This is not an ‘exceptional case, deceased Syrian imam Chehab Khodr (pictured below) said he actually performed an under age marriage in Helsinki in 1996, and that hundreds of them have taken place in Finland and that there’s nothing wrong with men marrying girls who are basically children.

What better reason is there for saying no to Sharia? It’s an illusion to think that Islamic communities can manage their own affairs and keep within the guidelines of Western law, it simply won’t work, women and children will become victimized with the approval of the state. Chehab Khodar is one of the Imams who services the needs of Finland’s immigrant Islamic community, and was one of the more vocal leaders in the Islamic community who demanded that the Finnish government prevent the publication of the dreaded Mohamed cartoons in the Finnish media. Apparently he’s more upset over pictures of his dead prophet than the thought of marrying a juvenile to an older man.

The District Court has arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of aggravated child sexual exploitation, gross rape, gross detention, trafficking in human beings and counterfeiting.

Police suspect: Man bought a child bride from Iraq to Turku

The police suspect that the 14-year-old girl he married in Iraq and brought to Finland was fraudulently represented as an adult.

The Southwest Finland police are investigating a very exceptional case where a man living in Turku is suspected of acquiring a girl from Iraq to Finland who was a minor.

The girl was registered in the Finnish Population Information System as an adult in 2014 when the marriage was signed. Now there is a suspicion that she would have been married when she was only 14 years old.

The District Court of Southwest Finland has arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of aggravated child sexual exploitation, gross rape, aggravated deprivation of liberty, trafficking in human beings and counterfeiting.

The man disputes all the criminal chargess and has objected to his imprisonment.

The suspected criminal hatched his plan back in 2014, when the 27-year-old and the girl suspected of being underagel married in Iraq. According to the custom, the girl was paid a mahr , dowry, in accordance to Islamic culture .

He has been in Finland since childhood and is a citizen of both Finland and Iraq.

Instead, the girl traveled from Iraq to Turkey, where she applied for a residence permit from the Embassy of Finland. In this context, she presented a passport from Iraq, according to which she was 19 years old.

The residence permit was granted. The girl came to Finland and began to spend time together with her new husband. The magistrate recorded the marriage in the Population Information System and the girl was given a Finnish personal ID where the year of birth was labeled as 1995.

The suspicion of a child wife arose when another passport emerged from Iraq. According to this passport, the girl is actually five years younger than the one in the first passport. Based on the findings, the first passport is now suspected of being falsified. Sexual assault investigation began last summer.