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Board of Ulema member rebukes minor marriage Saudi Gazette "It is impossible to use the marriage of Ayesha, the Mother of Believers (May Allah be pleased with her) as a measure for child marriage because of the ... See all stories on this topic

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Muslim Child Brides in Britain

FrontPageMag.com

First, when I say that the marriage of nine-year-old girls in today’s Britain (and the rest of the EU, for that matter) is unsurprising, my statement is based on my own 17 years of experience in the field of immigration: forms of assault based on tradition and religion – including child marriage, forced marriage, genital mutilation, so-called honor-related offenses such as rape and murder – have become established here as a result of immigration, mostly from Muslim countries.

Child marriage still prevalent in Kutch, finds study

IndianExpress.com
A Survey conducted by a group of students on the status of child rights has found that child marriage is still prevalent in Kutch district and cases of abuse of young girls and physical harassment are being reported from the urban areas.

Man urged son to rape cousin, 12

BBC
A man who encouraged his teenage son to marry and rape his 12-year-old cousin has been jailed.

The 54-year-old organised a sham Muslim ceremony between his son, then 16, and the girl at his home in Woolwich, south-east London, in March last year.
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Scotland Yard child abuse detectives then discovered several relatives of the boy had urged him to rape his cousin.

A response to “The case of an eight year-old Saudi bride”

altmuslimah.com
The Muslim Public Affairs Council spoke out against the practice of child brides in the Muslim world in a December 9th article, “The case of an eight year-old Saudi bride,” published here. This is an area of jurisprudence that has caused contentious debate in both the Muslim and the Western worlds. Many Muslims argue that the issue of child brides is directly related to the life and practice of the Prophet Muhammad (may God’s peace and prayers be upon him).
In Islamic tradition, the Prophet is reported to have married Aisha when she was six years old, and they consummated the marriage when she reached nine years of age. However, many western Muslims and Muslim reformers in the Islamic world have attempted to re-evaluate these traditions in light of modern sensibilities that denounce child brides as repugnant or unfit for modern values. The problem they face in their revision is that this issue is entrenched in Islamic tradition making it difficult to reform. MPAC’s attempt to explain away this phenomenon is more problematic because it fails to give adequate value to the traditions that approve of child brides. MPAC also attempts to play down how wide spread the acceptance of child brides is in the Sunni Islamic legal tradition.

Yemen: the story of a child bride

BBC
On the face of it Nujood is like any other schoolgirl living in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

But one thing makes her different: she was divorced by the time she was 10 years old.

When she was married at the age of nine, her husband was 30.

Owen Bennett-Jones met Nujood with her father, mother and several siblings at her Sanaa home and asked her first to describe her wedding day.