Posted on 02/03/2006 11:27:56 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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Friday, February 3, 2006
Sadat gave daughter in marriage at 12 Posted: February 3, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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A daughter of late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said in a recent television interview her father used his power to give her away in marriage illegally at the age of 12 to a man who later abused her.
Camelia Sadat told Dream 2 TV in Egypt that the president at that time, Gamal Abd Al-Nasser, served as a witness along with the chief of staff for her father, who was speaker of the parliament.
The legal age for marriage was 16.
An excerpt of the interview, provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute, can be viewed here.
Camelia Sadat said her father, who was assassinated in 1981, told the official who performed the marriage that she didn't have a birth certificate, "because they wanted to perform the marriage before I was of legal age."
Her husband was 17 years her senior.
Told that two witnesses would be needed to testify his daughter was of legal age, Anwar Sadat presented Nasser and Gen. Abd Al-Hakim Amar.
Camelia Sadat said the only one who protested the marriage was Nasser's wife, Tahiya, who confronted her father.
Anwar Sadat told his daughter: "Aunt Tahiya embarrassed me. She said to us: 'I am calling the police. They will put you in the police car and take you to jail. What you did to Camelia is breaking my heart.'"
Egypt's leaders, Camelia Sadat said, worked together to falsify her age.
"They made me 16, which is the legal age for marriage. But what happened to my life was the ruin of my childhood," she said. "My childhood was completely ruined, because they began to treat me as a woman."
She said the "harshness with which my husband treated me went beyond words, curses, or even physical [abuse]. It reached a very severe level."
"He would explode at me, whenever he felt like it," Sadat said. "He could do anything. He treated me just as he treated his soldiers, or maybe even worse."
Sadat said she had two miscarriages, at age 13 and 14. To give birth to her only daughter Iqbal, named for her mother, she had to spend the first five months of pregnancy on her back, with her legs propped up on cushions.
"I received stabilizing injections, because I had a uterus of a child, which could not carry a pregnancy," she said.
Camelia Sadat said she went to her father after suffering regular beatings by her husband. When her husband came to retrieve her, Anwar Sadat confronted him about the beatings.
"My husband would say: 'By God, she's a child," Camelia Sadat said. "She hides behind doors and goes: Boo! She wants to play ... I say to her: 'Not now' ... After a while, she decides to hit me, and I have to defend myself. … Anwar Sadat would accept these excuses."
Along with the physical abuse, she also told her father of starvation.
"I would say to him: 'Father, I am hungry. I haven't eaten in two days.' He would go, take out money, and say: 'Go and eat.'"
Sadat said her father became president when she turned 21. When she saw a newspaper photo of herself voting, which noted her age, she got the idea to sue for divorce.
In her 1985 book "My Father and I," Camelia Sadat said her marriage was ended with her father's approval only after she attempted suicide.
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It is even worse. He married Aisah at 6 but didn't consumate the marriage until she was quite elderly - 9.
Islamaniacs don't try and hide it.
That was no lie.
Was that really all that shocking back then though?
Was your grandfather 31 when he took a 14 year old bride?
Yep, search Bukhari and Aisha.
You were at the wedding I take it?
But he's a Nobel Peace Prize winner! And a personal friend of Jimmy Carter.
Best line of the day!
There is no controversy about this it is gleefully discribed by those who were his closest companions.
Some days I feel old enough to have been there.
A long time ago I read a book by a daughter of Sadat who was married to a military officer. It may have been Camelia although I can't recall her first name. She said in the book that as a young girl reaching puberty, one of her greatest fears was an Arab custom which was sometimes still practiced. When a girl had her first period, older women would put their finger into her and run around showing everyone the bloody finger as a form of "celebration". IIRC the author of the book I read managed to escape undergoing this indignity.
Nope
14 is a lot different than 10.
Barbarians.
The ritual I was describing is not female circumcision and the Sadat daughter whose book I read did not bring up that topic. I think it may have been Camelia because she described being married to an officer who treated her badly and also said that as she was the daughter of Sadat from a prior relationship she did not live with him and his new wife.
The face of Islam is the face of Satan.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
bump
Leni
Absolutely true.
Here is a link with quotations from Mohammedan scripture describing what happened from a critical point of view:
http://www.muhammadanism.org/Hadith/Topics/Marriage.htm
Here is the Google Cache of a Muslim website defending the marriage, while admitting the facts:
www.themodernreligion.com/prophet/prophet_aisha.htm The site itself seems to have been captured by domain speculators, so I give you the cache.
There are many sites on the net both condemning and defending Mohammed's child marriage, but none of them deny the facts (some say that Mohammed did not have sex with Aisha until she was older, but the hadiths don't follow him into his harem).
There is also no denying that the child-marriage of Aisha is the basis of many a Mohammedan child-marriage today. Mohammed was 53 and powerful, Aisha was 9 and defenceless.
Incidentally, the page I cite above defending the child-marriage, the one whose domain-registration has apparently lapsed, was made by an islamist fifth columnist in the US.
And today, the US joined Muslim nations in piling on Denmark for allowing freedom of speech. Sounds like the boys in the state department have already given up on saving their daughters -- but there is not much the average State Department weenie would not give up on.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
How do I reconcile this with my shattered pre-conceived notions?!?!
(if I MUST) < / sarcasm >
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