Why do some Muslim clerics in Iraq benefit from child marriage? Because they have abundant justification for teaching that child marriage is in accord with Muhammad’s example, and those arguments were used to legalize the practice in Iraq. It’s not surprising that they would have some pecuniary interest in the resulting marriages of young girls to much older men.
“After Iraq legalizes child marriage, Baghdad bridal market booms as young girls sold to older men,” by Danielle Greyman-Kennard, Jerusalem Post, December 29, 2025:
Baghdad’s bridal industry has seen a massive boom since Iraq legalized child marriage, and human rights organizations have warned that young girls are being auctioned off in black market sales to older men, a Sunday Times investigation revealed on Saturday.
The relatives of Amani, a 12-year-old girl set to be married off to a 17-year-old she has never met, told the Sunday Times that the ceremony would go ahead “without the need for her permission.”
A local cleric confirmed that Amani could be married, as she had started puberty.
Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and physical capacity.”
One of Amani’s relatives admitted that, after the amendment passed, four of her younger cousins were quickly married off to older men for “financial reasons.”
An activist told the paper that under the new law, “parents can exchange daughters for money or status,” and the legislation amounted to “legalizing child rape.”
Even before the law passed, 28% of girls in Iraq were married before the age of 18, and a further 22% of unregistered marriages involve girls under 14, the United Nations reported in 2023.
Ghezi, who oversees shelters for runaway girls of forced marriage under The Organization of Women’s Freedom Iraq (OWFI) in Baghdad, confirmed to the paper, “We have seen a growing black market in Iraq where fathers are selling their daughters, pulling them out of education, mostly because of poverty … but they have been encouraged by some [clerics] who may benefit.”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Another example of how great our occupation of Iraq was. Thank you, Dubya!
Mike GA says
Important contribution to the world economy by islam
Hoi Polloi says
Further strengthening my view that non-muslims who support muslims are pedophiles; it’s not just muslims themselves.
somehistory says
Anyone who supports the rape of children, is evil to the very core. Some U.S. “judges” have gone easy on males raping three-year-old children, giving them no prison time.
Raping babies and murdering babies….are the absolute worst.
May “their eyes rot in the sockets and their tongues rot in their mouths as they stand on their feet.’ And may they not continue to ‘stand’ for long.
“◄ Zechariah 14:12 ►
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”
somehistory says
There is no such thing as “child marriage.” Marriage is between two *consenting* *adults.*
Everything about illslime is demonic evil, filth from satan the devil and muzzies are his children doing their “father’s desires.”
Selling one’s own daughter to be daily raped….for however long she may live….makes these ghouls children of the devil. Furthermore, they are not “fathers.”
These males are ….. donors and selfish thugs. May they soon reap what they are sowing.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
Totally demonic.
OLD GUY says
Your right, what kind of fathers sell their little girls. These so called men are nothing but pimps.
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.
Ashraf says
It’s not child marriage. Once you hit puberty, you are no longer a child. To consumate the marriage, both parties have to consent. Also the father of the bride has to consent. Wife and husband have to be pubescent and it has to follow social norms of its time and place.
gravenimage says
Sickening Taqiyya. Firstly, Muhammed married a child of six. No, six-year-old children are not pubescent.
Then, here is what Islam says about the consent of a girl:
I asked the Prophet, “O Allah’s Messenger! Should the women be asked for their consent to their marriage?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “A virgin, if asked, feels shy and keeps quiet.” He said, “Her silence means her consent.”
https://sunnah.com/bukhari:6946
So if the child is too terrified of what will happen to her if she balks, keeps quiet–and this is taken as “consent”.
If she was an adult. why would her father have to consent to selling her to an older man?
And the “social norms” of so much of Dar-al-Islam sacralizes child rape–just as Ashraf here likes it.
Ashraf says
I know your people are used to women who have been with 100 men before. But muslim women who are chaste and modest. They are sometimes too shy to say yes but they would just smile and be silent as a form of agreeing. She can always says no. The father is her protector and provider so he is responsible to make sure the man she is marrying is of good character and will take care of her. Because we know men can be deceptive and women are not great at choosing men. If our prophet liked young girls, why was his first marriage to Khadija when he was 25 yo and she was a 40 yo widow that had been married twice before him. He also stays with her for about 25 years until she passed then he married another old widow. He could have had any young girls if he wanted as he was a state leader and beloved by all the Muslims. I’d suggest you actually study his bio and the Quran. This is a 4 year degree subject that student study for decade before they can speak about it. Stop being ignorant.
gravenimage says
Is Ashraf saying that he has to rape children because these are the only females who have not been with 100 men? Grotesque claim.
And the idea that tiny children can just tell their fathers pimping them out to old men can just say no is absurd. And given how many girls are Honor Killed for refusing forced marriages, this is *hardly* a safe thing to do.
The idea that a Muslim selling his grade-school aged child for money is “her protector and provider” could not be more perverse.
And the idea that a woman cannot choose whom to love, but that a cash-strapped Mohammedan can sell off his daughter for money is just sick.
And the Prophet’s first marriage was to a wealthy widow–I imagine Kadijah’s money was a factor.
Ashraf wrote:
He could have had any young girls if he wanted as he was a state leader and beloved by all the Muslims.
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No decent man “marries” a six-year-old child–but he is saying that any Muslim would have been happy to sell his little child to Muhammed to rape. Sick stuff–but grimly, probably accurate in most cases.
And I *have* read the Qur’an, many of the Sahih Hadith, and the Sira. And I have been studying this ugliness since 9/11–more than four years, actually. But the idea that any decent person would admire a pedophile–and warlord, rapist. slaver, and mass murderer–if only they read enough about it is just grossly perverse.
It is *because* I know so much about this barbarism that I am speaking out against it.
somehistory says
Garbage in, garbage out. That’s a muzzie brain.
A human is not fully adult until the age of 25. and too many young girls have told of the horror your kind of person rains upon them in your racket of the buying and selling of little children for sex slavery to old, stinky males.
Lies are not welcome here. Nor are they believed.
Noneofyourbusiness says
Sick! Hitting puberty doesn’t suddenly make a child an adult! Justifying this only means you support it or are guilty of it! Pedophiles period
Ashraf says
So what makes you an adult then. The age of marriage in Delaware in 1880 was 7 years old. Many kings and Queens in the last hundred years married under 10 years old.
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.]
Ralph says
It is difficult for me to determine who the rottenest creature is; the perverse Mooslime male that buys a little girl to rape, or her father who would sell his tiny child into sexual crimes administered by a pedophile. Both should burn in the fires of Hell (if there is such a place) for eternity.
Perhaps my ire should be aimed at the author of the book of filth that grants approval to such sick actions, himself a pedophile who married a 6 year old child and consummated the “marriage” when the little girl was 9. How sick, how perverted is that? Any fiend committing such an act in a civilized nation should be subject to the death penalty and buried in a grave filled with pig entrails.
Tim gallagher says
Islam is totally degenerate and inhuman in endless ways, the pedophilia being just one of those ways. Letting Muslims into civilised, non Muslim countries is, without a doubt, the dumbest move of all time. Islam was devised by some of the most evil people who ever walked the earth.
gravenimage says
So true, Tim. Despite all of these horrors, Happy New Year to you and yours!
GE says
Seconded, gravenimage—
Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous 2026 to all here at JW.
Tim gallagher says
May 2026 be a year when millions of non Muslims wake up and see how evil Islam is, ge.
gravenimage says
I hope so, Tim!
Tim gallagher says
Thanks, gravenimage. Happy new year to you as well.for our summer weather it is a bleak day here today, surprisingly cold and a bit wet. Won’t last for long though.
gravenimage says
Iraq legalizes child marriage, Baghdad bridal market booms as Muslim fathers sell their daughters to much older men
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*Horrifying*–but who can be surprised? So much for all American loss of blood and treasure…
IB says
You are big trouble for Islam.
gravenimage says
I hope I am.
Do you also oppose child rape? Not so you say, I see…
IB says
You have bad information and fake new. You don’t understand and my imam says you bully Muslim and jealousy from Somalians money.
Can you say one nice thing for Islam? One.
Ashraf says
I know your people are used to women who have been with 100 men before. But muslim women who are chaste and modest. They are sometimes too shy to say yes but they would just smile and be silent as a form of agreeing. She can always says no. The father is her protector and provider so he is responsible to make sure the man she is marrying is of good character and will take care of her. Because we know men can be deceptive and women are not great at choosing men. If our prophet liked young girls, why was his first marriage to Khadija when he was 25 yo and she was a 40 yo widow that had been married twice before him. He also stays with her for about 25 years until she passed then he married another old widow. He could have had any young girls if he wanted as he was a state leader and beloved by all the Muslims. I’d suggest you actually study his bio and the Quran. This is a 4 year degree subject that student study for decade before they can speak about it. Stop being ignorant.
IB says
Thank you ashraf for tell the truth. This graveyard image is a big troublemaker for the Islam.
They can not debate me. Only like Israel tell them cancel the truth people, the Muslim
Beans says
What do you mean. What was your prophet doing then with a 6 year old if he didn’t like children?
What are you talking about. You can’t run game on jihad watch commenters they know too much.
I would never get that idea in my head, would you consider a marriage like this?
gravenimage says
Is Ashraf saying that he has to rape children because these are the only females who have not been with 100 men? Grotesque claim.
And the idea that tiny children can just tell their fathers pimping them out to old men can just say no is absurd. And given how many girls are Honor Killed for refusing forced marriages, this is *hardly* a safe thing to do.
The idea that a Muslim selling his grade-school aged child for money is “her protector and provider” could not be more perverse.
And the idea that a woman cannot choose whom to love, but that a cash-strapped Mohammedan can sell off his daughter for money is just sick.
And the Prophet’s first marriage was to a wealthy widow–I imagine Kadijah’s money was a factor.
Ashraf wrote:
He could have had any young girls if he wanted as he was a state leader and beloved by all the Muslims.
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No decent man “marries” a six-year-old child–but he is saying that any Muslim would have been happy to sell his little child to Muhammed to rape. Sick stuff–but grimly, probably accurate in most cases.
And I *have* read the Qur’an, many of the Sahih Hadith, and the Sira. And I have been studying this ugliness since 9/11–more than four years, actually. But the idea that any decent person would admire a pedophile–and warlord, rapist. slaver, and mass murderer–if only they read enough about it is just grossly perverse.
It is *because* I know so much about this barbarism that I am speaking out against it.
Beans says
Graven image
What he is basically saying is if a billionaire like mbs came along and said I want to marry his own 5 year old daughter , he would say yes.
Because he is the most suitable. Am I wrong? He’s here openly bending and twisting for his fellow Islamists ideology.
The Muhammad followers were themselves shocked when he proposed to marry this young child! Go look it up you craphand inbred barbarian.
gravenimage says
How is child rape being rife in the Muslim world, including just being legalized in Iraq “fake new” (sic)?
How is opposing child rape “bully Muslim”?
And how is Somali fraud “Somalians (sic) money”? Or do suppose that Muslims have the right to take Jizya from the Kuffar?
And yes–I can say one nice thing about Islam. Islam told Muslims to stop committing infanticide against female babies. Of course, this was already preached against by Judaism and Christianity. I really cannot think of anything else.
Child rape? Robbing unbelievers? Not really anything I consider “nice”.
Michael says
It’s no wonder that leftists and Muslims have found so much common ground, pedophilia being a common denominator for both groups.
Anyway in the face of this enormous tsunami of degeneracy and insanity, happy New Year to all people of goodwill everywhere.
RegT says
Ashraf is seriously in need of a glass navel. I would imagine he may be a follower of the Ayatollah Khomeini who stated in his two-volume book on proper conduct for muslims [“Tahrirolvasyleh”, fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990]:
“A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate
vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable. If a man does penetrate and damage the child then,
he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. [note: subsistence means food and water – nothing else] So that means a child can be sexually molested, anally raped, by any muslim male – even if it injures or kills her. Then: “It is better for a girl to marry at such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband’s house, rather than her father’s home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”
Obviously, any such muslim is not a man, but a vile creature undeserving of life. If the shoe fits, Ashraf . . .
John Elliott says
The last year a 12-year-old marriage was allowed in Scotland was 1928. The minimum age for marriage was raised to 16 for both sexes by the Age of Marriage Act 1929. the Bible says, “Judge not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1, KJV), He who casts the first stone” (John 8:7)
Ashraf says
In Islam, to consumate the marriage. Both men and women have to be pubescent (Hit puberty), mentally and physically ready for marriage, consent to marriage. The bather of the bride has to consent also as he is her protector and provider. It has to go with social norms of the society they live in. You also need two male witnesses. God sets the criteria of adulthood by hiding puberty. After puberty, you are responsible for your actions and God will judge you on the day of judgment for everything you have done since puberty. If you die before puberty, you automatically you go to heaven and ther is no judgment for prepubesnt. The age of consent in Delware, USA in 1800s was 7 years old while other states were 10 years old. In the bible, Mother of Jesus (Mary) married Joseph when she was 12 when she already had Jesus. Joseph was 94 years old. Isaac of 40 years old married 3 year old Rebecca. The enemies of the prophet Mohammed never criticized his marriage to Aisha, nor any body did until the last 50 years when they convinced you that you are an adult after 17 or 18 years old. Which is backed by no science or any logical reason. We all mature differently and hit puberty at different ages
Cathy Smith says
It’s disgusting allowing your child to marry so young. It’s not her choice nor does she have the ability to make that decision as a child . Why would a man want a child bridge unless they are a pedophile
RegT says
Cathy, whoever the individual known as “mohammed” was, he was a pedophile, a rapist, and a murderer. He included his own personal perversions in islam so that his behavior would be believed to be acceptable, but also because he knew he could rally desert brigands ad other scum to his banner by legalizing his perversions and by allowing them to keep “war brides” (aka sex slaves), as well as permitting male-on-male sex (as long as it was only physical, no love or similar emotion involved – since that was common among his tribe even back then). As the Ayatollah Khomeini stated in his book, [“Tahrirolvasyleh”, fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990] : “If a man sodomizes the son, brother, or father of his wife after their marriage, the marriage remains valid”, along with: “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate
vaginally, but sodomizing the child is acceptable.”
Memaw says
You’re full of crap!! There are documented stories of young girls who were forced into marriages and raped by those so called older husbands! One video I watched last night the 13 year old girl died her wedding night because her body was too tender and frail to take the onslaught her husband did to her that night!! It’s absolutely sickening and despicable that this is allowed to happen!! You men are nothing more than pigs!! There’s something seriously wrong with you if you can’t wait until a girl is over the age of 18 before you deflower her, and also you should have her consent, NOT HER FATHERS OR ANY ONE ELSE’S WHEN IT COMES TO HER BODY!! Taking a woman against her will is the lowest life form there is, and you are NOT worth the ground we walk on!! MAY THOSE THAT DO IT ROT IN HELL!!!
gravenimage says
No, children of six have not reached puberty. Ans nowhere does Islam say that child brides have to have reached puberty. Citations, please.
Was little nine0year-old Aisha an adolescent when Muhammed began raping her? Obviously not.
And Islam says that a child bride consents to marriage if she is too terrified to say anything–somehow silence is supposed to equal consent.
And yes–child rape is “go with social norms of the society they live in” in Dar-al-Islam–not actually something to brag about.
And no–there is nothing in Christianity that says that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was 12 when she gave birth,. Again, provide citations.
Ashraf wrote:
God sets the criteria of adulthood by hiding puberty.
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So little babies have reached puberty but Allah is “hiding” it? What does this even mean?
Humans are not adults until 17 or 18–this is not arbitrary.
More:
Isaac of 40 years old married 3 year old Rebecca.
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This claim is nowhere in the Bible.
And no–no child has reached puberty at six. Try again.