8 Year-Old Muslim Girl Gets Divorce After Arranged Marriage
A Yemeni court on Tuesday granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl whose father forced her into an arranged marriage this year.
“I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school,” Nojud Mohammed Ali said, after a public hearing in Sanaa’s court of first instance.
Her former husband, 28-year-old Faez Ali Thameur, said he married the child “with her consent and that of her parents” but that he did not object to her divorce petition.
In response to a question from Judge Mohammed al-Qadhi, he acknowledged that the “marriage was consummated, but I did not beat her.”
Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries, has no law governing the minimum age of marriage.
Nojud was a second grader in primary school when the marriage took place two and a half months ago.
“They asked me to sign the marriage contract and remain in my father’s house until I was 18. But a week after signing, my father and my mother forced me to go live with him.”
Nojud’s father, Mohammad Ali Al-Ahdal, said he had felt obliged to marry off his daughter, an act he claims she consented to.
Dressed in traditional black, Nojud said she would now go to live in the home of her maternal uncle and did not want to see her father.
The girl’s lawyer, Shadha Nasser, said Nojud’s case was not unique. “I believe there are thousands of similar cases,” she said, adding that civil society groups are pressing parliament to set the minimum age for marriage at 18.
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“A Yemeni court on Tuesday granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl whose father forced her into an arranged marriage this year”…
“he married the child with her consent”…(BULLSHIT!)
“he acknowledged that the “marriage was consummated, but I did not beat her” (YOUR A KIDDIE RAPER, BUT NOT A CHILD BEATER…OH, WELL HELL THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD :roll:)
“Nojud was a second grader in primary school when the marriage took place two and a half months ago”
I’M PUNCHING THE KEYS OF MY KEYBOARD SO BLEEPING HARD IT MIGHT BREAK WRITING THIS!
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mike3481
WOMEN IN ISLAM HAVE NO FREE WILL AND ARE VIRTUAL SLAVES. THE MEN IN THIS STORY, READ: FATHER AND THE GROOM…WELL IN MY WORLD THEY NEED TO BE…I’LL PARAPRHASE ONE OF PAT’S YA’S IN IRAQ, “THEY JUST NEED TO BE PUT IN THE GROUND”.
THAT’S THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE AND END OF IT.
PS - FUCK ISLAM
April 16th, 2008 at 12:08 amWhat the fuck?
April 16th, 2008 at 12:25 amI have “senior moments.” Will somebody please remind me why I have to be tolerant of this cult? Oh.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:13 amDamn tgis is just SO wrong
He consumated the marriage? In the biblical sense?! Here in the U.S. you get jailed for that.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:33 amIslam is the religion of barbarians. To give a 8year old over to anyone to consummate a marriage is as sick as there is in this world. To think that this happens daily with this religion is almost beyond comprehension.
This is the religion that demands the world submit to Allah.
This is the religion that Jimmy Carter empowered in his presidency, and continues to this day.
This is the religion that Obama wants to “talk” to, so he can “advise” these barbarians.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:57 amThis is the religion that the Democrats have supported with words and actions.
Actually Mindy depending upon the person one might be administered a lead pill for that!
April 16th, 2008 at 4:27 amThis is the religion of barbarians. It is inconceivable that this happens every day in the Muslim world. To hand a 8 year old girl for marriage and consummation is barbaric.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:28 amThis is the religion that Jimmy Carter unleashed during his presidency.
This is the religion that Jimmy Carter supports today.
This is the religion that the Obama wants to “talk” to so he can “advise” them.
This is the religion teach small children to be suicide bombers.
This is the religion that Reid, Durbin, Pelosi,Murtha have supported with word and actions.
This is the religion that demands the world to submit to Allah.
I fear for that baby’s life. To refuse an arranged marriage has lead directly to the deaths and disfigurement of thousands upon thousands of muslim women, under the disgusting term “honor killing”. It wouldn’t be irrational to expect the same here. Poor little thing.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:36 amSick.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:42 amSomebody get that baby out of there - out of that place - out of that country! . . . but then there are people in this country . . . For example, if you have time, read this thread . . . Islam Said (brother of the late Sarah and Amina) posts vile stuff and he is carrying on the tradition of his murdering father quite well right here in Texas:
http://scarlettcrusader.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/sarah-and-amina-said-family-fight-to-keep-their-murders-in-the-public-eye/
Islam, the son, posts with all different names, but you can see that he is his father’s brilliant son.
“my dad is a good man and love his kids he aways work for his family if you think he did this you do not no yaser at all if amina and sarah was a live thay will spit on gall today we are moveing on we do not no the owens family so plz stop this crap”
Just one of his ridiculous posts . . . and the mother (Patricia/Tisie) defends the murderer on this site, too.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:07 amMy daughter is nine, as a forewarning to all pedophiles, if you touch my daughter, I will kill you.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:36 amFuck this man!
What kind of…
I have no words to describe this BS
April 16th, 2008 at 6:43 amSome men just need killing.
I will wade through blood before sharia is imposed in America.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:27 am
TedB,
April 16th, 2008 at 10:43 amI could not have said it any better. So I’ll use the same words. Thank you, well done.
I have a young daughter, as a forewarning to all pedophiles,
if you touch my daughter, I will kill you.
Our justice system sucks. It cares more for the perverts than the person whose life has been ruined, forever.
This girl’s father is no doubt an Islamic retard.