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Posted on 01/15/2016 2:15:33 PM PST by Nachum
A bid to ban child marriage in Pakistan utterly failed, after the Council of Islamic Ideology declared the legislation “anti-Islamic†and “blasphemous.â€
The bill didn’t even move past the first stage in the legislative process, The Express Tribune reports. It was almost immediately pulled Thursday by Pakistan Muslim League party’s Marvi Menon following condemnation from CII, whose job it is to advise the legislature on whether bills are compliant with Sharia law. In this case, the bill clearly violated Islamic law as tradition holds marriage as acceptable when a girl hits puberty.
After CII’s declaration, a parliamentary committee rejected the legislation solely for religious reasons and Menon subsequently pulled the legislation.
Existing legislation in Pakistan already violates Islamic law. The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act 2014 places the legal age of marriage at 16 for women, but the recent proposal attempted to move that age up to 18 and also included serious punishment for the common practice of child marriage. That punishment would have included prison for up to two years for anyone caught engaging in child marriage.
According to the organization Girls Not Brides, over 21 percent of the girls in Pakistan enter into marriage before the age of 18.
CII Chairman Mohammad Khan Sheerani reiterated in 2014 that girls can be married at age nine, so long as puberty is apparent, adding that attempts to revisit the issue are pointless and unnecessary.
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No wonder democrats like muslims
Barry sent the State Dept to Pak it seems.
>>No wonder democrats like muslims
They’d prefer to see grown men buggering little boys, but for the Democrats, this is a start.
Exactly.
Muhammad married ONE of his wives when she was six.
Raped her when she was nine.
Muhammad is the “perfect” man and muslim to ALL muslims...
Pakistan must not be a real muslim country according to those in denial about islam
I’m surprised Billy-Jeff hasn’t converted.
ROFL!!
ROP bkmk
Gosh, we should flood America with these turds that just won’t flush.
Pedophilia is before puberty.
Typo. That’s “hebephilia,”
... With increasing immigration, the practice of child marriage has also spread to the West, raising alarm especially in the United Kingdom. According to data from the Home Office’s Forced Marriage Unit, there were 1,485 cases of child marriage in 2012. Another government report also foundchild marriage is increasing around the world, with the rate expected to climb to 14 million child marriages a year before 2020 hits....
“Moderate” Muslims
Particularly those at Salon. This is their big thing.
A religion they can all embrace
Thought this had to be satire, sadly it is not.
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