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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Would child marriages have become legal in Saddam Hussein's Iraq ?


I don't think so!  Sad that the USA invaded the country of Iraq, killed its secular leader, killed its civilian population in tens of thousands, created more discord between Sunnis, Shiites and Christians and sent the country rolling back to the stone age.  

Was there even one murderer from the 9/11 attacks on the USA who was from Iraq?

And, Americans wonder why they and their country is so hated by the Muslims and the people of the Muslim countries.

Damien McElroy writing at TelegraphUK:
....Iraq ready to legalise childhood marriage.  
Children under nine years old could be legally married and wives forced to comply with sexual demands under newly tabled legislation described by critics as a setback for women's rights.



As almost its last act before elections at the end of the month, the Iraqi parliament looks likely to pass new marital rules for its majority Shia community with a draft law criticised by human rights activists as "legalised inquality"
The legislation has been approved by the governing coalition in an effort to attract support from Shia Muslims in the April 30 vote.
Current Iraqi law sets the legal age for marriage at 18 without parental approval and states girls as young as 15 can be married only with a guardian's approval. It does not allow for special provisions according to sect.
But the legislation, known as the Jaafari law, introduces rules almost identical to those of neighbouring Iran, a Shia-dominated Islamic theocracy.......

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