Australia: 34-year-old Muslim pleads guilty to marrying 14-year-old girl in Islamic wedding

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Muhammad’s favorite wife was all but six when he married her, nine when he consummated the marriage.

As Robert Spencer has explained:

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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 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.

Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so 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.

Likewise the influential website Islamonline.com in December 2010 justified child marriage by invoking not only Muhammad’s example, but the Qur’an as well:

The Noble Qur’an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: “And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women, if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated” [Qur’an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur’an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A’isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.

Other countries make Muhammad’s example the basis of their laws regarding the legal marriageable age for girls. Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: “Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed.”

According to Amir Taheri in The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution (pp. 90-91), Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl “a divine blessing,” and advised the faithful to give their own daughters away accordingly: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.” When he took power in Iran, he lowered the legal marriageable age of girls to nine, in accord with Muhammad’s example.

“Melbourne man pleads guilty to marrying 14yo bride in wedding at Noble Park”, ABC News Australia, April 18, 2017:

A 34-year-old Melbourne man has cried in court while pleading guilty to illegally marrying a 14-year-old bride in an Islamic wedding last year.

Mohammad Shakir pleaded guilty to going through a formal ceremony of marriage with a person not of marriageable age at Noble Park last September.

The “wedding” was conducted by former imam Ibrahim Omerdic.

As part of Shakir’s plea, two charges were withdrawn by prosecutors in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

They included allegations Shakir had sex with the girl between September 30 and October 1, following their wedding.

Shakir, who has been in custody for six months, shed tears after entering his plea during what was to be a pre-trial committal hearing.

He was helped in court by a Burmese interpreter.

The complainant, who was in court, also wiped tears from her eyes.

Imam charged over child marriage
Omerdic, 61, is charged with conduct that caused a minor to enter into a forced marriage.

The Muslim cleric, who was Imam of the Bosnian Islamic Society and Noble Park Mosque, has since been sacked.

At the time, the Board of Imams Victoria issued a statement against forced and child marriages.

“Underage marriages are illegal in Australia. As Australian Muslims we are required to observe and respect the laws of Australia,” the statement said.

The board said imams should meet both the bride and groom in person before the marriage ceremony to ensure they are of marriageable age and both consented……

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Willik
Willik
6 years ago

Wake up, Aussies, it is good enough for Mohammad so it should be for you!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Willik

Uppity islamophobic australians, think they know better than than the most perfect asswhole that ever existed. Deport the ex imam and the illiterate groom, neither belong in Australia.

spudmans1
spudmans1
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Remember the Australians willingly gave up all of their private firearms a few years back and I always thought the Aussies were tough sons a guns but it appears to be snowing way down under.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  spudmans1

To see how tough australians are, watch the news, notice that any muslim wimp can kick sand in any australian’s face on the beach, with no fear of reprisal.

Gary Aw
Gary Aw
6 years ago

Sick MFs.

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peakpower
peakpower
6 years ago

And they don’t even think it’s wrong. They think it’s the perfect example of what it means to be a man. Religion of peace my a##.

purplej
purplej
6 years ago
Reply to  peakpower

Agree. Even the statement issued by the Board of Imams Victoria merely refers to underage marraige as illegal under Australian law and that muslims are required to respect. It doesn’t appear to condemn the practice, so one is left to believe that it is still acceptable under islam. No surprises.

peakpower
peakpower
6 years ago
Reply to  purplej

If human degeneration is possible, Isalm will make it happen.

Jerry Dobson
Jerry Dobson
6 years ago

Fourteen? An old maid by Muhammad’s standard.

⭐️ Orphan
⭐️ Orphan
6 years ago

People always act schocked when this is discovered. This is normal for musilms. Just because muslims live in the “west” doesn’t mean they will adhere to western laws.

And the more there numbers grow in the “west” the courts will be totally overwhelmed with prosecuting them for FGM, honor killings, child marriages, rape and sex with animals. It will get to the point the courts will no longer even prosecute this.

Zimbabwe has this issue with their courts already. Crime is rampant. Rape and killings of the White South Africans is acceptable. However rape, killings and car jackings in Zimbabwe are not prosecuted because its rampant and daily.

Anti_Femastasis
Anti_Femastasis
6 years ago

14yo is an appropriate age for marriage. It always was. Girls were married at around 12yo, at the time they began to bleed. “If it bleeds, it breeds” was the saying.
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In fact, the West is succumbing exactly because they allow their females to stay unmarried and unpregnant until their late 20s and 30s.

If anything 14 is too old since puberty starts earlier and earlier.comment image

⭐️ Orphan
⭐️ Orphan
6 years ago

What? So you are advocating 14 years old for marriage of European peoples?

Or you trying to justify this for muslims by using Europeans past early marriages as an example?

The article about marrying the 9 year old is that of a pedophile to a 22 year old. And that was a rare occurance back then. Most European women married between 14-16 years old back then.

Somethings are just wrong and should be changed.

However, I understand your paragraph about the “the west succumbing ….”

Mainly because society has gone from one extreme to the other by promoting marriage and kids to Europeans in their late 20’s early 30’s. Almost too late biologically to have more than 2 kids.

Most just have one kid so now they are below replacement level. But that was the goal of the elite because they seek Europeans to go extinct!

I think 18 is an acceptable age for marriage for the “west” – Europeans.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Wait until the Australians find out they aren’t allowed to drink beer, but only Camel Nectar 🙂

NickandLynds
NickandLynds
6 years ago

Sick phks.

Mal
Mal
6 years ago

Will the Royal Commission on child abuse look into this?

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Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
6 years ago

There nothing wrong with that. He married an older women compared to Muslim standards. Their marrying age is usually 8 years old.

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