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[quote]As far as I know, young Muslims when they reach puberty are allowed to get married. Some hadith in Sahih Bukhari narrate Hazrat Aisha married the prophet at age 9, but Allah knows best what her age was. Any way, my point is, the marriage at early age is allowed and there is no condition like you have to be 18 years old, etc.

It seems in the west, they ridicule Muslims for this practice, and yet their own children are indulging in sexual activities as soon as they reach puberty. Infact the situation is pretty bad here in American schools, I read a report that on average each individual in one test case school had indirect sexual contact with 288 other individuals. So if any of them has an STD, all 288 are likely to get it. Another report at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050131/hl_nm/health_abstinence_texas_dc states: "The study showed about 23 percent of ninth-grade girls, typically 13 to 14 years old, had sex before receiving abstinence education. After taking the course, 29 percent of the girls in the same group said they had had sex."

When societies try to enforce their own laws and prevent people from getting married, like law of being 18 years old, or christian priests not allowed to marry, then bad things happen - fornication, child molestation, homosexuality, etc. Islam provides such a beautiful way for preventing these bad things from happening, by providing the umbrella of marriage to allow young people and others also to get married and at the same time making them responsible for their actions and providing security of the law that a married a couple has with all the rights granted to husband and wife by the legal system.[/quote]

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