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9 year olds to marry

Steve

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Iraqi law now sets the legal age for marriage at 18 without parental approval. Girls as young as 15 can be married only with a guardian's approval.

The proposed new measure, known as the Jaafari Personal Status Law, is based on the principles of a Shiite school of religious law founded by Jaafar al-Sadiq, the sixth Shiite imam. Iraq's Justice Ministry late last year introduced the draft measure to the Cabinet, which approved it last month despite strong opposition by rights groups and activists.

The draft law does not set a minimum age for marriage. Instead, it mentions an age in a section on divorce, setting rules for divorces of girls who have reached the age of 9 years in the lunar Islamic calendar. It also says that's the age girls reach puberty. Since the Islamic calendar year is 10 or 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar, that would be the equivalent of 8 years and 8 months old. The bill makes the father the only parent with the right to accept or refuse the marriage proposal.

Critics of the bill believe that its authors slipped the age into the divorce section as a backhanded way to allow marriages of girls that young.

how any normal adult could condone this is beyond comprehension.. let alone introduce it into a countries laws...
 

Broke Cowboy

Well-known member
No sense in getting upset about what is taking place over there.

The muslim population in the US of A is huge and growing rapidly - in that closed society do not think it is not already happening in your own country - that and much more.

bc
 

mrj

Well-known member
Abominations like this is what makes rampant immigration with no rules to renounce laws of the country left, and acceptance of all laws of the USA as a primary requisite for citizenship in the USA so frightening and disgusting.

mrj
 
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