Fawziya Abdullah Youssef, 12, is the latest victim of the tradition of child-bride under Sharia law in some Muslim countries. She died after three-days of labor trying to give birth to a child that was the result of her marriage to a 24-year-old man in Yemen. She was eleven at the time. The baby also reportedly died.
We have been following these child-bride cases, here and here.
In most nations, this would be treated as a simple and straightforward case of child rape. However, in Yemen, over a quarter of the country’s females marry before age 15.
While the Parliament passed a law to raise the age of such brides to 17, it was sent back to committee after religious lawmakers declared it “unIslamic.”
Complicating the issue for some is the fact that Mohammad himself married 6-year-old Aisha, a union that was consummated when she was 9.
“While the Parliament passed a law to raise the age of such brides to 17, it was sent back to committee after religious lawmakers declared it “unIslamic.””
Then I submit that the Islamic religious lawmakers are “uncivilized” at a minimum and “inhuman” at worst.
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She should have been playing dodge ball or catching butterflies, you barbarians.
And yet we support and ally ourselves with these countries. Doesn’t this violate the most fundemental of our American Values?
Where are we as a Nation when it comes to protecting the rights children of the world? Does it have to make good business sense to before we can consider the morality of who we deal with?
OMG, this man boy needs something else to diddle. Maybe a stint in Huntsville, Texas.
Not all evil comes from religion. Some people are just insane. This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever read. EVER.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/13/aimee-louise-sword-raped_n_284959.html
I’m truly at a loss for words.
Buddha,
Everyone needs help some just more than others.
per Aimee Louise Sword, why would they tell the boy it was his mother?
And why would she do that? It is like she wanted to mess him up, if I cant have him no one else will either. What a twisted individual.
anyone with young children just has to want to sit down and wail.