Islam has a problem with pedophilia going back to its founder Muhammad. Pedophilia is widespread in the Muslim world, and as we wrote last week in a special report on Muslim pedophilia, Pakistan is the worst offender in the Muslim world.
In a new low, Pakistan’s Imams have protested and successfully blocked a bill that would impose harsher penalties on those who marry children under 16. It should be noted that many of these laws are routinely flouted, but the law represents at least an attempt to address the problem. Via the UK Daily Mail:
Pakistani lawmakers have withdrawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties on those who arrange child marriages after it was scuttled by a religious body who branded it “blasphemous” and against Islam, sources told AFP Friday.
The proposal, which would also have raised the legal age of marriages for females from 16 to 18, called for “rigorous” punishment up to two years in prison for those who organise child marriages, still common in some parts of Pakistan.
Marvi Memon, a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), had moved to amend existing child marriage legislation in the lower house but was forced to withdraw her bid after it was rejected by a parliamentary committee on religious affairs, a source familiar with the development told AFP.
Islamically speaking, these Imams are correct. Child marriage is perfectly Islamic and acceptable, as Muhammad himself demonstrated:
Narrated ‘Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death) –Bukhari Book 62, Hadith 64
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