Malaysian Imam Azhar Idrus stated that “girls are getting married at a later age due to education, adding that they are about 28 years old by the time they are finished with university” and that by “28 years old, no one would want to marry them.”

Robert Spencer addresses the acceptance of child marriage in Islam here, and with respect to Malaysia, traditional Muslims have been stalling efforts to reform child marriage laws.

As an overview of this atrociously abusive practice: in Turkey, there have been at least 500,000 known child brides; nearly 6,000 now exist in Saudi Arabia under the age of 14; Muslim migrant child brides have been discovered in Germany, while refugee workers say that the people in those marriages should remain in the country. These are children in need of protection, but a two-tier system is now in progress, and an accepted abuse of females is part of it. The UK has now declared it is “powerless” to do anything about Islamic child marriage because of some “legal loophole.” That was announced three years ago, and still there has been no announcements on fixing this “loophole.”

“Preacher lambasted for saying girls should get married at 15”, by Mei Mei Chu, The Star, December 28, 2017: