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
“Six-year-old girl married to 45-year-old man in Helmand,” by Ahmad Azizi, Amu.tv, June 28, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A six-year-old girl was married to a 45-year-old man in Helmand Province, local sources said, in a case that has sparked widespread condemnation after an image of the wedding circulated on social media.
The ceremony took place in Marjah District, where the child’s father reportedly arranged the marriage in exchange for money. The groom, according to local sources, already has two wives.
The union was set to be formalized on Friday with the girl’s transfer to her husband’s home. However, Taliban officials intervened and temporarily halted the process. The man was briefly detained but not prosecuted. Instead, sources said, the Taliban instructed him to wait until the girl turns nine before bringing her home.
Images from the ceremony, showing the man beside the visibly young girl, have provoked outrage online and among rights advocates, who say the case reflects a broader rise in child marriages in southern Afghanistan — particularly in provinces like Helmand, Kandahar, and Zabul, where the Taliban exert strong control….
somehistory says
Firstly, any male adult who takes part in this, is not a *man.* The ghoul is worse than a beast of the field, he’s a demon.
Secondly, it is not *marriage.* It is sex-slavery of a child. No child of six…or eight, or ten, or fifteen, or….can give consent to be daily raped…perhaps repeatedly each day.
How many accounts have been published on this site where young women…late teens and early twenties…have been murdered because they refused marriage to some pakistani cousin, or because they ran away from a ‘marriage” to some old, stinking, hairy, scummy goon?
If young women aren’t given a *say* in such circumstances, what chance does a child of six have?
And a child of six isn’t able to understand what is going to happen to her morning, noon and night after she goes home with uncle ahmed. If she did, she’d scream No to the rooftops.
May Almighty God soon bring these ghouls to their knees and force them to reap their demonic harvest.
Hoi Polloi says
“no apology for those who refuse to accept this,” as if we want an apology. We just want them to stop being so mind-numbingly, shockingly evil.
The photo shows us that the girl comes only up to his waist. Just imagine the harm that he will do as he takes such sick pleasure in such a tiny, helpless young creature.
Tony Rice says
Let’s be honest. A man of 52 or 54 fancying a girl of 4 FOUR the daughter of a neighbour/ employee, is sick beyond belief ( so what should that tell us about Allah if Muhammad was the best Allah could find as his representative on earth ? ). And her father agreeing to let his daughter be married when she was 6 to her husband 54 at least. Imagine the ceremony scene, a man of 54 , and in that era 7th century in hot country, aged and weather beaten with his bride a girl of 6 The mind boggles, and one can’t say it was a sign of the times as nowhere else in the then known world, was such behaviour taking place. That it is trumpeted as the will of Allah, throws his judgement into serious doubt?.
I know and have known several Muslims, mostly religious, and all very nice people, despite the teachings of their religion, which they supposedly support.
England Invaded says
Can be found in many towns in the UK now. Authorities turn a blind eye because it’s the savages culture.
somehistory says
It’s probably going on in every nation where they have a strong foothold in the government.
I recall a few years ago, a report on this site about the ones *migrating* from their own countries to the West and pretending that the young girls were their children, when in reality the girls were their sex-slaves. I refuse to agree that it’s *marriage,* because in no way they can figmatize it, is it marriage
England Invaded says
It’s in the same vein as having multiple wives. In the UK such would land you in prison almost for sure.
Of course for these, they turn up in the country with more than one and are let in. Sometimes they’re even given a separate home for each wife and much more.
They marry more than one wife while actually here in the UK, just register it abroad etc.
They allowed that for years, now even worse.
Hoi Polloi says
I’ve read that, and that it’s also now common practice in Dearborn, MI.
England Invaded says
I still hold out hope for the US. Europe is stuffed without serious action – you can imagine what I mean.
Hoi Polloi says
This issue and the current political climate make me a 2A fan, so I think I do.
somehistory says
And MI is the state where that so-called ‘doctor’ was allowed to continue mutilating young girls. and the *reason* they do the mutilating has to do with the selling of daughters for daily rape by old greasy males…pedolusters.
May God soon do to all of them everything they deserve.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
At this point, why not simply legalize polygamy (both polyandry and polygyny? As it is, plenty of people just sleep around, so why pretend that it’s something only muslims should be allowed to do? Just say that if a couple has a child out of wedlock, they’re now in a civil union if they’re not married, and do it for every such pairing, married or not. Essentially a poly-amorous society
The goal being to pressurize both parents of every kid to take responsibility for that kid, not just any one. Legalizing this, and then enforcing it, will cut down on the sleeping around, and the out-of-wedlock births
Issie says
That’s Islam people.
It’s happening here in the UK right now.
The powers that be want is all to die together.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Evil and depraved like Islam.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hey, but don’t mohammedans keep telling us that the minimum marriage age for muslim girls is 9?
abu taleb says
An Ahmadiyah muslim in an internet forim once asked me a proof for my statement that Muhammad was a rapist. I replied that Muhammad had sex with a nine year old girl. No continuation from any muslim.
So, most muslims must have realized that having sex with an underage girl is considered as a rape, but they are still muslims.
I conclude, that they do approve certain rape, like raping halal females (wives, sex slaves or non muslims) including underage females because Islam says so. Of course they won’t admit it, but their silence reveals what they think.
OLD GUY says
Islam is just plain SICK. These young girls are nothing but sexually abused children. No child should be put through this kind of sexual, mental abuse period. These Islamic men or any man who rapes a child should receive a death sentence for the damage they have done to that child, who will carry that memory for a life time.
Bret says
One of many reasons Islam needs to be wiped from the face of the planet. America, it’s here and gaining strength. But the politicians will not stop it bc it’s protected by the first amendment. But when a “religion is used to take down and destroy a country, is it still a religion or just evil. Islam is the only “religion” that wants to rule the world.