Italy expels Muslim migrant imam who cited Qur’an as endorsement for marrying 9-year-old girls

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Robert Spencer : Imagine the embarrassment of Italian authorities when they discover that this imam was right, and that the Qur’an does sanction marriage to prepubescent girls (cf. 65:4). Will they expel all the imams in the country then?

Why do Western authorities continue to insist that they know everything about Islam while actually knowing nothing, and to pretend that every Muslim to acts upon the Qur’an or teaches others to do so is an “extremist” who is misunderstanding and misinterpreting the religion’s core texts? How long will this delusion continue?

“Undercover Report Exposes Imam Offering Quranic Justification for Child Brides,” by Jules Gomes, Middle East Forum, April 4, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Italy has expelled an imam of Pakistani origin who sparked massive outrage after he was filmed in an undercover investigation citing the Qur’an as an endorsement for marrying girls at the age of nine.

On April 2, the Italian daily Il Giornale reported that Paolo Sartori, the police commissioner of Brescia, known as Italy’s Islamic “capital,” ordered the deportation of Ali Kashif, who told a reporter for the TV program Fuori dal Coro that girls can be married after their first period.

Sartori examined footage filmed by Francesco Leone, a reporter from Channel 4, who posed as an Italian wanting to convert to Islam and seeking to know if the Muslim religion permits older men to marry child brides.

Based on evidence from the undercover investigation, the police commissioner determined that Kashif could be immediately expelled under Article 4, paragraph 3, of Italy’s Consolidated Law on Immigration. The law gives police the power to remove a foreigner who “is considered a threat to public order or the security of the State” or has been involved in sex-related crimes.

Brescia police also discovered that Kashif did not possess a valid residence permit to live in Italy and refused to issue him a new residence permit when the imam applied for the document.

Instead, Sartori ordered that Kashif be immediately escorted to Milan Malpensa Airport, where he was put on board the flight to Islamabad, with a stopover in Bangkok, accompanied by immigration officers.