Let the mullahs decide
Iraq wants 9-year-old girls raped.
Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing men to marry young children.
Young girls, that is. I really doubt Iraq is allowing men to marry young boys.
The proposed legal change also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance.
Iraq’s parliament, which is dominated by a coalition of conservative Shia Muslim parties, is preparing to vote through an amendment that would overturn the country’s “personal status law”. The legislation, also known as Law 188, was heralded as one of the most progressive in the Middle East when it was introduced in 1959 and provides an overarching set of rules governing the affairs of Iraqi families, regardless of their religious sect.
As well as bringing down the legal marriage age, the amendment would also remove women’s rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance.
Isn’t it interesting how much of religious law is all about subordinating women? Gotta keep those bitches from spreading for every random guy within 5 miles, yeah?
The governing coalition says the move aligns with a strict interpretation of Islamic law and is intended to protect young girls from “immoral relationships”.
Nope nope nope nope nope. It’s intended to protect men from wasting resources on some other guy’s kid.
Athraa Al-Hassan, international human rights legal adviser and director of Model Iraqi Woman, told The Telegraph she is “afraid” Iraq’s system of governance will be replaced with a new system known as the Guardianship of the Jurist – a Shia system that puts religious rule above the state.
The system is the same one that underpins the regimes in Afghanistan and Iran, where a Guardian Jurist serves as supreme leader of the country.
That’s called “theocracy.” That’s a big word, I know, but we can all learn it. The-oc-racy: rule by god, aka goddy rule.
Gee, just what happened to Iraq to turn it into a theocracy? It’s not that long ago it was a nation where women could do as they pleased, own property, drive cars, marry or not marry, go to University, and choose whether or not to have children.
Say what you will about Saddam Hussein, but women were far better off under his government than they are now.
Rev, go complain to G. W. Bush, not to us. I don’t imagine too many people here were supportive of Dubya and his wars.
Why have they decided that nine is a suitable age for marriage? Well, look at who set the precedent. From Wiki:
It will be interesting to say the least to see how the usual suspects will manage to spin criticism of religiously-sanctioned paedophilia into accusations of Islamophobia…but I’m sure they’ll manage.
Also, I wonder if that law also allows adult women to marry little boys?*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Muhammad#:~:text=Aisha%20was%20the%20only%20virgin,%2C%20then%2053%2C%20in%20Medina.
* That may be the rhetoricalest rhetorical question I’ve ever asked.
That is, she stayed in her parents’ home until the age of nine, or ten according to Ibn Hisham, when Muhammad raped her.
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