Question about the age of consent around the world

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Age of Consent Laws By Country

www.ageofconsent.net

Above is you can see what the age of consent is around the world.

What got me thinking about this was Russel Brand, a comedian, came out and said that he had sex with a 16 year old, but that it was not illegal because in England, that is what the age of consent is.

Russell Brand To Megyn Kelly: 'I Did Sleep With A 16-Year-Old When I Was 30'

The troubled comedian admitted to Megyn Kelly that his past sexual relationships involved "exploitation."

www.huffpost.com

Then I got to thinking about Prince Andrew. There is a man whose life is being ruined for having sex with a 17 year old girl, but I guess wherever that may have occurred, that was not the age of consent. I dunno.

It just seems very hypocritical for the world to hold people like Prince Andrew in contempt when they ignore virtually the entire country of England and pretty much the rest of the world where the age of consent seems mostly to be 15 years old, according to the Wiki site.

Does most of the world approve of sex with minors, assuming that age is 15 years old? The lowest age of consent is 11.

It seems to me that throwing fits about the exploits of people like Epstein who did this kind of thing in secret while ignoring entire countries who do it out in the open is a little bizarre.

Then there are people like Elvis, who is still adored and worshipped by the masses, visiting Graceland to pay their respects, even though he had sex with a minor younger than what Prince Andrew did.


WTH is wrong with people?

And I get it, the whole sex trafficking issue is at play here as well, which may be the primary reason they are going after Andrew.

 

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Now, the countries where there are no age restrictions, with the only requirement is being married, is from Islamic countries. You can see above in the wiki site showing where this occurs, with Iran leading the way, the country the Left seems to love the most these days.

As we all know, the reason for this is that Mohammad married a 6-year-old girl, so how can they say it's wrong?

But the bigger question for me is, how can the entire world lay claim that Islam is a valid world religion when its founder was a known pedophile? Then in their next breath they cast stones at Prince Andrew for having sex with a 17 year old?

Really guys?

Essentially Mohammad and Islam have made pedophilia legal in countries around the world, with the world turning a blind eye saying that their religion is just as valid a religion as say Christianity.

Sheer insanity.

You all do realize that the cult of Islam is the only reason that is the way things are, right?

I know, I know, I've offended people cuz I refuse to play the PC game.

If only I gave a damn.

 

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Above is you can see what the age of consent is around the world.

Interesting that the nations with the big population problems also tend to have the lower ages of consent.

Nigeria considers an 11 year old ready to consent to sex.

Also interesting that in the ME, there is no age. You just don't have sex unless and until you get married.

Maybe that is why they are all so angry and fighting all the time.

 

[Concerned American]

Age of Consent Laws By Country

www.ageofconsent.net

Above is you can see what the age of consent is around the world.

What got me thinking about this was Russel Brand, a comedian, came out and said that he had sex with a 16 year old, but that it was not illegal because in England, that is what the age of consent is.

Russell Brand To Megyn Kelly: 'I Did Sleep With A 16-Year-Old When I Was 30'

The troubled comedian admitted to Megyn Kelly that his past sexual relationships involved "exploitation."

www.huffpost.com

Then I got to thinking about Prince Andrew. There is a man whose life is being ruined for having sex with a 17 year old girl, but I guess wherever that may have occurred, that was not the age of consent. I dunno.

It just seems very hypocritical for the world to hold people like Prince Andrew in contempt when they ignore virtually the entire country of England and pretty much the rest of the world where the age of consent seems mostly to be 15 years old, according to the Wiki site.

Does most of the world approve of sex with minors, assuming that age is 15 years old? The lowest age of consent is 11.

It seems to me that throwing fits about the exploits of people like Epstein who did this kind of thing in secret while ignoring entire countries who do it out in the open is a little bizarre.

Then there are people like Elvis, who is still adored and worshipped by the masses, visiting Graceland to pay their respects, even though he had sex with a minor younger than what Prince Andrew did.


WTH is wrong with people?

And I get it, the whole sex trafficking issue is at play here as well, which may be the primary reason they are going after Andrew.

Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin. Ruined his career.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin. Ruined his career.

I don't know about that. It certainly didn't help, but ruined?

 

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Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin. Ruined his career.

That was a little before my time, but today I see no attempt to cancel his memory.

 

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Interesting that the nations with the big population problems also tend to have the lower ages of consent.

Nigeria considers an 11 year old ready to consent to sex.

Also interesting that in the ME, there is no age. You just don't have sex unless and until you get married.

Maybe that is why they are all so angry and fighting all the time.

What I find most appalling is the international community turning a blind eye to a major world religion, namely Islam, that is promoting pedophila around the world.

You can play all the intellectual gymnastic games you want by reasoning that Mohammad was simply acting out what was already in the culture, which is grown men having sex with children, but with different times come different morals, blah, blah, blah.

Well fine, assuming that all that is correct, look around, because the past is the present for those who are followers of Mohammad.

What now? Just continue to do this?

 

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What I find most appalling is the international community turning a blind eye to a major world religion, namely Islam, that is promoting pedophila around the world.

You can play all the intellectual gymnastic games you want by reasoning that Mohammad was simply acting out what was already in the culture, which is grown men having sex with children, but with different times come different morals, blah, blah, blah.

Well fine, assuming that all that is correct, look around, because the past is the present for those who are followers of Mohammad.

What now? Just continue to do this?

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You can’t hold Muslims accountable for pedophilia because that would be Islamophobic.

 

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Because trump isn’t Muslim?

 

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https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World

Statistics​

PLEASE NOTE: The information below dates to the first decade of the 21st century. For more up to date information on the prevalence of child marriage compiled by Unicef, see here. A number of countries have since taken steps to raise the minimum age of marriage. For information on this see the table on the Wikipedia page Marriageable Age.

Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, despite the law against child brides, more than half of all girls are married before they turn 15, usually to settle disputes.
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A Unicef study from 2000 to 2008 found that more than 43 per cent of women in Afghanistan were married under age, some before puberty.

In 2009 Human Rights Watch and Unifem, a UN agency, classified 57 per cent of all brides as under age, which is below 16. Despite the changes in the state law, not much seems to have changed since then<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-6">[6]</a>
Azerbaijan

93% of Azerbaijan's population identify as Muslim.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-7">[7]</a>

Officials in Azerbaijan are so concerned by the number of women getting married under-age that parliament is discussing raising the minimum age for marriage to 18.
Women’s rights activists say corrupt religious officials are prepared to conduct Islamic ceremonies for couples when the woman is too young for a state service, leaving her unprotected if her husband leaves her, uneducated and vulnerable to medical complications.
. . .

In Khachmaz, a city near Azerbaijan’s border with Russia, of 2,500 pupils in their final year of school, almost 130 girls were not attending since they had already married. The headmaster, she said, took no action, although education is compulsory.

But her organisation’s research shows that the problem of young marriages is most pronounced in the southern regions bordering Iran.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-8">[8]</a>
Bangladesh

According to statistics from 2005, 45% of women then between 25 and 29 were married by the age of 15 in Bangladesh. According to the “State of the World’s Children-2009” report, 63% of all women aged 20–24 were married before the age of 18.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-10">[10]</a>
Canada

According to an article in the Toronto Sun, Muslim child brides in Canada are on the rise:

Federal immigration officials say there’s little they can do to stop “child brides” from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad.
Top immigration officials in Canada and Pakistan say all they can do is reject the sponsorships of husbands trying to bring their child-brides to Canada. The men have to reapply when the bride turns 16. The marriages are permitted under Sharia Law.

Muslim men, who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents return to their homeland to wed a “child bride” in an arranged marriage in which a dowry is given to the girl’s parents. Officials said some of the brides can be 14 years old or younger and are “forced” to marry. The practice occurs in a host of countries including: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Lebanon.

Not valid in Canada

Canadian visa officer Steve Bulmer said in classified documents he refused to allow one Pakistani man to sponsor his 15-year-old bride in August 2009.

“I can find no section (of law) that states the marriage is ‘invalid’ or ‘void,” Bulmer wrote in e-mails obtained by lawyer Richard Kurland under Access of Information. “I am afraid the age does not invalidate the marriage even if it is illegal to marry.”

Abdul Hameed, of the Canadian embassy in Islamabad, said child marriages are not valid in Canada.

“A child marriage is punishable but it does not render the marriage invalid,” Hameed said. “We are refusing such application on grounds the marriage will not be valid as per Canadian laws.”

William Hawke, of immigration’s Permanent Resident Unit, said the young brides won’t be allowed in Canada.

“Sponsorship applications submitted for a spouse under 16 will be refused,” he said.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-11">[11]</a>
Germany

More than 3,000 women and girls in Germany, most from Muslim familiesand many of them minors, faced forced marriage in the course of a year, official research released this week indicates.
The first federal study of its kind found 3,443 recorded cases in 2008 - the most recent year with sufficient data - in which people living in Germany were forced to wed or threatened with a forced marriage.

Most were between the ages of 18 and 21, although nearly a third of them were under the age of 17.
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More than half were beaten or otherwise physically abused to convince them to marry, while more than one in four were threatened with weapons or told they would be killed if they did not go through with the marriage.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-AFP_November_12,_2011-12">[12]</a>
Malaysia

Data in the 2010 progress report to the United Nations on HIV in Malaysia prepared by the Ministry of Health reveals shocking statistics on the number of Muslim girls under the age of 14 who have undergone pre-marital HIV screening in order to get married.
The data shows that 32 girls under the age of 10 and 445 girls between the ages of 10 and 14 went through this testing in 2009 alone in preparation for marriage!

What is also significant is that this phenomenon is taking place in the more developed states in Malaysia, with the highest numbers recorded in Penang (195), Malacca (103) and Johor (87).<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-13">[13]</a>
There was an increase in marriages involving underage Muslims in the Federal Territory last year.
This goes against the assumption that child marriages are now on the decline due to changing cultural trends.

Last year [2009], 49 Muslim girls under 16 years of age and 39 boys under 18 tied the knot.

According to the statistics provided by the Federal Territory Religious Department, this number was higher compared with the previous year.
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In 2008, 40 girls and 28 boys below the permitted age registered their marriages.
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It was also reported last week that, according to the 2000 Census, there were 11,400 children below 15 years of age who were married -- 6,800 girls and 4,600 boys.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-14">[14]</a>
Morocco

The legal minimum age for marriage in Morocco is 18 years, although family judges are empowered to allow exceptions. This loophole has enabled thousands of families to marry off their daughters prematurely.

According to figures from the justice ministry, over 31,000 under-age girls were married in 2008, compared with 29,847 in 2007.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-15">[15]</a>
Nigeria

Northern Nigeria has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world: nearly half of all girls here are married by the age of 15.
The consequences have been devastating. Nigeria has the highest maternal mortality rate in Africa and one of the world’s highest rates of fistula, a condition that can occur when the pressure of childbirth tears a hole between the vagina and the bladder or rectum. Many women are left incontinent for life. Up to 800,000 women suffer from fistula in Nigeria.
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Dr Waaldijk operates on up to 600 women a year, with no electricity or running water... Some have been divorced by their husbands - it is estimated that up to half of adolescent girls in northern Nigeria are divorced... The Nigerian federal Government has attempted to outlaw child marriage. In 2003 it passed the Child Rights Act, prohibiting marriage under the age of 18. In the Muslim northern states, though, there has been fierce resistance to the Act, with many people portraying it as antiIslamic.
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Half of Nigeria’s 36 states have passed the Act, but it has been adopted by only one of the dozen Muslim states - and even that one made a crucial amendment substituting the age of 18 for the term “puberty”.

Each state in Nigeria has the constitutional right to amend legislation to comply with its local traditions and religion, meaning that central government is powerless to impose a minimum age of marriage.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-TONOV282008-16">[16]</a>
Palestinian Authority area

According the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 682 girls aged 14 and younger were legally married in 2000. Two of them were married to men who were 35 or older, 13 to men 30 to 34, 117 to men 25 to 29, 378 to men 20 to 24 and 172 to men 15 to 19. Child marriages of girls 14 and younger made up 2.9 per cent of the total number of registered marriages. In the same year, 13,163 Palestinian girls between 15 and 19 were legally married, surpassing 55 per cent of all registered marriages.

Local human rights organizations are deeply concerned about child marriage in Palestinian society. Participants of a conference in Gaza dedicated to this issue in January 2008, organized by the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), warned of the “significant rise in child marriage rate” and its severe psychological and physical implications on the youth.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-18">[18]</a>
Saudi Arabia

Though there has been no exact figure of child marriages, some studies published in the media suggested that no less than 3,000 girls in the Kingdom were under 13 when they got married, while their husbands were at least 25 years their senior.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-19">[19]</a>
Turkey

[As of November 2008] Thirty-nine percent of married women in the southern province of Şanlıurfa were 16 or younger on their wedding day, according to the Istanbul-based Social Democracy Foundation, which is campaigning against the practice.

They typically marry in religious ceremonies and delay civil marriage until they’re of age, according to the foundation. "As long as you have people in Turkey who say this is okay and who use Islam to justify it, it remains a big problem," says Amanda Akçakoca, an analyst at the European Policy Center in Brussels.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-20">[20]</a>
United Kingdom

The number of forced marriages has increased more than ten-fold in just four years, government figures have revealed.
More than 770 suspected cases were reported to the Forced Marriage Unit this year, up from 152 in 2005.

If the trend continues, by the end of this year more than 1,540 Britons will have been coerced into a marriage they do not want to enter - an increase of more than 913 per cent.

The practice affects mainly young Asian women, with more than a third of cases involving those aged under 18. One in six victims are under 16.

Advisors said they are dealing with hundreds of schoolchildren who have confided to teachers that they fear they will be taken abroad in the summer holidays and forced to marry.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-21">[21]</a>
Yemen

Yemeni parliament had actually approved a law last year that set a minimum marriageable age of 17 for boys and 18 for girls. (Significantly, the family of Elham Mahdi al Assi lied that she was 18 years old). According to the UN statistics, more than half of Yemeni girls got married before reaching puberty. That means more than half of all marriages in Yemen are child marriages. In line with the UN statistics, the Gender Development Research and Studies Centre at Sana’a University carried out a study on early marriage in 2008 and found that 52.1 per cent of girls are under 18 when they wed, compared with 6.7 per cent of boys.

But following the approving of the law by Parliament, thousands of conservative Yemeni women actually demonstrated outside parliament last month to protest the implementation of a minimum marriageable age [They were holding up copies of the Qur'an while stating that the proposed law is un-Islamic].<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-IRIN-22">[22]</a> Because of the opposition to the proposed law, it did not come into force. Had that law been approved, parents of children involved in child (underaged) marriage could be fined $500 or jailed for a year.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-MESSAGE-23">[23]</a>
Yemen is full of child brides. Roughly half of Yemeni girls are married before 18, some as young as eight.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-24">[24]</a>

AND ALL THANKS TO ISLAM

 

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Traditional Islamic Justification​

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Main Articles: Child Marriage in Islamic Law and Child Marriage in the Qur'an
Traditional Quran commentators and jurists have been essentially unanimous that child marriages are permitted in the Qur'an.

And (as for) those of your women who have despaired of menstruation, if you have a doubt, their prescribed time shall be three months, and of those too who have not had their courses; and (as for) the pregnant women, their prescribed time is that they lay down their burden; and whoever is careful of (his duty to) Allah He will make easy for him his affair.
Quran 65:4
The term "courses" mentioned above (indicated in bold italic text) is most accurately translated as "menstruation", which is the exact meaning of the Arabic word used in that context (i.e. 'Yaĥiđna يَحِضْنَ).

Permitted by Muslim Scholars​

Main Article: Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Child Marriage
It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger. A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her.

We hear a lot in the media about the marriage of underage girls. We should know that Shariah law has not brought injustice to women.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-25">[25]</a>
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh
Our mothers and before them our grandmothers married when they were barely 12. Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-26">[26]</a>
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh
A nine-year-old girl has the same sexual capacities like a woman of twenty and over.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-27">[27]</a>
Skeikh Mohamed Ibn Abderrahmane Al-Maghraoui
Getting married at an early age is something that is confirmed by the book of Allah, the Sunnah of his Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam), the consensus of the scholars and the actions of the companions, and the Muslims who came after them...
There are many Ahadith which confirm that marriage at an early age was widespread among the companions and no one denied its permissibility. Getting married at an early age was not peculiar to the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) as some people think, but it was general for him and for his Ummah.

The following are some of the actions of the Sahaba (companions):

1. Ali Ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, married his daughter, Um Kulthum to Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, and she mothered a child before the death of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam). Omar got married to her while she was young before reaching the age of puberty. This is reported by Ibn Saad in 'Al-Tabaqat'.

2. From Urwa Ibn Zubair: that Zubair, may Allah be pleased with him, married his daughter when she was very young. Reported by Saeed Ibn Mansour, in his Sunnah, and Ibn Abi Shaibah, in Al-musannaf, with a Sahih chain of narration.

Al-Shafie said in the book of Al-Um: "Many companions of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) married their daughters while these were still young."

Delaying the marriage of girls in many Muslim countries is something new and contradictory to what Muslims used to do over many centuries. This is because of westernization and the application of man-made laws. This caused a change in understandings and customs within a considerable number of the population, and it is absolutely not permissible to consider the customs and traditions in a given country as the standard by which people abide, and fail to obey the absolute evidences of Shariah.

In some Muslim countries, the marriage for girls has been delayed by many years beyond the age of puberty. This has indeed led to an increase in the removal of the veil from the face, and increased fornication and adultery, as well as the emergence of deviation in conduct and religion among the youth. They had become morally unstable as they lack affection, chastity, and protection their private parts from illegal sexual relations.

By delaying marriage, there is also a reduction in the number of Muslims in the Ummah, and this is contrary to the order of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam), as he ordered us to have many children so that the Muslim nation will be greater in number than the previous nations.
Child marriage in Islam
Islamweb, Fatwa No. 88089, June 24, 2004
A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not committed a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man's four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl's sister.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-28">[28]</a>
The late Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
The Saudi religious establishment is generally supportive of child bride marriages. Some clerics who addressed this issue cited the example of the Prophet's marriage to 'Aisha. For example, Jeddah marriage and divorce official Ahmad Al-Ma'abi said on a June 2008 program on Lebanon's LBC TV that a girl may marry and have sexual intercourse from the age of nine, arguing that the Prophet Muhammad had married 'Aisha when she was six and had consummated the marriage when she was nine. Al-Ma'abi added that, in Yemen, girls often married at the age of nine or 10. He concluded that as long as the father of the bride consents to the marriage and is present at the ceremony, as required by religious law, "the marriage is obviously legal."<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-30">[30]</a>
You can have a marriage contract even with a 1-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of 9, 7 or 8. But is the girl ready for sex or not? What is the appropriate age for sex for the first time? This varies according to environment and tradition.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-31">[31]</a>
Dr. Ahmad al-Mu’bi, Saudi marriage officiant
The marriage of nine-year-old girls is not forbidden because according to the Hadith (the Prophet Mohammed's sayings), Mohammed married Aisha when she was only seven-years-old and he consummated his union when she was nine.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-32">[32]</a>
Sheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al-Maghraoui
According to the Shari'ah, if a girl is a minor (did not attain puberty), she may be given in marriage by her father. When she attains puberty, she has the right to maintain the marriage or discontinue the marriage. There is no age limit to be intimate with one's wife even if she is a minor.
I would like to marry a woman who is 12 years old, her father and she has also agreed. What is your advise?
Islamic Q & A Online with Mufti Ebrahim Desai, Ask-Imam, Question No. 6737
Child marriage in Islam is permissible. In the Koran there is no specific age of marriage...[If the government imposed new laws against child marriage] There will be violent conflict from the Muslims, saying that 'no, we will not accept this, we'd rather die than accept something which is not a law from Allah.'<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-TONOV282008-16">[16]</a>
Ahmed Sani Yerima, former governor and current senator of Zamfara State, Nigeria
Nigeria has many uncountable problems and none of them is early marriage. As a matter of fact early marriage (is) the solution to about half of our problems. For those who wonder if I can give my daughter(s) out in marriage at the age of 9 or 13, I tell you most honestly, I can give her out at the age of 6 if I want to and it’s not your business. This is because I am a Muslim and I follow the example of the best of mankind, Muhammad ﺻَﻠَّﻰ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻪُ ﻋَﻠَﻴْﻪِ ﻭَﺳَﻠَّﻢَ...
Ahmed Sani Yerima, former governor and current senator of Zamfara State, Nigeria<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-TNTJuly212013-33">[33]</a>
...it is permitted to contract marriage with a young girl and to hand her over to her husband to stay with him before she reaches adolescence.
Ruling on marrying young women
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 1493
m3.13 Guardians are of two types, those who may compel their female charges to marry someone, and those who may not.

1. The only guardians who may compel their charge to marry are a virgin bride's father or father's father, compel meaning to marry her to a suitable match (def: m4) without her consent.
2. Those who may not compel her are not entitled to marry her to someone unless she accepts and gives her permission.

Whenever the bride is a virgin, the father or father's father may marry her to someone without her permission, though it is recommended to ask her permission if she has reached puberty. A virgin's silence is considered as permission.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-34">[34]</a>
Reliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law
Everything that is not forbidden is permitted. [The new law in Yemen that set the minimum marriage age at 17] is a Western plot aimed at Westernizing our culture. The West wants to teach us how to marry, conceive and divorce. This is cultural colonization that we reject.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-35">[35]</a>
Sheik Mohammed al-Hazmi, a legislator in Yemen, 2009
...If she is married without her permission, by threat or coercion, then the marriage is not valid. The only exeption is in the case of the father and his daughter who is less than nine years of age. There is no harm if he gets her married while she is less than nine years old, according to the correct opinion. This is based on the messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) marrying Aisha without her consent when she was less than nine years old, as is stated in authentic Hadith...<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-36">[36]</a>
Shaikh ibn Baz's answer on the Q & A site of the Muslim Students Organization of the University of Houston
Scholars have discussed at length the marriage of a young girl who has not attained puberty and whether her father may marry her away without her permission. If such a marriage takes place it is valid. However, it is perhaps best if the marriage is not allowed to be consummated until the girl attains puberty, when she is given the choice whether to continue with this marriage or not.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-37">[37]</a>
Adil Salahi
Because this happened to the Prophet, we cannot tell people that it is prohibited to marry at an early age.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-38">[38]</a>
Sheikh Hamoud Hashim al-Tharihi, general secretary of the Vice and Virtue Committee and member of the Islah Party in Yemen
Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, who also married minor Ayesha, when she was just eight years old. The new law [seeking to ban child marriages] initiated by the current government [of Bangladesh] will put the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge. 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.<a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Child_Marriage_in_the_Muslim_World#cite_note-Weekly_Blitz-39">[39]</a>
Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini

Committed by Muhammad​

Main Article: Muhammad's marriage to Aisha
Another justification used by scholars is that Muhammad, who is considered the Uswa Hasana (perfect example) by all Muslims, then in his early 50s, married Aisha, when she was a 6 year old girl and consummated the marriage when she was 9.

A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) married her when she was seven years old, and he was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, and her dolls were with her; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old.
Sahih Muslim 1422c

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Main Article: Child Marriage and Muhammad's Companions
Umar ibn al-Khattab, the 2rd Caliph of Islam, at the age of 55 married Umm Kulthum bint Ali when she was between 10 and 12 years old. Some sources even say that she was five years old when Umar married her.

"'Umar asked 'Ali for the hand of his daughter, Umm Kulthum in marriage. 'Ali replied that she has not yet attained the age (of maturity). 'Umar replied, 'By Allah, this is not true. You do not want her to marry me. If she is underage, send her to me'. Thus 'Ali gave his daughter Umm Kulthum a dress and asked her to go to 'Umar and tell him that her father wants to know what this dress is for. When she came to Umar and gave him the message, he grabbed her hand and forcibly pulled her towards him. 'Umm Kulthum asked him to leave her hand, which Umar did and said, 'You are a very mannered lady with great morals. Go and tell your father that you are very pretty and you are not what he said of you'. With that 'Ali married Umm Kulthum to 'Umar."
In Tarikh Khamees, Volume 2, p. 384 ('Dhikr Umm Kalthum') and Zakhair Al-Aqba, p. 168

 

[toobfreak]

You can play all the intellectual gymnastic games you want by reasoning that Mohammad was simply acting out what was already in the culture, which is grown men having sex with children, but with different times come different morals, blah, blah, blah.

Arabs must have tiny penises.