Child marriage survivors say UK law legitimises ‘terrible’ abuse

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

As has been 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:

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“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 marriage survivors say UK law legitimises ‘terrible’ abuse,” by Emma Batha, Reuters, October 23, 2018:

LONDON, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Zee was 13, she returned from school one day to find an engagement party under way at her home in northern England, but her excitement at the celebrations quickly turned to shock.

“I asked my mum who’s getting married. She said, ‘It’s you’,” Zee told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Her betrothed was represented by a photo – an older cousin she had never met who lived in Afghanistan, her parents’ country of birth.

“One day I’m not even allowed to talk to boys and the next I’m told I’m getting married,” Zee said.

“I was dressed up to look like a Christmas tree – very sparkly, very bling. Everyone was happy. The only person who was miserable was me.”

Child marriage – defined internationally as marriage under 18 – remains legal in Britain. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, teenagers can wed at 16 with parental consent. In Scotland, they do not need consent.

Zee, who did not want to give her full name, escaped by running away from home, but she says many girls are still being pushed into marriage.

Campaigners say it is time that Britain – which has been vocal about ending child marriage in developing countries – got its own laws in order.

They were particularly dismayed when Bangladesh changed its law recently to allow marriage at 16 – and cited British law as a justification.

“The UK should practice what it preaches,” said Mabel van Oranje, chairwoman of global advocacy group Girls Not Brides.

“Britain’s delay in reforming its own marriage laws is increasingly counterproductive.”…

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Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago

Everyone was happy. The only person who was miserable was me.

Well these are just throw-away girls, like the ones for whom we look the other way when they are gang raped, right? Not propuh British lassies, I presume.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Young girls are not ready for sex emotionally or physically at these tender ages.comment image

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

It is enough to make me and others to throw-up. What the Hell is going on in America and the so-called EU? A rhetorical question.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
5 years ago

muhammed thigh infants, toddler’s, etc and the moslems of today (many of them) do the same.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago
Reply to  bannedquran20

Islam is a pedophile charter.
Anything that the pedo prophet did is permissible under islamic/sharia law.

PROSCRIBE ISLAM IN THE UK!????????

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

Well, that is truly shocking; after all, it is a given, Britain has succumbed to Sharia Law. PM May and her sycophantic tagalongs do not give a damn about the victims of this pedophile cult or its other tenets of perversity and barbarity. It is the same for the butchering of young girls genitals, FGM. Britain’s leadership is reprehensible and soulless; May and her Liberal-Fascists is treasonous not merely to the non-Muslims but those Muslims sliced and diced in the name of Allah. There should be a special place for May’s decapitated head at the Tower of London.

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago

“The Blue Wave” of birthright citizenship.

1984  George Orwellesque
1984 George Orwellesque
5 years ago

“The Blue Wave” of illegal immigration.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
5 years ago

The pedo prophet first forced himself on Aisha when she was SIX and used to bath with her and subject her to non penetrative intercourse known as thighing.
She would then be made to wash the sperm stains from his clothing so he could attend mosque.
And this POS scumbag is what the inbreads are holding up as “The perfect man”
No wonder there are so many children raped worldwide by the disgusting Muzrat scum.
Deluded bastards!

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