In seeing children in a sexual manner, these Muslim clerics are imitating their prophet. 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
“Gaza families say their children have been ‘raped by Hamas-affiliated clerics’, with the parents then intimidated into silence,” by Natalie Lisbona, Daily Mail, April 26, 2026:
Children in Gaza are being raped and then blackmailed into joining Hamas or having their sexual abuse made public, investigators in the enclave say.
The Daily Mail has obtained filmed testimony from Jusoor News in Gaza showing the children’s disturbing allegations.
In the video, two boys aged just nine and ten anonymously describe every parent’s worst nightmare.
‘I went to pray at the mosque that day, it was before the ‘asr prayer, I was studying the Quran,’ says the nine-year-old before naming the Sheikh that was there.
‘We were studying the Qur’an together. He said to me, “come with me, I want to give you something nice”.
‘He took me to the restrooms and undressed me, took off my pants and had his way with me. I started to scream and then I cried.’
The man then warned him not to tell his father….
Another father, a 39-year-old resident of Deir al-Balah, testified that his son was molested by an Imam.
The Imam was purportedly educating his son while harassing him and other children.
‘The stuff is disgusting, I don’t want to repeat it more than is necessary,’ he said in an audio recording.
When he presented his proof to Hamas security, they forced him to withdraw the charges by threatening to frame him as an Israeli collaborator if he didn’t back down….
SKA says
How does anything to do with Aiesha justify these clerics’ disgusting behavior? Or is this just more of the “to the Mujahid all things are permissible” casuistry?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Well, Muhammad is considered “al insan al kamil”, or the perfect man – the person to be emulated across the ages. So what he did to Aisha is what any good mohammedan ought to do to girls whose ages haven’t hit double figures
Taffy says
You hit the nail on the head but didn’t drive it home. Let’s assume that Muhammad and Aisha’s relationship was a norm accepted by society in that culture of that day, and let’s assume that some of that culture pertaining to child MARRIAGES spilled over to current times. Although distasteful to us Westerners, prearranged MARRIAGES are the norm elsewhere and that system sort of works.
But what these clerics did is not MARRIAGE; it is rape and child molestation pure and simple. And Hamas was complicit in the cleric’s behavior. What should have happened is that Hamas soldiers should have told the offending cleric that he wants to show him a lesson in the holy Qu’ran, taken him outside, and triple tapped him.
gravenimage says
In Islam is it fine to rape children. And Muhammed is describes as molesting little boys as well as raping his “wife” Aisha.
Islam o'Phobe says
Yup, all sounds about right for this hideous pseudo-religious death-cult. Absolutely sickening.
Wellington says
Demonstrating again that Islam in its “full flower” is a sterling recipe for the worst of what man can sow, including rape, murder, a dearth of liberty and pure second-class status (at best) for those who don’t “submit.”
Worst religion ever is Islam. Easy call here. To this day it remains a plague to all of mankind and why if every Muslim woke up tomorrow a devout Christian, Jew, Hindu or Buddhist the world would be infinitely better off instantaneously. And why I say to every Muslim, even the nicest and most ignorant among Mo’s believers, you are an enormous burden to the entire human race. It’s such a drag to deal with you.
GreyhoundFancier says
Islam is the poop in the punchbowl of religions.
Sarprina says
I agree. Islam is a blight upon this world.
ploome says
send them to Harvard
or Columbia
In NYC he can be close to Mamdani
oh, and since we now have FGM in the Muslim Community in America why not this historic and accepted practice ?
“Bacha bazi is a pederastic practice in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan, in which men exploit and enslave adolescent boys, sometimes for sexual abuse, and/or coerce them to cross-dress in attire traditionally only worn by women and girls and dance for entertainment. The man exploiting the young boy is called a bacha baz and the young boy is called a bacha”
somehistory says
And who is surprised? And will those who have praised the attack on Israel stop saying the lies and their propaganda against Israel? No. Will they condemn this rape of children? No.
“something nice.” Demonic; not even near being “nice.” Demonic evil May these sons of demons soon reap..
Billy says
By sexually abusing girls and children, Muslims are simply following Islamic Law and Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 65:4).
ploome says
AND
DoD IG: US troops were told to ignore child sex abuse by Afghan forces
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/11/17/dod-ig-us-troops-were-told-to-ignore-child-sex-abuse-by-afghan-forces/
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/24/580433652/how-the-u-s-military-ignored-child-sexual-abuse-in-afghanistan-for-years
gravenimage says
Yes–I remember that. Imagine risking your life for these pedophiles, and not even being able to protect these boys.
Siddi Nasrani says
EVIL, or what ! Totally DEMONIC, They need to be exported to one of the 57 Islamic
States they control, Bye , bye.
Patrick says
Muslims are expert brainwasher’s, especially with children and suicide bombers. As long as Islam exists, sexual exploitation of children (either sex) will exist, including, brainwashing of suicide bombers.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Gaza families say their children have been ‘raped by Hamas-affiliated clerics”
Remember, it was the Palestinians who voted for Hamas in 2006…
David Grisez says
The evil and wickedness of this ideology of Islam appears to have no limits. There is the whole teaching of Jihad that allows Muslims to murder people, steal people’s property as booty, lie and deceive to promote jihad warfare, and take women as sex slaves. Then there is child marriage of young girls. Now we have this Hamas clerics raping children. This Islamic ideology needs to be opposed and restrained with the truth about this wicked ideology.
Troybeam says
Speaking the truth and using the exact wording from Islam’s books is the only way to expose the evil of Islam.
Islam will scream it’s a lie but in truth using the very same wording they claim is a lie then they will have a fit but hey, truth hurts, exposes the evil and then work can be done to remove Islam from every nation, free nation they reside in.
gravenimage says
Muslims lie about this, as well–claiming that little Aisha was–somehow–in her late teens or even twenties, meanwhile Muslims are raping little children *to this day* on the model of the “Prophet”.
Alkflaeda says
Clearly Iran is not the only Muslim country where clerics abuse power.
Troybeam says
Virginity is sacred on the wedding night, a young girl is raped by an adult male & no longer a virgin.
How does this effect her on her wedding night? Especially in small towns.
Many young girls/women are having surgery to replace their hymen before getting married.
Being sexually abused, having FGM done on these young women, Islam is a cruel and nasty disease on women and on humanity.
GreyhoundFancieru says
Certainly, there is clerical abuse. However, Muslim clerics can claim that they are following the way of the most perfect man ever, and do horrible things. Rape, domestic abuse, child marriage, all following the example of the most perfect man ever.
Those things are sins, and when clergy are found to be in sin, the Church is supposed to confront that and correct it. I know that churches have been lax about this, but that is because the Church is not operating according to its ancient examples.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Given that the Gazans – unlike the Iranians – are full of bloodlust for the Jews, I have no sympathy for the parents whose kids were raped by the clerics: just the kids themselves
But it’s one more reason to report all those Gaza ads about famines in Gaza or the need to send food there as hatred, until they disappear from YouTube’s ad feeds
gravenimage says
Infidel, Iran funds Hamas–and Hezb’allah, and the Houthis–murdering Jews in Israel. And they also scream that they will “wipe Israel off the map” as soon as they develop nukes. So yes, Iran has plenty of bloodlust against Jews, just like Muslims in Gaza.
gravenimage says
Gaza families say Hamas-affiliated Muslim clerics raped their children and intimidated them into silence
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*Just horrifying*. God, I hate Islam.