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Pakistan: Muslims defend practice of child marriage as one of the “tenets of Islam”

Sep 3, 2019 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

While the world continues to ignore human rights abuses committed in the name of Islam, mainstream Islamic clerics in countries that implement Sharia certainly do not. With reference to the practice of child marriage, the Washington Times reports: The problems are not just cultural. The U.N. World Health Organization notes that the leading causes of […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Pakistan, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice

Yemen: Girls as young as three being married off to much older men

Mar 5, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Why is this even considered an option? Because child marriage is sanctioned in Islam. 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 […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Yemen Tagged With: Oxfam

Bangladesh: Teacher and imam tortured for trying to stop a child marriage

Feb 4, 2019 10:15 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A madrassa teacher and a local mosque imam were “tied to trees and beaten up” for trying to prevent a child marriage in the Noakhali District of Hatia Upazila in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. As the title below indicates, they were “tortured for a good deed,” and that good deed was trying to protect […]

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Filed Under: Bangladesh, child marriage, Featured, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Bangladesh, Chittagong, Hatia Upazila

US govt approved thousands of child bride requests, “Middle Easterners had highest percentage of approved petitions”

Jan 12, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Of course they had the highest percentage of approved petitions. The government didn’t want to appear “Islamophobic,” and sacrificed the well-being of these girls to that fear. 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 […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, United States, Useful idiots Tagged With: Immigration and Nationality Act

R. Kelly Could Have Learned from Muhammad

Jan 10, 2019 12:00 pm By Mateen Elass

The now infamous R&B singer, R. Kelly, has been dogged by sexual misconduct and abuse allegations for more than two decades. These include his short marriage in 1994 to then 15-year old Aaliyah, when he was 27, lawsuits filed by women in 1996 (the victim was 15) and 2001 (this one was 17) claiming to […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Muhammad Tagged With: R. Kelly

German Federal Supreme Court rejects as unconstitutional a law banning child marriage

Dec 28, 2018 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

No Western country should bend its laws and abandon its principles in order to appease anyone or to suit any religious sensibilities at the expense of its women and girls. And yet this is not happening in Germany alone; many Western countries are increasingly adopting a two-tier legal system, allowing for a harmful accommodation of […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Germany, Islamic supremacism, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: German Federal Supreme Court

Australia: Imam in court over marriage ceremony involving 14-year-old girl

Dec 5, 2018 4:24 pm By Robert Spencer

It is no surprise that an imam would be involved in this. 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 […]

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Filed Under: Australia, child marriage, Featured, Muslim clerics Tagged With: Ibrahim Omerdic

Nigeria: 23 million girls are victims of child marriage

Dec 5, 2018 8:23 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Over 23 million girls in Nigeria are victims of child marriage. 32 million, meanwhile, have suffered female genital mutilation as well. But what do these practices have to do with Islam? Bukhari 5.58.234 and Umdat al-Salik e4.3, respectively. And as they foster mass migration and open borders, globalists apparently believe that deeply ingrained religious indoctrination […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Nigeria, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Comfort Lamptey, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

UK legitimizing “terrible abuse”: Nearly 2000 child brides in five years

Oct 25, 2018 8:41 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Here is another indication of why this decision by the European Court of Human Rights was so misguided. The UK has gradually ushered in Sharia law, severe abuses included: Nearly 2,000 young people in Britain, the vast majority of them girls, were wed before the age of 18 between 2010 and 2015 The UK also […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Sharia, United Kingdom, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: child brides

Ghana: Muslim cleric held for helping force 12-year-old girl into marriage

Sep 18, 2018 1:17 pm By Robert Spencer

It is no surprise that an imam would be involved in this. 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 […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Ghana, Muslim clerics Tagged With: Accra

Sweden sees steady increase in reports of forced marriage and child marriage

Sep 7, 2018 12:22 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that forced marriage and child marriage have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Odd, then, that with the massive Muslim migrant influx into Sweden that there would be a steady increase in both. Why don’t the peaceful and rapidly assimilating moderates rise up and put up a stop […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Sweden Tagged With: National Suppression of Honor Prevention of Childhood and Forced Marriage

UK considering raising minimum age of marriage to stop forced child marriage

Sep 7, 2018 9:54 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Government ministers are considering raising the minimum age for marriage in England and Wales from 16, as the phenomenon of children from minority communities being taken abroad for forced weddings intensifies. Equalities minister Baroness Williams of Trafford and the Home Secretary Sajid Javid are among those working on fighting abuse of minors, which takes many forms […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, United Kingdom, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: forced marriage

Elon Musk Tilting at the Wrong Windmill

Sep 6, 2018 2:40 pm By Mateen Elass

In June and July of this year, when a youth soccer team was trapped in flooding caves in Thailand, billionaire Elon Musk offered to help by using his tech firms to create a special mini-sub capable of maneuvering through the flooded serpentine caves to reach the desperate boys and their coach. Though the device was […]

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Filed Under: child marriage Tagged With: Elon Musk

Saudi Arabia: Muslim clerics fighting attempts to end child marriage

Sep 1, 2018 10:17 am By Robert Spencer

“Still no law has emanated from the government, almost certainly because senior clerics control large areas of domestic policy, and most of them, including the chief cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, oppose this change in tradition.” Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Saudi Arabia Tagged With: Abdulaziz al-Sheikh

“It’s OK that Muhammad married a child because people didn’t live as long back then” – Really?

Aug 13, 2018 9:17 am By Stephen M. Kirby

One can still find Muslims who deny that Muhammad married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage with she was nine. This is in spite of Aisha’s own words, e.g.: “Narrated ‘Aishah that the Prophet wrote the marriage contract with her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Muhammad Tagged With: Aisha

UK: Cop asks if Muslim migrant can date 12-year-old to be “culturally sensitive”

Aug 4, 2018 4:50 pm By Robert Spencer

“We’ve got a number of professionals who are turning a blind eye. They don’t want to rock the multicultural boat.” Indeed. They’d rather destroy their own country first. And they’re doing a great job of it. “British Police Asked if Iraqi Paedophile Can Date 12-Year-Old to Be ‘Culturally Sensitive,’” by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, August 4, […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, dhimmitude, Featured, United Kingdom, Useful idiots Tagged With: Karma Nirvana

UK: Muslim immigration lawyer says “no harm” in 15-year-old girls getting married

Aug 1, 2018 7:10 pm By Robert Spencer

What did anyone expect Asama Javed to say? 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 […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Islamic supremacism, United Kingdom Tagged With: Asama Javed

Afghanistan: Muslim husband kills his nine-year-old wife

Aug 1, 2018 10:34 am By Robert Spencer

This man’s murder of his wife is a product of the culture of violence that arises from the divine sanction given to wife-beating (Qur’an 4:34). And as for her being nine, 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 […]

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Filed Under: Afghanistan, child marriage, Featured Tagged With: Badghis

Malaysia: Muslim justifies his marriage to 11-year-old by saying he wanted to marry her since she was 7

Jul 17, 2018 9:49 am By Robert Spencer

Oh, that makes it all right, eh? 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) […]

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Malaysia Tagged With: Petaling Jaya

Sweden: Man fined $342 for posting satirical cartoon about child marriage in Islam on Facebook

Jul 5, 2018 12:01 pm By Robert Spencer

“The district court is of the opinion that the speech expresses a clear contempt for people of the Muslim creed. It implies that Muslims would generally be pedophiles and that pedophilia would be part of the religion of Islam.” How would anyone get such an idea? Maybe from the fact, as recorded in Islamic tradition, […]

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", child marriage, Featured, free speech, Islamic supremacism, Sweden Tagged With: Facebook, Skåne Hörby

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