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.