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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Police calls 2-year-old's betrothal 'no big deal' |
| 2005-05-23 |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Wait til she's nine. No holy man will be able to resist her. |
| Posted by: Fred 2005-05-23 11:35 |
| #3 The toddler will be #2 wife. If he doesn't want her when she is husband-high, he can always sell off the marriage right to someone else, I imagine. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-23 07:55 |
| #2 Hey, Blind dates used to make me squirm, can't imagine being fixed up with bride at 2 years old. Maybe after she got little *older* you could decide whether to keep her or take off and disapear into the desert. |
| Posted by: Dirty old man 2005-05-23 01:42 |
| #1 a village court, headed by the village elders, found her uncle Muhammad Akmal guilty of sleeping with another man’s wife and fined him Rs 230,000, and ordered him to wed his niece (when she turns 14) to the wronged 40-year-old Altaf Hussain. So it's very bad, and very stupid, but not true paedophilia as implied by the headline. And it is true that arranged marriages are the norm; in fact a love match in that part of the world can get the participants killed. :-( |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-23 00:38 |