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Yemeni Cleric Opposes Proposed Ban On Child Brides Remember Elham Mahdi al Assi, the 13-year old Yemeni child bride who died 5 days after her wedding? Elham Mahdi al Assi died from severe haemorrahaging resulting from the rupture of internal organs from sexual activity. Husband 23-year old Abed al-Hikmi took sex performance enhancing pills, tied Elham Mahdi al [...] Nigerian Senate To Investigate Ahmad Sani Yerima 49-year old Senator Ahmad Sani Yerima reportedly married a 13-year old Egyptian girl recently. Now female senators, lawyers and doctors and human rights groups in Nigeria are up in arms over this, and the Senate has initiated an investigation into this reported child marriage. A BBC report said Nigeria’s Human Rights [...] 10-Year Old Shareefa Divorced Six Months After Marriage Without Her Knowledge Here is another sad case of a child marriage. This one is from Saudi Arabia. 10-year old Shareefa was married off by her father. Her husband at that time was 80 years of age. But six months after her wedding, Shareefa was abandoned by her husband. [...] Elham Mahdi al Assi’s Death Shows Danger Of Child Marriage There have been much debate about the topic of child marriage. Central to the debate is this question: What is the minimum marriageable age for Muslims? There are those who say that Sharia Law does not prescribe a minimum age for marriage, but sexual relationship should be [...] While still on the subject of child marriage, here is a YouTube video clip that may throw some light on the subject. The debate is still ongoing as to whether child marriages should be banned or not. In this video, the question is asked whether a 12-year old boy can marry a 11-year old girl according to [...] Child marriage is in the news again, this time involving a 12-year old Saudi girl and an 80-year old Saudi man. Press reports said that the girl’s father arranged for her to be married to the 80-year old man in September 2009. Why would the father do that? Apparently it was because of the 85,000 riyals (US$ [...] A 10-year old girl, a fifth grader by most educational standard, ought to be enjoying school life. In Saudi Arabia, a 10-year old school girl found herself the subject of a marriage deal. The Saudi daily ‘Okaz reported in August this year that the girl’s father wanted to marry her elder daughter off to this 80-year old [...] As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Pujiono Cahyo Widianto aka Syech Puji, the 43-year old Indonesian cleric who has a 26-year old wife and who recently married Lutfiana Ulfa, a girl barely 12 years of age as his second wife with the declared intention to marry 2 more girls aged 9 and 7, the question [...] 2 separate headlines in the Jakarta Post just caught my attention. The headlines reads: “Syech Puji acquitted from child sexual abuse charge” and “Cleric files report over extortion”. Who is Syech Puji? Well he is Pujiono Cahyo Widianto aka Syech Puji. 43 year old Syech Puji is the head of an Islamic boarding school (Ponpes Miftahul Jannah) in [...] |
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