According to UNICEF, every year, 700,000 girls are forced into child marriage in the Middle East and North Africa, where, of course, Islam is the dominant religion.
So it shouldn’t be surprising that the forced marriage of young Palestinian girls “to much older men” is a “norm.” Child marriage in Islam was modeled by Muhammad, who married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was 9:
The Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: I have been informed that `Aisha remained with the Prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Sahih al-Bukhari 5134
While the world is obsessed with Israel, it ignores the range of human rights abuses in Islam everywhere, including the ongoing genocide against Christians in Nigeria and other parts of Africa.
“Stolen Childhoods: Forced Marriages Haunt Palestinian Girls,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, August 6, 2025:
In a rare moment of self-criticism, the official Palestinian Authority daily highlighted the Palestinian custom of forced marriages of young Palestinian girls to much older men. The cartoon chosen to accompany the article expressed the horror: a balding groom with a cane off to his wedding with a teary-eyed child bride who has just dropped her teddy bear.
The following are excerpts from the article in the official PA daily:
Headline: “Girls in bridal clothes– from the wedding dress to the emergency rooms. Marrying off female minors in Palestine… A childhood stolen under the guise of exceptional cases.”
“While R.K. was arranging her books for a school exam, her mother interrupted her with a sentence that changed the course of her life: ‘A groom is coming for you.’ Just months later, R.K. wore a white wedding dress, but she did not know that the white color was liable to conceal a deep pain that would accompany her for a long time. R.K. was forcibly married at the age of 14, after her father’s death. In words dripping with pain, R.K. tells [the official PA daily] Al-Hayat Al-Jadida about some of her tragedy:…
‘My husband was always violent towards me. He is addicted to Tramadol pills. I would run away to my family’s home, but the [clan’s] dignitaries returned me to him every time, following his false promises to stop the violence.’ She believes that the early marriage robbed her of her childhood and prevented her from getting an education. The last time, R.K. was beaten with a sharp object and fled barefoot with her children without any personal belongings. After suffering for two years, she received a divorce without alimony or support!
Despite the publication of [PA] Decision with Legislative Force No. 21 of 2019 to limit the marriage age to 18, the exceptional cases allowed by the law under the pretext of ‘necessity’ and ‘the interests of both parties’ have emptied the law of its content, and left the door open to the phenomenon. The exception due to a need that the judge deems appropriate continues to be an open window for child marriages, through which hundreds of cases pass each year, against the backdrop of a lack of effective supervision and differences in enforcement between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Between 1995-2019, about 200,000 marriages were registered in Palestine, 95% of which were of girls under the age of 18……
ploome says
I couldn’t care less about these girls, “losing their childhood”. It is their culture their way of life and their religion.
And it doesn’t seem to stop[ them from having more children than any other group of people in the world, and living and teaching, and breathing hate for every other religious group,
The only thing that concerns us, is their never ending jihad.That has to change.
What they do,
If they are unhappy with their customs, let them change it. It can only happen from within.
(unlike the British stopping “sati” in India. child brides are approved by mohammed and the koran-part of their religions is FMG)
FYI as we are all “students’ of islam
(regarding FMG:Imams Abu Dawud, Hakim (rahimahumallah) and others have recorded the following narration:
Ummu ‘Atiyyah Al Ansariyyah (radiyallahu ‘anha) reports that a woman would perform circumcision in Madinah. Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said: “Do not cut too much as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband”
(Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith: 5229, Mustadrak Hakim, vol. 3 pg. 525 with slight variation in the wording)
Imam Abu Dawud (rahimahullah) has declared this Hadith weak.
Note: I have merely answered your question. Kindly refer to a reputable Mufti/Darul Ifta for juristic ruling regarding female circumcision.
And Allah Ta’ala Knows best.
Answered by: Moulana Suhail Motala
and
A: Islam condemns all types of mutilation. If you are referring to circumcision then this is not mutilation. It is highly unfair to call it mutilation. It is just like if a person trims his hair etc. it is not called mutilation, rather it is an adornment. It is the weakness of your understanding and shortness of sight to call this mutilation.
And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
Answered by:
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach))
Jerry says
Why is the U N HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP.repeatedly ignoring this violation of “human rights”, while continually microscopically evaluating Irael?
Mike says
I think it’s always good to remember that some of the employees of their Palestinian aid organization actually participated in the October 7 massacre. And if memory serves, the worst thing that happened to any of them is that they were fired from their jobs. Pretty much all you need to know about the United Nations.
gravenimage says
Good question, Jerry.
crown says
“ R.K. was forcibly married at the age of 14”
Well that would be an aged spinster, compared to the example set by “the best of all men” – Mahound – who married Aisha at 6, and, noble guy that he was, waited until she was all of 9 to consummate the marriage!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, that’s some “improvement” over being made suicide bombers. I guess since Israel has shut down the intifada in Gaza and these gals can’t blow themselves up, their next option is marriage. Marrying them out of that area to places like, say, Qatar or Algeria is a good idea. They’re gone from that place, can spit out of their wombs a dozen kids or so, but won’t flood Judea, Samaria or Gaza w/ all those kids that would outbreed Jews and make that place more muslim than it already is
somehistory says
It isn’t *marriage.* It’s forcing the girls into living with a rapist. And many of them don’t live very long. Many are raped to death; others die from beatings, and some from bearing a child while still a child.
It’s all demonic. Demon angels ‘took the forms of men and took for themselves wives (from mankind), all whom they chose.’
mozzies follow that example, taking little girls, “all whom they choose.”
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“It’s all demonic.”
Yes.
100% true.
somehistory says
thank you, James.
Today, I read of three little girls, all murdered by their parents. One8 year old burned, beaten and drowned in bath by her *father and stepmother.*
One 7 year old stomped to death by her *mother* for spilling her cereal. Stomped so bad most of her blood was in her stomach and it was detached from her intestines. she had gone to school in severe pain, but her *mom* wouldn’t answer calls from the nurse. Her sister found her in her bed, unable to breathe.
And another found dead on a highway, left there by her *father.* She was also 8, I believe.
the demons and their leader, satan the devil, are all very active in inspiring this “demonic” behavior….everywhere.
Praying fervently for God to “do His will here as He does in Heaven.” For the little babies.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
For the little babies.
gravenimage says
*Horrifyng*, Somehistory. The abuse of vulnerable children in Islam is sickening.
Walter Sieruk says
With this article very fitting to reiterate that at least 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.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s now appropriate to restate that 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.]
Walter Sieruk says
It’s now appropriate to restate that 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.]
LadyoftheLake says
Forced FGM is even worse
gravenimage says
Being mutilated and prevented from feeling sexual pleasure is horrifying–and additionaly being infibulated makes sexual intercourse painful and dangerous.
But being raped as a child, repeatedly impregnated, and of course forbidden from ever leaving your rapist lest you be “Honor Killed”–and never being able to marry for love–must be as bad.
Not sure I would want to have to choose which of these Islamic horrors is worse. Of course, many girls suffer *both*.
abu taleb says
Probably the other option for the girls is becoming suicide bombers or attackers against the IDF
gravenimage says
Often girls who dare fall in love are told that they must become suicide bombers or else be “Honor Killed”.
Andrew says
There are so many reasons that the muslims are scum. And yet the world loves them, so the effing world is virtually as bad.
skeptiker says
Millionen Menschen verehren einen Kinderficker und Massenmörder mit Namen Mohammed.
Was für eine perverse und zutiefst menschenverachtende Religion.
Erst wenn in muslimischen Ländern genauso viele Kirchen und Synagogen gebaut werden, werde ich akzeptieren, dass bei uns im Westen an jeder Ecke eine Moschee gebaut wird.
Null-Toleranz den Intoleranten.
gravenimage says
Forced marriages to ‘much older men’ ‘haunt’ underaged Palestinian girls
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And why not? Nothing so Islamic as raping children.