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2004-11-17 Afghanistan/South Asia

Afghan girl, given as bride at 9, fights for divorce

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Posted by Anonymoose 2004-11-17 6:20:30 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 She'll need either an army of bodyguards or a passport and ticket out to stay alive. I fully expect an honor killing is in the works right now.

Posted by .com 2004-11-17 6:48:42 PM|| 2004-11-17 6:48:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 As posted at the end of the article Fazal Hadi Shinwari granted her divorce:

Chief justice intervenes

Friends of the family got Pekay an appointment with Chief Justice Shinwari. They were educated women and now had a voice, if a faint one, in the new Afghanistan. It took them weeks, but they finally got a meeting for Pekay.

Shinwari, also a cleric, dispensed justice according to strict sharia. But he looked at Pekay's face and body, and listened to Pekay's witnesses. After considering the evidence, he approved Pekay's divorce.

Muhammad, however, is determined to get Pekay back.

"I'll die before divorcing her," he said. "I can't force her to come back to my house, but I can make sure she won't marry again. One day she'll come back. She has to."

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-11-17 7:42:42 PM|| 2004-11-17 7:42:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Supreme Court Justice Sayeed Omar Munib explains:

When asked if he believed that women and men have equal rights, as Afghanistan's constitution states, Munib replied: "It's impossible. We are Muslims, and God has given a place for men and a place for women. We can't change that. Women don't have the same brains like men. They are very forgetful. They can't make big decisions. You should ask your own Western doctors about this. It has been proven that women are not like men."

Ok.. how about we ask the Dr. Condi Rice PhD (and future Secretary of State of the only superpower in the world)?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-11-17 7:54:23 PM|| 2004-11-17 7:54:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Reading stuff like this just makes me happy that i live in a society where i get to make my own choices regarding my life.
I don't feel sorry for that girl at all, nor the millions of other Muslims around the world.

Sympathy towards Muslims & Islam is something that i am not compatible with & never will be.

Its not our fault they live in such a shit infested hell hole, ruled by retarded Sharia Laws that revolve around a pathetic religion known as Islam.

We've tried to help the Muslims countless numbers of times in the past and they just keep spitting in our faces.

Let their deaths be their freedom.

Posted by God Save The World 2004-11-17 8:19:09 PM|| [http://www.northerns-zone.com] 2004-11-17 8:19:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 poor girl , childhood stolen from her . These storys truely bring a tear to my eye . I am utterly gutted

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-17 8:22:47 PM|| 2004-11-17 8:22:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We'll know we're winning when women are no longer treated as chattel by Moslems.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-11-17 9:13:42 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2004-11-17 9:13:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Wahhabi Muslims will NEVER treat women decently. They are Demonically controlled and TOTALLY EVIL.

Posted by leaddog2 2004-11-17 10:26:56 PM|| 2004-11-17 10:26:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8
Leaddog2, are you the person who used to call himself "Dog Bites Man" and "Dog Bites Trolls" and so forth?
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-11-17 11:00:43 PM|| 2004-11-17 11:00:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The nym, leaddo2, is a contradiction. There is no alpha #2.

Posted by .com 2004-11-17 11:06:49 PM|| 2004-11-17 11:06:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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