Sex with minors is widely accepted in Syria and other majority-Muslim countries for one primary reason: the example of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
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.
“Doische: he impregnates his 8-year-old stepdaughter,” translated from “Doische: il met enceinte sa belle-fille âgée de 8 ans,” by Sarah Rasujew, L’Avenir, February 14, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
The man said the girl was demanding and that it was normal in his culture to have sex with underage girls.
The man was sentenced to 8 years in Namur. The prosecution appealed to Liège and asked for a heavier sentence.
The general prosecutor’s office has requested a ten-year prison sentence before the Liège Court of Appeal against a 27-year-old resident of Doische, who must answer for having raped and impregnated his stepdaughter, eight years old! These terrible facts were discovered when the mother noticed that her little girl was no longer having her period. The child was vomiting and did not seem to feel well….
On April 3, 2021, the inconceivable was the result of a medical examination. The girl was pregnant with twins. According to the expert opinion, she was eight weeks and four days pregnant. Conception took place at the end of January 2021, although she was born in May 2012. The stepfather testified that it was the mother’s fault that the girl had been raped because she had dressed her in skirts….
The latter explained that in his country, Syria, it was not bad to have a sexual relationship with a minor. Even when he appeared in court, the accused had not questioned himself. He had stated, “I confirm what I said before the investigating judge. The little girl provoked me. They tell me that she is only nine years old. It is her way of behaving, in her mind she is older than her age. She asked me for it, I stand by the fact that the child asked for the sexual intercourse.”
The lawyer of the accused considered that her client, who had just been granted the status of a political refugee, had now become aware of the seriousness of the offenses. The lawyer pleaded for a suspended sentence as far as possible. “My client is willing to integrate into Belgian society,” she said. The court will pronounce its verdict in March this year.
wpm says
Raped his 8 year old step daughter why is this piece of sh*t not deported if he is not a citizen?What makes the judge think he can be reformed ,he stated in court he felt he di nothing wrong ,it was the child,s fault!
somehistory says
The scum is a psychopath. Psychopaths always blame their victims and refuse to accept any responsibility for doing wrong. they lie like cheap carpets and dead dogs Put that lying scenario with the fact he’s mozlum, and the lies will never end.
Whatever time he serves, he should be less male when he’s released and sent back from whence he came.
And the mother of this child needs to learn to avoid mozlums and refuse to allow them anywhere near her daughter. And, is there a father of the girl somewhere?
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
A textbook psychopath.
somehistory says
James, when I was young, I never really knew what one was….a ted bundy, a jack the ripper.. they all just had to be serial murderers.
When I learned more about them, I still didn’t realize there are so many, many, psychopaths running amok.
islam builds them, nourshes them, supports them in every way.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
The Ted Bundy’s, Jack the Ripper’s, etc., are pretty easy to identify as true psychopaths.
But there are other less obvious psychopaths.
I maintain that Joe Biden is either a psychopath or – at the very least – has heavy psychopathic traits.
He is a criminal with no conscience.
Narcissistic, lack of guilt, antisocial behavior, impulsivity, and no empathy.
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-psychopath-5025217
somehistory says
I agree, James.
When I was younger, before I had studied about them, I had no clue. and then, as you say, knowing that bundy and jack were, was easy.
Taking those courses I had with the FBI Special Agent, a guy who was also a psychologist and actually spoke face to face with some less well-known serial killers, I learned a lot about the dx of a psychopath.
And moslums fit right in.
As do people like j biden, h clinton, bo, and so many others who are so selfish, lacking empathy, conning others by a pretense of friendship, etc. The never regret what they have done.
Dr. Robert Hare had his first assignment iin a prison where he was supposed to listen to and counsel inmates. He wrote about his experiences, and how even he was conned by one particular psychopath and it almost got Dr. Hare killed.
they find pleasure in the pain of others, and often brag about how they deceive and take advantage of their victims. and when things go wrong, they claim to be the victims; as my instructor says, “It’s all about ME!”
They have no remorse, and never really learn from therir mistakes…which they never acknowledge. And they lie…lie and lie. Just as biden demonstrates.
James Lincoln says
oomehistory,
Thank you for your on-point reply.
James Lincoln says
Typo:
Meant “somehistory”…
dazzleme says
Somehistory -“Well Said”
Millgigs says
What is the Western World coming to?
How can a female lawyer defend a man who has raped an eight year old girl?
tim gallagher says
The pedophilia in islam is just one of many aspects of islam that make it totally incompatible with the way civilised human beings in non-Muslim countries live their lives. islam is a load of barbaric, primitive garbage that is fit only for knuckle draggers and it should be kept out of all civilised, non-Muslim countries. The mentality of this Muslim is on a level with some kind of knuckle dragging primitive life form.
Gourdhead says
Spot on.
dazzleme says
Gourdhead +1
tim gallagher says
Thanks, Gourdhead and dazzleme. Whenever I think of islam I can only think of it as a load of backward, barbaric, primitive crap, in endless different ways,( the pedophilia with its child brides being one horrible aspect of it), that should have disappeared from the human race, in the way the old Aztec religion did, ages ago. Living the way people used to live their lives back in 7th century Arabia is a disgusting way for people to still be living and that is what islam is all about. Primitive garbage.
Keith O says
Makes me want to vomit when I read about these vermin raping children, male & female.
There should be one penalty, world wide, for this sort of crime.
CASTRATION! personally I would like to see them tattooed across the forehead as well, so everyone knows of the violation they have committed against children.
And for this piece of filth to blame the mother and the child for his action???? that is simply beyond belief.
somehistory says
I agree. The tattoo, if aptly applied, would make the “Scarlet Letter” invisible by comparison.
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
ACtually, so long as castration is going to occur anyway, save the ink, and just stitch the thing back on his forehead, taking care that blood flow is maintained.
PRCS says
One would then always know when he’s aroused and avoid him.
Hoi Polloi says
The best route since he’s getting a minimal sentence and will be at it again. A visible warning to all mothers considering making refuse like this part of their daughters’ world.
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
“Was that wrong?”
~ George Costanza
OLD GUY says
As the saying goes, “You a’int in Kansas any more” when you migrated into Belgium you have to follow the laws of that country. Unless you are an invader then you do everything you can to disrupt Belgiums society and rules. Castrate him and send him back to Syria, cures the problem now and in the future.
dazzleme says
Old Guy -which is why I’m hesitant that America should help Syria in this latest earthquake. I hate to feel this way but these people HATE us! They would love for this to have happened to America and they would not be any help. At some point we have to stop giving money away to countries who hate us and we don’t have the money to begin with. We are so far in debt we will never get out.
Scotsman48 says
I guess this low life scum bag would not consider a young girl will one day grow up and be a full woman that may want to birth a child, like his own Mother.
I have seen, in Malaysia, a 5 year old girl dressed from head to toe, I could see her face and hands, socks on her feet, hijab down to a dress over her ankles and arms so as she will not tempt any one of her fellow muslim boys to rape her.
islam takes lack of personal responsibility to a whole new level.
He will get time served or community work as he does not understand the culture he chose to live in.
Send the bastard to Prison and lets see what those European Prisoners do to a guy that rapes young European girls.
I mentioned this story to a young Belgium girl of 26, a tourist, and she asked me if I hated muslims…
She didn’t put this guy down, but replied by asking me if I hate muslims.
She had also never heard of The Islam Party in her own country that states they will make Belgium an islamic state and that sharia will be the Law of the land for everybody and that Party is based in Brussels which is also the HQ of the EU…
Think about that.