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21st March 2010
MARRIED AT 3. DEAD, IN CHILDBIRTH, AT 12
It makes you want to throw up your arms in incredulity, doesn’t it?
It makes some of us want to throw up.
Three-year-old child bride in Yemen. JESUS WEPT. In the name of all that's holy ... HUMAN!!!
In a recent study by the NWC and Sanaa University’s Gender Development Research and Study Centre on early marriage in the governorates of Hadramaout and al-Hudeidah, 52 percent of 6,000 female respondents were married underage.
A 2007 report by the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) ranked Yemen 13 out of 20 worst countries in terms of the prevalence of child marriage. The report said 48.4 percent of women were married before 18.
Even as the Yemeni government tries to secularise its country, the women reported belwo, today proclaim Allah’s word on child marriage as the thing to follow. To follow this to its logical conclusion all girls can be married at aged 9. It seems these backward-looking women would prefer that there female children lose their virginity before puberty, and then possibly die in childbirth, whilst still a child, than be left “on the shelf”. Watch video on Child Marriage in Yemen.
March 21st, 2010: ‘Women oppose child marriage ban’
SANAA (Yemen) – THOUSANDS of Yemeni women, their faces covered in religious veils, demonstrated outside the parliament on Sunday to oppose proposed legislation banning the marriage of girls under 17.
The protesters held up banners proclaiming ‘don’t ban what Allah made permissible,’ or ‘stop violating Islamic sharia law in the name of rights and freedoms,’ an AFP correspondent said. Answering calls by Muslim clerics who oppose the proposal on grounds it goes against Islamic sharia law, the protesters arrived in organised buses.
Proposed amendments to the civil status law stalled in parliament last August after severe opposition to a government proposal that would ban girls females 17 and males under 18 from marrying.
Child marriages are common in impoverished Yemen, especially in rural areas, where girls as young as eight are known to have been married off by desperately poor parents. Last year a child marriage case in Yemen made international headlines after a 12-year-old girl died in childbirth, together with the baby.
‘Where will this… new law take us?’ asked Umm Abdulaziz, a protester clad in black from head-to-toe. ‘Most rights groups have women who are over 40 and still not married,’ she added in an apparent taunt at unmarried activists in Yemen, whose largely traditional tribal society looks down on single women past a certain age. ‘There is a significant spinstership among female students in Yemen universities,’ she added.
A handful of women’s rights activists outside the parliament were seen leaving after being outnumbered by the demonstrators. ‘It is unreasonable to marry our daughters at the age of eight or nine. This is a serious problem,’ said Houriya Mashhour, deputy director of Yemen’s Women National Committee. — AFP
The Lucky Ones get a Divorce – at 10
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Tony Blair 
March 9, 2012 at 8:51 am |
FYI, Mohammed married Aisha when she was 6 years old. The marriage was consummated at age 9.
(“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with ‘Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).” – Bukhari 7.62.88)
So consummation of a marriage is allowed at age 9 under islamic law. PRIOR to that, however, you are still allowed to get your ‘sexual pleasure on’ – just not through penetrative sex.
Saudi Cleric Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif Defends the Marrying Off of Under-Age Girls in Saudi Arabia: Atheists, Christians, and Fornicators Are Responsible for Human Rights Treaties! (so we’re all disgusting and why should they listen to us?)
Ayatollah Khomeini, generally regarded as one of the leading Muslims of the twentieth century, wrote “A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. If he penetrates and the child is harmed then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however would not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister.”
Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, just issued a fatwa asserting that there is no minimum age for marriage, and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”
Under islamic law, a man may take his sexual pleasure through the actions of kissing, fondling, foreplay, sodomy, ‘thighing’ also known as the sacred rite of Mufa’ Khathat, which of course means rubbing your penis between the tops of the thighs, etc., etc.
Muslims think