Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.
“Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria
“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.” — Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law
There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” — Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council
“Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.” — Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology
And where did they all get this idea? From Muhammad’s marriage to six-year-old Aisha, consummated when he was 54 and she was nine, and abundantly attested in Islamic tradition, as we have documented here many times. Islamic apologists in the West often try to claim that Islamic tradition really holds that Aisha was older, but if that were true, they can’t explain why so many Muslims are following Muhammad’s example by having sex with children or saying that there is no Islamic barrier to doing so.
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“Girl, 14, ‘spends two years in prison and is tortured by Taliban after refusing to marry 70-year-old commander,’” by Perkin Amalaraj, Daily Mail, August 19, 2026:
A teenage girl has spent nearly two years in a Taliban prison, at times suffering torture, after she refused to marry an elderly local commander.
Bibi Sediqa has spent the last 21 months in a harsh Taliban jail for refusing to marry 70-year-old Mawlawi Khodainazar, an influential commander in Afghanistan’s Badghis province, according to the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).
Rukhshana, an independent Afghan media organisation, reported that Khodainazar forced Bibi to move into his home when she was 12 in order to settle a debt her father owed the commander.
Khodainazar is said to have used armed intimidation tactics to try and force Bibi’s father to consent to the marriage. But even under duress, she denied his request.
Though a Taliban court initially ruled in the girl’s favour, Khodainazar reportedly lobbied a judge in Badghis to have the case moved to a more advantageous court.
It was there that a judge imprisoned the young girl under a judgment that her family considers unjust.
Bibi, who was jailed at the age of 14 and is now 17 according to Rukhshana, was sentenced to five years in prison.
During her imprisonment, she has been subject to torture in an effort to wear her down. This treatment, as well as the lack of access to justice, has reportedly left Bibi with severe psychological trauma.
Her mother has also suffered serious health problems as a result of her daughter’s imprisonment….
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