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Here's another story that will cause you to:
A) Vomit
B) scream at your computer.
C) thank God that you live in the United States.
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the man's sister without paying the obligatory bride-price.
At age 9, the girl was put on a sack of rice to appear taller next to the bridegroom in the wedding picture. At 11, she was taken to her husband's house to live. Despite promising not to consummate the marriage before she reached puberty, he tied her to a bed, stuffed a rag in her mouth and raped her, she says.
"One day he tied me up and attacked me," the girl, who is now 13 and has fled her husband, told The Associated Press on Wednesday, choking with tears during an interview at an orphanage that has given her shelter. Her name and her husband's aren't being used to protect her identity.
Child marriages are widespread in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, where tribal customs dominate society. More than a quarter of its females marry before age 15, according to a recent report by the Social Affairs Ministry.
This is the difference between the United States and some Islamic countries. They call it child marriage, we call it rape.
Yemen is considering banning marriages to anyone under 17 years old, which is a good thing. But there are some law-makers there who seem to have a different point of view. (When I say they "have a different point of view" I really mean that they are jackasses. Read on and decide.
Yemen legislator Sheik Mohammed al-Hazmi, one of the most ardent opponents of a minimum marriage age, says the new law is a "Western plot aimed at Westernizing our culture."
"The West wants to teach us how to marry, conceive and divorce. This is cultural colonization that we reject," he told AP.
Well, douche bag, it's starting to look as if we DO have to teach your ignorant butt a few things. Civilized countries do not allow pre-pubescent kids to marry. Besides, I don't want to hear a word of complaint from the likes of you. People like you are the type that kill women for wanting to have a life. You are the little Hitler type jackass who enjoys watching people have their fingers chopped off because they haven't prayed to Allah in a few hours.
And then when I thought these nutballs could not scare me anymore, this same guy gave me an insight into their psyche.
Al-Hazmi said Islam permits the practice because nothing in the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad bans it. "Everything that is not forbidden is permitted," he said.
That about explains everything doesn't it? I guess the Quran never said a word about not crashing airplanes into skyscrapers and buildings, so that must mean that it's OK by Allah.
Here's the rest of the story about the young girl who was raped.
She first came to the orphanage when her father died, when she was 11. She had not yet moved in with her husband, because the agreement had been that she would do so at puberty.
But she said her brother showed up at the orphanage and persuaded her to go with him, telling her they would seek a court annulment of the marriage. Instead, he took her to her husband's house in the southern town of Thammar for a bribe of about $200, the girl said. About nine months later, the husband forced her into sex, she said.
She got a chance to break away when she developed stomach and vocal cord problems last year and her husband sent her to San'a for treatment. She escaped from the house where she was staying and fled to the orphanage 10 months ago.
Today, at 13, she is learning to read and write and beginning to think about the future.
"I want to become a businesswoman," she said, two tiny dimples lighting up her thin face.
Thirteen years old and she is just now learning how to read. Makes me sick. I hope this child grows up to fight the ignorant fools in her country. But from reading other stories concerning women from Islamic countries, I fear for her very life.
That story is not that uncommon. I worked with two different Muslim men who married young teenage girls more than 20 years their junior. I never met them, and of course they were of legal age when I worked with the husbands. I do know they didn't have driver's licenses, and they shopped together...always.
This is where I just drop all pretense of trying to understand Islamic culture and label it for what it is: a stone age death cult with laws that only the truly evil or the truly stupid find unobjectionable. Yet notice the silence from the left on this issue- their belief in moral relativism trumps everything, and while they will trash their own country, they’ll tip toe around calling out another culture. Newsflash: our value system isn’t just “different”, it’s B-E-T-T-E-R!!! Want proof? Okay- for starters, you don’t have lawmakers in the U.S. debating about whether legalized pedophilia is a good idea or not. At some point, you have to step out and say you don’t think child rape is a good idea- until the Muslim world reaches that point, I really don’t give a damn whether they feel respected by the west or not.
Their prophet was a pedophile.
Just staying true to their teachings. Filthy Animals
My wife went to a school here in South Texas. Some of her 7th grade classmates were sent to marry a rich old men in Mexico.
It was all about the dowery.
The parents claimed it was to give their daughters better life.
To me it's child rape.
Islam is sick and so is anyone who supports these practices.
Probably,A,B and C. This is why I have a problem with the idea that our nations can all hold hands and skip down the yellow brick road together.When our basic morals,cultures and sense of whats right and wrong,are eons apart,there is'nt much common ground to agree on.Course,now we have so damn many of them here,running businesses,practicing medicine and do I dare say,in Govt.maybe I'm just naive and outta touch.
I pick Vomit
In Islam, women are property. The men don't teach camels and goats to read--and the fuck them too. What really sucks is you can't bomb them back to the stone age--they already live there.
This dates all the way back to Mohammed and his wife Aisha, who was betrothed to Mohammed at age 6 or 7.
So, by that logic, he is only doing what the Quran says. I do know that it has been argued in Saudi court recently that this is no longer acceptable. The Saudis have yet to make this custom forbidden.
all of the above
Pretty much agree- all of the above... Having spent a little time in that part of the world, and SEA, child molestation in various guises occurs on a regular basis, always with either religious or monetary rationales... ALL OF WHICH ARE BULLSHIT!!!!
Agreed. This, to me, is just a way for sick people to get what they want. Remember a few years ago on Pitcairn Island, the Brit Navy had to go and straighten out a few people over their "traditions" aka pedophilia.
Not an idiot, a pervert and a deviant.
Half a world away things are terrible and they want to bring Islam over here.
Yeah, but have you SEEN the way those girls DRESS over there? The full length burka with eye slits? I mean, c'mon... she was ASKIN for it.
Yeah,I go with all of above,but add one. Kill off the rotten scum and liberate the women so they can choose their own fate.
I agree that this is appalling and disgusting. People like this should be punished.
I am a Muslim Woman. I am proud of my religion. People have used Islam for ages as a scapegoat to do what they please.
Some of your bloggers think that we are treated as property. We have rights. Our husbands cannot treat us any way. In fact, we are not their property, but something for them to care for until the day of Judgement, when they will be asked about how they treated us. I did not take my husbands last name - in fact, it is not Islamic.
This tradition is Christian, because women became the property of men when they were married and lost their identity. When I die and I am resurrected on the Day of Judgement, I will be called by my Father's name...not my husband.
I am with you as far as being disgusted about how some Muslim men use Islam and twist it to feed their needs, lusts, who knows what they are - these men are worse than animals and deserve the punishment that waits for them.
Islam is the second largest religion in the world. There are many deviants out there. You cannot blame an entire nation of people (1+ billion) for the actions of some.
i agree with fatma, and pplease people, go do some research for yourselfs before making shit up. go to a mosque in your city/community and see what they do there. if you have a chance, talk to a muslim.
there are these kind of people in every religion but that doesnt mean that all religions are bad.
@woody
how do you know this story is not made up? do you know how many rapes occur in America, Europe compared to other Muslim countries?
go Google it and find out for yourself.
I became Muslim last year, i love Islam! THIS is not Islam.those people, ARE disgusting but they DO NOT represent Islam. Islam is a beautiful religion. and it's a shame that you CHOOSE the rotten apples on the ground to represent the entire tree.
The age of ignorance is here. Muslims have responded before me who know the religion. Cultural norms aren't apart of religion. I mean statistics show middle aged white men are more likely to rape and be serial killers. Take that in for a second.
The age of ignorance is here. Muslims have responded before me who know the religion. Cultural norms aren't apart of religion. I mean statistics show middle aged white men are more likely to rape and be serial killers. Take that in for a second.