Mark Durie
Western nations are facing what has been called an “epidemic” of forced marriages of their young Muslim women. While those who compel young Muslim women and girls into marriages could be charged with human trafficking offences and also in some cases placed on the national...
Recent reports of under-age marriages in Australia are evidence that the authorities need to do more to enforce marriage laws in Western nations, and to restrict the practice of unregistered ‘clandestine’ religious marriages, particularly Islamic marriages. Two cases recently came to public attention of NSW girls...
Today the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Michael Smith, 2UE Radio Host, is being investigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority "over his assertion that the prophet Muhammad 'married a nine-year-old and consummated it when she was 11'". It would be excellent if Australian authorities...
