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Moral standards that people took for granted for centuries seem to be eroding everywhere. That is not just true only in the woke, decadent West, but all over the world, albeit for different reasons. While the West casts off every residual attachment to traditional morality, elsewhere in the world, old traditions are being reasserted. Yet while the traditions in question are strikingly different, the outcome is much the same.
The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that “A proposed amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law is causing controversy, especially among women’s rights supporters. The amended law would allow men to decide upon marriage whether to follow Sunni or Shiite family law and would give clerics unprecedented legal authority. Critics say it would deprive Shiite women of basic rights and even open the door to child marriage.” It’s good that the proposal is at least causing controversy, but the proponents of the amendment have strong support from traditionalist Muslims, who are thick on the ground in Iraq.
And not just in Iraq. 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 is 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.”
These authorities say these things because hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “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. Iraq will not be alone in making 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.
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.
And we thought Sadam was bad enough
yep , the religion of peace ! you can slap your wife about , beat her with a stick and force her to have sex . and divorce her on a whim because the miserable , ignorant sand groper they call a prophet and the perfect man said so . where are the feminists , womens rights organisations . ? same as where the legal system is in the u.s. where a judge wouldnt prosecute some towel head parents when they practiced FGM on their daughter because it was cultural . governments dont care about children , only women who can vote . any other pedophile not muslim would be slapped in jail . but the west have a love affair with the cancer that is islam and a distinct hatred of christianity which jesus christ said they would when he walked the planet . expect more depravity from islam in the future , oct 7 a prime example and they want to do it to all infidels , especially jews .
These knuckle dragging trash have pedophilia to their core, so why not legalize what they’ve practiced for centuries.
I’ve forgotten the volumes of forced marriage involving 12 & under girls that I’ve read. The Muslims brought their pedophilia to Rotherham, UK (and other places), and attacks on underage girls boomed.
The left, for insane reasons, support islam even though they have little in common except a hatred for Christian values.
With Gov. Newsom also trying to legalize pedophilia, by lowering the age of consent to 16, islam & leftists now have a little common ground.
The “prophet” Mohammed was a pedophile, so really this is just old news
We know how and why this perverted custom was started. Is fear of being called an Islamophobe now supposed to be a reason to let it go unchallenged?
My parents raised me sheltered. I never heard of pedpophilia.
When I first heard the word, I assumed it must mean an adult who likes to ride bicycles.
It was only when I became a cabbie that I learned what it means: an adult who likes to sniff bicycle 🚲 seats. ~
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The other elephant in the room is pervasive endogamy in Muslim countries. 40% of marriages in Muslim countries are between first cousins. That inbred banjo boy in “Deliverance” (who resembled a young Joe Biden, and was probably nearly as stupid) was a product of enlightened eugenics compared to most Muslims. The “Religion of Peace” is also the Religion of Incest.
Imagine marrying a six-year old and having the self-control to wait until she reached 9 to “consummate the marriage!” Given the out-of-wedlock epidemic in the U.S.—good fathers matter–clearly many Americans need to exercise this admirable will power….
Though “feminists” rage about rights, they are the silent jihadists against both women and children. Their right to choose has advanced to murder and infanticide. Their interests in sexual “freedom” has resulted in promiscuous sex, payment for willful self degradation via social media soft-core platforms, their ongoing desires to legalize prostitution, as well as lower the age of sexual consent while traffickers, already invested in the sexual abuse of children, salivate at the prospect of being able to more easily entrap and use children as a sexually profitable commodity.
The left calls it sexual liberation, Islam calls it child marriage. They both share the abuse of children for sexual gratification of their pathologically deviant desires. It is sociopathic. It is absolute evil. Though marriage of girls is authorized by Mohammad, not in any way a prophet of G-d Almighty, young boys are routinely sexually assaulted by men in these many Middle Eastern countries.m as well.
Codifying these abominations against girls and refusing to acknowledge the damage to boys is to silently affirm the complete worthlessness of our children!
For most the damage done at the hands of these pedophile deviants will irreparably wound their souls and permanently damage their bodies and their ability to trust others…..there will no longer be anywhere safe, no haven where they have the right to be themselves, no boundary that cannot be crossed and their inability to defend against this, GONE!
I should know, I survived years of abuse from two pedophiles.
May G-d have mercy upon us for perpetrating the worst kinds of violations against our innocent children and then legalizing it.
Oops. I posted a joke before reading your post.
I apologize.
Good luck to you. And God Bless.
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Sick, demented, demonic culture. May it die a quick death.
It’s probably illegal in the UK to report this or the atrocities in Bangladesh. Making Muslims look bad will get you arrested
Terrorist Republic of Iran’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini famously said “A man can have sex with a girl as young as a baby.”
He then went on saying what to do after having sex with animals. He said the animals can’t be eaten by the person who had sex with them, but can be sold to another person.
Reportedly 80% of Iranians were his followers.
Shortly after he assigned himself as the supreme leader, his followers went on a genocidal killing spree of Iranians who didn’t agree with him. 100s of thousands, tortured, raped and killed in accordance to islamic manners.
But that wasn’t enough. The mullas then started the Iran Iraq war, where another million of Iranian young people were killed. The mullahs didn’t like the young who were exposed to the civilized world manners under Shah’s regime. The devout followers of that demon were staying behind the front line fighters and shooting those who wouldn’t run forward for a suicidal attack.
That’s just a quick glimpse into muslim’s minds.
The question to ask is which one is worse, the islamic mullahs/imams/clerics and their followers? Or the people who say nobody should stand up to them?
The correct answer is: There is no difference. They have all surrendered to the evil. They all serve the same purpose of destroying all civilizations and establishing a brutal islamic dictatorships.
I believe that one of the Adversary’s purposes in promoting transgenderism was to establish that children either had capacity to give consent, or that capacity should be differently assessed, or that it doesn’t matter anyway, with a view to children demanding the right to have sex with adults. Once that happens, the only difference between Western civilisation and Islam will be that in Islam, older women presumably will not be marrying little boys.
When the British united and governed India, they outlawed the practice of widows being thrown on the funeral pyre of their dead husbands. The Indians said ‘but this is an ancient Hindu custom’. The British governor said and we have an old English custom, we will hang you for murder. British colonialism created India with its enormous system of railways, schools, English common law and courts etc. etc.