Thursday, April 08, 2010

Where is the outrage Islam?

A 13-year-old child bride bled to death after her forced marriage was consummated. Her name was Ilham Mahdi al Assi. Her husband was is his 20s. The wounds were horrific…

A medical report by the hospital where she was treated said she had suffered a tear to her genitals and severe bleeding after intercourse, the group said.

Yemen recently tried to pass a law forbidding child brides. Some women even marched in supported of it. Yet Islamic parties mobilized enough of an effort to convince politicians to hold up its implementation.

On Monday a group of Islamic clerics issued a decree condemning the law, and said its supporters were apostates.

Some of the signatories of the decree were lawmakers sitting on the committee charged with amending the law, it was reported.

The speaker of parliament, Yehya al-Raei, said it was possible that the law would be changed to maintain the age limit, but punishments for breaking the law including prison sentences and fines would be cancelled.

In many civilized countries murdering a 13-year-old girl with your penis is a crime punishable by a long prison sentence. Not so in Yemen where followers of Mohammed see nothing wrong with forced child marriage. They point to Mohammed as justification. The Prophet had a child bride named Aisha who was just 6-years-old at the time of her marriage. Mohamed waited until she was nine to consummate the marriage.

Is this right? Should we cut Yemen a break because their brand of pedophilia is tied to a religion? Or should we call this cowardly act what it is, child rape in the name of religion? I vote for the latter.

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I'm weak in my knees. This is so bad.
This is the second post from you this week that has made me sick (the news you're reporting, not the writing).
How long ago was it that this was something that happened within the USA? I know child brides happen in some of the more extreme groups within the USA still but it wasn't until the early 1900s that people started to see child brides as wrong. I wouldn't be surprised that there is outrage within parts of the Muslim community but we aren't hearing about it. I doubt many of the main stream media wants to report stories like the outrage against this type of event. From what I get from the media is they don't want all the truth out there.
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I don't know about forced child brides in the history of the United States. I'll have too look it up.
Of course it's abhorrent but to the Christians who are appalled I would have to ask, "How old was the Virgin Mary when Jesus was born? and Where does the Bible condemn pedophilia?
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ThatAtheistChick · 796 weeks ago

I bet a lot of Christians couldn't answer your questions.

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