Posted on 11/10/2024 1:59:21 PM PST by DFG
Iraq is poised to pass a new law that would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing men to marry young girls, according to a new report.
The Shia conservative groups that dominate Iraq’s parliament have proposed an amendment to the country’s “personal status law” that could see a Taliban-style rollback of all women’s rights.
The chance would allow young girls to be married off and put nearly all family decisions in the hands of religious authorities, said Raya Faiq, who is coordinating a challenge against the bill with female Iraqi representatives.
“This is a catastrophe for women,” Faiq told The Guardian. “This law legalizes child rape.”
Critics say it would remove all agency from women.
The US invaded Iraq in 2003 and overthrew the brutal, secular regime of Saddam Hussein. The war cost at least $3 trillion — including on efforts to rebuild government institutions and education systems.
However, years of sectarian infighting have led to a government controlled by the Shia Muslim religious majority.
The Shia coalition has tried to amend the personal status law twice in the past, but backlash from Iraqi women defeated both attempts.
The religious groups, however, now hold a large majority in Parliament, creating an uphill battle for Faiq and a block of 25 female representatives who are seeking to stop a second vote that would ratify the bill.
Alia Nassif, an Iraqi rep, told the Guardian that many of her male colleagues fail to see the problem in allowing grown men to marry girls.
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How long till they start pressing for that here?
It’s “their culture,” after all.
So what former candidate is going to retire there?
I initially thought that this article was about Hollywood. . .
Actually its tied to their religion.
So all the same folks who say they shouldnt be discriminated against for their religion, you better back off. Its their country as well, not yours.
So either go there and do something, or stfu.
Tell me why the United States of America wasted our time and money there?
Iraq was better off under Saddam as opposed to the Iranian proxi Iraq. What a waste that Afghanistan and Iraq turned out to be.
This is a summary of the man Islamic believers have as the subject of their adoration. Muhammad.
“Aisha was the only virgin he married. The majority of traditional sources state that Aisha was betrothed to Muhammad at the age of six or seven, but she stayed in her parents’ home until the age of nine, or ten according to Ibn Hisham, when the marriage was consummated with Muhammad, then 53, in Medina.”
Google search.
Great job, W.
There has never been a society more engineered to demean and diminish women than Islam, who objectifies them...
Allah is the god of statutory rape.
Boiled down, the whole religion is base on monkey sex with kids, eternal enslavement of women and the murder of anyone who disagrees with them.
Prove me wrong.
Him and his POS father and guac eating tippy toes is tallest brother Jeb “Ruprecht” Bush.
How is this W’s fault?
It’s Islam. They’re just mimicking Mad Mo.
Every now and again I get a nice little sign, a reminder I am on the side of good.
This is one of those signs.
How many US soldiers died for that?
W should be prosecuted for war crimes
Something else for GW to hang his hat on.
Sick culture, sick people enabling it.
Not a damn one should be allowed to immigrate here.
And yet here in the states a 9 year old can choose their gender
9 is getting on up there for a goat
No Alabama was the first!
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