Posted on 08/11/2024 3:13:31 AM PDT by george76
coalition in Iraq has pushed proposals to lower the legal age of marriage for girls to just nine-years-old, sparking fierce backlash from activists and rights groups.
Protesters demonstrated in Baghdad this week to express their outrage at changes that would allow aspects of personal status matters to be legislated by religious sects, rather than the courts.
With many Iraqi marriages conducted informally and left unregistered, the revisions would allow figures from Sunni and Shia religious sects to finalise unions between people in law.
But critics fear the Shia code would be based on 'Jaafari jurisprudence', allowing girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to marry. Under current Iraqi law, both can marry from 18.
'The Iraqi community categorically rejects these proposals, it is a degrading step for both Iraqi men and women alike. This is what we have been fighting against for years,' women's rights activist Suhalia Al Assam
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The amendments to Law No. 188, the Personal Status Law of 1959 have been pushed by a coalition of conservative Shia Islamist parties, which form the largest bloc in parliament.
The Coordination Framework attempted to carry out a first reading on July 24, but shelved the plans until last Sunday after meeting political resistance.
Many protesters gathered in Tahrir Square in the capital on Thursday to voice their opposition to the bill, which some said would foment further division in society.
Iraq's current law states that marriage requires 'a sound mind and completing eighteen years of age', with provisions for women fleeing abuse in annulling a contract.
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Since the invasion of Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein, right-wing groups have tried to repeal many of these laws and rights.
Proposals have included banning the marriage of Muslim men and non-Muslim women, and legalising marital rape.
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lol google the age of marriage in US states. Many have no minimum age
[Iraq proposes lowering legal age of marriage for girls to NINE]
That’s when Mohammed consummated his marriage to his favorite wife, Aisha. Mohammed married Aisha when she was six years old.
There are certainly things that people would rather that the public not understand / comprehend:
Mohammed was about 49 years old when he married a 6-year-old girl (Aisha).
3 years later when Mohammed was about 52 years old, he consummated his marriage to the 9-year-old girl
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [5:58:234] Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, “Best wishes and Allah’s Blessing and a good luck.” Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah’s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Number 235: Narrated ‘Aisha:
That the Prophet said to her, “You have been shown to me twice in my dream. I saw you pictured on a piece of silk and some-one said (to me). ‘This is your wife.’ When I uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, ‘If this is from Allah, it will be done.”
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [7:62:64] Narrated ‘Aisha:
that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).
It’s not girls, it’s goats!
Remember Jerry Lee Lewis.
Why not let them marry at 6 like Mohammed? /s
She’s only six? She looked like she was nine to me!
Only pedos would want no age restriction.
Biology alone gives solid reason for one. It’s very dangerous for a young girl below a certain age to become pregnant as her body is no where near finished developing.
Pregnancy is hard enough on the body when you’re an adult (in your 20’s adult). It’s going to really wreak havoc with a girl who is not finished maturing.
..... Mohammed was about 52 years old when he consummated his marriage to the 9-year-old girl.
Easier to indoctrinate into MohammedISM...
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. He may have formally married her at six, but he didn’t actually throw her down and nail her ‘til she was nine.
“Many have no minimum age”
The ones that do require a judge’s approval
Findlay says the do. Most states have it set at 16 with parental or court consent. About half have a maximum age gap requirement of 2-4 years so that 16 and 17 year olds can’t marry 40 year olds
Well it is Islam after all. 🙄
That’s right.
But if he pulled her hair back she looked six again.
“Joe Biden Presidential Library, Baghdad Iraq.”
And that made him really randy.
This is not a controversial assertion. Muslim apologists explicitly defend it.
What, from 10?
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