8 Year Old Yemeni Bride, Nojoud Muhammed Nasser

Some countries protect their children and others exploit theirs. While America was watching authorities do their duty and seize children from a Mormon compound in Texas in order to protect them from potential underage marriage and sexual abuse, a single-minded girl with no police or legal protection bravely defied Sharia law and her country's male-dominated culture to divorce her husband. And, she is just eight years old.

Born in the year 2000, Nujood Muhammed Nasser was married two-and-a-half months ago to a man twenty years her senior after she was made to sign a marriage contract, arranged between her father and her "suitor." The contract, a strictly commercial transaction that usually involves the groom paying a "bride price," was supposed to allow Nujood to reside with her parents until she was 18. However, only a few days later, those same parents forced their daughter to move in with her new "husband," who then brutally tormented her.

"Always, when I wanted to play in the garden, he hit me and said I should go with him into the bedroom," Ali told the Yemen Times, adding that she would then run from room to room to escape him, but in vain. "In the end, he always got me."

Finally, after two months of horrendous sexual abuse, in which Nujoud said her husband did "bad things with me," the unwilling child bride turned to her father and an aunt for help. The aunt did nothing while the father, who had also been physically abusive towards her, told his daughter in response to her plea for assistance in getting a divorce: "I can't do anything for you. If you want, go to the court alone."

And that is exactly what the eight-year-old did. Facing what appeared to be a hopeless situation in such a male-dominated society and armed with nothing but her courage, Ali ran away to a maternal uncle and then bravely appeared before a court in the Yemen's capital, Sanaa, to file cases against both her father and husband, demanding the dissolution of her marriage.

In her overwhelming desire to escape her marital hell, Nujood gave as grounds for her divorce: "My husband was very harsh with me and when I implored him to have pity, he would hit me, box my ears, and abuse me. I want a decent life and the divorce."

The judge took pity on what a reporter described as a "sweet but sad" child, who "knows and comprehends so many things," and had both her father and husband taken into custody. The judge also allowed the little girl to reside in his house for several days before turning her over to the sympathetic uncle.

The husband was furious that his "wife" had the audacity to seek a divorce. However, this is an attitude all too common in countries where wives are bought as slaves and thus regarded as a husband's commercial property.

"I will not divorce her, and it is my right to keep her," said the outraged spouse to the Yemen Times. "It is not a matter of loving her; I don't. But it is just a challenge to her and her uncle who think that they can keep me in jail and also the judge has no right to put me here. How did she dare to complain about me?"

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[hodhodhanem]

منكم لله يا كفار هذا الزمان .. ربنا يرحمنا منكم ومن فيديوهاتكم القذرة يا ارباب الفسق والفجور... سيدنا محمد اشرف خلق االله وبريء من كل هذه الادعاءات التي جاءت في تعليقاتكم يا سفلة هذا القرن الله ياخدكم

[makesyoumadd]

Yep, I'm a Kafir. What does that have to do with anything in this video?

[LockedDownLover]

I looked at the comments below and they are comparing the prophets time with our time... its a different generation u fucken retards. And this is traditional not religious. It has nothing to do with religion. Look at your american whore broadcsting themselves as pornstars, going on talk shows not knowing who the fuck their baby's daddy is, selling themselves, THAT IS Christianity!! Fuck on saturday..Go 2 church on Sunday!

[makesyoumadd]

wow, that's an interesting perspective of Christianity.

I'm curious how you would describe the religion that false prophet Mo created

[ELSOL102]

It may be the culture of Yemen but also the prophet Mohammad married Aisha when she was seven years old and consummated the relationship when she was nine!! Therefore maybe the Koran does not say anything against this? I don't know, but just guessing because of Aisha. GIRLS IN SOME OF THESE SOCIETIES HAVE NO RIGHTS AT ALL! I hope she wins her case and gets free.

[preciousone85]

may her parents & husband burn in hell for doing such a thing.

[MrStripyHead]

a michael jackson song, LOL

[CrazyNative4]

good for her

[ruthymccabe]

@kambridge967

Don't be so stupid - murder is illegal everywhere in the world.

This man would spend the rest of his life in hiding from mobs of people who wanted to kill him, had he done this in my country. We consider pedophiles, present AND historical, to be the vilest, most evil people - why is why child abusers here are kept seperate from other prisoners in case their cellmates kill them.

Once again, I am heartily glad I am from a Celtic culture, where women and children count!

[ruthymccabe]

@kambridge967

No, she will be going to her grave. Earth is the only paradise we have proof of, and also the only hell - it depends on what we make it, and by condoning revolting acts like this, it becomes hell for so many innocent little children like this one.

Poor little one - taken away before she had a chance of a life...

[jazzflea]

Sick mother fuckers! This is a demonic religion! Retarted uneducated backward poor people believe in that shit cos there is nothing else to believe in. Bunch of paedophiles. Islam is the cancer of Humanity and planet Earth! Islam should be abolished. My wife was brought up muslim and now hating it with a passion. We red the koran together its even bigger bullshit then the bible! Sad that in 2010 we still fallow thousand plus year old garbage. Sad!

[fancygg]

if you just google for "65:4 Quran", you'll see how many pro and against islam famous known authorities and resources are accepting that yes on the basis of this verse in Quran,marrying a girl even under nine is allowed in Islam....all others are just covering it up to say it is a civilized religion

[razorrrrr]

The International Center for Research on Women now estimates that there are 51 million child brides now living on planet earth and almost all in Muslim countries.

Imam Khomeini, the top shia authority says:

A Muslim man can have sexual pleasure with a little girl as young as a baby. But he should not penetrate her vaginally, however he can sodomize her. (Tehriro vasyleh, fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990)

Sick Thinking !! islam is filthy like mohammad

[96rorrim]

This abuse of children happens in other muslim countries as well. If you research the Internet you'll find a plethora of child brides, fathers raping/molesting their kids, girls getting raped & molesting by their uncles, brothers, the old man who lives near the market, the Imam...etc.

[tweed187187]

i hope they get the kids out of these countries and then nuke the fuck out them.bunch of islamic fucking perverts.dont come talking shit to me either about islam is peacefull,fuck you.that's all you idiot's say yet have nothing to prove it!

[jigglyfidda125]

married 'Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.

Sahih Bukhari 5:58:236

they are just following the example of mohamed