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Whereas it is commendable that some government officials, in Pakistan, are voicing their outrage-- the origination of the source of the mindset that foments much of the muslim population to consider the use of little girls (referred to in article as "ladies") as chattel capable of performing "wifely" duties - though "unspeakable" is clear.
15 CHILD BRIDES USED TO SETTLE PAKISTAN FEUD
Pakistani human rights activists are outraged at reports that a long-running blood feud in a remote corner of western Baluchistan province has been resolved by the handing over of 15 girls, aged between three and 10, for marriage.
"There has to be action," said Asma Jahangir, a leading rights campaigner. "These people who force others to sell their daughters must be sent to prison."
The new government in Islamabad, led by the party of the late Benazir Bhutto, has promised to act. "We will not allow young girls to be traded like this," said the information minister, Sherry Rehman. "The culprits who tried to do this will be arrested. The orders have been given."
But Jahangir said those orders had not been acted upon. "There is a dysfunction in the whole system. They are not listening to the government," she said. "We need to see them being more effective than just rhetoric."
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- National Geographic: The Secret World Of The Child Bride: Heartbreaking Pictures Of The Girls As Young As Five Who Are Married Off To Middle-aged Men
Will from The Other News comments: When we bloggers expose this we're Islamophobic racists and bigots. But when National Geographic says it, it's shocking news. From the Daily Mail, via Will at The Other News: Wide-eyed and haunted, the heartbreaking...
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15 MUSLIM CHILD BRIDES USED AS PAYMENT FOR DEATH OF DOG
From the Opinionator at Up Pompeii:
How many times has the Western World been chastised, denounced as Islamophobic and threatened by muslims for saying that the muslim religion is "soft on pedophilia"? If this taboo subject, abhorred by ALL Western nations, has no place in Islam then why are little girls - ages between 3 - 10 years old - considered old enough to be bartered (for a dead dog) as marriageable = brides??
Whereas it is commendable that some government officials, in Pakistan, are voicing their outrage-- the origination of the source of the mindset that foments much of the muslim population to consider the use of little girls (referred to in article as "ladies") as chattel capable of performing "wifely" duties - though "unspeakable" is clear.
15 CHILD BRIDES USED TO SETTLE PAKISTAN FEUD
It started with a dead dog, escalated into a tit-for-tat tribal war, and has now reached a grotesque climax with the exchange of 15 child brides.
Pakistani human rights activists are outraged at reports that a long-running blood feud in a remote corner of western Baluchistan province has been resolved by the handing over of 15 girls, aged between three and 10, for marriage.
"There has to be action," said Asma Jahangir, a leading rights campaigner. "These people who force others to sell their daughters must be sent to prison."
The new government in Islamabad, led by the party of the late Benazir Bhutto, has promised to act. "We will not allow young girls to be traded like this," said the information minister, Sherry Rehman. "The culprits who tried to do this will be arrested. The orders have been given."
But Jahangir said those orders had not been acted upon. "There is a dysfunction in the whole system. They are not listening to the government," she said. "We need to see them being more effective than just rhetoric."
- Child Brides
A YouTube video campaign going viral this week is drawing attention to a grim reality in some parts of the world that we don't often hear about: child brides.In the staged clip, a 12-year-old girl is seen wearing a wedding gown and standing...
- National Geographic: The Secret World Of The Child Bride: Heartbreaking Pictures Of The Girls As Young As Five Who Are Married Off To Middle-aged Men
Will from The Other News comments: When we bloggers expose this we're Islamophobic racists and bigots. But when National Geographic says it, it's shocking news. From the Daily Mail, via Will at The Other News: Wide-eyed and haunted, the heartbreaking...
- Yemen: Supporting The Child Bride Laws
This is an update on this story: Sheik Mohammed Hamzi, an official of the Islamist Yemeni opposition party Islaah and the imam of the Al-Rahman mosque in the Yemeni capital of Sana, is one of those who staunchly opposes a legal ban on child marriage....
- He Aint Breaking The Law
March 8, 2009: Jakarta, Indonesia - A MUSLIM cleric in Indonesia was questioned on Friday over his marriage to a 12-year-old village girl, police said. The marriage between cleric Pujianto Cahyo Widiyanto, 43, and junior high school student Lutfiana...
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The perfect plan is being enacted by the Pakistani Muslim population of England. The young men get married early before they are 20 years old. They won’t choose a bride from the English born Pakistani girls because they regard them as whores. No, their...