No surprise here. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.
Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.
“Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria
“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.” — Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law
There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” — Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council
“Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.” — Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology
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).
Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, “Best wishes and Allah’s Blessing and a good luck.” Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah’s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).
Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: “Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge.” He added a threat: “Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women.” The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.
Likewise the influential website Islamonline.com in December 2010 justified child marriage by invoking not only Muhammad’s example, but the Qur’an as well:
The Noble Qur’an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: “And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women, if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated” [Qur’an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur’an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A’isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.
Other countries make 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.
“The Philippines wants to outlaw child marriage. But in Muslim-majority Bangsamoro, change will be hard,” by Raissa Robles, South China Morning Post, November 22, 2020 (thanks to Henry):
…A senior member of the National Ulama Conference of the Philippines, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he did not think the proposed child-marriage law was “automatic for Muslims” given the concurrent existence of the Code of Muslim Personal Laws.
He revealed that there was an ongoing discussion between the ulamas on the conflict between the Code and the impending congressional legislation banning child marriages.
“We are trying to reconcile the two views – the Code says 15 [is the marrying age], while the [proposed Congress legislation] says 18,” he said, explaining that some Islamic scholars put the age of marriage for women “from the time she starts menstruating, but the Koran itself has no provision regarding that”….
Carol says
All in accord with the Sunna of Mohammed (pig shit be upon him), the pedophile who founded Islam in 610 A.D., and fucked little ‘Aisha, right in her brown and hairLESS pussy, when she wasn’t yet 9 years of age, while he was in his mid-fifties.
Fuck Mad Mo’, the mass murderer and rapist who completed the “Religion of Peace” in 622 A.D.
petervburrows says
Now, Carol, how do you really feel?
Carol says
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petervburrows says
Thanks. Savage is terrific!
toomanyhobbies says
An non law to counter a real law….. what kind of logic is that?
mortimer says
Islam is clearly a pedophile cult.
notnolib says
No wonder Biden is such a fan.
David says
notnolib, have you seen this Creepy Joe Video? https://youtu.be/KQ-YjGmpO4Q
tim gallagher says
To my mind, islam is just a load of outdated, totally barbaric garbage in its attitude to all aspects of human life. Child marriage is one of these barbaric attitudes that islam is so full of. islam should have become extinct long ago. The non-Muslim, more civilised part of the human race have moved on. I look at islam as this bizarre left over which still seeks to live the barbaric life that people lived in 7th century Arabia. It is a disgusting idea of how life should be lived. Islam should be extinct by now. Looking at the way Muslims live, and want to impose on the more civilised people of the world, is like looking back in time to some repulsive, primitive way of living life.
Westman says
It seems the Muslim early marriage and multiple wives conventions were intentionally created by Muhammad to retain majorities and overwhelm new areas where Muslims are in the minority. It works. China did a similar salting of Uyghur communities, moving in Chinese citizens to gain local control.
Underage brides will simply accelerate Islam and its approx 10% population toward more power in the Philippines. Perhaps, someday, underage brides will be forced into Islam in the manner of India and Pakistan?
In islamic nations, like guns, women seem to be the possession of some man, without control over their own lives, mere tilth and servant to the cause of submitting the world to Islam.
And the EU has even subsidized the process, offering support benefits and the continuance of polygamous marriages. Does anyone remember the Cleric in the Al-Aqsa Mosque who declared that Europe would be conquered by the wombs of Islam?
James Lincoln says
When I think of the Philippines, I think of a circa 1980s port call during a WESTPAC.
The highlight was the Cubi Point O’Club.
How things have changed…
gravenimage says
Philippines: Islamic scholars invoke the Qur’an in opposing law forbidding child marriage
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Of course they do. There is little more Islamic than child rape.
Child “marriage” is rife in the Philippines, thanks to the growing Muslim population there–it is the tenth highest in the world.
While the technical marriage age in the Philippines is 18, many parts of the country are under Shari’ah law.
tgusa says
Sexual obsession and its effect on a person is well documented. For the most part that obsession doesn’t end well. Islamic tradition is just an excuse but wide spread and habitual pedophilia does come in to play.
David says
See this: President-reject Biden https://youtu.be/KQ-YjGmpO4Q
Eur says
Monsters
OLD GUY says
All you can say is these old muslim men are nothing but PIGS.