Not all cultures are created alike. Some are utterly horrifying.

That’s why liberating Iraq ended in a horror show where Iran is effectively running Iraq and its Shiite Islamists do anything they like, like attack American soldiers, and try to legalize child rape.

Iraq is poised to pass a new law that would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing men to marry young girls, according to a new report.

The Shia conservative groups that dominate Iraq’s parliament have proposed an amendment to the country’s “personal status law” that could see a Taliban-style rollback of all women’s rights.

The chance would allow young girls to be married off and put nearly all family decisions in the hands of religious authorities, said Raya Faiq, who is coordinating a challenge against the bill with female Iraqi representatives.

“This is a catastrophe for women,” Faiq told The Guardian. “This law legalizes child rape.”

Islam legalizes child rape. Once Iraq’s legal system (like that of most Muslim countries, including Afghanistan) was going to be based on Islamic Sharia law, the child rape was inevitable.

Mohammed married and raped Aisha somewhere around that age. There’s no counterargument within Islam to doing the same thing today.

Mohammed did it, so it must be okay. Also Mohammed massacred non-Muslims, committed genocide, lied, cheated and raped. So Islam still legitimizes those things today.

Not all Muslims agree with such actions, but it’s only a matter of when Islamists get their way and actually implement them.