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Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« on: August 24, 2013, 04:34:02 am »
When Saudi Arabia announced three months ago that girls as young as 10-years old would now be allowed to marry, Iran decided to drop the age limit even further.

Iranian Christian news service Mohabat News reports a member of the Iranian Parliament (Majiles) Mohammad Ali Isfenani, "we must regard 9 as being the appropriate age for a girl to have reached puberty and qualified to get married. To do otherwise would be to contradict and challenge Islamic Sharia law."

He argues,"Before the revolution girls under 16 were not allowed to marry. Parents determined to get around the law would often tamper with their daughter's birth certificate. Under the previous constitution, people were legally regarded as adults when they were 18. After the revolution the age at which children were regarded as going through puberty was lowered to 9 for girls and 15 for boys.
Mohabat News reports statistics that show over the past few weeks, over 75 female children under 10 were forced to marry much older men. And in nearly 4000 cases, both the bride and groom were under 14.
The Examiner says according to a news release from the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee, the current civil law, drafted before the revolution in the late 1970's regarding the legal age of marriage for girls under the age of ten, is considered "un-Islamic and illegal."
Majiles (Iranian Parliament) is now expected to vote on the proposal to bring civil law more in line with Sharia Law.
The Women's News Network reports that there are more than 10-million girls under the age of 18 married each year around the world, usually without their consent and to much older men.
Baroness Jenny Tonge, chair of a British parliamentary inquiry looking at the issue of child brides, tells the Women's News Network, "We decided to look into child marriage because some two, three years ago we did an investigation into maternal mortality." "We realised that one of the major causes of maternal death is early marriage, and (that) the girls are married so young that their bodies are simply not ready for child birth." She tells the story of one young girl, "she was an eight-year-old who was married to a 45 to 50-year-old in Yemen, arranged by his family – died three days later after the first intercourse from bleeding. When you hear the stories, it just makes you feel quite sick."
A report from the British inquiry is expected early this fall.

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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2013, 04:34:53 am »
Soon to be demand in the US since it only "fair" and about "love."
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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2013, 04:39:02 am »
Soon to be demand in the US since it only "fair" and about "love."

My granddaughters played with their Barbie Dolls at that age, and demanded Hannah Montana toys. I wonder if the Iranian husbands would play tea party with their wives? /s

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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2013, 04:43:51 am »
My granddaughters played with their Barbie Dolls at that age, and demanded Hannah Montana toys. I wonder if the Iranian husbands would play tea party with their wives? /s

Do yourself a favor and don't think about what they'd do.
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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2013, 04:46:35 am »
Do yourself a favor and don't think about what they'd do.

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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2013, 04:47:22 am »
Just another punch to this gut.....the world is getting sicker and sicker.

It deserves everything God has in store for it.

Am so sick and tired of this crap.
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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2013, 02:24:55 pm »
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girls as young as 10-years old would now be allowed to marry

"Allowed" implies a knowing, voluntary choice on the part of those 10-year olds, something that is simply not possible.  This is, no doubt, one of the fig leaves these folks adopt to disguise from themselves the fact that they're engaged in the sexual abuse/exploitation of children.  It makes the cognitive dissonance a little less painful.
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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2013, 02:31:04 pm »
Do yourself a favor and don't think about what they'd do.

Ugh.  *shudder*

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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2013, 02:33:31 pm »
Just another punch to this gut.....the world is getting sicker and sicker.

It deserves everything God has in store for it.

Am so sick and tired of this crap.

Me too, DC.

Me too............
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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2013, 04:16:38 pm »
Just another punch to this gut.....the world is getting sicker and sicker.

It deserves everything God has in store for it.

Am so sick and tired of this crap.
Same here.


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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2013, 04:36:32 pm »
No doubt honoring the pedophile from Mecca who married a nine year old after lusting after her for three years.  :thud:
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« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2013, 12:11:03 am »
No doubt honoring the pedophile from Mecca who married a nine year old after lusting after her for three years.  :thud:

Since she was 6??

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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2013, 12:29:40 am »
Nice to see Iran expanding woman's rights.
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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2013, 12:49:19 am »
Since she was 6??

6 or 7 when they were betrothed. Aisha - a pretty name.

Since it was after the death of his first wife, Mohammed was at least 30 at the time, more likely much older.
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Re: Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2013, 02:26:15 am »
Since she was 6??

Yep. Her name was Ayisha, I believe. And at nine, she became his favorite bride. But it's all right. Gabriel gave him the OK from God.  **nononono*
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