Why did Somali officials think that the prohibition of child marriage was against Islamic law? Because child marriage is in accord with Muhammad’s example.
“‘Babies Are Having Babies’: Somalia Under Fire for Overturning Law Banning Child Marriage,” by Njambi Gaitho, Parents Africa, October 13, 2025:
Somalia’s Federal Government has sparked national and international outrage after rejecting clauses in the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child that prohibit marriage under 18 years. The Ministry of Family and Human Rights Development said the clauses contradict Islamic law and the Somali constitution, which it emphasized take precedence over international agreements.
The decision means Somalis can marry below 18 and reach adulthood according to Islamic principles, not fixed age limits. It also reverses a recent attempt to align Somalia’s laws with regional child protection standards , a move that was reportedly overturned within 24 hours after public protests.
According to the ministry, provisions that guarantee children freedom of religion, privacy, and protection from early marriage were seen as interfering with parental responsibility and Islamic values.
The announcement, made around the International Day of the Girl Child, has triggered fury online, with many accusing Somali authorities of legitimizing child abuse under the guise of religion.
“So Somalia just banned child marriage, and grown men are crying! God of Isaac, Jacob, and Abednego, please arise!” one user posted.
Another added, “Somalia passed a law to set the marriage age to 18. The men cried and protested. It was overturned in 24 hours. They want to continue marrying 8-year-olds. They are marrying off babies. Babies are having babies.”…
PH says
Of course banning it would be against islamic law,
you lookin’ for the following
anything and everything evil
anything and everything wordily
unlimited depravity
unlimited debauchery
ect ect ect all things in direct opposition to what JESUS taught
you’ll find it in an overabundance in islam.
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding the subject of adult male Muslim marring little girls, 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
About 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.]
rick says
Another proof that Islam is a danger to life , liberty and our safety.
Patrick says
Robert Spencer – Book Idea?
Write a book addressed to President Trump, include Chapter 10 in “The History of Jihad from MUHAMMAD to ISIS.” The title could be, “President Trump – ‘How to Save America from ISLAM’ or “President Trump – ‘Don’t Let ISLAM WIN in America.” Others, including yourself, might have better suggestions for titles but, I think it could be timely and critical for America.
John1 says
https://soundcloud.com/marianne-aramian/islam-is-not-for-me
John1 says
https://soundcloud.com/marianne-aramian/islam-is-not-for-me
John1 says
https://soundcloud.com/marianne-aramian/islam-is-not-for-me
Tim gallagher says
Islam’s evil pedophilia is just one of endless reasons why the disgusting load of immoral filth, fit only for primitive knuckle draggers, should be banned. Muslims should be told all the reasons, a huge number of them, why barbaric, evil islam is totally unacceptable in civilised non Muslim societies and it should be banned. What a load of evil crap it is and that is the way it should be treated.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Tim!
Tim gallagher says
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see it happen, gravenimage Islam should be banned and all the reasons, all the foul, evil content of islam, explained to Muslims. Alas, I can’t see it happening. Nothing seems to wake up some fools.
Alkflaeda says
There is another possible reason for child brides in Muslim countries. It means that a girl will have her first child at 13 or 14, rather than 18 – thus increasing the numbers of potential jihadis much faster, because that girl will be a grandmother at 28, rather than 36, and a great-grandmother at 42 rather than 54.
Winston 101 says
Bingo!
Women of Islam are, and are proud to be,
jihadi baby making machines. It’s their form of jihad.
abu taleb says
Civilized countries should ban Islam and Quran because it allows and sanctions evil like pedophilia, robbery, murder, enxlavery etc. If there is a law against racism, then there should also a law that ban Islam as Islam also heavily discriminate people based on gender and “race” (i.e. muslims and non muslims)
jerry glenn says
Their country their rules. But why oh why are we letting them into our country?
OLD GUY says
Islam teaches and supports everything EVIL that man can come up with. It being designated a religion is why it slithers its way around the world without its head being cut off. No Christian country should allow the practice of Islam.
gravenimage says
Somalia rejects law prohibiting child marriage, says it contradicts Islamic law
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Well, this is true–there is nothing so Islamic as raping children. The official number is 35% of Somali girls married underage–I’m sure actual numbers are *much* higher.
somehistory says
It isn’t marriage at all. It’s sex slavery of little children who have no one to speak for them.
The males lust to rape them….not just once, but until the child is no longer a child…and the adult females who aren’t afraid to protest, lust to see others suffer as they suffered, while pretending that islime isn’t evil slime.