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| Saudi Child Bride Turned Back Over to 80-Year-Old Husband |
| 2009-08-29 |
| A Saudi Arabian father forced his 10-year-old daughter to return to her 80-year-old husband Sunday, after she was found hiding at the home of her aunt for 10 days, Arab News reported. The Child Brides for Clunkers program kicks into high gear. The young girl's husband, who denies he is 80 despite family claims, "I'm 79Å“ dammit!" accused the aunt of violating the terms of his marriage, allowed by Sharia Law. "My marriage is not against Sharia. It included the elements of acceptance and response by the father of the bride," he told a local newspaper. Mo strikes again! A member of the National Society for Human Rights said there are no regulations in place to stop the marriage of young girls, which is seen as harmful to their wellbeing. Care to guess what percentage of the hadiths is devoted to Mo and Aisha? "Such marriages are considered a gross violation of charters on the rights of children, which the Kingdom has signed and which set the age of adulthood at 18," Maatouq Al-Abdullah told Arab News. But sharia is the law in Saudi. So SOL. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #7 What do you suggest, Richard? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-29 22:23 |
| #6 We need to stand up for this little girl. It'a clear that none of the feminists, progressives, or liberals see a reason for protest. Culture, religion be damned. This kind of abuse has to stop. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-08-29 19:34 |
| #5 I won't take that bet, Redneck Jim, when one hears that the little blue pill is prescribed freely in nursing homes, and the occurrence of sexually transmitted diseases continues to rise. Not to mention there are lots of acts that don't involve the missionary position. /the result of a very progressive public school education. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-29 13:48 |
| #4 Normal respone is outrage, but I have to wonder just what an eighty year old man can do, I'm betting he's lost the ability to perform years ago, and this gets him a free maid, cook and helper in his old infirmity. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-29 13:31 |
| #3 If it wasn't reported in the New York Times or by NPR it didn't happen, WolfDog, and so they needn't exercise themselves about it. And given that it was reported by FoxNews, to them it's like Opposite World, a reason to celebrate those quaint traditions that work so well for the Saudis, and isn't her wedding outfit so utterly photogenic! when National Geographic runs a feature, never mentioning the child bride's actual age. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-29 12:57 |
| #2 Where are ALL the women's rights groups? Where are ALL the children's advocacy groups? Their silence is absolutely deafening. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2009-08-29 10:36 |
| #1 Geert Wilders take: Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has seized on a news report from Saudi Arabia for peppery written questions to the cabinet. In these, he compares the Islamic prophet Mohammed to a pig. Wilders has requested clarification from Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen on a marriage in Saudi Arabia between an 80 year old man and a 10 year old child. The child had run away from her elderly husband, but was brought back to him by her father, the English-language website Arab News reports based on a Saudi newspaper. Wilders asks the minister if he shares the view that "this man is behaving like a pig, just like the barbarous Prophet Mohammed, who married the six year old girl Aisha." The PVV leader wants Verhagen to summon the Saudi Arabian ambassador to express his repugnance. |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-08-29 10:23 |