By now it is abundantly clear that they do not, to the dismay of Egypt’s embattled secularists. In mid-September, Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW), according to Egypt’s State Information Service, “expressed its profound dismay at statements made by some members of the Constituent Assembly in charge of writing Egypt’s new constitution on the possibility of sanctioning marriage of sexually mature girls even if they were at the age of nine. The NCW described such viewpoint as a setback to child rights and is only expressive of outdated traditions still prevailing in the Egyptian society.”

Those “outdated traditions,” of course, are firmly based in Islamic law and the example of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. “The Prophet,” according to an authoritative hadith, “wrote the (marriage contract) with ‘Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88). Muhammad being the supreme example of conduct for Muslims (cf. Qur’an 33:21), child marriage is sanctioned by his example. So it is no surprise that Muslim Brotherhood Egypt would be considering legalizing it.

via The New Sharia Egypt.

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