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Australian Girl was Married Off at 13 in Syria
FrontPage Mag ^ | 07/02/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 07/02/2014 8:10:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

This is a tragic story, but child marriage is routine in the Muslim world. Islamic immigration means that little girls in Australia, America and through the West will be subject to Islamic norms.

No amount of laws criminalizing child marriage can change that. Only immigration laws can.

An Australian girl who was kidnapped, beaten and married off to her older cousin by her father’s family in Syria at the age of 13 has spoken out about her horrific five-year ordeal for the first time.

Ms Farrah, who grew up living in Sydney’s southwest and is the daughter of a Syrian Muslim and his Australian convert wife, was married off to her cousin who she had never met and endured terrible beatings after being taken to Syria’s capital Damascus from Egypt.

This isn’t a unique story. Western women marry Muslim men and not only expose themselves to abuse, but this children also.

Living in a strict Muslim world, she attended an Islamic school and learned Arabic. ‘I did all the things they asked me to do… I was taught how to pray and fast for Ramadan,’ she said.

Rania’s mother Margaret met Rania’s father in Australia, but the couple moved to Saudi Arabia soon after their marriage. According to Rania, it was a violent relationship, and she remembers that her dad “used to beat my mum. He never beat us… [but] he beat my mum all the time.”

When Rania was eight-years-old, Margaret and her five young children fled to Australia – leaving their father behind. The family’s life changed for the better. They lived with Margaret’s “true blue Aussie” family, as Rania described them in the interview, and for many years they only heard from her father occasionally by telephone.

But when she was 13, Rania’s older brother said he would take her on a trip to Egypt for a holiday. After one week in Egypt, however, Rania was taken to Jordan to see her father.

Almost immediately, her passport was confiscated, and Rania was told she would be living with his family now.

When she arrived at her father’s home, Ms Farrah said she was “interrogated” by him before being subjected to a humiliating medical examination to determine if she was still a virgin.

Despite being a virgin, her father and brother were still not satisfied and began beating Ms Farrah with their belts.

“Afterwards I told them I hadn’t been with a man and my brother said ‘Yes, I know, because if you had your father would’ve killed you’.

Her second cousin, who she was forced to marry, was in his early thirties and Ms Farrah avoided ‘eye contact’ and never spoke to him.

The Immigrant Women’s Health Service in Fairfield, in Sydney’s west, has rescued 62 child brides from Iraqi, Afghani, Pakistani, Indian, Egyptian, Turkish and Sudanese families over the past three years.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Ms Farrah’s father has now returned to Australia with a new wife and more daughters. She has spoken to him once since his arrival and said he remains unrepentant and even threatened to kill her.

“He told me no western pig government is going to tell me how to raise my daughters, and if it comes to it I will slit your mother’s throat, your sister’s throat and your throat,” she said.

As for other women in her situation, Ms Farrah offered this advice: “Run for your life. If you live here in Australia you are in a country that believes in women’s rights. Cut off your family and run – your life will be better for it.”

Until the immigration pipeline is cut off, more women will be abused.

In February this year, it was discovered that an imam had allegedly married a 12-year-old girl to a 26-year-old man. Both the imam and the “husband” were charged, with solemnisation of a marriage by an unauthorised person and multiple counts of having sex with a child respectively.




TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: australia; islam; minors

1 posted on 07/02/2014 8:10:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

My mother-in-law was married at 13. OF course, she wasn’t kidnapped and sold...

She had her first child (my brother-in-law) at the age of 15...


2 posted on 07/02/2014 8:11:23 AM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: TheBattman

RE: My mother-in-law was married at 13

Is this legal where she came from?


3 posted on 07/02/2014 8:15:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

islam:

““Afterwards I told them I hadn’t been with a man and my brother said ‘Yes, I know, because if you had your father would’ve killed you’.”

Christianity: John 8:2-11

2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.


4 posted on 07/02/2014 8:17:15 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is what I will be thinking about when it comes time to pull the trigger, and the time will come!

Wonder what skanky Sandra Fluke and all the Feminazi's will do?

5 posted on 07/02/2014 8:22:05 AM PDT by defconw (LUTFA!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think that we have found the War on Women. Someone notify Sandra Fluke.


6 posted on 07/02/2014 8:36:22 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: TheBattman

“My mother-in-law was married at 13.”

For some reason Jerry Lee Lewis came to mind! Go figure.


7 posted on 07/02/2014 8:40:33 AM PDT by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: SeekAndFind
But when she was 13, Rania’s older brother said he would take her on a trip to Egypt for a holiday.

Falling for that was the great "whoops!" moment in this story.

8 posted on 07/02/2014 9:04:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (If I die before I wake, feed Jake.)
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To: SeekAndFind

9 posted on 07/02/2014 9:26:07 AM PDT by caveat emptor (!)
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To: SeekAndFind
“He told me no western pig government is going to tell me how to raise my daughters, and if it comes to it I will slit your mother’s throat, your sister’s throat and your throat,” she said.

Ah, yes. The religion of peace.....

10 posted on 07/02/2014 11:33:44 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: caveat emptor

That is one sick perverted picture.

Islam needs to be eradicated from the face of the earth.


11 posted on 07/02/2014 11:35:12 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: SeekAndFind

She is apparently back in Australia now, it does not say how this came about.

Also it was not real uncommon for girls in this country to get married at 13 and 14 but I believe being forced to is grounds for murder.


12 posted on 07/02/2014 12:18:24 PM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: metmom
Yep.

Muhammad married a six year old bride. But Islam has evolved in 1500 years. In Hamas land, in 2009, the brides are almost seven.


13 posted on 07/02/2014 1:00:34 PM PDT by caveat emptor (!)
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14 posted on 07/02/2014 1:01:17 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: caveat emptor

Those poor little girls.

Read Matt 18:6 and Luke 17:2 to see what the Lord has to say about this abomination.

Bottom line: those who are involved in this, unless they repent, will burn for eternity.


15 posted on 07/03/2014 3:42:08 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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