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I few years ago I purchased a book titled: "I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced". It is the true story of a Yemini girl named Nujood Ali who was the first child bride to get a divorce. I would recommend that anyone who is trying to alert the world on the evils of Islam purchase this book and pass it around to your friends. I would especially ask women to read this and pass it around to other women who may be unaware of what really goes on in Islam and may have believed the "Islam is the religion...

Court terminates 8-year-old girl's marriage Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:21pm EDT   SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni court ordered the marriage of an eight-year-old girl terminated on Tuesday because she had not reached puberty.The court also ordered the child's family to pay about $250 in compensation to the 30-year-old ex-husband.The girl's lawyer and human rights activist Shatha Nasser said the minor had filed a suit in April asking for divorce and told the court that her husband had been physically abusing her and forcing her to have "sex with him after hitting her."One of the people attending the trial...