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
“Missing eight-year-old girl is found six months later living with a man who claims he has MARRIED her – after family saw video he posted of her reciting the Koran,” by Taryn Pedlar, Daily Mail, April 1, 2025:
An eight-year-old girl in Somalia who had been missing for six months has been discovered living with a man who claimed to be her husband.
The child vanished from her home in the semi-autonomous Puntland region last September, sparking deep concern among her family.
But shockingly, it later emerged that her own father had consented to her marriage to an adult man named Sheikh Mahmoud.
Last week, security forces stormed Mahmoud’s home after he barricaded himself inside a room with the girl. The dramatic rescue has sparked a national outcry, with social media in uproar and protests erupting in the capital, Mogadishu.
Campaigners have seized on the case to demand urgent action to protect children, as Somalia still lacks a minimum legal age for marriage….
The horrifying saga began when a female relative took the girl from her home in Bosaso, claiming she was escorting her to visit an uncle.
But months later, a video surfaced online showing the child reciting the Quran – prompting her family to finally launch a search.
Their efforts led them to Carmo, where they discovered she had been living with Mahmoud.
At first, the man insisted he was only teaching the girl the Quran. But after legal complaints were filed, he admitted he had married her – with her father’s consent.
When questioned by the BBC about his shocking decision, Mahmoud justified it by citing religious traditions, claiming Islamic teachings permitted child marriage….
A 2020 UN report found that 35 per cent of Somali women aged 20 to 24 had been married before turning 18, with the rate previously as high as 45 per cent in 2017….
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.]
Rob Porter says
Walter, I think you know that Muslims don’t know the difference between right and wrong. Islam does not have a moral code so why would it be different? Then these horrible imbeciles are schooled in ‘taqiyya’ deceit and lies. One of the biggest deceits is Muslims imagining that Mohammad was a prophet when nothing more than a warlord, mass murder, rapist and pedophile. That piece of dung sodomized little boys, those he described as “scattered pearls”.
As Mosab Hassan Yousef has said: “What did he prophesy?” Satan must be very proud of what he achieved with Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
One scholar on Islam, Robert Spencer, 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.”
Muslims view their Prophet Muhammad and their take him as the perfect module to follow as an example of how to live their own lives.
Therefore, 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.
somehistory says
It isn’t ‘marriage.’ It’s rape. A child cannot give consent to be ‘married,’ and if a little girl had any idea what it was all about, she’d run screaming to someone she trusted. Tragically, little girls in mozlum ruined nations have no one they can trust, and running would do no good. Likely, they spend a lot of time screaming.
mozlums have two main interests: rape and murder. They’ll lie, steal, extort, whine and complain to gain advantages over others, so they can do the most damage raping and murdering.
They will fully deserve everything they are going to receive.
Dan W Dagovitz says
The Muslims have exposed their cult as being cruel and vicious in its teachings…
It takes people and converts them to drooling, rabid animals that rape female children as young as nine years old and justify it with their disgusting book of lies.
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Islam is evil to its rotten core; do not stop fighting it until it is removed from the face of the earth!
God Bless Israel!
God Bless America, free forever!
40 rounds says
Amazing in the 21st century we still have neanderthals walking amongst us and we allow these creatures into civilized countries at the behest of the EU and Lutheran and Catholic social services
bill says
Please do not insult the Neanderthals who were much more sophisticated and knowledgeable that you beileve. What you are taling about is a religion that makes people subhuman in every modern conception (both east and west) they are stuck in a philosophical position of the 7th century
established by an ignorant camel driver who could not even read.
Islam can only see women as inferior to men. sex objects, slaves of men and childbearers. in other words much like animals. Unfortunately the other ‘religion of the book’ held much the same attitude for very many centuries with some exceptions, and as is clear to see Mohammad stole many of his ideas from Judaism and Christianity. He was not intelligent enough to make up his own religion
Alkflaeda says
The position of women within Judaism was a lot better than that of their pagan equivalents, As an example, one ancient pagan law code mandated that, if a man’s daughter was accidentally killed, the penalty was that the daughter of the killer was also to die. Jesus treated women with courtesy and consideration, and the early church had deaconesses – it was with Constantine’s syncretistic state church that the standing of women suffered.
somehistory says
The scum who wrote the unholy book of demon filth, didn’t “steal many of his ideas from Judaism and Christianity.” W
hat he did was just like everything else satan has done, which is the polar opposite of what God and Christ have commanded to be done.
As a satan-worshipping warlock said to me, “I read the Bible backwards. What it says to do, I do the opposite.”
40 rounds says
Sorry, neanderthals IQ much higher
Di Casso says
Let’s call it what it is..pedophilia…they are trying to normalize pedophilia… Islam is a
man made political ideology with violence to those who do not believe which admires and promotes inhumanity…
skeptiker says
Einfach nur widerlich.Dieser Islam bewegt sich auf einem geistigen Niveau von Homo Erectus
Und es gibt keine weltweiten Proteste gegen diese Barbarei. Kinderrechte scheinen auch in der UNO kein Thema mehr zu sein. Pädophilie wird von den Woke- und Gender-Faschisten nicht als verwerflich angesehen sondern soll legalisiert werden.. Das nennen die dann frühkindliche sexuelle Selbstbestimmung. Letztendlich machen sie Kinder zu kleinen Erwachsenen und suggerieren damit, dass ein Kind in der Lage wäre, frei und selbstbewusst entscheiden könnte. In einer aufgeklärten zivilisierten Gesellschaft, würden solche geisteskranken und gemeingefährlichen Leute im Knast sitzen, statt an Schulen, Kindergärten und Universitäten ihr Unwesen zu treiben. Von Feministinnen höre ich auch keinen Widerspruch. Gut, dass in den USA dieses “Linke” Krebsgeschwür bald auf dem Müllhaufen der Geschichte landet und nur noch als abschreckendes Beispiel in Horrorfilmen als Vorlage zum gruseln dient.
Michael says
You mean the false prophet mohammed
They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”
— Jeremiah 25:16An evildoer listens to wicked lips;
A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
— Proverbs 17:4“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.
— Proverbs 8:13
OLD GUY says
Any person, any religion, any society that allows the RAPE of a nine year old child is evil and disgusting.
Just think about your daughter or grand daughter being subjected to this sick inhumane evil life.
Islam must be STOPED by shutting down the islamic migration invasion of non-muslim/islamic countries.
Islam is no different than any other organization that discriminates or spreads hate and violence across the world. It calls itself a religion in order to receive special treatment and protection under freedom of religious rights. Islam however is not a religion, it is a political organization with world domination as its goal.
The non-muslim/islamic countries need to stop the migration, ban islamic teachings, close all mosques and deport islamic leaders and anyone practicing ISLAM. That’s the only way this EVIL stops.
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Troybeam says
While the world fights to end pedophiles harming children the Islamic world promotes it without even thinking anything wrong with it. Many people turn away and not see the damage done to little girls and boys by adults because its “a culture thing”. In many cultures they know it wrong to harm children with sex but not in the Islamic world , even death happens yet that never stops it.
memi says
This article should be Front Page New York Times, but dout their “worke” publishers are willing to wake up and see why it is imperative to protect children from Islamist paedophiles.
These crimes against children are committed in silence behind the back doors of many Islamist migrants, even second gerational, and social services, medical staff, lawyers remain mute…lest they be called “Islamophobes”. We have serious problems in our societies
Child rape is legal for Islamists and they bring their “holy traditions” to European countries but there are no alert “woke” professionals to alert authorities to this prevalent abuse of children by devout Islamists.
This is incredible:
“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: “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”
These paedophile Islamist barbarians are walking amnong us and perpetrate unspeakable crimes–and those who speak out are labelled as “Islamophobes”! It is rational to be an Islamophobe when such cultural practices exist.
This horrific abuse of “culturally legal” rapes of prepubescent girls must be reported without fear of “Islamophobia” and the convicted should be behind bars
gravenimage says
+1
Tony Rice says
The fact it is permitted by Islam doesn’t mean it has to be engaged in, many other requirements of that religion are equally as evil . He married her when she was SIX , initially fancied her when he was 52 and she FOUR and although he waited till she was 9 before he had penetrative sex with her until she as nine, what other sexual activities was she required to engage in after 6 and before 9. Necrophilia is permitted in Islam up to 8 hours after death, but doesn’t mean it has to be engaged in.
Some Islamic countries have increased the ago before girls can be married etc, such as Pakistan where I think the age is 13 ?
gravenimage says
Somalia: Man marries eight-year-old girl, says Islam permits marriage to children
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This *poor little girl*. But this pedophile thug is not wrong–ths is indeed the horrors that Islam teachs.