Like all establishment media outlets, the New York Post feels compelled to ensure that none of its readers go away from any story that may reflect poorly on Islam with the idea that there is any problem with the Religion of Peace. And so this story about the Taliban’s legalization of child marriage ends up with an extended quotation from “political commentator Fahima Mahomed,” assuring us that “as a Muslim, I would also strongly reject the idea that this reflects Islam as a whole.” She even invokes the Qur’an against “compulsion and mistreatment of women,” although she doesn’t mention that the Qur’an counsels the beating of women “from whom you fear disobedience” (4:34). Mahomed also ignores the fact that there is abundant justification for child marriage in Islamic law, as it is in accord with Muhammad’s example. Those who wave away the threat of Sharia as “bigotry” and “racism” never seem to care about its victims, such as the untold numbers of young girls who have been victimized by having to become brides.
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
“Taliban legalizes sick child marriages with special rules for ‘virgin girls’ in Afghanistan,” by Jeanne Erickson, New York Post, May 16, 2026:
The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages involving minors — treating the girls as sellable property.
It also establishes specific guidelines governing “virgin girls,” reported Afghan outlet Amu TV.
Approved by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, the 31-article regulation — titled “Principles of Separation Between Spouses” — was published in the regime’s official gazette in mid-May.
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, girls can effectively be sold before they are even old enough to walk….
The price of a child bride reportedly ranges between $500 and $3,000, according to human rights groups.
Nearly one-third of Afghan girls are married before the age of 18, according to the charity Girls Not Brides….
The Taliban’s legal code reportedly does not prohibit sexual or psychological violence against women, reports British outlet GB News. Reports also state husbands are permitted to beat their wives, provided it does not leave obvious bodily harm.
“Child marriage is not marriage in any meaningful sense. A child cannot properly consent, and treating silence as consent is dangerous because it removes a girl’s voice completely,” political commentator Fahima Mahomed told the outlet.
“As a Muslim, I would also strongly reject the idea that this reflects Islam as a whole. The Qur’an itself speaks against compulsion and mistreatment of women, so the Taliban’s position should not be presented as ‘Islamic law’ in a broad sense.
“It is their political and extremist interpretation, enforced through power and fear.”
David Lakatos says
Islam is the religion of murdering misogynistic pedo perverts and slave traders.
David Lakatos says
Muhammad, the murdering, perverted father of the Arab slave trade,
somehistory says
It was my understanding that this was something done by the slugs early on when the first took over….again. It’s demonic; it is not “marriage.” It’s rape of children as young ss infants and it often leads to the death of the child rape victim. All of the rapists and those who say it’s *legal* should be suffering some kind of capital punishment.
and in nigeria….even though terrorist was recently killed….
“More than 50 children, including toddlers, kidnapped from 3 schools in the same area”
“Armed attackers stormed three schools in northeastern Nigeria, abducting over 50 children, including toddlers
A Nigerian senator confirmed that at least 42 children were kidnapped during the May 15 incident
Witnesses said the armed attackers rode motorcycles and used children as human shields while fleeing the scene”
How many of those poor children will be subjected to daily rape?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-than-50-children-including-toddlers-kidnapped-from-3-schools-in-the-same-area/ar-AA23pbQ4?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a0b3adbc96b43899eb5cf7ec118b984&ei=6
David Lakatos says
Islam is the scum of the earth.
Wellington says
I expect excuse making nonsense like this from The New York Times but I thought the New York Post would be better. It isn’t.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The Murdochs have always considered the sheikhs their pals
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, Murdoch’s Infidel employees are definitely greater experts on what constitutes true islam. After all, how could a bunch of troglodytes in the Hindu Kush know what constitutes islam better than people employed by News Corp?
Nabil Bissada says
Afghanistan: Taliban legalize child marriages; New York Post denounces them as un-Islamic
MONEY TALK.
According to the Koran and the sharia law Many other Muslims countries allowed the marriage of infant babies.
For that Muslims men have the right to have oral sex with the infant baby in time she can’t support the penetration of the man sexual part.
David Lakatos says
Their all-murdering Muhammadian jihadist suck ups.
Walter Sieruk says
The New York Post has published disinformation that child marriage of a little girl to a Muslim male adult is “un-Islamic.”
A number of gullible Americans, and other Westerners. who don’t know and understand Islam might be taking in, as in beguiled by this false information printed in the NYP. Well, then the more fool them.
As one scholar on Islam, Robert Spencer, had revealed and exposed 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.
Tim gallagher says
Yes, Walter, although I don’t think mo even existed but what an evil creature he is portrayed as being. People who are Muslims have to be evil and bent and twisted people because any decent human being would say that Allah and Mo are evil scum and would leave Islam. To stay in Islam you’ve got to be very evil.
David Lakatos says
All they got is a murdering pedo pervert and slave trader for a prophet.
Beans🫘 says
Yet Americans favor Muslims over Israel and Trump in polling. Brainwashed.
In 2017, Pew Research noted that Americans’ “thermometer” rating for Muslims rose to 48 degrees (up from 40 in 2014). By the end of 2024, positive views had reached approximately 56%.
Beans🫘 says
What are we doing wrong?
Israel Favorability: Only 42% of Americans now view Israel favorably, a sharp drop from 55% in 2022. Conversely, 60% of U.S. adults now hold an unfavorable view of Israel.
• Muslim Favorability: Despite a decline from a 2021 peak of 78%, 65% of Americans still view Muslim people favorably (University of Maryland, 2025/26).
• The Sympathy Gap: For the first time in Gallup’s 25-year tracking history, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians (41%) than with Israelis (36%).
abu taleb says
I wonder why most of the anti Islam people are only quoting Muhammad having sex with a nine years old girl and not referring to 65:4 which allows muslims to have sex with younger girls.
abu taleb says
> “As a Muslim, I would also strongly reject the idea that this reflects Islam as a whole. The Qur’an itself speaks against compulsion and mistreatment of women …
On the contrary, Quran speaks to force women to obey by beating women if men fear the women are disobedient. Women are forced to cover their bodies, to ask permission to go out and musy be be accompanied by male guardian etc.
This guy is a liar as lying for the sake of Islam is considered a good deed.
nicholas william tesdorf says
I wonder where the NYT gets its Islam from? It is not the Qur’an or Haddith.
David Lakatos says
Muslim are the Quintessential experts at hyping up that they are the victims. When in reality they are bullies and murdering tyrants.
Beans🫘 says
David. It’s kind of working is it not. Not enough people are paying attention to the fact.
They persecute everybody in their lands, they come to the west and get the red carpet, and somehow make themselves the victim.
And they are winning the PR war. It’s a fact, more Americans support Muslims over Israel. So, we are doing something wrongly because the facts are on our side.
Alkflaeda says
Women get such a bad deal under Islam that they have to be married off early to make sure that they stay in the fold. Once a woman has one or more children, she is anchored, and cannot leave. I have a suggestion for a follow-up article: “Why I chose FGM instead of nose piercing”. (No, I’m not trivialising FGM – but any newspaper that does not take child marriage under duress seriously will probably not take FGM seriously either).
Troybeam says
New York post knows nothing, child marriages in Islam has always been. Not un-Islamic its pure Islamic.
David Lakatos says
Muhammad, misogynistic polygamy and pedophilia with sex slaves on the side. Phony perverted prophet