VIDEO:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1725.htmhttp://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/2008/04/020641print.htmlApril 11, 2008
Iraqi Islamic scholar: Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha when
she was nine, and there is no minimum age for marriage in Islamic law
Many, many times Islamic apologists in the West have called me "Islamophobic"
for pointing out that the traditions of Muhammad that Muslims consider most
reliable say that Aisha was nine
<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/062.sbt.html#007.062.088>
when Muhammad consummated his marriage with her. This matters because Muhammad
is the supreme example for conduct for Muslims -- which leads to a situation in
which child marriage is difficult to condemn and is even endorsed by Islamic
jurists, such as this fellow. Will Ibrahim Hooper and Salam Al-Marayati and the
rest descend upon Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-'Ubeidi and call him an "Islamophobe"?
"Iraqi Expert on Islamic Law Calls to Allow Young Girls to Get Married: In
Islamic Countries, Girls Get Their Periods at the Age of 8-10. Westerners
Criticize the Prophet Muhammad for Having Sex with His 9 Year Old Wife, But
Allow Fornication with Underage Girls," from MEMRITV
<http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1725.htm> (thanks to all who sent
this in):
Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-'Ubeidi,
an Iraqi expert on Islamic law, which aired on Al-Rafidein TV on March 14,
2008:
Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-'Ubeidi: 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.
Why? Because there might be cases in which it is impossible to keep the girl
[single] until the age of maturity.
[...]
Most of the time we act according to what is acceptable to most people, and
indeed, most men do not marry a girl until she is of age. In some Islamic
countries, the age of maturity can be 8 or 10 years. In Yemen, a girl might
get her period at the age of 8. In cold countries, such as Russia, Belarus,
Scandinavia, New Zealand, Canada, and so on, a girl might not reach maturity
until she is 22 years old. She might not get her period until then.
Therefore, the greatness of Islamic law is manifest in the fact that
marriage is not just for pleasure. True, it is the basic objective for
marriage, but there are some cases that require solutions.
[...]
Many criminals, the enemies of Islam, ask: "How could the Prophet Muhammad,
at 52 years of age, marry 'Aisha when she was only 8 years old, and
consummate the marriage when she was 9 years old?" I say to them: People who
live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Why do you permit your young
girls to fornicate? They consider it one of their liberties. Therefore, in
these stupid countries, you rarely find girls aged 10 or 12 who are still
virgins. They permit this. They have even legislated laws stating that if a
girl is under the age of 18, and her girlfriend [sic] or whatever has had
sex with her, she has the right to have an abortion. How can you permit the
outcome without accepting the cause? Why do you allow your girls to have sex
and say this is an individual liberty? It is okay to fornicate with girls
there or force them to have sex, and so on, and they have the right to have
an abortion. If you permit all this before the age [of 18], without a
marriage contract and without any legal grounds – how come you forbid marriage?
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