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Muhammad married Aisha when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine. His example in all things is considered normative in the Islamic world. Sharia Alert: "Court to consider divorce for 8-year-old girl," from Agence France-Presse, August 24 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A SAUDI court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported today.It said the girl's mother had filed the divorce case with the court at Unayzah 220km north of Riyadh, and cited lawyer Abdullah Jtili as saying the father had arranged the marriage without telling the girl....
But the daily also reported that the husband had refused to renounce the marriage, saying that he had not done anything illegal.
And of course, he hadn't.
Arranged marriages involving pre-adolescents are occasionally reported in the Arabian Peninsula, including in the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom where the strict conservative Wahabi version of Sunni Islam holds sway and polygamy is common.In Yemen in April, another girl aged eight was granted a divorce after her unemployed father forced her to marry a man of 28.
Posted by Robert at August 24, 2008 4:55 AM
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This one should go out to family and friends...with it clearly pointed out that this child's dilemma is repeated hundreds of times over in the Muslim world today...and countless millions of times over through the centuries of Islam being practiced on planet earth. Finally, Muhammad's marriage to Aisha should be explained as the irrevocable legal basis for the continuing sexual exploitation of children in the Muslim world.
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at August 24, 2008 11:22 AM
Look who's helping bring the Olympic flag to Londonistan..
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at August 24, 2008 12:28 PM
Oh, and we have "pakistan day" here in New York.
The crazier things get...
Posted by: Ummah Gummah at August 24, 2008 1:43 PM
"...occasionally..."
OCCASIONALLY?????
"... occasionally reported..."
Oh, okay, I get it now.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen at August 24, 2008 1:47 PM
Will Tayyiba Dubhwala bring the Olympic Flag here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article597161.ece
Posted by: Alert at August 24, 2008 2:06 PM
Only among the mohammedans ...
Posted by: joeblough at August 24, 2008 3:59 PM
Marrying under-age girls?
[waggles the little finger]
Posted by: Brett_McS at August 24, 2008 7:51 PM
Child molesters unite! Come to the Kingdom, convert to Islam and it's now legal!
Evil exists where there is a strict set of rules and a total lack of empathy.
Posted by: tanstaafl at August 24, 2008 9:58 PM
Poor Gary Glitter, why does he get such a hard time?
If only he would convert to the religion of peace all his troubles would be over...
at August 26, 2008 8:02 AM
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