At ten years old, Arwa has already been married and divorced. In Yemen, where a quarter of women marry before theyre fifteen, her case has sparked a nationwide debate about child marriage. He would ask me to bring him something and if it wasnt there, he would beat me, Arwa recalls. Her husband offered a generous dowry but before long, he became violent and abusive. Encouraged by her father, she ran away. We cannot find a good balance between the husband and the girl. It is not marriage, it is only rape! says her lawyer, who successfully campaigned for a new law to make seventeen the legal minimum age of marriage. Before Arwa's divorce, there was no protection for child brides, with the countrys influential religious conservatives opposed to change: Islam determines the age of marriage to be when the girl is ready for intercourse, not a specific age. Until the President ratifies the new law, it could still be reversed, leaving many Yemenite girls to suffer the same fate as Arwa.
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It is unfortunate to see this happen to such a beautiful little girl. There is no use getting angry because it is not everyone culture. It is very common in the islamic culture. I dont agree with it but I am only one amonge many.
SabuPtolemy.. Huh!!!? like you havent heard of christian preists raping kids?? isnt this sick? does it represent christianity tho?! lol and what are you scared from about the spread of Islam? cuz it is the religion of just!? go watch the European Muslim converts on youtube and watch what they say yourself rather than blindly commenting!
Priests abusing kids is not endorsed by the Church nor Christians anywhere, period.
Child marriage (and therefore pedophelia) is a time honored tradition in Islam (MohamMAD himself was a pedophile w/ a 9-yr old child bride). And then there's also Bache Bazi, a tradition among Afghans and Iranians where mature men take young boys and rape them and nobody does anything about it.
Islam is the AIDS of all religions - it must be contained where it is so it cannot infect the Western world any more.
go watch the doco again.. it mentiones "those people saying" such a thing.. it doesnt mean it is true.. this issue is debatable.. or you just wanna make something to comment on, you have failed cuz its not credible.
olahhola One place you can find it is from Ayatollah Khomeini but it is also in some fatwas and other places. If you are really interested to know I will find you some references. Let me know.......
hatshepsut751 Hey sure I would like to see some of these fatwas. But bear in mind there are difference of opinions and various sects in Islam, were one believes something is okay the other does not. I do not follow Khomeini.
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lol and what are you scared from about the spread of Islam? cuz it is the religion of just!? go watch the European Muslim converts on youtube and watch what they say yourself rather than blindly commenting!
Child marriage (and therefore pedophelia) is a time honored tradition in Islam (MohamMAD himself was a pedophile w/ a 9-yr old child bride). And then there's also Bache Bazi, a tradition among Afghans and Iranians where mature men take young boys and rape them and nobody does anything about it.
Islam is the AIDS of all religions - it must be contained where it is so it cannot infect the Western world any more.
One place you can find it is from Ayatollah Khomeini but it is also in some fatwas and other places. If you are really interested to know I will find you some references. Let me know.......
Hey sure I would like to see some of these fatwas. But bear in mind there are difference of opinions and various sects in Islam, were one believes something is okay the other does not. I do not follow Khomeini.
Thanks.