Iraq lowers legal age of marriage for girls to NINE [pedo-pervert Islamists]

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Iraq lowers legal age of marriage for girls to NINE

Daily Mail
By JAMES REYNOLDS
22 January 2025

Iraq's parliament today passed several laws that critics say will effectively legalise child marriage for girls as young as nine.

The amendments to Iraq's personal status law will give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance - a dramatic change to the unified family law and safeguards for women established in 1959.

Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases, but the changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law.

Some of these interpretations allow the marriage of girls in their early teens - or as young as nine - under the Ja'afari school of Islamic law followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq.

Proponents of the changes, which were advocated by primarily conservative Shiite lawmakers, defend them as a means to align the law with Islamic principles and reduce Western influence on Iraqi culture.

But Intisar al-Mayali, a human rights activist and a member of the Iraqi Women's League, said passage of the civil status law amendments 'will leave disastrous effects on the rights of women and girls through the marriage of girls at an early age'.

'This violates their right to life as children, and will disrupt the protection mechanisms for divorce, custody and inheritance for women,' the activist declared.

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George Bush sent Americans to fight and die for these people so they would have the stability and ability to give their country to Islamists and Iran.

Good Job! Mr. Bush! (how do you sleep at night?)

[verga]

They put it in writing, but it has been in practice for quite a while. I had a former student that was married off at age 13, because shew wanted to wear jeans to school.

[Smokin Joe]

Yeah, but what's the 'age of consent' for the goats?

[DB]

"Consent" doesn't mean the same thing there...

[The_Reader_David]

George Bush sent Americans to fight and die for these people so they would have the stability and ability to give their country to Islamists and Iran.

Good Job! Mr. Bush! (how do you sleep at night?)

Well, they have managed to set up a parliamentary republic with proper elections (oddly it's the one place where introducing democracy into the Islamic world actually worked).  Unfortunately, even successfully importing Western-style politics could not actually be expected to change their culture.  (And they seem to like having us around to keep the Daesh -- ISIL if you English the name before making an acronym, or ISIS if you don't realize that al Sham means the Levant, not Syria -- in check).

[berdie]

Well, they have managed to set up a parliamentary republic with proper elections (oddly it's the one place where introducing democracy into the Islamic world actually worked). Unfortunately, even successfully importing Western-style politics could not actually be expected to change their culture.  (And they seem to like having us around to keep the Daesh -- ISIL if you English the name before making an acronym, or ISIS if you don't realize that al Sham means the Levant, not Syria -- in check).

These people do not want Western culture. They are happy with what they have. Anymore than they can successfully import their culture to us. East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. I would like to see it differently, but I don't in the near future. Lord, protect these little girls.

[Smokin Joe]

These people do not want Western culture. They are happy with what they have. Anymore than they can successfully import their culture to us. East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. I would like to see it differently, but I don't in the near future. Lord, protect these little girls.

You are right. I pray He takes care of them, too.