Category Archives: child brides
How is forced child marriage not child sexual slavery?
More accurately general slavery with sexual access as a component of it.
One in every four marriages in Turkey involves child bride: NGO
H/T Tundra T
Hurriyet Daily News:
AYDIN – Do?an News Agency
The legal age for marriage in Turkey has been raised to 17 from 15, however many groups are calling to set the age to 18.
One out of every four brides is a child as families are increasingly applying to the court to change the date of birth of their daughters so that they can legally marry, warned an association of Turkish female lawyers May 4. “There is an increase of 94 percent in application to courts by families to show their daughters age older, in order to get marriage permit,” said Gülten Kaya, head of the female lawyers’ commission of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, during a meeting of the group in Ku?adas?.
The legal age for marriage in Turkey has been raised to 17 from 15, however the commission members said that the limit should be increased to the majority age of 18.
Child Brides in Muslim countries
If its good enough for Islam’s pirate in chief, its good enough for these pedophile savages
The Daily Mail:
The terrifying world of child brides: Devastating images show girls young enough to be in pre-school who are married off to older men
PUBLISHED: 22:59 EST, 11 October 2012 | UPDATED: 08:45 EST, 12 October 2012
At age 11, Ghulam was married off to 40-year-old Jaiz in a rural Afghan village, making her only one of more than 10 million young girls who are being forced to wed men old enough to be their fathers or grandfather every year.
In an effort to start a global conversation about the devastating effects of early marriages, which are currently practiced in more than 50 developing countries, the United Nations designated October 11 as International Day of the Girl Child this year.
To mark the occasion and draw attention to the problem of child brides, photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair teamed up with National Geographic to create a series of heart-breaking photos depicting girls as young as five years old being married off to middle-aged men in countries like India, Yemen and Ethiopia.
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Disturbing: Faiz, 40 (left), and Ghulam (right), 11, sit in her home prior to their wedding in the rural Damarda Village, Afghanistan on September 11, 2005
Minors: Tahani (front), 8, is seen with her husband Majed, 27, and her former classmate Ghada (rear), 8, and her husband outside their home in Hajjah, Yemen
MOSQUE LEADERS IN UK PROMISE TO MARRY CHILD BRIDES IF PARENTS DON’T TELL
Tip-of-iceberg meter hits red
The British child brides: Muslim mosque leaders agree to marry girl of 12… so long as parents don’t tell anyone
British Muslim mosque leaders are agreeing to carry out secret marriages with child brides as young as 12 in the UK, it emerged today.
In an undercover investigation, a Shi’te mosque leader agreed to marry a 12-year-old girl so long as she was a willing participant.
A Sunday Times journalist visited the Husaini Islamic Centre in Peterborough – the ‘first Shi’te mosque in the whole of Europe’ – posing as the father of a 12-year-old girl.
According to the newspaper, the reporter was told by Imam Mohamed Kassamali that ‘under sharia [Islamic law] there is no problem’ in marrying a 12-year-old.
But while he declared Islamic Law dictated a girl should see ‘her first sign of puberty at the house of her husband’, he admitted they would all get in to trouble if she went to police saying she was forced into the marriage.
Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10-yrs-old
Examiner.com:
The child brides of the Muslim World.
“Nine as being the appropriate age…”
Three short months ago, the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abd al-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Lateef Aal ash-Shaikh, authorized girls as young as 10-years-old to marry.
Always the innovator, the Islamic Republic of Iran has done the neighboring Kingdom one better.
One year, that is…
As reported by the Iranian Christian news service Mohabat News, the Iranian Majles (Parliament) is slated to ensure civil law aligns correctly with sharia in regards to child brides.
The Majles Legal Affairs Committee has released a press statement stating that the current civil law, a hangover from the pre-revolutionary days under the Shah, in regards to the legal age of marriage for girls under the age of ten is to be considered “un-Islamic and illegal.”
SAUDI WOMAN’S NIGHTMARE: BOUGHT AND RAPED AT 13, ABANDONED AT 30
Not only did she get sold by her father and deflowered as a child, the 60 year old degenerate who bought her had three other wives. This is a classic example of islam 101. KGS
THE SAUDI NOOSE
TSN What was good enough for Mohamed then, is still good enough for his followers now!
Married at 13, abandoned at 30
Salma fled her home after dad tried to ‘sell’ her again
By Staff
Published Sunday, February 27, 2011
When she was 13-years old, Salma (full name withheld) from Saudi Arabia was forced to marry a man aged over 60.
The man paid her father a dowry of SR250,000 ($68,000), but Salma says it was like she was actually sold.
Salma, now in her 30s, has no home and is deprived of seeing her six children following her divorce. When she tried to take them, she was thrown in prison for six months.
As if all this was not enough. After she was divorced and her children taken away, her father tried to sell her again – this would-be husband refused to offer more than SR100,000.
But it was her not her father who turned down that offer. Feeling that she had enough, she packed and fled her home.
“I was only 13 when this rich old man came and paid my father SR250,000. I was forced to marry a man who is as old as my grandfather… I was snatched off my fifth class at that age,” said Salma, from the central town of Makkah.
“He took me to his home in Madina and there I found that he already has three wives… I then started to spend my time playing with his children as I was a child and had no idea about marriage life.”
Salma, now in her 30s, said her marriage lasted around 17 years, during which she gave birth to four daughters and two sons.
“During my marriage to this man, I suffered from torture and very bad treatment… I then fled to my family’s house and stayed there with my children for nearly three years, after which I was divorced.”
The Saudi Alikhbariya newspaper said Salma first refused to give back the children to her ex-husband, prompting him to go to court.
“Police arrested me and I was jailed for six months… when I was released, I went back to my family and stayed for a while before another old man came and paid SR100,000 to marry me,” she said.
More cultural enrichment in Canada: the importation of polygamy, child brides, forced marriages
From The Ottawa Sun
Polygamy, child brides pose problems for immigration officials
By BRIAN LILLEY, Parliamentary Bureau
Last Updated: October 12, 2010 4:13pm
OTTAWA – Forced marriages, child brides, polygamy and arranged marriages between first cousins are some of the problems that Canadian immigration officials in Pakistan have to deal with.
The revelations are contained in a 26-page report prepared by Canadian officials working out of the immigration and visa office in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The report was obtained by immigration lawyer Richard Kurland through access to information legislation and supplied to QMI Agency.
“With few exceptions, the Islamabad spousal reunification programme involves Muslim proxy marriages arranged by the families, the vast majority of which take place between first cousins,” reads the report.
According to Kurland, polygamy is most common among wealthy Pakistani families trying to immigrant to Canada. Canadian officials often won’t reject an application just because a man has more than one wife, Kurland said.
“They say we can’t do this because you are polygamists so you have to divorce some, keep one and work it out domestically,” Kurland said. Kurland told QMI that often second or third wives will be sponsored into Canada as skilled workers for a business or as a maid for the household.
As for first cousins marrying, while the practice is not common in Canada due to a higher risk of birth defects, marrying your cousin is legal in this country.
“Marriages that are legal in Canada are legal for the purposes of immigration and sponsorship,” said Alykhan Velshi, a spokesman for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
Tazeen Ahmad, a British woman of Pakistani descent, produced a documentary earlier this year for Channel 4 called Dispatches: When Cousins Marry.
Ahmad documented the cultural reasons for the practice among British Pakistanis as well as the problems, such as a high rate of recessive gene disorders.