8 year old Saudi girl asking for divorce.

[Dinner]

An 8 year old Saudi girl is asking a court to give her a divorce from a 50 year old man who paid her father to allow the two to get married. What do you want to bet that the Saudi religious court denies this poor trafficed girl a divorce on the grounds that Mohammad was a pedophile and so it is ok for modern Muslims to also be pedophiles?

Saudi child 'files for divorce'

A court in Saudi Arabia is reported to be preparing to hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl who has been married off to a man in his 50s.

The Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the girl had been married off to the man by her father without her knowledge.

The child's mother is thought to be pushing for the marriage to be annulled - though the father opposes the move.

In April, a court in neighbouring Yemen annulled the arranged marriage of another eight-year-old girl.

She had been married to a 28-year-old man.

Child-protection groups say children are often given away in return for hefty dowries, or as a result of old customs in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships.

Activists have called for an end to the practice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7579616.stm

[DanQ]

Re: 8 year old Saudi girl asking for divorce.

From the story itself:

Activists have called for an end to the practice.

I hope they succeed. The practice is sick (and that's perhaps an understatement).

[SlowwHand]

It is an understatement. It's totally in their character though. Revolting. Disgusting. Pathetic.

[David Floyd]

****ing religious nutters. Throw rocks at them.

[chequita guevara]

She'll probably be killed for this.

[Provost Harrison]

The advocacy of marriage with children that young should render Saudi Arabia liable to international sanctions. But money talks...

[Hercules]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
The advocacy of marriage with children that young should render Saudi Arabia liable to international sanctions. But money talks...

You got it spot on.

[Zanarkand]

I hope the marriage is annulled. Sadly, I don't think the practice will end.. This is something that lies deep within the culture, and I think it'll take ages before it changes.

[Asher]

Re: Re: 8 year old Saudi girl asking for divorce.

Originally posted by DanQ
From the story itself:



I hope they succeed. The practice is sick (and that's perhaps an understatement).

What a rebel, Dan, what a rebel!

[Winston]

The court audience will ask themselves, "Does she have a kid sister?"

[Nugog]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles
She'll probably be killed for this.

[Hercules]

I hope this is not the outcome.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Winston
The court audience will ask themselves, "Does she have a kid sister?"

Damn you, I laughed at that, and now I feel bad. Burn in hell!

[Winston]

And I almost went to edit it right after posting. But now I know to always trust my first instinct. If I get into trouble, I'll point to you as my accomplice!

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by David Floyd
****ing religious nutters. Throw rocks at them.

No! In Saudi Arabia religious nutters throw racks at you!