{"id":2411,"date":"2013-03-14T20:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2013-03-14T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T00:58:17","slug":"underage-marriages-rise-in-the-uk-as-they-claim-young-girls-lives-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/03\/14\/underage-marriages-rise-in-the-uk-as-they-claim-young-girls-lives-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Underage “marriages” rise in the UK as they claim young girls’ lives in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sharia apologists are quick to cast doubt on the story of Aisha, yet, in many Muslim majority countries the story is used to justify underage “marriages”. Image credit: voiceofcopts.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Downright creepy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The clerics were approached by man\u00a0 posing as\u00a0 the father of a 12-year-old\u00a0 who wanted her to marry to\u00a0 prevent her being\u00a0 tempted into a decadent Western lifestyle. <\/span><\/p>\n

Imam\u00a0 Mohammed Kassamali, of the Husaini\u00a0 Islamic Centre in Peterborough,\u00a0 stressed the need for secrecy with such a\u00a0 ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n

He allegedly said: \u2018If it (the\u00a0 marriage) was\u00a0 not possible, I would\u00a0 have told you straight away… I\u00a0 would love the\u00a0 girl to go to her husband\u2019s houses (sic) as soon as\u00a0 possible, the younger the\u00a0 better<\/strong>. [Emphasis added.]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Under sharia (Islamic law) there is\u00a0 no\u00a0 problem. It is said she should see her first sign of puberty at the\u00a0 house of\u00a0 her husband. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The problem is that we cannot explain such\u00a0 things (the marriage) if the girl went tomorrow (to the authorities).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The other thing is the underage\u00a0 thing and\u00a0 if tomorrow the girl is,\u00a0 let\u2019s say coerced or forced into\u00a0\u00a0 this, and\u00a0 she goes and reports it to the police then she will put all of us into the\u00a0 problems.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

He explained how the Prophet Muhammad had\u00a0 married a seven-year-old girl before adding: \u2018We are his followers, and that is\u00a0 what you have to explain (to your daughter).\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know, you are followers of quite a freak.<\/span><\/p>\n

Farooq Murad, of the Muslim Council\u00a0 of Britain,\u00a0 said: \u2018We are strongly opposed to it on the basis that it is illegal under the\u00a0 law of the land where we are living and even under\u00a0 sharia it is highly\u00a0 debatable.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well try telling that to this girl<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A 13-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal injuries four days after a\u00a0 family-arranged marriage to a man almost twice her age, a human rights group\u00a0 said.<\/p>\n

Ilham Mahdi al Assi died last Friday in a hospital in Yemen’s Hajja province,\u00a0 the Shaqaeq Arab Forum for Human Rights said, quoting a medical report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And we are likely to hear more such stories from the UK in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 1,000 of the 8,000 forced\u00a0 marriages\u00a0 of Britons each year are believed to involve girls of 15 or\u00a0 under, with one\u00a0 case last year allegedly involving a girl of five.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny those who use stories of questionable validity (even among Muslims) to make underage girls “consent” to this kind of abuse are quick to call consesual relationships between adults “immoral”, sometimes universally<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Downright creepy. The clerics were approached by man\u00a0 posing as\u00a0 the father of a 12-year-old\u00a0 who wanted her to marry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}