Child Marriage and Forced Marriage Reports Spike in Sweden

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With the hijrah, comes islamic mores and traditions.

Islamic scholar Robert Spencer:

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.

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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

Hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record 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.

Sweden Sees Rise in Forced and Child Marriage Reports

Set up just over four years ago, the organisation’s hotline has seen 101 children and young people come to them for help in getting out of forced marriages between 2014 and 2018, SVT reports.

This year, however, the number of calls has dramatically increased with the hotline operators claiming to have received 132 calls relating to child and forced marriages, which is set to pass last year’s total of 139.

Despite being able to identify 101 potential victims of forced or child marriage, both of which are illegal in Sweden, only six cases have actually seen court convictions.

Although the absolute figures are relatively small, especially compared to other Western nations with more developed forced marriage and child abuse problems, they are significant in formerly low-crime, low-population Sweden. With just 9.9 million residents — a figure that has lately seen a historic rise — the whole nation is the population equivalent to the U.S. state of Michigan.

Negin Amirekhtiar, an expert at the National Competence Team against Honour-Related Violence and Repression acknowledged the rise in the number of calls but was hesitant to say it meant there were more victims than in previous years saying victims may have more confidence in reporting due to awareness raised about the issue.

Anti-honour violence organisation Forget Never Pela and Fadime (GAPF) say they have had 19 girls come to them this year and that the group has managed to get three of the girls out of their situation so far.

Sabina Landstedt, who works with GAPF, noted the difficulty of many cases as girls were often sent overseas to relatives during the summer holidays.

“They go there with the family and then it’s almost always that the family comes back home, but without the girls,” she said.

Child marriage in Sweden has become a real issue following the 2015 migrant crisis with most child marriages occurring in families with migrant backgrounds or even with newly arrived asylum seekers.

The Swedish government even briefly released a pamphlet for new migrants on the topic of child marriage, but quickly withdrew it due to backlash from the public.

In March, the Swedish parliament voted to totally ban the recognition of any child marriages from overseas, despite some objections from parties within the governing coalition who wanted to propose special exemptions.

 

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Jay Dillon
Jay Dillon
5 years ago

No response to islam is necessary except all-out war.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Jay Dillon

This. In spades.

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
5 years ago
Reply to  Jay Dillon

These Muslims are not men, they are excuses for men who cannot handle a grown female. What normal, intellectually developed man would wish to marry a small young girl – forever destroying their lives? That Mohammad did this and set the standard for Muslim men because that rotten, rubbish criminal man, was Islam’s ‘perfect man’, shows how sick was Mohammad, how sick is Islam, how stupid and brainwashed are Muslim men who imitate his rubbish example – and how stupid, evil and degenerated Western society has degenerated that it is not appalled and disgusted by such practices and determined to stamp it out.

What kind of utter trash parents allow this to happen to their young daughter who is but a child?

tom
tom
5 years ago

Islam is a religion of pedophiles. Makes the Catholic church abuses seem minuscule by comparison.The whole sham circus needs to be shut down.

JEANNIEMAC2
JEANNIEMAC2
5 years ago

In the early 1950s, Mrs. Bella Dodd provided detailed explanations of
the Communist subversion of the Church. Speaking as a former high
ranking official of the American Communist Party, Mrs. Dodd said: “In
the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to
destroy the Church from within.” The idea was for these men to be
ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as
Monsignors and Bishops. She stated that: “Right now they are in the
highest places in the Church” — where they were working to bring about
change in order to weaken the Church’s effectiveness against Communism.
She also said that these changes would be so drastic that “you will not
recognise the Catholic Church.” Dodd gave testimony on communist
infiltration of Church and state before the House UnAmerican Activities
Committee in the 1950s.

Jennifer Tulip
Jennifer Tulip
5 years ago

Filthy animals; should be hung

leonore35
leonore35
5 years ago

‘allah’s’ law is arbitrary too as it was all made up by Mohammad and his followers. Child marriage might have had a place in Arab tribal society where women were only used for child bearing but has not purpose in modern societies.
The age limits are set to allow women to have opportunities for education and advancement and to prevent exploitation. Of course Muslims do not care much about that as they still maintain the ‘philosophy’ of 8th century Arabia. Women are chattels are trade items in Islam, they exist only for the benefit of men.

Toy Pupanbai
Toy Pupanbai
5 years ago

The sooner she gives birth, the sooner YOU are GONE!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Oh gawd! They must NEVER be allowed on your soil. NEVER!! This must NOT be allowed on your land. Let them screw their own kind in their own country. Unless you do the OT way of getting rid of your enemies.

This land is yours, it is not theirs for the giving away by your traitorous politicians. BOOT both of them out!

Randall Anderson
Randall Anderson
5 years ago

I was banned from Facebook for spreading the Truth about Mohammad and Islam…but the ugly truth must be known …Ask yourself: What if Jesus had married a 6 yr old baby girl, playing with her dolls, and then consummated the marriage when she was 9…would Christianity have spread around the world for 2000 years?… Truth: a 50 yr old man having sex with a 9 year old is PEDOPHILIA AND RAPE…in any century.

John Grey
John Grey
5 years ago

They will say that it depends on the culture.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

It is fken despicable!

marble granite
marble granite
5 years ago

SUPPORTERS OF THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT, YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO READ THIS COMMENT! What normal parent, man or woman, would give away a daughter to be totally owned and controlled by another, especially a stranger? (In Sweden, poverty is not an excuse.) Just askin’.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

The Swedes have brought this dark fate upon themselves.

Da er det nok!
Da er det nok!
5 years ago

Islam was created by Satan and belong deep down below the hottest place in hell!

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