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Divorced Afghan child brides forced to return to former husbands under Taliban rule
Jerusalem Post ^ | SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Posted on 10/02/2024 10:01:41 AM PDT by george76

Bibi Nazdana .. the Taliban is invalidating divorces granted by the Afghan court - forcing divorced child brides to return to their previous marital status..

The Taliban is attempting to force divorced child brides to return to their adult former husbands, despite the girls having been granted divorce by the Afghan government.. citing the case of Bibi Nazdana.

Nazdana, who has now fled Afghanistan with her brother, spent two years pursuing a divorce which the Taliban claimed is invalid based on the terror group’s interpretation of Sharia law. Her case is reportedly one of tens of thousands.

At seven years old, Nazdana had been promised to a farmer in an attempt to reconcile feuding families. She petitioned the Afghan courts, who ruled in her favor, ending her marriage..

"The court congratulated me and said, 'You are now separated and free to marry whomever you want...

After her former husband appealed to the courts in 2021, demanding the divorce be revoked, the Taliban disallowed Nazdana from representing herself - insisting that it violated Sharia law. Instead, the Taliban had Nazdana’s brother Shams represent her..

"They told us if we didn't comply," said Shams to the BBC, "they would hand my sister over to him (Hekmatullah) by force."

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Taliban rules divorce is invalid..

Despite her brother’s representation, the Taliban-led court ruled in favor of Nazdana’s former husband - a registered member of the terror group.

"The previous corrupt administration's decision to cancel Hekmatullah and Nazdana's marriage was against the Sharia and rules of marriage," Abdulwahid Haqani, a media officer for the Taliban’s Supreme Court..

After the ruling, both Nazdana and Shams fled Afghanistan. Now 20, Nazdana said that she sought help from the United Nations and a variety of other parties but has not found support.

"I have knocked on many doors asking for help, including the UN, but no one has heard my voice," she told the BBC. "Where is the support? Don't I deserve freedom as a woman?"

The Taliban claimed that since taking control of the country, they reviewed some 355,000 cases - 30% of which were classified as family issues.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; childbrides; nazdana; taliban
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1 posted on 10/02/2024 10:01:41 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Good job Kammy.


2 posted on 10/02/2024 10:04:49 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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Poor girls.

I hear the suicide rate among these child brides is very high.

Small wonder. Nobody wants to live a hellish existence like they have to.


3 posted on 10/02/2024 10:06:53 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: george76

Any American feminist women going over there to show them how to “protest” ?


4 posted on 10/02/2024 10:08:10 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: george76

The sad answer to her question, is no, under Taliban Muslim rule, she doesn’t have any freedom as a woman.


5 posted on 10/02/2024 10:14:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: george76
At seven years old, Nazdana had been promised to a farmer in an attempt to reconcile feuding families. She petitioned the Afghan courts, who ruled in her favor, ending her marriage..

I somehow doubt that a child initiated a divorce petition. It is likely that the advocate who assisted her is dead, imprisoned or in hiding by now.

6 posted on 10/02/2024 10:14:35 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: george76

That should be exciting huh?


7 posted on 10/02/2024 10:16:11 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: albie

They won didn’t they?


8 posted on 10/02/2024 10:18:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: george76

Sucks... anyway, people in North Carolina are in thirst, hunger and cold. Every possible nice hotel and shelter is clogged with illegal aliens.


9 posted on 10/02/2024 10:18:32 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: george76
Neither Russia nor the United States ever understood that Aftrashastan is a primitive stone age culture. Genetically the people there are wired to be two legged goats.

They are not Westerners with a different paint job. They are an inscrutable stone age people who are hard wired to live the same way they lived thousands of years ago. That is never going to change.

The sad thing for Russia and the United States is that both countries squandered unimaginable treasure on absolutely nothing.


10 posted on 10/02/2024 10:18:38 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. -- Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Some people deserve to get what they want, good and hard.


11 posted on 10/02/2024 10:20:55 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: Steely Tom

I know a couple femnazis in my office, when I ask why they don’t protest over in the middle east I just get a blank stare and they go back to their talking points.


12 posted on 10/02/2024 10:37:50 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: george76

So it seems she found the best remedy, leave the country and don’t go back (I am surprised they let her leave).


13 posted on 10/02/2024 10:39:37 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Neither Russia nor the United States ever understood that Aftrashastan is a primitive stone age culture.


I’m going to respectfully disagree. They are not a Stone Age people/culture, but more likely Iron Age. They are quite handy working with metal.

But your main point is quite valid, their culture is not anything at all like ours. Their national sport, buzkashi, is similar to polo but the ‘ball’ is a weighted goat carcass. Under Mohammed Zahir Shah knives were disallowed. I wonder the Taliban brought back the knives since they are such traditionalists.


14 posted on 10/02/2024 10:49:21 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Steely Tom

“ Any American feminist women going over there to show them how to “protest”?

…how about the guy who claimed to be a girl on the Olympic Boxing Team and beat the snuff out of the real girl. Maybe it should go


15 posted on 10/02/2024 11:05:34 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"The sad thing for Russia and the United States is that both countries squandered unimaginable treasure on absolutely nothing."

I don't care about Russia's invasion, but I feel sick when I think of all the deaths and maiming of our Troops while trying to nation build. Is it any wonder why so many Veterans are drug-addled bums living on the streets?

16 posted on 10/02/2024 11:12:57 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: metmom
Poor girls.

I hear the suicide rate among these child brides is very high.

Small wonder. Nobody wants to live a hellish existence like they have to.

If it were the murder rate that soared, perhaps more ex-husbands would get the message, and stop re-enslaving their once child brides?

17 posted on 10/02/2024 11:20:39 AM PDT by null and void (Kamala sucks!)
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To: george76

Considering we gave the Aghan people twenty years of our blood and treasure, it’s clear then that this is what they want.


18 posted on 10/02/2024 11:23:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hanamizu; Governor Dinwiddie
I lived in Kabul for 6 years post-9/11. Mostly I was with ex-pats and westernized Afghans. I did get invited to a few Afghan meals and weddings. Now Kabul and cities are different from mountain villages, which are “traditional.” No empire had ever conquered the villages.

In an Afghan meal, the men eat first, then leave, and women get the leftovers. In an Afghan wedding, the fathers meet first at a meal, agree on the dowry, and then agree to the marriage. I was the only non-Afghan at the one I attended. And the groom wasn’t even there, having had an appendicitis attack the day before.

At the wedding celebration the men and women are separated. The men never see the bride, but the groom visits the women. The wedding halls and meals are three or more years pay, but it’s a shame to not have a big wedding. I could go on…

19 posted on 10/02/2024 11:53:58 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free ( )
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To: Steely Tom

I doubt it.


20 posted on 10/02/2024 12:23:39 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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