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Ali Kashif, a 25-year-old Pakistani imam who had reportedly lived in Brescia, Italy, for six years, was deported to Islamabad shortly after an undercover television report aired footage of him defending the marriage of girls as young as nine. Italian authorities moved to expel him under immigration provisions related to public order and security.
The controversy began with an undercover investigation by the Italian television program Fuori dal Coro on Rete 4. Reporter Francesco Leone posed as an Italian man interested in converting to Islam and questioned Kashif about marriage. During the conversation, Kashif reportedly argued that a girl should be considered an adult after experiencing her first menstrual cycle and said that girls aged nine or older could marry significantly older men.
The remarks sparked widespread outrage after the footage was broadcast. Brescia police commissioner Paolo Sartori subsequently ordered Kashif’s expulsion. Authorities reportedly cited provisions of Italy’s immigration law allowing foreign nationals considered a threat to public order or security to be removed. Officials also said Kashif did not have a valid residence permit at the time.
Setting aside the rights or wrongs of deporting him, what does that first menstrual cycle criterion tell us?
It’s unpleasantly, brutally, harshly obvious what it tells us. Female people are breeding stock, and nothing else. A nine-year-old girl is not a person, with her own dreams and hopes and potential; she’s a cow, a mare, a sow, a hen. Once she has her first menstrual cycle we know she can breed, and that’s all we need to know. Once she can breed, two realities come into play.
One, the guy who “marries” her can get her pregnant. Two, all other guys have the potential to get her pregnant so she has to be locked up. Marriage for her is that being locked up. All those other guys who could rape her can’t get at her, because she’s been imprisoned at the age of nine.
Such a benign, idealistic, humane religion.
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