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A 13-year-old Yemeni Bride died due to Genital Injury and Bleeding:
In my previous article, I have discussed how Prophet Muhammad’s holy tradition, namely the example of his marrying 6-year-old Aisha at the age of 52, inspires Muslims across the world to engage in child-marriage and pedophilia.
As a matter of fact, child-marriage devastates the lives of little girls in many ways. Most importantly, a marriage between two individuals of such unequal age and maturity can never develop in a loving and mutually respectful one, which should be the central component in marriage, or between couples. It becomes a relationship between master or slave, to be more accurate, between master and sex-slave.
There is another, rather cruel and tragic, aspect of it, it is bodily torture, not only by beating as allowed by Allah, but also by forcing those little girls into sex, for which she is not physically prepared too, even if we ignore their mental preparedness.
The perversity of Islamic culture is that when a man brings his new wife, often a complete stranger, home, he must have sex with her on the very first night. Else friends and neighbours would tease him of lacking manhood.
A 13-year-old Yemeni bride bleeds to death after intercourse
On April 2, this tear (2010) a 13-year-old Yemeni girl has died of injuries to her genitals four days after a family-arranged marriage, in Hajja, Yemen. The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen and in many other Islamic countries. But the incident that took place in Yemen has drawn the attention of international human rights groups seeking to pressure the government to declare child marriages illegal and fix 17 as the lowest age for marrying off girls. According to Majed al-Madhaji, a spokesman for the Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights, the said 13-year-old girl was married to a 23-year-old boy and she died 4 days after marriage, on April 2. A medical report from al-Thawra hospital said she suffered a tear to her genitals and severe bleeding was the cause of her death. The Associated Press reported the girl was allegedly raped, and that her 23-year-old husband is now in police custody.
In February, last year (2009), the Parliament legislated a law banning child marriage and setting the 17 years as the minimum age of marriage for girls. But it was disapproved and repealed by the highest religious authority and sent back to parliament’s constitutional committee for review. Some lawmakers called the move un-Islamic and a group of the country’s highest Islamic authorities declared that those who support a ban on child marriage as apostates. Some of Yemen’s most influential Islamic leaders, including one of the US, said that Osama bin Laden have declared supporters of a ban on child marriage to be apostates.
Another Yemeni child bride hospitalized with genital injuries:
It should be mentioned here that, on April 14, another Yemeni child bride, 11-year-old, has been hospitalized with similar genital injury. According to the report of a human rights group in Sanaa, an 11-year-old Yemeni girl who was married to a man in country’s Hajja province was hospitalized on April 14, with genital injuries. So, it was the second incident genital injury involving a child bride within a couple of weeks in Yemen after being sexually assaulted by their adult husbands. It should also be noticed that both girls were married in the Hajja province of the country..
A study has revealed that nearly 50 percent of the women in Yemen are married before age 18, some as young as 8 and as many as 8 girls die each day in Yemen due to child marriage. “Many of them in childbirth”, Last year a child marriage case in Yemen made international headlines after a 12-year-old girl died in childbirth, together with the baby” says Ms Basha. “
Yemeni Women oppose child marriage ban:
It is really astonishing that for whom the social activist like Amal Basha and many others are fighting, ignoring the threats and attacks on their lives by the conservatives, the Yemeni women in thousands, clad in head to toe burqa, held a demonstrationon Sunday, March 21, 2010, outside the parliament in San’a, to oppose the proposed legislation banning the marriage of girls under 17. The protesters held up banners proclaiming “Don’t ban what Allah made permissible”, or “Stop violating Islamic sharia law in the name of rights and freedoms”.
Dr Radhasyam Brahmachari
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