In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls

February 12, 2007 | By Sniper One |

Married by the end of second grade… I’m sure this isn’t exploitive of women at all. After all, they aren’t “Christ-ofacist Godbags”.

Finally, there is the bit about my spreading “lies about a nine year old getting married to Muhammed.” It never ceases to amaze me how brazenly writers like this one (and some prominent Islamic apologists I have encountered) can deny elements of Islam that are taught in Islamic texts that Muslims consider authoritative. Muhammad’s consummation of his marriage with Aisha when she was nine is in the hadith collection Muslims consider most reliable, Bukhari, several times: 5.48.234; 5.58.236; 7.62.64; 7.62.65; and 7.62.88.

What’s more, it is clear that Muslims take this seriously and imitate Muhammad in this. Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: “Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed.”

The Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl “a divine blessing,” and advised the faithful: “Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house.”

Time magazine reported in 2001: “In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, fourteen for boys. The law has occasionally been exploited by pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them. In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise the minimum age for girls to fourteen, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move. An attempt by conservatives to abolish Yemen’s legal minimum age of fifteen for girls failed, but local experts say it is rarely enforced anyway. (The onset of puberty is considered an appropriate time for a marriage to be consummated.)”

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that over half of the girls in Afghanistan and Bangladesh are married before they reach the age of eighteen. In early 2002, researchers in refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan found half the girls married by age thirteen. In an Afghan refugee camp, more than two out of three second-grade girls were either married or engaged, and virtually all the girls who were beyond second grade were already married. One ten-year-old was engaged to a man of sixty.

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Outrage? I have no idea where the outrage is. You’d think that there would be some… but there isn’t. I guess it’s only feminism if you rail against the American machine.

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“7.62mm Justice” ™ » Iran Marriage: Bringing It Home on February 12, 2007 14:32
[...] order to illustrate the earlier post about Iran’s Legal Age For Marriage being nine years [...]
Sir Henry Morgan on February 12, 2007 14:59
You thought it couldn’t be worse? Read this.

http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2007/01/ayatollah-khomeinis-fling-with-four.html

I’ve got a daughter.
Khomeini died of cancer.
I hope he felt every last little bit of it.

PS Prefer a FAL myself; but each to his/her own. I do like a nice heavy lump going down there.

[Sniper One: Can't argue with any of that... ]