‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage {Islam}

The Guardian ^ | 14th July 2026 | Neda Noran

[Cronos]

Sima* is 18, but has already given birth four times. Her youngest is a newborn, the eldest is four. Sitting with her children in their mud-brick room in Badghis province, Sima says: “After the Taliban entered the country, I had just finished the sixth grade and was supposed to start the seventh. But two months later, my father pressured me immensely to marry my cousin. After being beaten by my father several times, I was forced to accept.”

At 13, Sima became a bride inside the compound where she still lives, and where she has given birth to her children. One child died of pneumonia aged one. She does all the housework: fetching water, tending the cows, baking naan in a tandoor. All the while, her children cling to her legs, crying.

Sima’s case is no longer exceptional. Interviews with workers at one public hospital in northern Afghanistan revealed that 42 underage girls gave birth in the first five months of this year. Six were in their second pregnancy. Five had ectopic pregnancies – a leading cause of maternal deaths – and 18 had caesarean sections. Two died, though their babies survived.

As well as Sima’s family, we spoke to three other families with daughters under nine who were traded in marriage to settle debts. The youngest was two months old when she was promised as a bride, with all the families pledging to give the girls to their future husbands when they reached between 7 &9.

Some families falsely believe the younger the mother, the healthier and smarter the child. Mothers who are still children themselves often haven’t completed their physical or psychological growth and face higher risk of severe bleeding, anaemia, miscarriage, obstructed labour and premature birth, along with a greater likelihood of a low-weight or unhealthy infant.

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TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: mooselimbs

[Cronos]

Islam does this. Not the skin color but the death culture of Islam.

Couple this with cousin marriages and you understand why Islamic societies have such large percentages of genetic disorders

[Steely Tom]

All cultures are the same. The Gorgeous Mosaic, right ?

[webheart]

I feel sad over this. However, I can’t do anything about it except not buy any Afghan rugs or Afghan hounds. We might be able to help them someday but first we have to stop them from conquering us. Them and their coreligionists. They have a very effective method of conquering.

[Netz]

It’s not about rugs, carpets or Chess sets. Islam conquers the “Infidels” via the womb. Understand this and the picture is clear...Jihad.

[PeterPrinciple]

There truly is evil in this world..............

[cherry]

Is this the infamous war on boys again?

[Jonty30]

Muslims are trained to obey, not be holy.

[GreatRoad]

So backwardass. Those poor girl. The Taliban is especially psychotic.

[Stosh]

” . . . believe the younger the mother, the healthier and smarter the child.”

If those morons actually do want “healthier and smarter” kids, the first thing they need to do is to stop forcing their own children into cousin marriages. That, however, appears to be more than their culture can figure out (or accept).

[Psalm 73]

Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book, "Nomad" where she details the ritual abuse of young girls. She is from Somalia but states it's an Islamic culture thing.

This isn't a "Third-World" thing, it's a demonic thing.

[Cronos]

You know what is weird - 1700 years ago what is now Afghanistan was more advanced socially than it is now.

It was the site of a grand Buddhist Kushan empire.

Kabul was ringed with 40 Buddhist stupas and known as a site of great learning.

Then Islam came...

The descendants of those grand scholars were the ones who blew up their ancestors’ Bamiyan Buddhas

[sgt_lau]

This is the fake religion that accuses infidels of being decadent and too sexually improper. I can’t hate them enough. Filthy savages.

[A strike]

Not our problem other than Islam delenda est !

[equaviator]

"We might be able to help them someday"

There's nothing like suicidal empathy to get you into heaven.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

So backwardass. Those poor girl. The Taliban is especially psychotic.

The UK passed the Minimum Age Act in 2022, making it a criminal offense to do anything to cause a child under 18 to marry, because Islamic child marriage was becoming a problem in England and Wales.

The practice still continues in the UK, despite the new law, but I don't think the Guardian has much of a problem with it.

[Red Badger]

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
― Winston Churchill, The River War

[V_TWIN]

Islam is arguably the most evil cult the world has ever known

[Cowgirl of Justice]

If you ever have the opportunity to watch the movie, Osama, you will see the caveman ways of muslims in Afghanistan.

It is about a young girl whose father died in the war and she has to pose as a boy to work so she and her mother don’t starve. It will open your eyes to the evil of islam.

[neverevergiveup]

The moronic scummy women who self-righteously call themselves ‘feminists’ will nonetheless defend Islam, condemn America, tell us how Islam and burkas empower women, and will continue to proselytize leftism / Marxism / and anti-Americanism to anyone naive or ignorant enough to listen.

[PGalt]

Very sad.