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Nigeria: 23 million girls are victims of child marriage

Dec 5, 2018 8:23 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Over 23 million girls in Nigeria are victims of child marriage. 32 million, meanwhile, have suffered female genital mutilation as well. But what do these practices have to do with Islam? Bukhari 5.58.234 and Umdat al-Salik e4.3, respectively. And as they foster mass migration and open borders, globalists apparently believe that deeply ingrained religious indoctrination magically disappears upon migration. And just in case they do not disappear, everyone else must accept such practices, because it is “Islamophobic” not to do so.

Already the UK is considering raising the minimum age of marriage in order to try to stop forced child marriage.

“U.N.: 23 Million Girls in Nigeria Are Victims of Child Marriage,” by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, December 3, 2018:

Over 23 million girls in Nigeria are victims of child marriage, the country representative for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women revealed Sunday amid a campaign against gender-based violence in the African country.

Nigeria’s Leadership newspaper cited Comfort Lamptey, the U.N. Women’s country representative to Nigeria, as indicating on Sunday that “one in three women and girls aged 15-24 has been [a] victim of violence while one in five has experienced physical violence which is the highest in Africa.”

“She also said for too long, many women and girls have been subjected to various forms of violence, yet have remained silent due to impunity, stigma, and shame, among other inhibiting factors,” Leadership noted.

“With women and girls bearing the brunt of abduction, forced marriage and being used as human bombs [by Boko Haram]. Gender-based violence is evident also in the political realm, where women have reported numerous cases of victimization, intimidation, and harassment, in order to sideline them in the upcoming 2019 General Elections,” Lamptey said.

Violence against women takes many forms in Africa. Last month, Kenyan authorities sentenced a mother to six years for forcing her 13-year-old twin daughters to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) “to avoid a curse from her deceased grandfather,” Reuters reported.

Referring to the recent conviction in Kenya, Mercy Chege, the director at the Plan International charity that rescued the twin girls, told Reuters, “A community member alerted us when they had heard the mother was organizing the girls to undergo the cut, so we informed the local authorities. Unfortunately, we were not able to prevent the circumcision as by the time the police conducted the raid and rescued the girls, they had already been cut.”…

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Nigeria, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Comfort Lamptey, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women


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  1. mortimer says

    Dec 5, 2018 at 9:32 am

    Islam is a ticking time bomb. Western countries are doing nothing to stop it, but rather, they are encouraging this time bomb by defending Islamic barbarous practices from criticism.

  2. mortimer says

    Dec 5, 2018 at 9:35 am

    QUOTE: “Now officially designated a violation of human rights, child marriage has far-reaching health, social, economic, and political implications for the girls and their respective communities. It cuts tragically short girls’ childhoods as well as creates countless physical and psychological health risks. Eradicating child marriage, however, appears far too optimistic a goal since child marriage requires the consent of all those involved, including fathers, religious communities and tribal leaders. Needless to state, the consent is still given. Too, lack of enforcement renders international laws against child marriage ineffective. This fact was transparent throughout the panel discussion.

    Some of the panelists, as well as members of the audience – especially those coming from countries in Africa – pointed out the importance of media campaigns and educational outreach programs to raise awareness of this particular issue. Despite these efforts, they too seem insufficient for eradicating child marriage. Unfortunately, some governments in the developing countries do not take responsibility for stopping this practice. Still, the labyrinth of learning about reproductive and sexual health, sexual transmitted diseases (STD) prevention, contraception, AIDS, and how to seek health care really does help girls negotiate safer sex. Preventive and treatment programs for reproductive health issues need to be incorporated by governments into their health services.

    In a final analysis, ending child marriage and its dreadful consequences require a multifaceted approach focused on girls, their families, their communities, and, equally, their governments. Culturally sensitive programs providing families and communities with education and reproductive health services, can help end child marriage, with its attendant early pregnancies, illness and death in young mothers and their children.”

    Ana Lita PhD is Director of the IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 10, 2018 at 10:33 am

      yowie! do these folks actually believe that education is going to stop child marriage? as mr. spencer implied, since sahih al bukhari and umdat al salik say that child marriage is OK, islam will *NEVER* allow the barbaric practice to die out. anybody who knows anything about islam realizes this, but the fact that so many educated people don’t understand it simply underlines the gigantic size of the task of education that lies before us. if civilization survives this war between it and islam, civilized people centuries hence will struggle to understand our lack of awareness of the danger, and will be able to use us as an object lesson in the dangers of ignorance.

      unfortunately, i don’t see things going that way. i will continue to pray that God remove the curse of islam from humanity, because it is far too late for mere human action to accomplish that. civilization is going to lose this one, and freedom may never live again. i expect to either be murdered by a leftist (hard-core or even nominal, since the latter don’t understand anything about freedom, and see nothing wrong with brownshirt tactics) or a muslim (devout or MINO, as the latter are even more easily incited to riot than are nominal leftists), but i intend to go down shouting warnings and fighting until the end. all is in God’s hands now (as it has always been).

  3. gravenimage says

    Dec 5, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    Nigeria: 23 million girls are victims of child marriage
    …………………..

    These *poor children*.

    When are we going to see Ibrahim itace muhammed here, defending his foul pedophilic creed?

  4. Anjo Brendel says

    Dec 6, 2018 at 4:35 am

    Hey Feminists WERE are u now huh,!!! react on this,………

  5. Del says

    Dec 6, 2018 at 11:05 am

    This is the same Nigeria that Trudeau buys oil from rather than using ethical Canadian oil. That oil is refined in Quebec and the Maritimes. It seems there are more than just Liberals that approve of FGM.

  6. Mirren10 says

    Dec 7, 2018 at 7:13 am

    That poor little girl’s face. And the disgusting smirk on the face of the man. As gravenimage so often says, God, I hate islam.

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