Sunday 17 July 2011

"Saudi Cleric: Islam Has No Minimum Age For Marriage"

This post is as interesting for who posted it, as for its content -- which is actually rather well-known, at least in anti-Jihad circles and in the world of Islam.  The poster is Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who's got a very heavy bio on his site and his blog was voted #1 "Legal Theory Blog" in 2009.
Interesting that it's not one of the "usual suspects" blogging it, or one of we horrid "Islamophobes" but more of a mainstream blog posting on the depredations of Islam.
Note the comments too: surprised or scornful that Islam should sanction the marriage of girls as young as nine, even unto today, for it was that "perfect example" Muhammad who did so.
Professor Turley has a slight disclaimer at the end: "...hope and trust that he [cleric Al-Arifi] is viewed as an extremist."  But it seems pretty cursory.