A five-year-old girl is thought to have become the UK's youngest victim of forced marriage.

She was one of 400 children to receive assistance from the government's Forced Marriage Unit in the last year.

The figures have emerged as the public consultation into criminalising forced marriage in England, Wales and Northern Ireland comes to an end.

jcross19: I think they are following suit ahahah from their wannabe prophet who was a paedophilia

fellis:
No I don't regard him as such, he didn't set the stage for marrying under-aged.
The same issue that has been discussed on NL so many times is what you are trying to bring up again.
You can tire person. . . .

Saint paris:

Huh He didn't set the stage? Muhammad asked aisha's hand in marriage when she was 6yrs and consummated the marriage when she was 9. C'mon quit the lying

LagosShia:

review this thread and discover your ignorance:

https://www.nairaland.com/846958/tell-me-why-mohammed-married

Saint paris:

Aisha was 9 lunar years old or 8 years 9
months old according to solar years
when Muhammad slept with her. This is
a fact demonstrated by a great number
of hadiths. There is no controversy in
that. There has never been until now
that some of the Muslims have come in
contact with western values and are
ashamed to admit that their Prophet
could commit such an indecency. They
deny the facts and have made it a
controversy. . Accept it that's what your prophet is. "Craddl3 robbber"

LagosShia:

it is not more of a fact than accepting Mary was 12 years old given to a 90 year old Joseph when she conceived miraculously.

you take what you want to accept.from historical accounts,Aisha could have being up to 19 or 21 year old.

also,up until recently,the age of consent in europe and america (about 100 years ago) at a time christian values were still present in those societies before secularism took over,was 10 and 12 years old!

Saint paris: Really? You may still claim that all
these hadithes are lies. People are free
to say whatever they want. But truth is
clear like the Sun for those who have
eyes.
No sane person would be aroused by a 9-
year-old child. Decent people wince at
the thought of this shameful act. Yet
some Muslims deny them. The question
is why so many followers of Muhammad
would fabricate so many false hadithes
about the age of Ayisha, which
incidentally confirm each other?
Why
should anyone fabricate a lie about the
age of Ayisha that would portray his
Prophet as a pedophile?

nakash: Muslims are ashamed that their prophet could sleep with a 9 year girl.

nakash: Muslims are ashamed that their prophet could sleep with a 9 year girl.

Saint paris: Really? You may still claim that all
these hadithes are lies. People are free
to say whatever they want. But truth is
clear like the Sun for those who have
eyes.
No sane person would be aroused by a 9-
year-old child. Decent people wince at
the thought of this shameful act. Yet
some Muslims deny them. The question
is why so many followers of Muhammad
would fabricate so many false hadithes
about the age of Ayisha, which
incidentally confirm each other?
Why
should anyone fabricate a lie about the
age of Ayisha that would portray his
Prophet as a pedophile?

BetaThings:

How come sane people of that era never found un"exciting" what the Prophet did
Were there no decent people (like you or the way you define it) then? So maybe the age (whatever you chose to put it) was not an issue
Did you know that the age of consent/marriage in England was once 10?
Did you know that in Europe during the Middle Ages, the lord of the manor had a legal right to spend the first night with any non-noble bride on his land

Saint paris:

Something that was acceptable 1400 years
ago in Arabia or during the middle Ages may not look that good today.
Perhaps we should not judge those people so
harshly. But the question is why should we
follow them?
I agree that morality is relative and we
should not judge the ancient people’s
morality with our modern morality.
Obviously we all cringe when we think
of pedophilia and acknowledge that it
is a shameful act of immorality. But
during the time of Muhammad, and
even today in some Islamic countries,
marrying a 9-year-old child was not
immoral. In fact Aisha was given to
Muhammad with the consent of her
parents and no one raised an eyebrow.
The question is, if sleeping with a nine
year old child was not deemed bad and
therefore was not considered immoral,
was it ok? Not everything that a society
accepts as moral is right. Having sex
with a minor may not have been
immoral for Arabs 1400 years ago or in the middle Ages, but
it is now, as it was then, unethical.
Moralities are defined by
circumstances, but ethics transcend
time and space. They are rooted in
logics. Morality can vary from culture to
culture, from time to time and from
person to person. Who is to determine
what is moral and what is not? “
Having sex with a minor may not have
been immoral for Muhammad and his
contemporaries in that uncivilized
culture, but it was ethically wrong. If
Muhammad was a messenger of God or
an honorable man, as he made his
Allah to proclaim him thus, he should
have known that what he was doing
was dishonorable and unethical.
Although it is true that in the past
people married at very young age. And
it is also true that occasionally wealthy
old men married very young girls. We
have to realize that these people acted
on their culture. We do not condemn
them for they did not know better.
What they did was the norm. But we do
condemn those cultures.
[size=15pt]However, we cannot forgive with the
same amnesty those who claimed to be
the standard of rectitude amongst
mankind. If average people could not
distinguish the right from the wrong,
the messenger of God, if he were
from God, should have known better. If
His claim was true, if his knowledge
was divine, if he was inspired, he
should not have followed the tradition
of their people but should have set the
example. Muhammad followed the
morality of his people. But that morality
was ethically wrong. He claimed to be
the best human and the last messenger
of God. According to him God has said
to people all he wanted to say in the
Quran and his religion is complete.
There is no more guidance to come and
his examples and teachings are all we
need to know and follow for eternity.
Yet what he did and said, under the
light of modern values prove to be very
wrong[/size].

LagosShia: AISHA WAS NOT 9 YEARS OLD OR A CHILD WHEN THE PROPHET MARRIED HER
[8] The popular version of ‘Ãisha’s youth age has been exploited by the anti-Islamic groups to attack the Prophet “for marrying a child”. The fact of the matter is that Lady ‘Ãisha was not a child when she was married in 2 AH to the Prophet. At-Tabari, the famous Muslim historian, writes that Abu Bakr’s first two wives and their children were all born in the pre-Islamic era. (Ta’rīkh at-Tabari, vol. 2 [Beirut: al-A‘lami, n.d.] p. 616.) Based on this, even if she was born a year before the commencement of Islam, ‘Ãisha would be 15 or 16 years old at the time of her marriage to the Prophet – an age in which marriage is common in most cultures. Ibn Kathīr, in his al-Bidãyah wa ’n-Nihãyah (vol. 8, p. 381) states that Asmã’ bint Abu Bakr, the sister of ‘Ãisha, was ten years older than ‘Ãisha. He also reports that Asmã’ died in the year 73 AH at the age of 100. Based on this calculation, ‘Ãisha was 18 or 19 years old at the time of her marriage.

https://www.nairaland.com/846958/tell-me-why-mohammed-married