Tuesday, July 26, 2011

New Saudi Fatwa Defends Pedophilia as 'Marriage'

by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch

Muslim "child-marriage" — euphemism for pedophilia — is making headlines again, at least in Arabic media: Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia's highest religious council, just issued a fatwa asserting that there is no minimum age for marriage, and that girls can be married "even if they are in the cradle."

Appearing in Saudi papers on July 13, the fatwa complains that "Uninformed interference with Sharia rulings by the press and journalists is on the increase, posing dire consequences to society, including their interference with the question of marriage to small girls who have not reached maturity, and their demand that a minimum age be set for girls to marry."

Fawzan insists that nowhere does Sharia set an age limit for marrying girls: like countless Muslim scholars before him, he relies on Koran 65:4, which discusses marriage to females who have not yet begun menstruating (i.e., are prepubescent) and the fact that Muhammad, Islam's role model, married Aisha when she was 6-years-old, "consummating" the marriage — or, in modern parlance, raping her — when she was 9. Read further: Private Papers
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 4:54 AM

    This is very unfortunate and exactly the type of news story the west needs to have posted on popular media to help people realise that with the Muslim faith comes deep beliefs in rightous abuse of human rights - especially women's right.

    I am from Australia and outside of the popular media and within the silenced population is a growing anger about having our way of life squashed by these immigrants. The Greeks, Polish, British and many other immigrants have not done this. They have enhanced our culture. But many Australians do in fact, fear the changes that Muslims are seeking to bring about in our country.

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