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The terrifying world of child brides
UK Daily Mail ^
| 10/12/12
| Snejana Farberov
Posted on 10/12/2012 9:36:40 AM PDT by Kartographer
At age 11, Ghulam was married off to 40-year-old Jaiz in a rural Afghan village, making her only one of more than 10 million young girls who are being forced to wed men old enough to be their fathers or grandfather every year. In an effort to start a global conversation about the devastating effects of early marriages, which are currently practiced in more than 50 developing countries, the United Nations designated October 11 as International Day of the Girl Child this year. To mark the occasion and draw attention to the problem of child brides, photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair teamed up with National Geographic to create a series of heart-breaking photos depicting girls as young as five years old being married off to middle-aged men in countries like India, Yemen and Ethiopia.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: childbride
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A day of prayer should be held here in American during which every woman and girl thanks God that they were born here and every man thanks God that the mothers, sisters and daughters were born here as well.
To: Kartographer
Child mothers: Asia, a 14-year-old mother, washes her new baby girl at home in Hajjah while her two-year-old daughter plays
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:38:32 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:43:00 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:43:49 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
To: Kartographer
Umm... 'scuse me?
WHERE'S THE MULTICULTURALISM!?
I mean, we don't have the right to judge their culture. Right?
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:45:58 AM PDT
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: Kartographer
This the the real war on women.
Yet, the libtarded femi-nazi’s are strangely quiet.
To: Kartographer; All
The MSNBC Liberals would be screaming Legitimate Rape if these were Christian children getting married so young...
But it is Islam, and like always, gets a pass
It seems only those who are aware of the evils of Islam makes any case for these children
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:46:55 AM PDT
by
SeminoleCounty
(Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:47:23 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
To: TChris
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:48:36 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
To: mom4melody
43 Years Old / 11 Years Old.
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:50:22 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
To: SeminoleCounty
12 Year Old girl:
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:51:38 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:52:10 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Only two of God's creatures can employ the term "we": newspaper editors and men with tapeworms-Hayes)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:52:42 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Kartographer
In an effort to start a global conversation about the devastating effects of early marriages, which are currently practiced in more than 50 developing countries
It's not only in developing nations that this happens. Every so often our sold out media (SOM) will mention incidents of forced child marriage here in the USA or Canada, Britain, France, Germany any nation with a fair sized islamist community in it. For the most part progressive governments look the other way.
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posted on
10/12/2012 9:59:11 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
10/12/2012 10:01:01 AM PDT
by
oneolcop
(Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
To: Kartographer
In Islamic Third World environments, you have child marriages. In other places, like China, girls are simply aborted or killed in infancy. It comes down to poverty, and girls having little economic value in pre-industrial societies.
When the girl is married off young, the parents no longer have the expense of feeding and clothing her. Why not marry her off to a young man? Because young men are much less likely to have the wealth to support a wife.
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posted on
10/12/2012 10:04:12 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
To: Kartographer
There is no “global conversation” about this pedophilia the muslims love. To say otherwise would be to offend the islamopigs.
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posted on
10/12/2012 10:29:13 AM PDT
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: mom4melody
“This the the real war on women. Yet, the libtarded femi-nazis are strangely quiet.”
That is because muzzies & feminazis have a common enemy in Judeo-Christian moral values.
I have read on other sites some fanatical defenses of Islam by atheists, of all people. Again, they have a common enemy - us.
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posted on
10/12/2012 10:40:57 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
To: elcid1970
They serve the same master....
To: mom4melody
Ding! Ding! Ding! Folks, we have a winner!
The Left & Muzzies indeed serve the same master. That sums it up in a nutshell! I add this to my armory of thoughts.
:^)
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posted on
10/12/2012 10:54:40 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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