There is no justification for murder. Wasila Umaru’s desperation, however, points up child marriage as the serious human rights abuse that it is. And it has abundant justification in Islam. As I explained in detail here, few things have stronger attestation in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s […]
Iraqi cabinet approves draft law allowing marriage of nine-year-old girls
I explained in detail here that few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage. That is one reason why we see support for this barbarity recently in […]
Pakistan: Council of Islamic Ideology says laws prohibiting child marriage are un-Islamic
As I explained in detail here, few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage. That being the case, how could the Council of Islamic Ideology issue any […]
Turkey: More than 500,000 child brides in last ten years
Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with […]
Australia: Muslim who married 13-year-old girl has bail refused over child sex charges
Despite the abundant attestation for child marriage in Islamic law, most non-Muslims remain completely ignorant of it, because Islamic apologists in the West routinely deny that it exists, insisting that Aisha was 18 when Muhammad married her, and claiming that the incidence of child marriage in Muslim countries is due solely to cultural factors (they […]
65% of females in Yemen marry underage
Few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with […]
“More than 140 million girls over the next decade will be married before they turn 18”
And what is to stop this from happening? It has broad sanction in Islam, as few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the […]
Yemen: Muslim father burns his 15-year-old daughter to death for “communicating with her fiance”
Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” However, “not subject to retaliation” is “a […]
Pakistan: Nine-year-old girl sold in marriage to 35-year-old man
“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). Do the human rights of this girl matter? Or would caring about her be “Islamophobic”? […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: Child Marriage Comes to Australia
In my latest at PJ Lifestyle, I discuss yet another aspect of the Islamization of the West, and wonder if Western authorities are ultimately going to stand up to the elements of Sharia that contradict basic principles of human rights, or capitulate to them. The girl’s Muslim parents forced her into the marriage when she […]