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(11) Islam and adolescent girls 6/26/20
Islamic law, sharia, permits girls to be married as young as nine, although some Islamic scholars say girls can be married at any age. Sharia law also empowers fathers to arrange a virgin daughter’s marriage without her consent if she is an adolescent. Some Islamic schools of jurisprudence extend this right to grandfathers, uncles and even brothers. Mothers do NOT have this power.
The Ayatollah Khomeini, who married a 10-year-sold when he was 26, called prepubescent marriages a “divine blessing.” Iran’s legal age of marriage for girls was lowered to nine when he came to power, and he even recommended that fathers get their daughters married while they were still prepubescent.
Koranic justification for such marriages is found in two verses in the Koran. Since sharia prohibits divorcing a pregnant wife, to guard against this, Verse 65:4 in the Koran decrees a waiting period of three months prior to a divorce, both for wives who have reached menopause as well as for wives “who have not yet menstruated.”
Both the 1996 Saudi Arabian Khan/Al-Hilali translation, “The Noble Qur’an,” and the 2011 translation by Pakistani Sayyid Mawdudi, “Towards Understanding The Koran,” have scholarly annotations explaining that this part of the verse refers to prepubescent girls.
Muslims are not free to disagree with this conclusion. Sharia law says, “Never explain a verse of the Holy Koran by your own opinion, but check on as to how it has been understood by the scholars of Sacred Law who came before you.” If your opinion differs, “forsake your wretched opinion and fling it against the wall.”
Another verse in the Koran that indirectly condones prepubescent marriage is Verse 33.21, in which Allah tells Muslims that Muhammad lived a life worthy of emulation. Since Muhammad married a six-year-old and began having sex with the little girl when she was nine, attempts to lower the legal age of marriage in Islamic countries are often resisted as being “un-Islamic.”
This is how Islam treats girls who are Muslims. If you think non-Muslim girls would be exempt, you couldn’t be more mistaken. The Koran authorizes the sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women captured during war, and when ISIS was ravaging parts of Syria and Iraq, many unfortunate Yazidi and Christian women and children were raped by their Muslims captors.
ISIS even published an instruction manual for its jihadists on the proper treatment of captive women, which answered a number of questions a jihadist might have. For example: “Question 13: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty? A: It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who has not reached puberty ---.”
The enterprising ISIS Muslims even raised money by selling their captive women, pricing them by age categories. You might guess that the most expensive would be those in the 20 t0 30 group, but you would be wrong. For only $86 you could buy, on average, a Yazidi or Christian woman of that age. The most expensive female slaves were children in the 1 to 9 age range, with an average price of $172, twice that for a mature woman.
When ISIS came under military threat, they moved their slave markets into Turkey, where they were protected by the Erdogan government, Erdogan being an unapologetic Islamic fundamentalist.
If you are appalled by the foregoing, then you must, perforce, be appalled by the religion of Islam. Islam commands jihad, and Islam decrees that women captured in jihad are slaves who can then be sexually abused, regardless of age. No ifs, ands or buts. If you think this is some perversion of Islam, you are wrong.
This is what Muslims MUST believe or they are considered apostates, and apostates can be murdered with no penalty because they “deserve to die.” The question then becomes, “Why do we allow Muslims to immigrate to America?”
Personally, I would allow Muslims to immigrate here if they were escaping their religion, but, unfortunately, almost all of them are bringing their abominable religion with them, a religion totally incompatible with our Constitution and our common decency, which has its roots in Judeo-Christian ethics.
People who defend Islam on multicultural grounds are morons, as are those who think Muslims represent a ‘race’ that must be protected. If you have been a defender of Islam and Muslims, for whatever reason, you have defended the molestation of young girls, whether you knew it or not.
Now, you know it.
Sources:
Stephen Kirby, Letting Islam be Islam, pg. 227 re marriage.
Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled, pg. 48 re Khomeini marriage, etc.
Reliance of the Traveller, A Classic Manual if Islamic Sacred Law, pg. 804 re opinion about Koran
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/05/slavery-isis-rules# re slave manual Question 13
https://twitter.com/DrWidad_A/status/529576654709198848/photo/1 re slave prices
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis-sex-slave-trade-in-g_b_9774610 re slave markers Turkey
