SANA’A, April 9 - An eight-year-old girl decided last week to go the Sana’a West Court to prosecute her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man. Posted on 04/11/2008 10:07:28 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Nojoud Muhammed Nasser YT Photo by Hamed Thabet SANA’A, April 9 - An eight-year-old girl decided last week to go the Sana’a West Court to prosecute her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man.
Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court by herself on Wednesday, April 2, looking for a judge to handle her case against her father, Muhammed Nasser, who forced her two months ago to marry Faez Ali Thamer, a man 22 years her senior. The child also asked for a divorce, accusing her husband of sexual and domestic abuse.
According to Yemeni law, Nojoud cannot prosecute, as she is underage. However, court judge Muhammed Al-Qathi heard her complaint and subsequently ordered the arrests of both her father and husband.
“My father beat me and told me that I must marry this man, and if I did not, I would be raped and no law and no sheikh in this country would help me. I refused but I couldn’t stop the marriage,” Nojoud Nasser told the Yemen Times. “I asked and begged my mother, father, and aunt to help me to get divorced. They answered, ‘We can do nothing. If you want you can go to court by yourself.’ So this is what I have done,” she said.
Nasser said that she was exposed to sexual abuse and domestic violence by her husband. “He used to do bad things to me, and I had no idea as to what a marriage is. I would run from one room to another in order to escape, but in the end he would catch me and beat me and then continued to do what he wanted. I cried so much but no one listened to me. One day I ran away from him and came to the court and talked to them.”
“Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him. This lasted for two months," added Nasser. "He was too tough with me, and whenever I asked him for mercy, he beat me and slapped me and then used me. I just want to have a respectful life and divorce him.”
Nasser’s uncle, who does not want to reveal his name, is following the case now as her guardian. According to her uncle, after Muhammed Nasser, the girl's father, lost his job as a garbage truck driver in Hajjah, he became a beggar, and soon after suffered from mental problems.
Thamer is in jail now. “Yes I was intimate with her, but I have done nothing wrong, as she is my wife and I have the right and no one can stop me," he said. "But if t The husband YT Photo by Hamed Thabet he judge or other people insist that I divorce her, I will do it, it’s ok.”
So far, no accusations have been made against her father, who was later released due to health problems, or Nasser's husband, who will remain in jail for further investigation.
“So far there is no case and no charges, as Nojoud arrived by herself to court asking just for a divorce,“ said Shatha Ali Nasser, a lawyer in the Supreme Court who is following Nojoud Nasser’s story.
Shatha Ali Nasser confirmed that item number 15 in Yemeni civil law reads that “no girl or boy can get married before the age of 15." However, this item was amended in 1998 so parents could make a contract of marriage between their children even if they are under the age of 15. But the husband cannot be intimate with her until she is ready or mature,” said Nasser.“This law is highly dangerous because it brings an end to a young girl’s happiness and future fruitful life. Nojoud did not get married, but she was raped by a 30-year old man.”
Nasser confirmed that Nojoud Nasser’s case is not the first of its kind in Yemen, but it is the first time that a girl went to court by herself to ask for a divorce.
“We are not planning to return Nojoud to her family. Who knows? Maybe after a few years the same thing will happen to her again," said Shatha Ali Nasser. "We are planning to put her in Dar Al-Rahama [an non-governmental organization that works with children], where she can have a better life and education. We do not want her family to pay her expenses, as they are poor.”
Reading this poor girl’s commentary I got the impression that she is wise beyond her age, and that is truly sad.
This piece of trash should be dealt with accordingly.
I haven’t been on any of those threads, but I’m sadly not surprised to hear this.
When I read of this, I thought of the correlation between these animals and the FLDS scum.
But I think its safe to assume those idiots in El Dorado don’t mutilate their girls’ reproductive parts. And I know they don’t behead them if they are raped. I’m sure there is abuse, but probably not on the same scale as is going on in Yemen.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Chainsaw correction needed here.
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What a bunch of animals.
And they call us NONBELIEVERS!
She still doesn't, and will never learn in that culture.
Everyone wonders where American society is going with its rampant permissiveness. But I think we may already have a good model: namely, the Middle East.
Whether those pushing the gay agenda ultimately "take over" the country, or those pushing pedophilia take over, in time only that particular perversion is allowed. All other forms will get you stoned to death.
And perversion doesn't admit of productive pursuits in one's life either. Everything is subjugated to it and society regresses. It becomes a sexual tyranny, the most stagnant form of tyranny. </libwhacker shooting from the hip, lol>
As Paul Harvey likes to say, “it’s NOT One World”. What a bunch of sick f@*#s.
Agreed. I wonder how she escaped being stoned?
Now now. “Who are we to judge”. “To each his own”.
And my personal favorite “We Celebrate Diversity.”
That man and the girl’s father deserve a good, old-school, Sicilian street beating.
How do you know it is not on the same scale, until all comes out.
Remember the unusual number of unmarked and marked children’s graves in Colo, that another poster posted about, related to these cults in the USA?
Sadly, it gives me a glimpse into where we will be in the not so distant future (as the Ghost of Christmas Present says in “A Christmas Carol”), “if these events remain unaltered.” If my existence as a woman under Sharia law would be anything close to this child’s experience, I’d gladly arm myself and die to save others similarly situated.
It’s so strange to me that what one culture believes is a pure and heavenly existence is the very picture of hell to mine. I truly can’t bear to face these stories anymore. The older I get, the softer my heart becomes and the more I grieve.
Is this why muslim countrys keep zero records for child abuse.. Take this one case and multiply it by billions over many centurys and you can approach the scope of the problem.. its also true that South American countrys also keep very sloppy records of at all on child abuse.. same with Europe mostly.. Don’t even talk of Asia or Africa,, In most of the world they are zero laws against child abuse..
No, she was not nine. She was still being wet nursed, was dragged into her parents house, which was in Mecca, so it was before Mohammad was kicked out of Mecca. She was placed on his lap, and her parents left the house, letting Mohammad rape their baby.
Islam is a evil disease.
Six.
At least she has an uncle who appears to be willing to step up and help her. A lot of those poor little girls have no one at all to help them.
She lives among beasts who sold her - ‘bride price’. It will be returned to her rapist after the divorce. If the family has another girl, she will then be married.
Sure, what the hell, plenty of other beggars with defenseless little girls out there.
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