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.
Because of such social pressure, the husband would normally have sex with his wife, even if that requires forcing (i.e. rape; in Islam, there is no such thing as marital rape: “Your wife is your tilth for you, plough her how, where and when you want”, says the Koran 2:223) to prove his manhood. When this is done on little girls, they suffer extreme pain and genital injury, which could, tragically, even fatal, leading to death.
The features discussed above support the view that, in Islam, women are to be raped and not to be loved. In this world, Muslims are to rape their wives, their sex-slaves and kafir women, and in the other life in paradise, they are to rape heavenly virgins or houris.
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.
Another Yemeni human rights group said the girl was married off in an agreement between two men to marry each other’s sisters to avoid having to pay expensive bride-prices. The group said that was a common arrangement in the deeply impoverished country. According to a survey by the Social Affairs Ministry of Yemen, more than a quarter of Yemen’s girls marry before age of 15. The report also said that the tribal custom also plays a role, including the belief that a young bride can be shaped into an obedient wife, bear more children and be kept away from temptation.
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.
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.
Because of such social pressure, the husband would normally have sex with his wife, even if that requires forcing (i.e. rape; in Islam, there is no such thing as marital rape: “Your wife is your tilth for you, plough her how, where and when you want”, says the Koran 2:223) to prove his manhood. When this is done on little girls, they suffer extreme pain and genital injury, which could, tragically, even fatal, leading to death.
The features discussed above support the view that, in Islam, women are to be raped and not to be loved. In this world, Muslims are to rape their wives, their sex-slaves and kafir women, and in the other life in paradise, they are to rape heavenly virgins or houris.
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.
Another Yemeni human rights group said the girl was married off in an agreement between two men to marry each other’s sisters to avoid having to pay expensive bride-prices. The group said that was a common arrangement in the deeply impoverished country. According to a survey by the Social Affairs Ministry of Yemen, more than a quarter of Yemen’s girls marry before age of 15. The report also said that the tribal custom also plays a role, including the belief that a young bride can be shaped into an obedient wife, bear more children and be kept away from temptation.
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.
