Afghan Mullah Marries, Kills 8-Year-Old Girl on Wedding Night

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Picture of Muslim child bride for illustration purposes

 

This is a pretty horrific story that comes out of Afghanistan. The source for it is Mustafa Kazemi, an Indian war correspondent, who has been operating in Afghanistan since 2010 and has worked for AFP.

Due to the horrific nature of the story, I am only excerpting a few parts of it. If you want to read the rest, you’ll have to follow the link. But keep in mind that child marriages like these are happening all the time, not just in Afghanistan, but increasingly even in Europe.

The 8-years-old girl whose story you’ll read in coming lines did not make it to the 2nd night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th or 10th birthday.

Her name unknown, my source telephoned me last week at 9:30 pm to tell me her story. At the first I thought it’s just going to be a short conversation but later it was unveiled that the story is different.

The story came from a village in Khashrood district of Nimruz province in Afghanistan.

A medical doctor assigned in the main hospital in Zaranj city, the capital of the province, who wished to remain unnamed confirmed that he was “made aware” of the incident and that it was “too late to do anything for her” as well the “remote area didn’t allow them to do anything”.

The girl was one of the several daughters of a man in his late 30s. For an unknown reason he gave his daughter to the Mullah of their village for a big amount of money. It is also common in Afghanistan’s rural areas or 3rd level provinces/cities to marry young girls to old men, and trading their daughters for their debts or other items.

The mullah is in his late 50s and is the mosque guy of the village where this incident happened.

The mullah is already married and has many children too.
The two families hold a tribal meeting, agree on the price that the groom’s family pay to the bride’s family, and they set a date for wedding.

In rural areas like this here there are no engagements or any ceremonies beforehand like there are some in the metropolitan and urban areas.

The two families planned a wedding party, the wedding and Nekah (The religious process in which a woman is officially married to a man) took place and the 8-years-old bride became the 50-years-old Mullah’s 2nd wife.

The celebration party was over and the sun downed – the time to have sex (not make love) with the 8-year-old bride.

The girl was just 8 years old and everybody understands the fact that she knows nothing about sex or wedding or making love or virginity or sexual related topics; not even at a basic level for two reasons, one being that she’s just a child – not even a teenager and that in that part of the country, nobody knows anything about these things nor they are given trainings or education about a healthy sexual life.

Naturally, she started to bleed in a very bad amount, but the mullah was too annoyed for not being able to have sex with her, to care for what he did or her bleeding or her wounds that he gave her.

The girl had her scarf stuffed in her mouth, crying and trying to not raise her voice because others were there in the room adjacent to or outside.

The girl was bleeding and there was nobody to help her, neither could the Mullah ask for help as it was a shame for him. Our 8-year-old bride bled and went into traumatic shock from blood loss and early in the morning around 5 when the sun was about to rise, she passed away.

The close friend of mullah, who knew everything, was very upset and shared the story with my source that then called me and told me the story.

This story reached to me was told the exact way as it happened by the Mullah to a very close friend of him after the girl’s dead body was buried. According to the Mullah, he had a “bad conscience” about it.

Mustafa Kazemi
War Correspondent
Afghanistan

  • sonia

    i request the administrator to remove the post of Mr david. Plz do not generalize a people in a particular religion to certain incidents.it is definitely heartbreaking, but afghanistan or countries like the has never improved in ages.plz remove the comment of david.

  • jr712013

    Sorry for the story..
    why dont you write about amish people in usa or in india or iran??
    This is not in the name of islam.. Don't let the readers think so. its beyond that. please!!!

  • yomomma

    The hatemongers are winning it will not be long before the New World Order declares a new Crusade to destroy Islam. I wish we could have a Crusade to destroy ALL religions, to stop believing in ghosts and the doctrines of people that have no idea of the world in which we live. If the world spent more time on educating ALL people a LOT of our porblems would disappear. But, by all means continue to hate it is what makes you happiest.

  • Nomoreofthis

    This is sick! WTF is wrong with these people?

    They must wait until girls can be able to have sex, 10 or 11 y.o., or even until 12 y.o. But an 8 y.o. girl is still a child! Everybody understand that.

    Sick people everywhere!

  • max

    All those who blames Islam for this is ignorant of the religion Islam and also women do have rights in Islam if you all learn your history properly before Islam came women were treated like animals even like a commodity

    • objectivefactsmatter

      "…women do have rights in Islam if you all learn your history properly before Islam came women were treated like animals even like a commodity"

      That's a lie. All of the supposed rights of Islamic women are held by the men that own them. They are breathing objects under Islamic law.

    • Mary Sue

      no they don't.

      Muhammad said the testimony of a woman is inferior to that of a man, therefore more women are needed to provide the credibility in a court of law compared to one man.

      Muhammad said that women are deficient mentally.

      Women are beaten in Saudi Arabia if they dare show a single nose hair and cannot drive a car legally nor go out of their freaking house alone. And this is in the country which was the CRADLE OF ISLAM!

    • Mary Sue

      and don't forget, Muhammad said the majority of Hell's inhabitants ARE WOMEN!

  • Daniel

    Saying that Islam is a peaceful religion, is like saying Christianity is a peaceful religion. They are all scum, and they found stupid laws based on religious beliefs. I am glad I live far far away from this filthy scum. If I could Rambo in there and shoot all the scum and save the poor kids and women, I would. But i’m in no position to do so. I would not hesitate to shoot these idiots given the chance.

    • God

      This happens in America too, did you forget the Polygamy scandal…This is what men acting on self gain do… For money and the need to feel powerful… They do not care about truth or how they hurt as long as their ego is feed. And the catholic priest hood? remember that one too… The sickness lays in the lack of educational teachings about healthy and equality amongst people. Giving women rights and credits quality to that of man, so that girls don't have to worry about being raped…. If your born a women today there is only a 20% chance not to be raped by age 30, and 50% are raped before age 18. This is also the fault of the pornography industry not being regulated. T.V effects us, what we see and absorb effects the mind this is proven, why would it be any different with pornography.

  • Ms. Williams

    EVIL, PURE AND SIMPLE! JUDGEMENT WILL BEFALL ALL WHO HARM CHILDREN IN THIS WAY. GOD HAS A PLACE FOR THEM FOR WHICH THERE IS NO RETURN OR END TO THEIR TORMENT. I AM COMFORTED BY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THIS LITTLE GIRL IS NOW WITH GOD IN HEAVEN FOR EVER AND EVER ~ AMEN!

    • Brock

      The only comfort would be to see god burn in hell for ever and ever. Sorry, but he's the root of evil on earth. Even though he's a myth, god = satan, and millions have died/suffered in his name.

    • Paul

      She is not in some heaven with your sky-god. That idea just excuses what he did. She is now dead and gone forever.

      The belief that you get to live forever in a magical paradise after you die devalues life immeasurably – it is not a sweet and innocent concept.

  • Ted

    Welcome to planet Earth goddamnit! Bad things happen here, have been happening for thousands of years, and will CONTINUE to happen. Sucks, but it's the reality we live in. Thanks be to god right? Kill god/gods and rid yourselves of foolish age old practices. It's the only way, whether you want to believe it or not. S T O P B E L I E V I N G . . .

  • danab

    I don't think our president is good with child abuse but I know our president is good with the Muslim brother hood , as we just gave them tanks ,planes weapons etc Now one the by products of supporting the Arab Spring and Muslim brotherhood is you are supporting these 7th century dysfunctional societies based upon tribalism, nepotism ,bribery and religious zealotry that reinforce the situation where things like this can and do take place. All it takes for evil to happen is for good men to do nothing ….of give them planes and tanks

    • Paul

      John McCain sponsored a bill to transfer that military equipment.

  • Ruth

    how can Al-Quran not allowing woman or child not to be hurt or killed. While there are great things in the religion, brothers and fathers can take a woman's life for honor. Where is the forgiveness? A child can be married to an old man before she has learnt the ways of the world. Her dreams crushed and she becomes a cypher for the man and children. Like the bible the Quran is a book that can be exploited and hold people from dialogue and finding solutions for all people man or woman.

  • Carole63

    People on here say what happened has nothing to do with the religion of Islam, but of course it has because Muhammed had child brides and behaved the same way!

    • objectivefactsmatter

      "People on here say what happened has nothing to do with the religion of Islam, but of course it has because Muhammed had child brides and behaved the same way!"

      That's too obvious.

  • Kathleen

    If you knew anything about their culture, if names were to come out more deaths would come. You had better check your facts before assuming that the story is fiction simply because people in a dangerous situation are declining to give their names. Do you know nothing about the Muslim religion?

  • Nonlocality

    In nature there is a delicate balance. Even at the cellular level… order acts in concert to eliminate deviations.

  • Joe

    Read the comment by Rosalina Atkins on this Facebook link. He is a pathological liar. https://www.facebook.com/Combatjournalistpage/pos

    It reads:

    Mustafa Kazemi is a fraud. I came across this last year as I used to follow him on Twitter and noticed him boasting about his army background. I did a little research online and came across this story about his lies on being a soldier or a lieutenant : http://www.blackfive.net/main/2011/08/michael-yon… . The truth is that he was only an interpreter in the US army and later worked as a journalist with AFP and DPA in Afghanistan. He was fired from DPA after he was caught lying on his Twitter page, this I got to know from other Afghan journalists on Twitter. I am sending you this information just for your knowledge if you want to do further research or question him. Here is another story about Mustafa trying to fake his army background in his resume and erasing the controversy page on his own wikipedia page: http://milblogging.com/index.php?entry=entry12030… Wikipedia has taken down his page after he tried to edit his article on his own.

    The story reads, "
    Afghan reporter not all he's cracked up to be
    Monday, February 27, 2012, 11:47 PM
    Several days ago I wrote a story entitled "Afghan war reporter Mustafa Kazemi @CombatJourno" based on an article that appeared in the popular blog Mashable praising Kazemi for his war coverage.

    What I didn't realize at the time is that Kazemi had been involved in some controversy last year, controversy that makes it difficult to believe much of what he writes.

    In 2011, military blogger Michael Yon used Kazemi as a source in several stories, but what Blackfive went on to find out, was that Kazemi had not only been padding his online resume, but was blatantly lying about his background.

    "A military linguist, Infantry mortar man, Explosive Ordnance specialist and also trained in Close Quarters Battle. This is a serious dude. Except he isn't. Any of those things. At all. He is a liar and Yon used his information over and over again as a credible source," wrote Uncle Jimbo.

    Like Mashable, I missed this detail.

    Today, according to the Revision History of his Wikipedia page, he is trying to erase any and all negative mentions about his past.

    But the controversial past remains with him for now at least.

    Today, a special section called Controversy appears and reads:

    "Mustafa Kazemi's credibility has been called into question. In August 2011, Kazemi was caught lying about his resume.[3] According to screenshots obtained by the website Blackfive, Kazemi claimed to have worked in the United States Army and a graduate the United States Army Infantry School.

    Kazemi also claimed to be qualified in close quarters combat, explosive ordinance disposal, and a private first class in the military occupational specialty 11C, infantryman. When questioned on his qualifications, Kazemi admitted that he had padded his record saying, "I accept that I blew this out of proportion. I was a language assistant and shouldn't have called myself all those."

    He has also sought to shape his public image by deleting or editing any references to this controversy."

    According to the independent, not-for-profit website journalisted, Kazemi is a columnist at The Blottr, at Mashable and at Combat Journalist."

  • marco

    This is not Islam, are catholic priests not guilty? Go to Bangkok and try counting the western perverts. The world is full of sick people.

  • Irulan

    If you report on a story like this you need to stick to the facts. All the fluffing around it about what might have happened if you are not sure makes people doubt the legitimately of the entire story.

  • Fuck You all

    Why do you rape little girls. They are eight and five and three and six years old. You should be punish for

    your actions. I am a woman and If that was my child I would kill every last single one of you. I would never

    let my husband sell my daughter, because I would kill him too. Everyone with a little child would die, I am

    glad I live in America .

  • Ari

    Extremely disturbing :(

  • KBmo

    Aisha was 9 do you really think she was an adult when Mo had sex with her? He was a pedophile.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      "Aisha was 9 do you really think she was an adult when Mo had sex with her? He was a pedophile."

      Mo said so and he's the "seal of the prophets." I guess that's good enough for them and all the Imams that want to marry 6-year-olds.

  • thomas_h

    test

  • Dave

    We cannot let the filth of islam degrade our nation! We must reject islam, destroy their mosques and denounce it's teachings! We must not show it any respect at all! We, the people, need to take our country back and drive them back to their countries and then defeat those countries so completely the the names of allah and mohammad are lost and forgotten for eternity! And if we don't, they WILL do it to us! Those that don't believe it and show them respect and tolerance deserve their sword!

  • objectivefactsmatter

    "Are you guys serious? if you know a little about islam, you will see that islam forbids have sex before become adult."

    Evidence please? Your mother told you so?

    How old was Aisha when she married and had sex with Mo? How old does a girl have to be as an "Islamic adult?" She needs to be bleeding, right? Or one can cite the precedent set by Mo and then what can anyone say?

    It's fundamentally Islamic.

  • ANI

    AND … THATS WHY YOU DONT MARRY A CHILD !!!! MORANS !!!!

  • God

    This is the problem with religion and old teachings all truth of good that it held can be twisted to mean anything….Even with all the entries of sex being a sin, even those within marriage that is not on equal terms and relations…. Those not for love, love by both sides on equal terms and conditions. NOT MONEY!! not selfish gain… IS this all we have to offer to future generations? Where is the prosperity? Where is there happiness considered? These acts acted in right of a claim by God, will also one day meet there faith and karma…. Innocent blood spread will not go unforgotten.

  • sandya j

    Whether it is happening in Afgan or any other country….. these are cruel and inhuman things…………….

  • Ace

    I wish people would educate themselves on religions around the world, especially Islam, before making comments such as the ones posted above. Saying things like "make d-m sure Islam NEVER gets established in the US" or calling their prophet "filthy and disgusting"…things like this make propagate the belief that Americans are ignorant hillbillies. Please take the time to learn about something before you speak about it…Of course, all Christians are perfect – even the ones who follow different branches of so-called Christianity and marry multiple child brides, etc…but – it's ok for them because they're Americans right?

  • http://wwwzaman@hotmailçom 123456789

    I have read the story from beginning to end this post korkunçsa how these incidents in Afghanistan this event so terrible maletmekte Islam is essentially the same all over the world only in god you believe in all religions believe in the Day of Account is the same as human beings are equal in this world, the world order is an order, the prophets of Allah to prevent any poroplem and the books you read and understand these books Psalter who sent the bible Torah Torah Jews, Christians today’s gospel is the same as the Muslims, not islam establishes connect the life of today’s Muslims is very wrong prophets sent by god’s reputation, no one does, and residues resulting from irritation of the world religions have been brought by all the prophets that replaced it is still residues resulting in a clear state of the world we live have good knowledge about the subject matter must be criticized when it respects

  • WHOCARES

    THIS STORY IS FAKE. YOU GUYS DO NOT DESERVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE SHAME ON ALL OF YOU

  • layla

    “Picture of Muslim child bride for illustration purposes” hello? its not an actual picture im sure the story is a lie too. prophet muhammad would never have harmed a child. it goes against Quran in a very big way. be sure it didnt happen like you sick people said.

  • http://NA Ali Shah

    I find myself questioning the authenticity of this report.

    1.Picture of Muslim child bride for illustration purposes

    2. “Her name unknown, my source telephoned me last week at 9:30 pm to tell me her story. At the first I thought it’s just going to be a short conversation but later it was unveiled that the story is different..”

    3. “a village” “a doctor” in a “main hospital” wished to remain unnamed” “The girl was one of the several daughters of a man in his late 30s.” “the Mullah” (does he have a name?)

    “The mullah is in his late 50s and is the mosque guy of the village where this incident happened.”

    “The girl had her scarf stuffed in her mouth.” Witness statement? Evidence?

    “The close friend of mullah, who knew everything, was very upset and shared the story with my source that then called me and told me the story.”

    Does anybody have a name? Are there any locations? Any evidence? Name of the doctor? Name of the hospital? A hospital report maybe?

  • Ali

    I find myself questioning the authenticity of this report.

    1.Picture of Muslim child bride for illustration purposes

    2. "Her name unknown, my source telephoned me last week at 9:30 pm to tell me her story. At the first I thought it’s just going to be a short conversation but later it was unveiled that the story is different.."

    3. "a village" "a doctor" in a "main hospital" wished to remain unnamed" "The girl was one of the several daughters of a man in his late 30s." "the Mullah" (does he have a name?)

    "The mullah is in his late 50s and is the mosque guy of the village where this incident happened."

    "The girl had her scarf stuffed in her mouth." Witness statement? Evidence?

    "The close friend of mullah, who knew everything, was very upset and shared the story with my source that then called me and told me the story."

    Does anybody have a name? Are there any locations? Any evidence? Name of the doctor? Name of the hospital? A hospital report maybe?

    If we took this to court, we cannot go with a nameless victim, a nameless perpetrator, nameless material witnesses (plural in this case), no name and location of hospital, no hospital report etc. There is nothing verifiable at all other than the name of the author.

    Finally, a Mullah is title given to a man educated in Islamic theology. So this article is promoting Mullahs are evil?

  • DISAPOINTED

    I have thought about this story for several hours. I hate to believe that it this happened._I AM CALLING OUT TO MUSLIM'S EVERYWHERE…if this is true, please do something about it. This is ungodly…this is immoral by anyone's standards. Follow this story back to it's source…make this right by punishing this man. Then let the whole world know that he was punished. HE IS GIVING MUSLIM A BAD NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Crystal Paxson

    God help all those children!!! What a sick evil old man

    • Gail

      Obviously, either God is indifferent or non-existent. These kind of things happen everyday.

      • MrD

        A difficult decision of course,but remember they worship one called Allah who obviously is powerless to stop this too.

        • GodLOL

          Yeah right, and I am guessing you worship the Christian god who allowed Sandy Hook Shooting…
          Dumb republican

  • BigDickDonJuan

    Bet that thing was tight…

  • MrD

    This is what this president wants to bring to America through the Muslim brotherhoods in his cabinet.