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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/20...herself-in-bedroom-after-marrying-90-year-old
Charming isn't it.
Go over there Gillard and give them the misogynist speech, see how you go.
A 90-year-old Saudi Arabian man is suing the family of his 15-year-old bride after she locked herself in their bedroom on their wedding night.
Two days later she fled back to her parents' home.
The case has sparked condemnation on social media by human rights activists, who liken the marriage to child trafficking and say the girl's parents should never have agreed to it.
But the groom insists the marriage, which took place last week in Jizan, southern Saudi Arabia, was "legal and correct" and plans to go to court to force the family to either return the AUD$16,500 dowry he paid or return the girl, Al Arabiya reports.
The unnamed child bride was reportedly so frightened on her wedding night she locked herself in the marital bedroom and refused to let her groom enter.
Saudi Arabia applies an interpretation of Islam that allows fathers to control who their daughters marry and when.
It currently has no minimum legal age for marriage, something which authorities say they are considering changing.
They'll get there eventually, or send the rest of us back to medieval religious culture.Charming isn't it.
I reckon they have a long way to go, doc. 5 + generations to go maybe. The religion is too entrenched in their politics and culture. If they were secular, this type of behaviour would have ended around the same time as the end of slavery perhaps.They'll get there eventually, or send the rest of us back to medieval religious culture.
I doubt very much we will go back.
"RAJASTHAN, India -- Every year, millions of Indian girls are married as children. In some instances the brides are no more than 4 or 5 years old.
Child marriages are illegal in India, but the practice is flourishing.
Rajasthan is the epicenter of India's child marriage. More than half of girls born in the area become child brides before the age of 15."
RAJASTHAN, India -- Every year, millions of Indian girls are married as children. In some instances the brides are no more than 4 or 5 years old.
Child marriages are illegal in India, but the practice is flourishing.
Rajasthan is the epicenter of India's child marriage. More than half of girls born in the area become child brides before the age of 15.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216553/International-Day-Girl-Child-2012-Devastating-images-terrifying-world-child-brides.html
The terrifying world of child brides: Devastating images show girls young enough to be in pre-school who are married off to older men
At age 11, Ghulam was married off to 40-year-old Jaiz in a rural Afghan village, making her only one of more than 10 million young girls who are being forced to wed men old enough to be their fathers or grandfather every year.
In an effort to start a global conversation about the devastating effects of early marriages, which are currently practiced in more than 50 developing countries, the United Nations designated October 11 as International Day of the Girl Child this year.
To mark the occasion and draw attention to the problem of child brides, photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair teamed up with National Geographic to create a series of heart-breaking photos depicting girls as young as five years old being married off to middle-aged men in countries like India, Yemen and Ethiopia.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216553/International-Day-Girl-Child-2012-Devastating-images-terrifying-world-child-brides.html
You know, there was probably a very good reason for these customs to start. A survival necessity perhaps. I'm sure it's not required any more though...
You know, there was probably a very good reason for these customs to start. A survival necessity perhaps. I'm sure it's not required any more though...
You know, there was probably a very good reason for these customs to start. A survival necessity perhaps. I'm sure it's not required any more though...
This might cause a bit of a stir...but perhaps we should try not to superimpose our Western values on non-Western societies?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/20...herself-in-bedroom-after-marrying-90-year-old
Charming isn't it.
Go over there Gillard and give them the misogynist speech, see how you go.
Burns, you are up to no good again.
Blame Gillard for everything.
What the f*** has Julia Gillard got to do with this?
My true hope is the western world focuses on finding an alternative to oil and we can close our borders to these people. Leave them to their problems and no longer give them someone to blame - I know they will but we can just ignore them.
When they've gone through their current dark ages AND a few decades of reformation with secular Govt that is not beholden to religious leaders, then maybe we can think about trading and interacting with them again.
If the world would just stop exporting labour to them, well then maybe their own people would spend more time in real jobs than designing the latest in suicide bomber chic.
couldn't agree moreThis might cause a bit of a stir...but perhaps we should try not to superimpose our Western values on non-Western societies?
Spot on pixel. One of the reasons for our own post war baby explosion too. With their infant mortality rates so poor, they just need to keep breeding. I do wonder if this is still required though. The Earth has at least twice as many humans as sustainable from all accounts. Maybe it's just pockets here and there that need to keep the human capital running at high levels for labour and security.of course!
In the Stone Age, the tribe's survival depended on genetic variety and making sure that no sperm, no egg was wasted. Even in more recent historical times, in a region where resources were scarce and battles bloody, all members of a tribe had to band together to make sure that losses were replenished as quickly as could be.
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