AFP, like all establishment media sources, is determined to do everything it can to ensure that people think positively of Islam. Nevertheless, this is just silly. There was child marriage in the land that is known today as Pakistan long before there was any “climate change” myth-making.
Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage and the sexualization of children are taken for granted in wide swaths of the Islamic world.
“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. Nowadays in the West there are elaborate efforts to deny all this. An Islamic scholar/apologist named Joshua Little has constructed an elaborate argument from close study of the chains of transmitters (isnads) of various traditions about Aisha, claiming that those traditions, despite appearing in Sahih Bukhari, the hadith collection Muslims consider most reliable, are actually inauthentic. Little’s argument, however, is absurd and self-contradictory. He acknowledges that the hadiths are late and unreliable from a historical standpoint, and even admits that the chains of transmitters, like the stories themselves, were freely forged. Then he bases his whole argument for the traditions being inauthentic even on Islamic grounds on the basis of the isnads that he just admitted could be forged. He claims to be able to determine the age of various traditions by how they were forged, but here is argument is so conjectural and subjective as to be essentially worthless.
Little is also a standard-issue lemming academic. He denounces people he calls “Islamophobes” for making much of Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha. He ignores the primary reason why anyone cares about this: not because, as he claims, “Islamophobes” contend that Muhammad’s example forces Muslims to condone child marriage, but because all too many Islamic authorities do condone child marriage. 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.
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
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.
“Lock Up Your Daughters! Climate Change Causes Rise in Child Marriages,” by Chris Morrison, The Daily Sceptic, August 18, 2024:
Heavier and longer summer monsoon rains are said to be fuelling a rise in child marriages in Pakistan, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Human rights workers are warning such weddings are on the rise “due to climate-driven economic insecurity”. Great story since it holds out a small hope that banning hydrocarbon use can help solve a problem of forced and under-aged female abuse that has been endemic in many cultures since time immemorial. It is just a shame about the facts. According to the World Bank climate change knowledge portal, monsoon rains in June, July and August in the period 1991-2020 were marginally less in Pakistan than fell during 1961-1990.
In an error-strewn article reproduced in many publications around the world, the French State-owned agency claimed that flooding in Pakistan in 2022 plunged a third of the country under water. Looking at a contour map would show this is unlikely – impossible even – and the true level of inundation was around 8-10%. Even the BBC’s statistical programme More or Less confirmed the much lower figures. AFP claims that “scientists say” climate change is making the monsoons heavier and longer, “raising the risk of landslides, floods and long-term crop damage”. This is said to have led to a new trend of “monsoon brides” as families give away their female children in exchange for money. But massive flooding in low-lying parts of Pakistan is not new. In the recent past – in 1950, 1992, 1993 and 2010 – it killed more people than it did in 2022.
The AFP nonsense story is just the latest in a tidal wave of mainstream fear-mongering designed to boost Net Zero. It takes an emotional theme and tacks on unprovable claims of climate damage caused by humans. The emotion is obvious, but false claims about the volume of rainfall and the inundation of a recent flood are made. Do the people who write this stuff think that nobody will check their facts and sources? Apparently not….
Walter Sieruk says
This article is a reminder that in an earlier article which t Robert Spencer also wrote that the Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.”
Male Muslim marriage of an adult man to a young girl who is really only a child of common in the world of Islam. One of the “reasons” for this female child abuse in Islam is because of the corrupt and perverse wickedness in the hearts of men. This is seen and described in the Bible with reads “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9. [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, another “reason” girl/child marriages occur with middle aged and even old men is because the founder and prophet of Islam Muhammad married a child. Muslims throughout history as well as in current times actually view Muhammad as a “perfect man” and a “great example for them to follow.”
This well might prove the old saying to be true .The saying is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
It’s also wise to remember prophet Muhammad did likewise engaged in brutal, ruthless murderous warfare. As do Muslims today such as the jihadist Muslim of ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah Hamas and so forth. Many that old saying, just sited above, also explains the excuse for Muslim terrorism in the world today.
Jesus Himself taught “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. Which might explain the vile child “marriage” of Muhammad and his violent and deadly behavior .Likewise also explains the twenty- first century Muslims who in child marriages and blood and murderous violence of Islam .As they see the prophet Muhammad d as their example of who to follow.
With all this about the fruits of Islam along with fruits history reveals about the life of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad .It thus further appropriate to make known that it might be in keeping with teaching of Jesus that Muhammad could well have been an actual prophet . Nevertheless the very most important thing to understand is the Muhammad was not a prophet send by God. Instead Muhammad was a lying deceptive false prophet send by Satan to start a false religion to lead many people astray.
For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” Matthew 7:15.
memi says
How true: “Evil is always looking for an excuse.””
Islamofascist theocratic regimes have institutionalized child “marriage” or as we call it “child rape”. Islam has always been founded on rapes, looting and conquering other lands. Unless every Christian and Jew is exterminated, they will practise their Evil to make sure. When Christ teaches “turn the other cheek”, the Islamist will slap you and torture you. Not all muslims, as there are secular muslim nations like Egypt where they guard churches. They had an islamist “president” Morsi who destroyed their economy with his Islamist Sharia Law but the army took over. By our standards, that’s dictatorship, but secular state is still better than theocratic Islamist Iran, Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan! It will depend if they are middle-class, educated and professionals, but the poor in islaimist countries are fanaticized by their imams and pose danger to EU and American societies.
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic practice of an adult male Muslim having a marriage with a little girl who is only a child is part of Islam since all Muslim admire the prophet of Islam, Muhammad and attempt to live like him and he did marry a 9 year old girl.”.
Nevertheless this heinous Islam tradition is accepted as “normal “in most of the Islamic world. Therefore, this may serve as an example of how the influence of Islam is able to warp the cogitation of the human mind to the extent that a person who is a Muslim might not be able to understand the obvious difference between right and wrong.
Such an awful thing as not having the discerning mental power to seethe clear difference is described in the Bible. For in Isaiah 5:20. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…” [N.K.J.V.]
Pray Hard says
I’m sure liberals will lap it up.
somehistory says
It is not marriage….it’s rape of a child. And it is demonically evil.
UMA MAHESWAR NAKKA says
Very True
Thinker1 says
More likely caused by inbreeding, insanity and standard Islam.
Donna says
SO MANY EXCUSES. Islamic scholars are a perfect examples of education without discernment
JimJFox says
Education? I prefer the word indoctrination.
Troybeam says
Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred Law, read it, learn the truth and remember that Islam is not for humanity, period.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Here’s how it works: Islam causes climate change; climate change causes child marriage
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, that’s even more credible than what AFP put out
sri krishna says
most lame reason to blame islamic child marriage
John Pepple says
Yes, anything to avoid blaming Muslims themselves.
libertyORdeath says
The depravity of Islam knows no country, skin color, or culture. It consumes ALL who fall under it.
abu taleb says
Islamic scholars admit that Islam allows child marriage and there is no age limit for a girl to be married, for example the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) once admitted it duirng a case of a rich muslim marrying a child. But somehow, the western politicians and news media are much more knowledgeable than the Islamic scholars regarding Islamic teaching.
Let me remind them, that a prominent “Christian” Chinese politician in Indonesia, Ahok (Basuki Tjahaja Purnama) was jailed for 2 years because he had offended Islam by making his own interpretation of Quran that it was ok to have a non muslim leader among muslims. Only Islamic scholars could make an interpretation according to the Islamic scholars. (Of course it is a BS, Islamists will say anything for the sake of themselves)
OLD GUY says
Where are all the Women movement groups? Seems like the forced marriage and rape of little girls by a predominately male (religious) group would be a worthy cause to fight.
It looks like my body my choice and if babies and Little Girls get hurt nothing to say, they are disposables.
somehistory says
You said it, Old Guy. and the “women’s groups’ are filled with perverted males pretending to be women, getting into girls’ locker rooms and when in prison, where they can rape little girls and vulnerable women.
memi says
You are right! The Algerian “woman” Khalif actually punched Italian (actually) female boxer Angela Carini so hard that she had to withdraw at 56 seconds! Khalif had been disqualified before because he failed the Sex Category boxing eligibility test, but the insane French Olympic Int’l Committee said “we only look to their Passports to prove their female”! Ye Gods! Now ideology and wishing to be female beats fact-based Science that proves he had XY male chromosomes! We live in a crazy world!
memi says
So-called “Feminists” appear to be silent when it comes to condemning Child marriages, and institutionalized rapes of children and girls!
Shameful!
These young “progressive” women are actually regressing women’s rights and are not “woke” enough to clearly see on whose side they should be on. There’s a limit to their social myopia, but only a few are truly ‘woke’ to see and speak the horrible Truth of Islamist perversions and call a spade a spade! Just ask any Iranian or Turkish women who are in jail as result of their Religious Police prosecutions!
Tony Rice says
It is obvious a girl of nine is not the one seeking marriage but it is the man, who can be of any age , Muhammad was 54 when he married Aisha, she being SIX and he ” had his way sexually ” with her when she was nine ( we don’t know what other sexual acts she had to do to him before the vaginal penetration during the 3 intervening years) but the approach for the marriage must come from the man. And why, what is he after, the girl at that age could know nothing re cooking or housekeeping, so WHAT is the man after with a girl of NINE ?
Makes one wonder why ALLAH chose someone like Muhammad as HIS representative on earth.
memi says
This article should make the front page of New York Times and Washpost!
Prophet Muhammad at 54, married 9-year-old Aisha and the Ayatollah Khomeini married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl “a divine blessing”!
Islamofascist Turkey has a “Directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet)” that in 2018 decreed that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry and get raped by old men. There’s no barrier to age of girls when they get married!
No wonder HITLER officially stated in 1938: “KEMAL AtaTurk was my greatest teacher”! Islamist genocidal Turkey still “teaches” the world!
Institutionalized rape of children makes Islamist countries paradise for paedophiles and perverts are rewarded in Paradise!
And America and EU call such theocratic misogynist regimes “allies” and hands over billions in trade & humanitarian aid to these troglodyte perverts while urging Israel to “use caution: against genocidal Hamas!