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According to Islamic law, this Muslim cleric did nothing wrong. On the contrary, he was just following Islam’s “perfect model,” Muhammad,who married his favorite wife Aisha when she was of the tender age of six. It is for this very reason that child marriage is rampant and sanctioned in Muslim countries. And with large swaths of the West in throes of Islamic transformation, it will become commonplace here as well.
It is only a matter of time when prosecutions will be deemed islamophobic.
Muslim cleric loses his appeal to overturn his conviction for overseeing the marriage of a girl, 14, to a Rohingya asylum seeker, 34, at a Melbourne mosque
- Former Muslim imam Ibrahim Omerdic oversaw marriage of girl, 14, in 2016
- He was convicted last year over wedding in Melbourne to a Rohingya refugee
- His appeal against that conviction has been lost in the Victorian Supreme Court
By Australian Associated Press, 13 April 2018
ADVERTISEMENTA former Muslim cleric who oversaw a marriage between an underage girl and a 34-year-old man in Melbourne has failed to overturn his conviction.
Ibrahim Omerdic, 62, believes he was wrongfully convicted because he never finished the religious ceremony between the 14-year-old girl and the Rohingya asylum seeker at a Noble Park mosque in September 2016.
The sacked imam launched an appeal against his conviction in the Victorian Supreme Court in October, arguing the prosecution failed to prove he solemnised the marriage in Melbourne’s south-east.
A former Muslim cleric who oversaw a marriage between an underage girl and a 34-year-old man in Melbourne has failed in a bid to overturn his conviction
ADVERTISEMENTHe claimed he did not provide the couple with an Islamic marriage certificate.
But Justice Andrew Keogh refused the appeal in a judgment on Friday, meaning the conviction will stand.
Omerdic was found guilty in Melbourne Magistrates Court of unlawfully solemnising a marriage and sentenced to two months in prison.
But he avoided jail as he was immediately placed on a two-year recognisance release order.
Ibrahim Omerdic, 62, believes he was wrongfully convicted because he never finished the religious ceremony between the 14-year-old girl and the Rohingya refugee in 2016
The sacked imam appealed against his conviction in the Victorian Supreme Court, arguing the prosecution failed to prove he solemnised the marriage but that appeal was thrown out
ADVERTISEMENTMagistrate Phillip Goldberg in June 2017 sentenced Omerdic to two months’ prison for his ‘serious breach of trust’ but released him immediately on a two-year recognisance release order.
Mohammad Shakir, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, pleaded guilty in April last year to going through a ceremony of marriage with a person not of marriageable age.
Omerdic was an imam of the Bosnian Islamic Society and Noble Park Mosque, but he was sacked after his November arrest over the wedding.
Mobile phone video captured him solemnising that wedding.
‘If (he) is happy with something, do it. If (he) is not happy with something, don’t do it,’ he tells the girl in the shaky footage.
Omerdic can also be heard telling the child’s mother and her betrothed: ‘She’s very young.
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