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A 13-year-old girl in the Islamic Republic of Iran is getting a bit long in the tooth for getting married, and now there is an app for that. Iran International reported last Sunday that “an investigation by the reformist daily Shargh found that a licensed Iranian matchmaking platform lets parents sign up children as young as 13 for marriage, with no age filters or meaningful safeguards in place.” Those who are familiar with the life of Muhammad as he is depicted in traditional Islamic sources, and with Islamic law, will find it odd that the matchmaking site sets the age that high.
Iran International stated that “the website Adam and Hava (Adam and Eve), which brands itself as a formal marriage intermediary, allows users to open profiles either for themselves or for a child or relative.” To test what was going on at the Adam and Hava site, Shargh investigators created a fictional profile of a girl who was born in 2012, and had no trouble posting it, “indicating,” Iran International points out, “that minors can be listed seamlessly as marriage candidates.”
The Adam and Hawa site has a registration form consisting of 80 questions, and exactly none of them deal with issues of “consent, emotional readiness or psychological maturity for minors.” The site’s executive manager, Mohammad-Hossein Asghari, took refuge in the law of the Islamic Republic, pointing out that “Article 1041 of the Civil Code sets the marriage age at 13 for women and 15 for men.” Therefore, “from a legal standpoint we are obliged to accept membership and cannot block someone who falls within the age range set by law.”
Of course. And it’s not just Iran. The Associated Press reported in Jan. 2025 that “Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.” The amendments “would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law, which some interpret to allow marriage of girls in their early teens — or as young as 9 under the Jaafari school of Islamic law followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq.”
This was done in order to bring the nation’s laws into line with Islam: “Proponents of the changes, which were advocated by primarily conservative Shiite lawmakers, defend them as a means to align the law with Islamic principles and reduce Western influence on Iraqi culture.”
AP says that the approval of child marriage comes from Iraqi clerics’ “interpretation of Islamic law,” but actually, this is not some eccentric interpretation. This is 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, Iran and Iraq are not alone in making Muhammad’s example the basis of their laws regarding the legal marriageable age for girls.
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, agreed, 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 areas is acknowledged, the problem will never be solved, and more girls will suffer.
It is , or should be very obvious to all decent Westerners are able see how most heinous that official branch of that misogynist Islamic tyranny set up a allowing, forcing young girls, to have it arranged with their parents to, under duress, to compel them to many much older Muslim men.
Therefore, with this new information about Iran. it’s very appropriate to reiterate that one scholar on Islam, Robert Spencer, wrote that the 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.”
Muslims view their Prophet Muhammad and their take him as the perfect module to follow as an example of how to live their own lives.
Therefore, male Muslim marriage of an adult man to a young girl who is really only a child of common in the world of Islam. One of the “reasons” for this female child abuse in Islam is because of the corrupt and perverse wickedness in the hearts of men. This is seen and described in the Bible with reads “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9. [N.K.J.V.]
One “reason” the :mullah regime of Iran has a girl/child marriages with middle aged and even old men policy is because the founder and prophet of Islam Muhammad married a child. Muslims throughout history as well as in current times actually view Muhammad as a “perfect man” and a “great example for them to follow.”
This well might prove the old saying to be true .The saying is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
It’s also wise to remember prophet Muhammad did likewise engaged in brutal, ruthless murderous warfare. As do Muslims today such as the jihadist Muslim of ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah Hamas and so forth. Many that old saying, just sited above, also explains the excuse for Muslim terrorism in the world today.
Jesus Himself taught, “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. Which might explain the vile child “marriage” of Muhammad and his violent and deadly behavior .Likewise also explains the twenty- first century Muslims who in child marriages and blood and murderous violence of Islam .As they see the prophet Muhammad d as their example of who to follow.
With all this about the fruits of Islam along with fruits history reveals about the life of the prophet of Islam, Muhamma.. It thus further appropriate to make known that it might be in keeping with teaching of Jesus that Muhammad could well have been an actual prophet. Nevertheless, the very most important thing to understand is the Muhammad was not a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a lying deceptive false prophet send by Satan to start a false religion to lead many people astray.
For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7:15.
That regime of Islamic misogyny of Iran that has set up an institution of an adult male Muslims having a marriage with a little girls who is only a child is part of Islam since all Muslim admire the prophet of Islam, Muhammad and attempt to live like him and he did marry a 9 year old girl.”.
Nevertheless, this heinous Islam tradition is accepted as “normal “in most of the Islamic world. Therefore, this may serve as an example of how the influence of Islam is able to warp the cogitation of the human mind to the extent that a person who is a Muslim might not be able to understand the obvious difference between right and wrong.
Such an awful thing as not having the discerning mental power to seethe clear difference is described in the Bible. For in Isaiah 5:20. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…” [N.K.J.V.]
I keep wondering where God is in this whole thing.
Whose God? Your God? Because the Muslims have their God and they swear they can hear their imaginary friend in the sky commanding them to marry 9 year old children.
God, please save us from those who believe in you.
Very old white guy’s question is basically the problem of evil. Those who do not believe in God have a much harder time dealing with evil than those who believe in Him.
Instead of venturing a response, you mock. You have often equated moral goodness with reason, and so what could you possibly say? Evil is irrational? That fiction helps no one.
God takes evil very seriously, which is why He conceived the cross and permitted evil to nail Him there. Heaven and hell came to an agreement, although hell did not anticipate the outcome.
God is never evil and never does evil, and He will make sure evil does not finally triumph. In the meantime, there is comfort in knowing that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purposes (Romans 8: 28). We may not know that good, but it will eventually be revealed.
Joseph had this as his comfort also, when he told his lying, treacherous brothers, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives” (Genesis 50:20).
God bless you, old white guy, and give you peace.
The Islamic ideology was surly conceived in the depths of hell by the evil one himself.
I’ve had clipped news articles reporting on 11 & 12 year old girls in Afghanistan given to war lords to pay a debt.
So 13 shows improvement [sarc]
In the shithole of Little Mogadishu that Bush41 created, Somalis dispense with marrying minors.
They simply target, corner, and rape them. Then the entire community rallies to the pedophiles defense every time (including the Al-Ihsan Islamic Center.)
The frantic defence for the rapists include death threats to the mothers of these small girls, and telling the judge “It’s the Somali culture! They need time to adjust!”
No. Every Somali (rapists & their enablers) needs time to pack their bags.
How long until some elderly Islamic man who would a Grandpa here will end up married to a girl from 4th grade?
13? That’s progress! Mohammed married Aisha when she was six. Not sure if she played with her dolls during the wedding reception. I predict that by the year 4,000, this age will be up t0 16.