As Robert Spencer explains in detail here, the Taliban are following Muhammad’s example. The Taliban devoutly follows what it views as the purest form of Islam — the teachings of the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad as recorded in the hadiths that Muslim scholars consider authentic.
The non-Muslim world claims to be horrified by the persecution of people on the basis of what they believe, the idea that murdering those who do not believe will gain one a place in paradise, child marriage, the rape of infidel women, wife beating, and more. Yet it denies that any of these have anything to do with Islam, which would come as a surprise to their practitioners.
‘Silence of virgin girl counts as consent’: Taliban formally recognises child marriage,” WION, May 18, 2026:
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has introduced a controversial new family law regulation governing marriages, divorce and child marriage, with one of the most debatable articles of the decree recognising the silence of a “virgin girl” as consent to marriage. However, the silence of a boy or a married woman cannot be taken to mean consent.
The law has drawn widespread criticism from international observers. The 31-article regulation, titled “Principles of Separation Between Spouses,” was approved by Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and published in the regime’s official gazette in mid-May, reported Afghan media outlet Amu TV….
One of the most controversial provisions states that the silence of a “virgin girl” after reaching puberty may be interpreted as consent to marriage. The regulation then adds that the silence of a boy or a previously married woman, however, would not automatically count as consent.
The decree also addresses “khiyar al-bulugh” or the “option upon puberty”, a concept in Islamic jurisprudence under which a child married at a young age may seek annulment after reaching puberty. However, annulment requires the consent of the religious courts.
According to Article 5 of the regulation, if relatives other than a child’s father or grandfather arrange the marriage of a minor, the marriage can still be considered legally valid if the spouse is deemed socially compatible and the dowry appropriate. The child may later seek annulment, but only through a Taliban court order….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Just like “allah” in islam doesn’t quite translate to God, and “shahid” doesn’t quite translate to martyr, similarly there is no actual concept of marriage in islam. The term “nikah”, which means penetration, is what should be solely used whenever one is talking about “marriage” in islam. That’s all it is!
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Infidel.
Ivan Karabasov says
The root “n k H” is not semantically related to penetration, but to combining and merging.
While it is true that in many dialects the verb “nakaHa” is vulgar and means “to fuck”, and the verb “tazawwaja” is instead normally used for “to marry”, it does not appear correct to say that “nakaHa” only means “to penetrate”.
gravenimage says
The “combining” and “merging” in question does not appear to be marriage, but instead just physical penetration.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Ivan
The root n-k-h may indeed mean what you say, but do you deny that the derivative word “nikah” means penetration? B’cos that’s what it means in Arabic, and even more so in Urdu, and it doesn’t have any Sanskrit underpinnings that could have meandered into the latter
I am guessing that “tazawwaja” is exclusively used by Arab Christians & Arab Jews, rather than Muslims?
gravenimage says
The root of “tazawwaja” is “pair” or “spouse”–not the much uglier “Nikah”.
David Lakatos says
I don’t take a knee to a pedo pervert and call him a prophet. Don’t be deceived; Muhammad went straight to Hell.
Wellington says
No affront to human reasoning and basic decency should ever be considered off limits to Mohammedans. Just when you might think Mo’s deluded followers could not possibly stoop any lower, they do.
somehistory says
First, they gag the baby, or tiny girl child, and then the pervert, the slug, the son of satan, proposes that he gets to daily rape her….as often as he wishes….and since she is gagged, she cannot utter a word. Only the fear, the horror and the tears in her eyes speak; and these are ignored.
SKA says
“The silence of a boy?” Make this make sense!
David Lakatos says
Muhammad defied Jesus when he raped that little girl. He knew better, he read the bible.
ploome says
he was illiterate
didn’t read or write
Student says
Mohammed didn’t even exist. He was fabricated by the Arabs as an excuse for their horrible behaviour. And for the Arabs who had conquered vast areas of the Christian levant to claim a god superior to God that the Christians worship.
David Lakatos says
Muhammad. According to their picture, he is kind, generous, patient, humble, and trust worthy. He protects orphans and widows, endures persecution, helps the needy, and promotes justice. He prays faithfully, fasts regularly, and obeys God in everything. He is loyal to his friends and patient with his enemies. He never gives in when tempted with evil. Now we must picture that same man in a room with an innocent little girl. He takes away her doll, climbs on top of her, and puts his penis inside her. She doesn’t know what is happening because she is too young to know much about sex. Frightened and confused, she cries because of the pain and bleeds on her bed, but she tries to remain quiet out of respect for her new husband, who, in return, endangers her life.
gravenimage says
Pretty much, yes. Just horrifying pedophilia.
Walter Sieruk says
That new child marriage law in Afghanistan enacted by the Taliban is a reflection
of what 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.
Furthermore, a scholar on Islam, Brigitte Gabriel, in her book, which is entitled “They Must Be Stopped” which on pages 171, that exposes that “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.” Very obviously, this control extends even to the evilest Islamic extent of control over little girls.
David Lakatos says
Muhammad, the perfect pedo pervert.
Walter Sieruk says
That vile and heinous child marriage law newly established by the Taliban in Afghanistan has revealed that the Taliban are ,themselves vile and heinous men,
The terrible fact is that Muslim marriage of an adult man to a young girl who is a child is 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
That awful terrible new law of the Taliban is a reflection 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.]
David Lakatos says
Muhammad defied Jesus when he raped that little girl. He knew what he was doing, he perverted and plagiarized the Bible enough.
David Lakatos says
His scribes knew the bible. They taught him
David Lakatos says
Ethiopia has the oldest Christian Bible in the world. The church left out a few books.
abu taleb says
Even (most of) the Islamists are considering having sex with prepubescent girls are evil enough so that they put an age limit for girls to be married on 12 or 9 based on the hadiths of Muhammad’s having sex with Aisha at Aisha’s being 9 years old. Or they add the condition of being puberty. It shows how evil Quran is because Quran allows having sex with prepubescent girls without any age limit.
Also, Aisha actually is not really 9 years old, because Islam uses lunar calendar. The moon rotates the earth every 27.3 days, so a lunar year is about 327.6 days, 9 years in lunar calender is about 8 year and 1 month.
David Lakatos says
The Quran, Muhammad’s perverted plagiarized Bible.
gravenimage says
Taliban’s new child marriage law counts ‘silence of a virgin girl as consent’
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If a child is too terrified of being “Honor Killed” to protest being raped, then this is deemed “conscent” in Islam.
Here is the Hadith:
“Narrated `Aisha:
I asked the Prophet, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! 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
I wondered how long it would take the Taliban to reinstate child marriage. God, I hate Islam.
David Lakatos says
Muslims are a bunch of dirtbags
Troybeam says
Nothing in all their marriage laws will give a virgin girl a choice, she will have to face an all male court and that alone means nothing because they will always side with the man, women are inferior therefore they know nothing and cannot think for themselves.
David Lakatos says
A woman joining Islam is like a Turkey celebrating Thanksgiving. Burn your Burqas and Hijabs, they’re symbols of Islamic oppression,
David Lakatos says
Muhammad, misogynistic polygamy and pedophilia with sex slaves on the side. Phony perverted prophet