Said one doctor: "The case of Fawziya illustrates the tragedy of those whom we call 'the brides of death', who are little girls...."
That makes Muhammad's wife Aisha one of those "brides of death" herself. And he set the disastrous precedent -- as a "beautiful pattern of conduct," per Qur'an 33:21 -- that leads to cases like this. That is the ultimate reason that child marriage has persisted so stubbornly across the Islamic world.
"Yemen child bride dies giving birth: rights group," by Hamoud Mounassar for Agence France-Presse, September 13 (thanks to all who sent this in):
That makes Muhammad's wife Aisha one of those "brides of death" herself. And he set the disastrous precedent -- as a "beautiful pattern of conduct," per Qur'an 33:21 -- that leads to cases like this. That is the ultimate reason that child marriage has persisted so stubbornly across the Islamic world.
"Yemen child bride dies giving birth: rights group," by Hamoud Mounassar for Agence France-Presse, September 13 (thanks to all who sent this in):
SANAA -- A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, has died during a difficult delivery in which her baby also died, a children's rights organisation said on Sunday, demanding action to stop Yemeni men taking child brides.
The zakat check must have gotten lost in the mail again.
"The child, Fawziya Abdullah Youssef, died on Friday September 11 in western Yemen at the age of 12 due to a complicated delivery," the Yemeni Organisation for Childhood Protection (Seyaj) said.
The organisation said its volunteers had confirmed that doctors had been unable to save Fawziya's life after she suffered complications from the delivery.
Raised in an impoverished family with a father suffering from kidney failure, Fawziya was forced to drop out of school and married off at the age of 11. She got pregnant a year later, the group said.
"The lack of a statutory minimum age for marriage makes it impossible for local officials to ban child marriages, especially among girls, or to punish their parents or spouses for the disastrous consequences of such marriages," Seyaj said, adding that such marriages are widespread on Yemen's Red Sea coast.
"The case of Fawziya illustrates the tragedy of those whom we call 'the brides of death', who are little girls, less than 15 years old, forced into marriage, mostly due to financial reasons," Seyaj director Ahmed al-Qorashi told AFP.
"The proportion of little girls and teenage females married before 15 is nearly 50 percent" in rural parts of Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries despite its proximity to oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
"These marriages are the result of poverty, ignorance and illiteracy, and lead to the destruction of the lives of these young girls, whose opinion is not taken in consideration," Qorashi added....
"These marriages are the result of poverty, ignorance and illiteracy, and lead to the destruction of the lives of these young girls, whose opinion is not taken in consideration," Qorashi added....
These marriages are the result of islam and lead to the destruction of the lives of these young girls, whose opinion is not taken in consideration,".
There...fixed it for him.
islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.
seems like the result of child molesters who's wildest dream comes true when they find a psychotic cult to tell them it's alright to rape babies. there is nothing more sick than this.
Nice new look. I hope this comment works. This is a test, and is only a test. In the case of a real emergency, ham sandwiches will be issued. Thank you.
OT - I like the look too. I was hoping the comment field would be upgraded to include some of the features of "Intense Debate" without their incompetence. Oh well....
Five stories total on this event through google search. One blames tribal traditions, but only one site actually indirectly puts the blame on the traditions of islam:
http://chattahbox.com/world/2009/09/13/global-shock-as-12-year-old-girl-dies-giving-birth/
“Earlier this year, parliament managed to set a law that prohibited any marriages to children under the age of 17, a common age-range in many countries.
Yemen is well known for this practice, and many have been fighting to eliminate it.
However, some within the government accused the lawmakers of violating Islam with the law. It has been sent to the President for review, and in the meantime child brides are once again legal.”
Once again, the mostly leftist MSM avoids offending the RoP. Let’s see if any of them pick this story up over the next 24 hrs. I highly doubt the Liberal press will do it after going out of their way to distort the size of the protest in DC from only a “couple of blocks” to “thousands” and now, so far, to “tens of thousands.” Seeing as the numbers were pretty obvious by mid-day, their revisions come at the heels of internet published photos; therefore, a campaign to publish more photos of sanctioned statutory rape through religious marriage (marriage photos) would be appropriate to bring more international pressure on this, much like the horrific photo campaign by anti-abortionists. I recall only one pic of the mass Hamas sponsored marriage ceremony this year, and the site of a half dozen little girls barely taller than the navels of the men they were marrying was sickening.
"These marriages are the result of Islam." -- Alaskan
Exactly.
"These marriages are the result of poverty, ignorance and illiteracy, and lead to the destruction of the lives of these young girls, whose opinion is not taken in consideration," Qorashi added
but can he explain to me why the same stuff happens in Saudi Arabia (and the girls can be around 8 yrs) where for sure there's far less poverty, ignorance and illiteracy? isn't maybe something about the great pervert aka ad Mo who married a 6 years old? you know if the founder of a cult gives the example its followers will do the same thing
Countrygirl - good point. Saudi Arabia is not exactly impoverished, and their literacy rates though lower than western countries are a good deal higher than in Yemen; yet they too marry off girls at obscenely young ages. Same deal in Islamic Iran.
I wonder if Naomi Wolfe has a comment about this "romantic" Islamic practice?
Eerie phrase, that - "Brides of Death".
Let's think about it for a while.
For there is a very real sense in which every female born into Islam could be called a Bride of Death.
Not just the child brides of Yemen and Saudi Arabia and Iran and Mali and northern Nigeria and Pakistan and Afghanistan (to mention just a few of those places where this practice is common) married off and raped and impregnated before their bodies can safely carry and bear a child, but every female.
For every female in dar al Islam knows that, for the flimsiest of 'reasons' or indeed for nothing at all, she may be selected as a de facto human sacrifice, and be murdered, usually by her own family, in an 'honor' killing; or in some places, be publicly stoned to death by her whole community, as the result of an accusation of 'zina', immorality.
The slave rag she wears (often itself not freely chosen but worn under threat of bodily harm of some kind, up to and including the threat of death) does not merely designate her as an Official Member of the Ummah or Muslim Mob; it marks her as Slave, or 'Bride', of Death. Every Mohammedan male, though most especially her own male kin, can at any moment appoint himself her Judge, Jury and Executioner; and then, she dies.
"These marriages are the result of poverty, ignorance and illiteracy, and lead to the destruction of the lives of these young girls, whose opinion is not taken in consideration," Qorashi added....
I was about to comment on the glaringly obvious lack of associating the child-bride phenomena in Islamic countries to the profligate pedophile Muhammad (the real culprit) when I noticed the "ignorance and illiteracy" statement---Obviously, he was talking about Muhammad!
Cheers
No culture should excuse the rape of a child.
That the little girl died while trying to give birth is evidence that girls that young are not ready to be a "woman" whether she has had her menses or not.
That is so sad! I can not imagine living somewhere like the ME. I am fairly new to learning about islam and this is only my second time commenting because I dont know a whole lot so I kinda set back and try to learn and this is a great site to do that with.
Looks like my previous comment under the old system was not retained.
In a nutshell: this Muslim human rights organization in Yemen trying to protect children is grotesquely preposterous because they refuse to condemn the one massive thing causing all the child abuse they are spending all their time fighting: their own Islam. At best, they are tragicomic. At worst, they are enabling the same monster they are fighting.
"These marriages are the result of poverty, ignorance and illiteracy, and lead to the destruction of the lives of these young girls, whose opinion is not taken in consideration," Qorashi added....
But mostly, as Qoorashi failed to point out (and mahoundians and their apologists always do), the result of mahound's example, uswa hasana, all insane all camel; and how its (not his) sick cult doesn't allow for a minimum marriage age for girls to be set; and how it also states that, as Sir Winston Churchill noted, "that every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property -- either as a child, a wife, or a concubine."
So long as mahound's pedophilia isn't regarded by mahoundians as it is in the West (and does anyone really believe they'd go so far as to become blasphemers, by rejecting mahound's status as the epitome of inbred bedouin savage perfection, given to it [not him] by his alter-ego allah, the imaginary?), this sickening tale of mahoundian barbarity will not cease to be a routine thing, an everyday tragedy (from a Western perspective, that is) in the open sewers of Mahoundistan.
"These marriages are the result of poverty, ignorance and illiteracy, and lead to the destruction of the lives of these young girls, whose opinion is not taken in consideration," Qorashi added....
But mostly, as Qoorashi failed to point out (and mahoundians and their apologists always do), the result of mahound's example, uswa hasana, all insane all camel; and how its (not his) sick cult doesn't allow for a minimum marriage age for girls to be set; and how it also states that, as Sir Winston Churchill noted, "that every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property -- either as a child, a wife, or a concubine."
So long as mahound's pedophilia isn't regarded by mahoundians as it is in the West (and does anyone really believe they'd go so far as to become blasphemers, by rejecting mahound's status as the epitome of inbred bedouin savage perfection, given to it [not him] by his alter-ego allah, the imaginary?), this sickening tale of mahoundian barbarity will not cease to be a routine thing, an everyday tragedy (from a Western perspective, that is) in the open sewers of Mahoundistan.
Hi, Momoftwoprincesses - welcome!
Have you clicked on the link to read 'Islam 101' yet?
Not all of us have time to read all the books, so: my recommendation is - read Spencer's 'Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades', with his 'Truth About Muhammad', and then read Serge Trifkovic 'The Sword of the Prophet' and Nonie Darwish's book about sharia (that is, Islamic law), 'Cruel and Usual Punishment'. You will then know the basics.
Also: watch 'Fitna' and 'Islam: What the West Needs to Know'.
Islam - as revealed in this dismally typical article about child brides in Yemen - is very, very bad news for women, all women. The soccer moms/ PTA set/ ladies' auxiliaries and the black sistas (we have one of those posting here - hi tilly!) and the Chicanas need to all 'get' this information as fast as possible, so that they know how to 1. protect their daughters from being suckered by Muslim men and 2. how to really put the heat on the politicians to confront, and resist, sharia creep and stop Muslim immigration into our countries. For the sake of our daughters and our daughters' daughters.
Apart from Nonie Darwish's book I've already mentioned, here's a course-list for 'waking women up about Islam': Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Theo Van Gogh's film, 'Submission'; Ayaan's book 'Infidel'; Phyllis Chesler, 'My Afghan Captivity'; Betty Mahmoody, 'Not Without My Daughter'; Miriam Ali, 'Without Mercy' (her Yemeni Arab Muslim husband married her in the UK, then kidnapped their two early-teen daughters back to Yemen and promptly married them off to Muslim men - trying to rescue them, Miriam encountered, among other things, a girl born in Derby to a Muslim father who'd been taken to Yemen, married at 9, and by age 12 had had three pregnancies of which two ended in miscarriages and the third in a stillbirth - after the third, the girl had gone insane); "The Imam's Daughter" by Hannah Shah (Pakistani Muslim girl born in UK, converted to Christianity, now living in hiding because her family wants to murder her); Rosemary Sookhdeo's two books 'Stepping Into the Shadows' and 'Secrets Behind the Burqa'; and two books by an American lady 'Cassandra' who barely escaped from a disastrous marriage with an Arab Muslim man - '33 Secrets Arab Men Don't Tell American Women' and 'Escape! from an Arab Marriage'. Strictly speaking, 'Cassandra' should have written 'Muslim' where 'Arab' appears in her book titles, since Betty Mahmoody (married to a Persian Muslim) and Phyllis Chesler (married to an Afghan Muslim) had experiences very similar to hers. It should also be noted that Betty's and Phyllis's husbands were not illiterate village Muslims; they were charming, sophisticated, well-to-do, with Western tertiary-level education; yet once these men had their western wives fully under their control on home turf, the marriages turned into hell on earth.
Non-Muslim Western mothers need to know what Sikhs and Hindus have known for centuries - NEVER, at all costs, let your daughter get involved with, or marry, a Muslim. The books I've just listed give adequate - and terrifying - information as to why.
Also here in Italy there was a lot of poverty, ignorance and illiterace but to my knowledge never a child of 12 (or younger) was married off...for sure there were marriage promises for the nobles but those girls went to the husband families when they were around 14. To have someone married off around 12 you have to go back to the Roman age.
Any comment from Tim Marshall, who protested the backlash from those 450 suspiciously child-like marriages in Gaza? Or would he consider Seyaj's observations that "such marriages are widespread on Yemen's Red Sea coast" to be "Islamophobic propaganda" as well?
The government should be launching awareness campaigns? What about the clerics-who-should-know-better? Or are there any out there? Shouldn't Islam's spiritual leadership be able to police itself without government and NGO interference?
If poverty is indeed the cause of these tragedies, it begs the question why Yemen's richer northern neighbors don't do more to help their Arab Islamic brethren in the south (instead of building bigger hotels, skyscrapers, etc.) Imagine what just a drop from their massive oil revenue would do for poor Yemenis.
Thanks!! I actually love to read so I will be checking out my local library for these books. I have been following this site for awhile now and it has really opened my eyes to alot of what we are up against. I just hope America will wake up before its to late!!