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Saudi child 'files for divorce'
BBC ^ | 8/24/08

Posted on 08/24/2008 3:00:46 PM PDT by DogBarkTree

A court in Saudi Arabia is reported to be preparing to hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl who has been married off to a man in his 50s. The Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the girl had been married off to the man by her father without her knowledge. The child's mother is thought to be pushing for the marriage to be annulled - though the father opposes the move. In April, a court in neighbouring Yemen annulled the arranged marriage of another eight-year-old girl. She had been married to a 28-year-old man. Child-protection groups say children are often given away in return for hefty dowries, or as a result of old customs in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships. Activists have called for an end to the practice.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; mohammedanism; saudiarabia
The only thing that surprises me about this story is that the girl may get what she wants.
1 posted on 08/24/2008 3:00:48 PM PDT by DogBarkTree
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To: DogBarkTree

The day after 9/11 we should have turned all Islamic countries to glass.....


2 posted on 08/24/2008 3:08:51 PM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: DogBarkTree

She may get what she wants,but daddy’s gonna have to kill her to preserve his honor.


3 posted on 08/24/2008 3:09:17 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: DogBarkTree

some of those people from utah would fit right into that culture.


4 posted on 08/24/2008 3:11:03 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: DogBarkTree
Murder, mutilation, misogyny, piracy, slavery, child rape.... satanallah aint my god, and mUhhhhHamhead (Pigs be inseminating him) aint my prophet!!!
5 posted on 08/24/2008 3:12:18 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I will stand with the Muslims ~B Hussein Obomunist ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Verito Possumus~Verified Sleeper!)
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To: DogBarkTree
"an eight-year-old girl who has been married off to a man in his 50s."

Korans, here! Get your Korans, here! Guaranteed psychological problems for everyone who reads! Get your Korans, right here!!!!


6 posted on 08/24/2008 3:13:43 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: DogBarkTree
Americas failure to understand Islam is the real problem here.

The only reason this news has reached beyond the Islamic nations is because of Christians hatred of Muslims.

Allah through his prophet Mohammad encourages marriage before intimacy.

How can a Muslim man satisfy his love of children if this marriage is annulled.

The great Satan is once again failing to understand the Koran.

7 posted on 08/24/2008 3:15:16 PM PDT by highpockets
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To: DogBarkTree
At what point do we start drilling and get to the point where these ass backward retarded barbaric ass clowns are no longer needed to take care of our energy needs so they can go back to humping their goats and kissing their camels.
8 posted on 08/24/2008 3:17:16 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: Vaquero
Hey!

Islam is a Religion of Peace, don'tcha know?


9 posted on 08/24/2008 3:17:31 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Prole

The Koran and grenades always seem to go hand to hand.You never see one without seeing the other.


10 posted on 08/24/2008 3:25:43 PM PDT by Uncle Meat
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To: DogBarkTree

It was good enough for Muhamad.


11 posted on 08/24/2008 4:00:27 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Vaquero

This is a disgusting post. There are many people in Iran, for example, like the students, who truly detest their government and would love to see a new government there. They detest Ahmedinejad. And you think we should have just killed all of the innocent people, even those with no ties to terrorism? That’s just disgusting. That’s what our enemies do-like they did on 9/11. They killed more than 3000 innocent Americans. Innocent civilians may die in wars but we DO NOT kill them on purpose. That is what differentiates us from the monsters on the other side, and you want to throw all of that right out the window. Collective punishment is immoral. I hope you don’t call yourself pro-life.


12 posted on 08/24/2008 4:02:34 PM PDT by LiberalsSpendYourMoney (Liberalism is a tax on humanity)
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To: Vaquero
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jvTRpNDBGEVeRgwd2cybxqYkTzMg

"TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian students staged a noisy protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the country's top university in Tehran on Monday, likening him to the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Riot police barred the group of about 100 chanting male and female students from leaving the Tehran University campus, where Ahmadinejad was giving a speech to mark the start of a new academic year, a witness told AFP. "Ahmadinejad is Pinochet! Iran will not become Chile," the students shouted, the witness said."

13 posted on 08/24/2008 4:04:30 PM PDT by LiberalsSpendYourMoney (Liberalism is a tax on humanity)
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To: DogBarkTree

It is not that easy in these cases.


14 posted on 08/24/2008 4:14:14 PM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE and Help Beat Obama)
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To: DogBarkTree

The father is as sick and twisted as the scumbag who married the child. What are the odds that he will murder her to protect the “honor” of the family? I’ll never understand these so called fathers who treat their young daughters like slaves. They should be protecting their daughters, not pimping them out and killing them.


15 posted on 08/24/2008 4:52:26 PM PDT by peeps36 ( Al Gore Is A Big Fat Lying Hypocrite. He Pollutes The Air By Opening His Big Mouth)
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To: Vaquero

“The day after 9/11 we should have turned all Islamic countries to glass.....”

Islam Delenda Est. Turning ‘em into glass certainly would ‘delenda’ ‘em.

;-)


16 posted on 08/24/2008 5:08:03 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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