling every slice.
the Almighty God will see to the scum receiving *real* Justice. In the meantime, I do hope and pray that the baby survives and her parents have learned a valuable lesson. Take care of the baby…don’t trust any mozlum male to “feed” her, and pass along the warning to other parents.
Accounts such as this, make me so angry.
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James Lincoln says
In any sane country, this would be a capital case.
In any sane country…
Joe says
In the hadiths, Muhammad gave his infant son blow jobs.
Mike says
I’ve heard that somewhere in the hadiths, it is strongly suggested that Muhammad had a gay lover named Zahir? Anyone?
John Smith says
I wouldn’t put anything passed Muhammad, he even had sex with his dead aunt while she was lying in her grave.
John Smith says
I wouldn’t put anything passed Muhammad, he even had sex with his dead aunt while she was lying in her grave.
OLD GUY says
May this piece of crap spend eternity in HELL being gang raped. What a totally evil religion? Islam is.
SKA says
On the one hand the organized crime disguised as a religion gives the “boss-of-bosses” 20% of all booty taken during jihad and the rest distributed among his button-men. On the other hand while murder, rape and robbery are forbidden against fellow gang members such actions are legalized against the outsiders – nonbelievers. A great system of worldly, fleshy incentives to expand the enterprise.