Sharia Alert: "We cannot technically impede a marriage with a girl of this age. However, we can delay the process (by refusing to carry out the [state-mandated pre-marital] tests)."
"Saudi Arabia: Doctor stops wedding with five year-old," from Adnkronos International, December 30:
Riyadh, 30 Dec. (AKI) - A doctor in Saudi Arabia was able to stop the wedding of a five and 11 year-old whose family wanted to marry them to protect financial assets. "Thanks to the law that compels spouses to carry out blood analyses before marriage, we were able to stop a wedding with underage girls, among them a five year-old," said Hani Harsani, the doctor in charge of laboratory analysis in an interview with Saudi daily al-Watan.
"Two sisters came to us accompanied by their parents to undergo pre-marital blood analyses. The first one was five, and the other 11 years-old. When we asked the mother why they wanted to do the tests, she told us that she wanted to marry the girls to cousins to preserve the family's property rights."
During the interview, Harsani remembers an episode when a 10-year-old orphan was brought to do pre-marital blood tests by her brother, who wanted to marry the sister to a 40-year-old friend who already had two other wives.
"We cannot technically impede a marriage with a girl of this age. However, we can delay the process (by refusing to carry out the tests)," said Harsani.
"I hope a law can be passed sooner rather than later to establish a minimum age for marriage."
That would be nice. But opposition will be fierce, and the defenders of child marriage will invoke Muhammad's own example in marrying Aisha at the age of 6, and consummating the marriage when she was 9. They may also invoke Qur'an 65:4, which takes child marriage for granted in allowing for the divorce of pre-pubescent girls.
Pre-marital blood tests are compulsory in Saudi Arabia to ensure the spouses are in good health, but also to prevent the spread of hereditary diseases to the children.
Yep - Sharia is the perfect law. Pedophilia and Polygamy are perfectly fine. Muslim men reign supreme; all others are second class citizens at best.
What? You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?
How sick. The Islamic culture of Pedophilia and women sex slaves with their whole bodies covered. The idea of property and covering it up. Sexual control and repression. All this control by Muslim men.
"...she told us that she wanted to marry the girls to cousins to preserve the family's property rights."
"...also to prevent the spread of hereditary diseases to the children."
--quotes from article above
There is a more effective way to prevent the spread of hereditary diseases: don't marry cousins!
It's all a cultural problem, isn't it? Nothing to with a religion? Oh please.... And I'm a Martian....
"We cannot technically impede a marriage with a girl of this age. However, we can delay the process (by refusing to carry out the tests)," said Harsani. - from the article above.
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I hope I can be excused by commenting on this article by simply reproducing one of Hugh's recent remarks on such a case:
Dinesh?
I meant excused for commenting on this article.
Sickening. This just makes my blood boil. Shame on those parent's, and anyone connected with this insane practice. Good God.
But Islam protects women, protects and respects them.
So a Muslim woman told me not long ago, the old line. But she doesn't want to marry her Muslim fiance. She tells me lots of bad things about the Muslim men in her "community' - polygamy, bullying, etc, but never links these things to Islam. She still says Muslim men "treat women well", against a lot of evidence to the contrary, and is thinking she doesn't want to marry at all. Just something inexplicable.
Unthinkable to marry a non-Muslim man, and mysteriously undesirable to marry a Muslim man. Living in the West can change a Muslim woman, if the family is not dragged along for the ride.There is this thing that dare not be mentioned, freedom.
This has happened many times in the UK upto 18 cent. Many of our grandads did it and we are their issues!
This has happened many times in the UK upto 18 cent. Many of our grandads did it and we are their issues!