Posted on 01/07/2007 3:38:43 PM PST by blam
Starving Afghans sell girls of eight as brides
Villagers whose crops have failed after a second devastating drought are giving their young daughters in marriage to raise money for food
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday January 7, 2007
The Observer (UK)
Azizgul is 10 years old, from the village of Houscha in western Afghanistan. This year the wheat crop failed again following a devastating drought. Her family was hungry. So, a little before Christmas, Azizgul's mother 'sold' her to be married to a 13-year-old boy. 'I need to sell my daughters because of the drought,' said her mother Sahatgul, 30. 'We don't have enough food and the bride price will enable us to buy food. Three months ago my 15-year-old daughter married.
'We were not so desperate before. Now I have to marry them younger. And all five of them will have to get married if the drought becomes worse. The bride price is 200,000 afghanis [£2,000]. His father came to our house to arrange it. The boy pays in instalments. First he paid us 5,000 afghanis, which I used to buy food.' Azizgul is not unique. Hers is one of a number of interviews and case studies collected by the charity Christian Aid - all of them young girls sold by their families to cope with the second ruinous drought to hit Afghanistan within three years.
While the world has focused on the war against the Taliban, the suffering of the drought-stricken villagers, almost 2.5 million of them, has largely gone unnoticed. And where once droughts would afflict Afganistan once every couple of decades, this drought has come hard on the heels of the last one, from which the villagers were barely able to recover.
While prohibited by both Afghan civil and Islamic law,
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I still have that NG issue. I thought she was beautiful when i got it, but after seeing the documentary on History?Travel?TLC? I was shocked. This poor woman has to keep inside or be beaten. Cult is a nice description of islam.
I suppose you would rather see them starve.
I don't see a lot of aid coming in...
Amnesty means vote dilution, & increased taxes to bring us down to the world poverty level
In Afghanistan, $3,000 has got to be a lot of money.
CAIR doesn't CARE
... the problem is the US Government thinks we are the UN with multiculturalism replacing being an American, various languages, and people treated like commodities being allowed to enter as the employers need them (staying here afterwards on welfare), plenty of corruption, burdensome expenditures etc. Guess I am just confused as to what's what. We aren't raising our standards, just lowering them to the world level - heck we are fighting in IRAQ to protect their border not ours... I am getting more and more confused.
Well it will all be over soon with amnesty passed, the Dems crying "Millions of Americans living below the poverty level..."
Since mohammed's youngest bride was 9 when he consumated the marriage with her, this does not shock me. 7'th century throwbacks.
You are correct.
MUSLIMS?... How did you know?..
First the lady says: Zawajtuka nafsi fil muddatil ma'loomati 'alal mahril ma'loom.
Translation: "I married myself to you for the known period and the agreed upon dowry."
Then man replies: Qabiltu. Translation: "I accepted."*
Congratulations! That's it! You are now halal for each other for the time period that you agreed! Best wishes, The Mutah Matchmaker Mutah.com *(The above seegha can be found in Ayatullah Khomeini's resalah.)
Legalized prostitution is all it is.
Source = http://www.mutah.com/how_do_i_do_mutah.htm
It's a Muslim website so for all the Libs, and angry Muslims hush.
mmmmm -yes- it's such a burden having to look at a link knowing that it might lead somewhere, and not clicking on it- I feel your pain- must be a tremendous hardship on your life- But- with lots of therapy and good counseling by qualified professionals, I'm sure you'll recover- in the meantime- rest assured that I'm sure FR isn't too put off by the folks I send their way from both my site and from forums I post in all over the net recommending that they come here for their news-
What does the Sacred Scoop website have to do with this article???
not a thing- but if it's causing you pain- see above post by me- I do- I really do feel the pain deep down in me soul
Uhh, Christy Brinkley also has had a bit of plastic surgery, no doubt. And you always see her with a load of makeup as well.
I would have expected this afghan woman to look worse than she does.
Oh goodness! I was actually asking a question. You don't have to be so snotty about it.
Have I offended you? Gee whiz!
if that's the case- then my apologies- thought you were jumpin on the bandwagon with the others
Apology accepted.
and Aisha, Mohamet's 6 year old bride, was the daughter of his brother, so there is an incest aspect to it alwo.
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