Iraq slashes legal age of consent to nine years old – so old men can marry young children

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Iraq slashes legal age of consent to nine years old – so old men can marry young children

Mirror
By Liam Doyle
8 Nov 2024

A sick newly proposed age of consent law would allow old men in Iraq to marry children as young as nine years old, and "legalise child rape" activists claim.

Ultra-conservative Shia Muslim parties have launched a bid to pass a new law that would slash the existing age of consent in the pariah nation in half from the existing limit of 18. The changes, proposed by the dominant Shia coalition, would peel back the national "personal status law".

Replacing the major legislation, also known as Law 188, would further roll back women's rights, depriving them of the ability to divorce their partners, have custody for their children, and their inheritance. The latest proposals, initially announced in August 2024, would see one of the most progressive laws in the Middle East fully repealed, and has sparked outrage among women's rights activists.

The law passed its second reading in Iraq's parliament on September 16, and the government has claimed the move would align the country's governance closer to the strict interpretation of Islamic law. Sensationally, the government has even argued it would protect young girls from "immoral relationships".

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George Bush is so proud of his "religion of peace". Bush said he would turn Iraq into a modern Western nation. Instead, all he did was spend billions of dollars and millions of lives to finish the Iraq/Iran war in the place of Iran. Iraq has become nothing but a de-facto proxy territory of Greater Iran, which is exactly what Iran has always wanted.

Thanks George Bush! Great war! You were a Great President!

[Kamaji]

Coming to the U.S. sooner rather than later.

[mountaineer]

Coming to the U.S. sooner rather than later.

And Britain,  any day now.

[PeteS in CA]

One of the sick secrets of Sharia-Law-Islam is that a few pre-pubescent girls die every year from "husbands" who force ... . The girls literally bleed to death.

[mountaineer]

Sickening.

[Fishrrman]

Hmmmm....
Remind me again, why we spent blood and so much treasure "defending" those people?