Australia: Child brides reported in New South Wales every two weeks, child marriage “significantly underreported”

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Muhammad’s favorite wife was all but six when he married her, nine when he consummated the marriage.

As Robert Spencer has explained:

Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records 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.

“Child Brides Tell Us Assimilation Isn’t Working,” by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, March 25, 2017:

Another sign that we cannot assume that we assimilate immigrants from the Middle East, or that their culture is benign.

“Muslim” or “Middle East” are not mentioned, but I am sure we can take it as read:

A child bride is reported to NSW authorities every two weeks, prompting calls for an urgent inquiry into under-age forced marriages.

Four of the reports of under-age marriage were made to the NSW Family and Community Services (FACS) this year, which has joined with police in asking an Upper House inquiry into human trafficking to expand its scope to include child brides.

Another 20 reports were made last year, 39 in 2015 and 26 in 2014, although police and FACS said numbers are “significantly under-reported”.

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Mahou Shoujo

7 years ago

If it was a problem for Australians, they would do something about it, as they don’t it is seen as acceptable and even desirable.

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Michael

7 years ago

The world turning blind eye on Islam and its outdated laws. And it will not end well. Time to act now

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J Ian

7 years ago

Reply to  Michael

The age of marriage in Iran is 9 yrs old. I do not understand why muslims think this is good. Allowing a 55 yr old man to marry a 9 yr old girl, is pure evil. Nothing more, nothing less

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AlgorithmicAnalyst

7 years ago

Basic Islamic strategy, to generate more male cannon fodder and female breeding sows and sex slaves at the maximum possible rate.

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patriotusa2

7 years ago

The entire western hemisphere seems to have given up on all Christian principles and has adopted those of Islam. There’s no other excuse for allowing these people to pursue ancient culture in the modern world. Truly God has given these fools up to their own devices when they can’t even see the danger to their own country and culture.

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Meredith Jayne

7 years ago

And this is how our warped Muslim pandering Government protects children by accommodating the
filthy depraved Muslims.—-HUNDREDS OF CHILD BRIDES FLOWN INTO AUSTRALIA ON SPECIAL VISAS.

http://www.news.com.au/national/visa-alarm-over-imported-teen-brides/news-story/08b87627af88d920e81e240f9ab00e4d

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