Why? Because these family laws were based on Sharia, which is considered the law of Allah. You don't reform the law of Allah. From VOANews, with thanks to Twostellas:
Thirty-three-year-old Heda made the mistake of having a child that her husband did not want. At least this is the version of the story she tells a reporter at a shelter for abused women in downtown Algiers.Heda, who gives only her first name, comes from the rural village of Tebessa, about 600 kilometers east of the capital.
She says her husband divorced her eight-years ago, when he found out she was pregnant. Her family, she says, agreed to take her in, but only if she gave her infant son up for adoption. Heda refused, and found herself homeless.
Under Algeria's 1984 family law, men can divorce their wives without a reason, and have no obligations towards their former wives.
This is no innovation. It's straight Sharia, and so is this about polygamy and permission:
Algerian men can have up to four wives, although few actually do. Women must ask permission from a male member of the family before they can marry.
Nevertheless, all this is supposed to come from "twisted" Islamic principles. Which principles, exactly? How was it that all the major schools of Islamic law ended up twisting Islamic principles in the same way?
For years, Mrs. Belaala says, men have twisted Islamic principles to suit their purposes and to discriminate against women. It is about time, she says, to put an end to it.Neighboring Tunisia has long boasted of having the most emancipated women in the Arab world. Morocco, to Algeria's west, recently amended its family law to nearly abolish polygamy, increase legal marriage age for women and to force men to seek divorces in court.
And upon what Islamic principles were these liberalizations based?
there was a documentry show about these 'women" (kids) who are given to marriage at 9 years old, and as soon as they are mature (around 12) their marriage is made "official". they get pregnant, but are too young, and many of them either die giving birth, have still born children, and get a fistula, which is a rupture in the bladder and colon which causes them to continuously "leak urine and feces, making them 'undesirable, and either killed by their husband, parents, or rejected and starve to death.
of corse, world vision, and other aid organizations try get some of these young girls into a hospital and fix them up, but none of these organizations adress the real problem. STOP RAPING YOUNG GIRLS.
It's an Islamic thing. If muhammad can marry and have sex with a 6 year old, they think 9 is OK, and 12 is waiting a long time.
Do any of these groups, amnesty etc say anything? No, all they do is ask for your money, and expect you to feel sorry.
Don't give them any money. Make the UN be responsible for SOMETHING. It's well past time for them to step up and spend the money they stole from the Iraq oil scandel, and smarten up these backwards countries, other than that, let them reap what they sow.
Nature can do what it does, like so many activists like to claim. the west isn't an endless money pit.
Thanks, Nathan, I needed that.
Hmm. Islam, the religion of male convenience.