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SANAA, Yemen (CNN) -- Nujood Ali is 10 years old, but she already has been married and divorced. It was an arranged marriage in which she said a husband three times her age routinely beat and raped her.
"When I got married, I was afraid. I didn't want to leave home. I wanted to stay with my brothers and sisters and my mom and dad," she said, speaking to CNN with the permission of her parents.
"When I heard, my heart burned for her; he wasn't supposed to sleep with her," said Nujood's mother, who asked not to be identified.
But, initially, she also told her daughter she could not help her -- that she belonged to her husband now.
Nujood's father, Ali Mohammed Ahdal, said he is angry about what happened to his daughter. "He was a criminal, a criminal. He did hateful things to her," he said. "He didn't keep his promise to me that he wouldn't go near her until she was 20."
dont forget most muslims see nothing wrong , infact she is lucky she was not stoned to death for leaving her husband...
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
This is one of those issues about Islam that can't be defended with the usual "this happens because someone has perverted or misunderstood the Koran" defenses. Mohammed himself was a pedophile, so if your "Supreme Moral Authority" is a pedophile, there's some precident for the rest of your followers to at least rationalize the behavior in their own minds (not trying to say all Muslims are pedophiles.)
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
This is one of those issues about Islam that can't be defended with the usual "this happens because someone has perverted or misunderstood the Koran" defenses. Mohammed himself was a pedophile, so if your "Supreme Moral Authority" is a pedophile, there's some precident for the rest of your followers to at least rationalize the behavior in their own minds (not trying to say all Muslims are pedophiles.)
en.wikipedia.org...
In a child marriage, children, or even infants, are married. The married children often live apart with their respective families until well after puberty. Child marriages are typically made for economic or political reasons. In rural India and several other countries, the requirement of providing a dowry for daughters is generally acknowledged to be a contributing factor to female infanticide.
Originally posted by Rook1545
Usually I am one to stick up for Muslims. This time though they are on their own. This is just sick. This is not 1400 years ago, this is now. As a parent I cannot understand how someone could do this to their child. That is all this girl is, a child. A parent is supposed to do everything they can to protect the child, not sell them off to abuse and rape.
"... he wasn't supposed to sleep with her," said Nujood's mother, ... (Her father said) "He didn't keep his promise to me that he wouldn't go near her until she was 20."
Originally posted by DJMessiah
reply to post by Rook1545
In Islam, it's different. The parents of the two will find someone who will likely be the suitor for one another, then the two will meet and see if they can be right for each other. If they do not like the person picked, then they will ask their parents to find another.
The father even said, "He was a criminal, a criminal. He did hateful things to her," he said. "He didn't keep his promise to me that he wouldn't go near her until she was 20."
If it were part of Islam, then why would he say something like that, if he was ok with it?
Originally posted by Rook1545
Those quotes are contradictory. If the parents picked the guy and were ok with him, how can they come back and say he is a criminal? THEY PICKED HIM!
I am trying to say that if this was not a part of Muslim culture and tradition, it would not have happened.
Originally posted by DJMessiah
Did you read how I said it was their cultural tradition to perform that type of marriage, not their religion? They can come back and say he's a criminal because he didn't wait till she was 20, as was their agreement. Did you even read the article?
It's not part of Muslim culture. It's part of a culture that existed prior to Islam and spread through Africa and the M.E. If the marriage practice has existed and practiced before Islam, then why is it attributed to Islam?
[edit on 16-7-2008 by DJMessiah]
Nujood's father, Ali Mohammed Ahdal, said he is angry about what happened to his daughter. "He was a criminal, a criminal. He did hateful things to her," he said. "He didn't keep his promise to me that he wouldn't go near her until she was 20."