Posted on 10/11/2010 8:47:20 AM PDT by george76
The marriage of a government official to a 12-year-old girl has inflamed a long simmering battle over marriage to minors, pitting Saudi human rights activists and at least one prominent Muslim sheikh against government officials who have been accused of failing to curb the widespread practice. The fact that the unidentified groom, who lives in the city of Najran, was a mazoun, or marriage official, whose job it is to preside over the signing of marriage contracts, only added to the outrage over the marriage among many Saudis.
Many families marry their daughters to older men for financial benefits, getting payments from grooms in advance...
Many argue that Islamic law in fact permits such marriages, citing the Prophet Mohammed’s marriage to Aysha when she was nine.
The man who married the 12-year-old girl told Al Watan newspaper on Friday that he was goaded into consummating the union by his mother and that it took “several attempts over two weeks” to accomplish, even as the girl expressed bewilderment about “why her parents gave her away to me”.
(Excerpt) Read more at middle-east-online.com ...
mohammad married a 9 year old - it is the religion they practice and have practiced for centuries - why is the west telling them what to do...
Barbarians!
That much is not in dispute.
The question is, is the law an ass?
The answer is clear.
I know, lets make up a child-abuse committee at the UN and elect them as chair!
It's called mahr. The groom is supposed to pay it as a condition of marriage. This is why wealthy older men get multiple wives while poor guys do not marry (unless they can score a stupid non-Muslim Western girl).
“pitting Saudi human rights activists”
Huh?
A nation FULL of child molesters & we call them an ally in the region while they plot our demise, as they have to the tune of 100 Billion for the madrassas throughout the World.
A child molester is an animal.
A nation of them is called saudis.
Koranimals.
12? She’s no spring chicken in the muslim world. As mentioned above old Mo himself took his last wife when she was the ripe old age of 6. Of course he was such the class act that he waited till she was 9 to consumate the marriage.
Any A-Rab chattering on the Internet about “impatience” with any Saudi ‘law’ may lose his head for speaking against the Queeran, the Saudi Royal family appointed “religious leaders”, and the Moslim tradition of pedophile marriages leading all the way back to MadMo.
Gotta give that Sand Savage credit for courage, though.
“...citing the Prophet Mohammed’s marriage to Aysha when she was nine.”
9 ????? All their hadieths say 6 & consummated 9.
The Libertarian dream.
Funny, we don’t have these discussion in our culture. Could it be that there are real differences between cultures? Not just between “cuisine”, dress and music as all those cosmopolitan types keep reminding us provincials.
You are right on the money. Look at how our “friends” the Saudis have been stringing us along for fifty years. It is shocking to see how looking back it fits perfectly with the koran commandment to not be friends with the “infidels”, to show one face to them and another behind their backs. As the Saudis realized that we needed them more than they needed us, the balance of power shifted in their direction.
Presidents, top leaders in our government as well as other western governments have been scmoozed by the ultra-wealthy Saudi princes. No doubt it turned the heads of many people in power who envied that kind of astronomical wealth. These kafir useful idiots are now being treated like two- dollar hookers. This is the respect they have for us.
The western useful idiots in our government and business community have seen the westernized facade of these princes and have taken them at face value but they will soon learn that they have been had. By the way, has anyone heard the recent scandal involving the Saudis? One of the princes murdered his homosexual, servant-lover in an upscale London hotel. The prince is caught on tape in a hotel elevator repeatedly viciously punching and kicking this servant. Later the servant was found in the prince’s room strangled. The markings on his body showed that he had been abused over a long period of time. Disgusting what absolute power does.
“Could it be that there are real differences between cultures?”
Naaa - can’t be. Just listen to your Inner Liberal saying “Diversity Is Our Strength”. Then kick the sh*t out of that ‘Inner Liberal’ for saying that.
;-)
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