8 year-old Nojoud Muhammed Nasser went to court in Yemen last month to ask for a divorce from her 30 year-old husband. Nojud said, "Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him. This lasted for two months. He was too tough with me, and whenever I asked him for mercy, he beat me and slapped me and then used me. I just want to have a respectful life and divorce him." Her husband, Hamed Thabet (pictured), is now in jail -Yemen Times.
In the rural areas of Yemen women get married when they are 12 or 13.
AKI reported:
Over half of women who marry in Yemen are under 15 years of age, said a field study conducted by Yemen's Women and Development Study Centre, which is affiliated with the University of Sanaa.
According to the study which was cited in the Yemen Times newspaper, the rate of child marriage among females in Yemen reached 52 percent, compared to less than seven percent among males.
On top of that, in rural parts of Yemen, girls usually get married at an average age of 12 to 13 years old.
The parliament in Yemen is reportedly working to raise the minimum marriageable age, which currently stands at 15 years old and so far there is no punishment for those families who allow their daughters to marry under this age.
"Recently the case of early marriage in Yemen has come to light, especially after the divorce of a little girl last month," said Amatalrazaq Hummad, Yemen's Minister of Social Affairs, in an interview with the Qatari daily Al-Watan.
One word - pedophiles!
ReplyDeleteWhat do you expect from people who follow a guy who married a 6-year-old?
ReplyDeleteHey Akmed, leave the kids alone, couldn't you just hit a sheep or two? But then again, sheep lie!
ReplyDelete"Sometimes you just gotta push the sheep through the fence".
"One half of women who marry in Yemen are under 15 years of age,...". They are children, they are girls; they are NOT WOMEN. What a dishonest article!
ReplyDeletethis is grotesque. That child should be playing with dolls and learning to read, write and calculate, not living as a slave and punching bag to that pig.a
ReplyDeleteSee this:
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The problem isn't a world away.
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ReplyDeletewell, aside from honor killings, abusive attitudes towards females, intolerance of homosexuals, pedophilia apparently runs rampant in regards to the Islamic religious culture..
Ayatollah Khomeini's Religious Teachings
excerpt:
["A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual act such as forplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not comitted a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man's four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl's sister."]
“Undercover Mosque”
leaves no room for denial..
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