The first rule of writing about Islam is that nothing that Muslims do wrong is their fault. Whether it’s raping kids or killing cartoonists, it’s always the fault of some outside force, capitalism, America, Israel or global warming.

Take ‘child rape’ or ‘child marriage’ or ‘child slavery’, a traditional Islamic practice which the media once upon a time used to actually report on, but which it now can only report on by blaming some outside factor.

Last month, I wrote about a BBC report that falsely blamed child marriage in Afghanistan on President Trump’s USAID cuts (why were Muslims in Afghanistan raping kids and selling their daughters before Trump and America) and the AP blamed child marriage in Gaza on Israel (no word on why there was the same rate of child marriage across the border in Egypt and why Mohammed ‘married’ a 7-year-old).

And now the media is at it again with Australia’s ABC blaming Muslim child marriage on… global warming.

Twelve million girls are tipped to become child brides this year, according to Plan International. Child marriage is a global problem across cultures and religions.

Really? All religions?

South Asia, one of the most vulnerable regions to the impacts of climate change, accounts for most of the world’s child marriages. Bangladesh has the highest rate in Asia according to Plan International, with more than 50 per cent of girls married before they turn 18.

Bangladesh just suffered an Islamist coup and is busy purging its non-Muslim Hindu population. According to the UN, the child marriage rate in Bangladesh is over 50%. Half of women give birth before they’re 18.

But to summarize, even though child marriage is common in Islam, and Mohammed ‘married’ a child, when there’s child marriage in Afghanistan, it’s because of Trump, when there’s child marriage in Gaza, it’s because of Israel, and when there’s child marriage in Bangladesh, it’s because of global warming.

Nothing to do with Islam.

Please don’t spot the pattern.