Pro-Taliban Islamist cleric Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini has threatened to wage jihad if the Bangladeshi government passes any law banning child marriage

He said that two hundred thousand Jihadists of his group are ready to sacrifice lives if any such law, which goes against the Koran is passed by the current government in Bangladesh. Mufti Amini said, "Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, who also married minor Ayesha, when she was just eight years old. The new law initiated by the current government will put the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge. Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women." Islamic Sharia law gives lesser rights to women. It also allows men to marry any infant girl child. Such laws are prevalent in most of the Islamic republics, while in Iran, even forceful sexual relations with the married infant is allowed. In Bangladesh, especially in rural areas, child marriage is very common, where hundreds of child mothers die due to lack of medical facilities as well as pre-mature pregnancy. There are even cases of deaths of child wives being virtually raped by their husbands. Child marriage is prevalent in rural Bangladesh.