Arkansas Law Allowing Toddlers To Marry Repealed
The caption is: "You know, little girl, that Mohammed (PBUH) married someone your age? So what do you say?"
We are all used to reading about the plight of girls as young as 12 who are forced into marrying older men in the UK. These poor creatures are brutally raped on the wedding night and kept as marital sex slaves for years. I am no longer surprised; I say, "So what?" This is the norm in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Sadly, the English, tumbling into the Islamic inferno as they are, do not have the political will to stop the practice because that would mean deporting all Muslims from their soil. The problem is not that a few pedophilic psychopaths are doing this, but rather that it is encouraged and accepted by entire communities of immigrants who hail from the most barbaric and backward areas on this planet.
So it was with a small amount of relief that I read the following:
CBS5 News,
3 Apr 2008,
Ark. Law Allowing Toddlers To Marry RepealedArkansas' marriage-age crisis is over. A law that mistakenly allowed anyone — even toddlers — to marry with parental permission was repealed by a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mike Beebe, ending months of embarrassment for the state and confusion for county clerks.
Lawmakers didn't realize until after the end of last year's regular session that a law they approved, intended to establish 18 as the minimum age for marriage, instead removed the minimum age to marry entirely. An extraneous "not" in the bill allowed anyone who was not pregnant to marry at any age with permission.
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Some lawmakers called for a special session last year, saying the error would make it easy for pedophiles to take advantage of the law. Gov. Mike Beebe said he didn't see any imminent crisis and said the chances of children marrying under the law were slim.
Who knows, if they didn't change the law there would have been a mass influx into Arkansas by older Muslim men looking to legitimize the slavery of their child brides-to-be. The state dodged the bullet there.
Related:
Sweetness & Light,
28 Oct 2007,
Islam Allows You To Marry Your Adopted ChildTurkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), a government office, recently published a book on family and youth that shocked adoptive parents who regard their adopted children as their very own. Rather than encouraging child adoption, the book says the following:
- When couples are unable to have children by natural means or artificial insemination, they can choose to adopt children. But to register those children under their names, making them beneficiaries of their inheritance is against religion (Islam).
- When the adopted children reach puberty – and as they are of no blood relation to the parents – marrying with them becomes lawful according to Islam. Therefore, according to Islam it is not permissible for the mother to be alone with a male adopted child, and for the father to be alone with the female adopted child in any place, at any time.
One of the first items of business of the Islamic Revolution in Iran was to reduce the age of marriage for girls to 9 years old.
From Islamic Voice - Marriage at an early age:
- Q) I have a nine year-old girl who is married to a person at the age of 20. The marriage contract was made a year ago but the girl is refusing to live with her husband or even to look at him. In addition to that she requires him to divorce her. Could you please advise me what to do? Should I separate them or force my daughter to live with him?
- A) 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. Moreover her father may not marry her away to someone who is of a lesser status than hers. If he does and she objects, the marriage is not valid. Generally speaking, however. a girl must be asked to express her opinion in any proposed marriage. If she has been married before, then her verbal consent should be requested. If she has not been married previously, then her consent is also to be requested, but if she keeps quiet, her silence is taken as approval.
The main reason that Muslim men want to marry prepubescent young girls is that there is greater likelihood that the girl is a virgin, which is an absolute prerequisite for marriage in Islam. Read Why one Muslim girl became a born-again virgin for her wedding night or my own article Why there are only 72 Muslim Virgins in Heaven, Excerpt: Hymen repair, fake virginity certificates and other deceptions, said to be commonplace in some Muslim countries, are practiced in France and elsewhere in Europe, where Muslim girls are more emancipated but still live under rigid codes of family honor.
Western Resistance, 8 Jun 2006, Special Report: Muslim Forced Marriages In Europe
We discussed the issue of Muslim honor killings on May 28 and attempted to explain how honor killings, forced marriages and arranged marriages were all parts of the same problem, the result of a notion among many Muslim families that girls are chattels which can be bartered. Pakistani commentators have tried to explain that honor killings are related to localised tribal customs, and have nothing to do with Islam. Yet honor killings happen in the Middle East, in Jordan and Palestine, in Turkey and among Kurdish communities. Where honor killings happen, there is almost invariably a culture in which arranged or forced marriages are considered traditional and acceptable. According to UN studies, about 1 million people are forced into marriages around the world.
I have reported before that the crazy ideas Muslims have about premarital sex, masturbation, forced marriages, and so on, result in many young Muslim men ending up unmarriageable and replacing their urges with Islamic fervor:
Huffington Post,
17 Feb 2008,
Stifled In Marriage, Egypt's Young Turn To Islamic FervorThe concrete steps leading from Ahmed Muhammad Sayyid's first-floor apartment sag in the middle, worn down over time, like Mr. Sayyid himself. Once, Mr. Sayyid had a decent job and a chance to marry. But his fiancée's family canceled the engagement because after two years, he could not raise enough money to buy an apartment and furniture.
Mr. Sayyid spun into depression and lost nearly 40 pounds. For months, he sat at home and focused on one thing: reading the Koran. Now, at 28, with a diploma in tourism, he is living with his mother and working as a driver for less than $100 a month. With each of life's disappointments and indignities, Mr. Sayyid has drawn religion closer.
Let me close with one of my previous articles on this subject:
By babies will they vanquish the West
There is no minimum marriage age in the Yemen, and marriages are consummated when the bride is as young as nine years old. Before the young girl reaches the age of nine a man may engage in all kinds of nasties to the young girl as long as there is no penetration, for example, sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy are allowed. So when you read other bloggers calling Mohammed a paedophile you now know where this comes from.