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We have often heard it said that Muslims are disgusted by the decadence of the West.
Don't believe it.
What is more disgusting than the fact that many Pakistani Muslims think it is ok to sell their 13 year old daughters into marriage?
Well, how about the fact that, in Pakistan, families will give their daughters hand in marriage when they are as young as one-year old:
We have covered extensively the Pakistani custom of "vani" marriages, where girls are given away in marriage as a form of "compensation", where a male relative has committed a crime. Vani marriage became illegal at the start of last year, along with honour killings. The case which had provoked the law to be changed occurred in 2004, where a three year old girl was given in marriage to a sixty year old man.
We have covered cases of girls as young as one years old, and marriages of girls who have not even been born.
Earlier this month, a case in Sindh province involved two girls aged six and eight, who were given away in vani marriage in exchange for the loss of payment for three buffaloes.
Go read the whole thing at Western Resistance.
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- Yemeni Child Bride Age 12 Dies In Labor
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- Child Bride Turned Over To 80-year-old Husband
From Arab News: AL-LAITH: A 10-year-old bride was returned last Sunday to her 80-year-old husband by her father who discovered her at the home of her aunt with whom she has been hiding for around 10 days.A local newspaper said the husband, who denies...
- Islamic Expert: "in Some Islamic Countries, The Age Of (female) Maturity Can Be 8 Or 10 Years"
Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-'Ubeidi, an Iraqi expert on Islamic law, aired on Al-Rafidein TV Most of the time we act according to what is acceptable to most people, and indeed, most men do not marry a girl until she is of age. In some Islamic...
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Hey Islam, Can You Get Any More Disgusting?
We have often heard it said that Muslims are disgusted by the decadence of the West.
Don't believe it.
What is more disgusting than the fact that many Pakistani Muslims think it is ok to sell their 13 year old daughters into marriage?
Well, how about the fact that, in Pakistan, families will give their daughters hand in marriage when they are as young as one-year old:
We have covered extensively the Pakistani custom of "vani" marriages, where girls are given away in marriage as a form of "compensation", where a male relative has committed a crime. Vani marriage became illegal at the start of last year, along with honour killings. The case which had provoked the law to be changed occurred in 2004, where a three year old girl was given in marriage to a sixty year old man.
We have covered cases of girls as young as one years old, and marriages of girls who have not even been born.
Earlier this month, a case in Sindh province involved two girls aged six and eight, who were given away in vani marriage in exchange for the loss of payment for three buffaloes.
Go read the whole thing at Western Resistance.
-
Islam was Born Out of Child Abuse and Rape The Senate recently unanimously passed the awkwardly named "International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010", which obligates the government to track child marriage rates...
- 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....
- Yemeni Child Bride Age 12 Dies In Labor
From CNN: Yemeni girl, 12, dies in painful childbirth By Mohammed JamjoomCNN AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said...
- Child Bride Turned Over To 80-year-old Husband
From Arab News: AL-LAITH: A 10-year-old bride was returned last Sunday to her 80-year-old husband by her father who discovered her at the home of her aunt with whom she has been hiding for around 10 days.A local newspaper said the husband, who denies...
- Islamic Expert: "in Some Islamic Countries, The Age Of (female) Maturity Can Be 8 Or 10 Years"
Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-'Ubeidi, an Iraqi expert on Islamic law, aired on Al-Rafidein TV Most of the time we act according to what is acceptable to most people, and indeed, most men do not marry a girl until she is of age. In some Islamic...