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Posted on 05/13/2014 12:42:19 PM PDT by Theoria
A stroll through the Baghdad Book Fair last month was a lesson in today's cultural norms in Iraq. The books — gold-embossed, neatly arrayed — were almost all religious, and most of the customers were men.
But in the middle of the white pavilion, a woman's voice rang out loud and strong. Fawzia al-Babakhan, a lawyer, delivered a blistering critique of a proposed law that would rewrite the rules for matters such as marriage and inheritance according to Shiite Islamic law.
Most controversially, the law, proposed by former Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari and passed by the Cabinet, would consider girls adults and thus ready for marriage at 9 years old.
"We know that the state of women in Iraq is getting worse, despite the intellectual openness that women had benefited from following the American occupation and the removal of the regime," Babakhan says.
Since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, she says, there's been Internet access, a growing civil society and more opportunities to travel. But conservative religious politics are also on the rise. She says she's seeing women's rights regress.
Parliament Must Approve
The proposed legislation is known as the Jaafari law, after a school of Islam by that name. It still needs to be passed by Iraq's parliament. If it happens at all, it won't come until a new government is formed after results come out from last month's elections.
And if passed, the law would be voluntary; people could choose whether to use its tenets to write wills and marriage contracts. But activists worry it would still be imposed on people. And Babakhan, the lawyer, is concerned about the proposal's provision that it apply only to Iraq's Shiite majority — not Sunni Muslims or other minorities.
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Gays here in America would like it so that they can marry 9 year old boys
That muslims would “debate” something so insane speaks legions for their so-called prophet and cult.
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Why not? Mohammad did./s
American pedos believe “eight is too late”. To them a nine year old is a dried up crone.
The debate is only whether the age should be 6, or 12
By the way, who was President of the United States in 2003?
And Americans died for these sand apes...?!?!?
Little known fact is that in most states prior to the 1880s, the age of consent was still that of common law, generally 10.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/24
In 1880 Delaware, the legal age of consent was 7 years of age!
One has to suppose that marriage to a nine-year-old would be a bit short on meaningful conversation....
.…When Islam is taken to its logical conclusion.
“Gays here in America would like it so that they can marry 9 year old boys”
Uhhh - ‘marry’?
Since when did “marriage” and “queer” solve their fundamental contradiction?
Very libertarian of them
Waiting for condemnation hash tags from Moose and Hillary.
That’s OK...the husbands are restricted by sharia to “thigh-ing” until their bride reaches menarch. VERY civilized...
Is the sarcasm tag necessary?
“Very libertarian of them”
Abusing children or anyone else is not libertarian.
It makes more biological sense than in America where men are supposed to wait until the women are 30 and finished fluking it up at the bars and nightclubs.
Aisha. If it was good enough for Mad Mo, it’s good enough for any other Muslim.
I don’t know which section of the Koran quotes him as saying “Old enough to pee, old enough for me,” but there must be one. After all, he married her at the age of six, but was thoughtful enough to wait until she was nine to consummate.
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