Australian Grand Mufti warns celebrants

The  fallout from last week’s under age marriage of a 12 year old Sydney minor with a 26 year Lebanese man  on student visa has drawn fire from the Grand Mufti Dr Ibrahim Saleem.

Dr Ibrahim expressed his disappointment  and warned  Australian Imams who are registered marriage celebrants to take extra care when conducting marriages between Australian Muslims and foreigners. The  Australian Marriage Act must be upheld he said. It  is common sense that age must be verified with civil marriage papers or documentary evidence.  The Mufti also urged all Muslim  marriage celebrants to keep on the look out for unscrupulous  Muslim parents who marry off their under age daughters for cultural or tribal reasons.  The Mufti was troubled that the 12 year old minor and the 26 year old man had sexual relationship during this period and for this reason he was pleased that the Lebanese citizen, the Muslim celebrant and the father of minor were arrested and charged under NSW criminal laws. The court hearing of the three  will be heard in a NSW magistrate court next week.

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Perth City Musallah Association Incorporated (PCMA) is a not-for-profit charitable trust that advocates and provides for religious needs of Perth city’s Muslim workers.

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