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Yet another child has been married because of Islamic laws that no one wishes to admit exist, much less counter in any way.
The BBC reported recently that “an eight-year-old girl, who had been missing for six months, was found living with a man who said he was her husband.” This man, identified as Sheikh Mahmoud, “initially said he was solely teaching the girl the Quran. But after legal complaints were filed, he changed his statement, saying he had married the girl with her father’s consent.”
He did this based on Islamic law: “When asked by the BBC how he justified marrying an eight-year-old, Sheikh Mahmoud said that the traditions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, along with that of the Shafi’i school of thought, allowed child marriage.” The BBC, as woke as ever, and thus determined to defend the image of Islam in every possible way, begged to differ: “After the BBC questioned his reasoning – citing opposition from numerous Somali Islamic scholars – Sheikh Mahmoud maintained that he would not abandon the marriage.”
The BBC’s “opposition from numerous Sunni Islamic scholars” notwithstanding, Sheikh Mahmoud is not some extremist or eccentric. He is acting upon standard, basic 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 and the sexualization of children are taken for granted 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). Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old. Numerous other early Islamic traditions state the same thing.
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual in Muhammad’s time. But because, in Islam, Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this even today. For that reason, 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.
And this practice not accepted just in Iraq and Iran. The News Agency of Nigeria reported back in June 2021 that “the Chief Imam of the Nasrul-lahi-li Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT), Abdul Azeez Onike, says Islam supports underage marriage.” Onike insisted that “Islamic scripture was clear about marriage” and called upon people to refer to Islamic texts “instead of using contemporary standards” to determine whether or not child marriage was an acceptable practice.
Onike was right: child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Numerous Islamic authorities worldwide attest to this. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in Jan. 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.
Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria, has said, “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this.” An Iraqi expert on Islamic law, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, agrees, saying, “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.”
So does Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent Muslim cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council: “There is no minimum age for marriage” and girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology has declared flatly: “Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.”
Yet despite all this, worldwide organizations dedicated to ending child marriage universally fail to acknowledge its justifications in Islam. The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights never mentions Islam in connection with child marriage. UNICEF doesn’t, either. Nor does the international network Girls Not Brides.
Until the root cause of why child marriage continues to be prevalent in some regions is acknowledged, the problem will never be solved. And more girls will suffer.
Islam living life of the 11th Century BC here in 2025 AD. And as you notice I am not using the PC Versions BCE and CE
I was talking to a friend this weekend and he feels that the BBC is a right wing conservative propaganda outlet.
You can’t make it up and you have provided some evidence of why, simply asking a question is enough to make British citizens islamaphobic!!!!
The D-Bag party will probably invite the Brit pedophile to America and offer him citizenship. Their only possible quibble is that Mohammad married a girl instead of a tranny boy.
Not unless Canada gets him first.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s excellent book “Prey” touches on this, as well. And, it’s a broken record, as we used to say, but, once again–where, oh where, are the western feminists?
Helping MeToo look for women willing to call rape on famous men they don’t like.
Busy munching each others musty carpets.
The mostly peaceful religion in the world supports impregnating young, very young, girls. Appalling.
🎵 Mohammed, Look at my life, I am the same as you were 🎵
🎵 Mohammed, Look at my life, I am the same as you were 🎵
🎵 Mohammed,Look at my life – I’m a lot like you ~ 🎵
🎵 I need a little girl’s blood the whole night through 🎵
🎵 To worship and obey me, the whole night through 🎵
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There is no evil that can’t be justified by Islam
Mohammed married Aisha, one of his wives, when she was 6. Exercising incredible self-control, he didn’t “consummate the marriage” with her until she was 9.
What is the probability Sheikh Mahmoud will wait a year to “consummate the marriage?”
I’ll take “Al Cultures Are Not Remotely Equal” for $666, Alex.
The girl’s true name is lost to history.
Mohammed nemed her onomatopoeically after the noise she made as he gave her a vaginal fistula:
“Aiyee – Sha!! Aiyee – Sha!!” became ‘ ‘ Aisha ‘ ‘ .
Oh just use your real name Mr. Johnston. That would be Richard, correct.
You little coward.
I’m guessing Mo’ had a stable of 9 year olds to keep him from jumping the gun.
Even in this day and age the 7th century paedo’s charter springs into action by those wanting to have sexual activity set up by Allah’s rep on earth , activity with a young girl. On the basis of leam[ng THE rep of Allah waited 3 years after marriage to have penetrative vaginal sex , but no mention of what happened between Aisha’s marriage at 6 and the final reckoning. I would have thought any mature man would have reservations of introducing his erect penis into a YOUNG girl, and to think she is expected to do it. It is NOTHING short of RAPE, ordained by Allah. That his rep on earth was willing to carry out the rape does set either of them free of guilt. So what sort of persons are they ?. And what are the girls required to do after marriage and age 9 ?
This is sick and if I was there he’d be swinging
This is further proof that Islam is a cult. A cult is when devotees make their life choices based on the leader’s behavior. The leader’s likes become the adherent’s likes and the leader’s hate becomes the adherent’s hate. Muhammad was a pedophile, he not only had a strong sexual urge regarding prepubescent girls, he acted on them. Any reasonable thinking male would know sexual fetishization of young girls is mentally unhealthy but for the Muslim male, logic and reasoning are thrown out the window.
One can reasonably argue Islam is a cult because all the hatred of Jews and the Arab / Israeli conflict is driven by Muslims just following the dictates of their leader. But it’s not just the present Arab / Israeli conflict, when the Jews living in the North Western Arabia Peninsula refused to recognize Muhammad as prophet, he made Jihad against the Jews part of the engrained dogma of his new religion. Because after all, if Muhammad has auditory hallucinations, where Allah tells him that it’s the duty of all Muslims to kill the Jews and after 1400 years the followers of Muhammad are still carrying through with this then yes – Islam is a cult!
Am I missing something? Missing for 6 months in what country? Britain? Saudi Arabia? WHERE?
This is just child trafficking. He paid the Father for the child.
It seems that all of these cult and pagan religions place a great emphasis on sexual activity and its diverse perversions. It’s probably the main the cause of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Marrying children and sexually abusing them is not Biblical and it’s not normal, especially in so-called civilised Western countries.
Sounds like a fetish to me but I also think that we shouldn’t believe we are above being also judged for behaviors we allow here re: bestiality ( a major NY playwright had a play on Broadway about a man falling in love with a goat claiming it was an allegory. Well, if the style of the suburban reality that it took place in was any indication of anything but a slice of life – to me it was a manifesto of bestiality. Also, there have been documented relationships of men w/ dogs. Finally, we have come – in a very short space of cultural time – to accept same sex marriage while in Islam it’s enough to be thrown off a roof for. The S and M world was thriving in the 70’s maybe even today with soft-core films made about it though it must be more low key now. Pauline Reage’s Story of O was pretty out there as well. Not to mention the Marquis de Sade’s efforts. So there’s enough depravity to go around. Man is in the end, a ‘polymorphous-perverse creature.
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We were once “ One Country Under God” . I have heard some speeches given by those who are Muslim and stated they will turn the world to the Islamic religion yet Texas is building an area for Muslims as well as Shapiro here in Pennsylvania. Dearborn, Michigan resembles the Middle East.
The silence of the Western feminists and those of the #METOO movement is deafening to my ears.
Islam is a cult. If your ‘religion’ does not have Jesus Christ, IT IS A CULT !!! By the way; is this 8 year old girl able TO BEAR CHILDREN ?!?! This looks like glorified pedophilia.