Of course they had the highest percentage of approved petitions. The government didn’t want to appear “Islamophobic,” and sacrificed the well-being of these girls to that fear. 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 […]
R. Kelly Could Have Learned from Muhammad
The now infamous R&B singer, R. Kelly, has been dogged by sexual misconduct and abuse allegations for more than two decades. These include his short marriage in 1994 to then 15-year old Aaliyah, when he was 27, lawsuits filed by women in 1996 (the victim was 15) and 2001 (this one was 17) claiming to […]
German Federal Supreme Court rejects as unconstitutional a law banning child marriage
No Western country should bend its laws and abandon its principles in order to appease anyone or to suit any religious sensibilities at the expense of its women and girls. And yet this is not happening in Germany alone; many Western countries are increasingly adopting a two-tier legal system, allowing for a harmful accommodation of […]
Australia: Imam in court over marriage ceremony involving 14-year-old girl
It is no surprise that an imam would be involved in this. 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. Turkey’s […]
Nigeria: 23 million girls are victims of child marriage
Over 23 million girls in Nigeria are victims of child marriage. 32 million, meanwhile, have suffered female genital mutilation as well. But what do these practices have to do with Islam? Bukhari 5.58.234 and Umdat al-Salik e4.3, respectively. And as they foster mass migration and open borders, globalists apparently believe that deeply ingrained religious indoctrination […]
UK legitimizing “terrible abuse”: Nearly 2000 child brides in five years
Here is another indication of why this decision by the European Court of Human Rights was so misguided. The UK has gradually ushered in Sharia law, severe abuses included: Nearly 2,000 young people in Britain, the vast majority of them girls, were wed before the age of 18 between 2010 and 2015 The UK also […]
Ghana: Muslim cleric held for helping force 12-year-old girl into marriage
It is no surprise that an imam would be involved in this. 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. Turkey’s […]
Sweden sees steady increase in reports of forced marriage and child marriage
Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that forced marriage and child marriage have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Odd, then, that with the massive Muslim migrant influx into Sweden that there would be a steady increase in both. Why don’t the peaceful and rapidly assimilating moderates rise up and put up a stop […]
UK considering raising minimum age of marriage to stop forced child marriage
Government ministers are considering raising the minimum age for marriage in England and Wales from 16, as the phenomenon of children from minority communities being taken abroad for forced weddings intensifies. Equalities minister Baroness Williams of Trafford and the Home Secretary Sajid Javid are among those working on fighting abuse of minors, which takes many forms […]
Elon Musk Tilting at the Wrong Windmill
In June and July of this year, when a youth soccer team was trapped in flooding caves in Thailand, billionaire Elon Musk offered to help by using his tech firms to create a special mini-sub capable of maneuvering through the flooded serpentine caves to reach the desperate boys and their coach. Though the device was […]