Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh. has come out and stated that not allowing 10 or 12 year-old girls to marry is "unfair" to the girl. He has also stated that Islamic law has not done any "injustice to women". To normal people with morals this is called pedophilia and this all stems from the actions of Mohammad and Islam itself.
Hat tip to The Religion of Peace
It's an injustice to NOT marry girls aged 10, says Saudi cleric
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
14th January 2009
Ten-year-old girls are ready for marriage, according to Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric.
Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country's grand mufti, told Al Hayat newspaper that those saying ten or 12-year-old girls are too young to marry are being 'unfair' to them.
Al Sheikh's comments come at a time when Saudi human rights groups have been pushing the government to put an end to marriages involving the very young and to define a minimum age for marriage.
In the past few months, Saudi newspapers have highlighted several cases in which young girls were married off to much older men or very young boys.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the Kingdom's grand mufti, prays during the funeral of the Saudi woman and her daughter last February
Though the mufti's pronouncements are respected and provide guidance, the government is not legally bound by them.
On Sunday, the government-run Human Rights Commission condemned marriages of minor girls, saying such marriages are an 'inhumane violation' and rob children of their rights.
The commission's statement followed a ruling by a court in Oneiza in central Saudi Arabia last month that dismissed a divorce petition by the mother of an eight-year-old girl whose father married her off to a man in his 50s.
Newspaper reports said the court argued that the mother did not have the right to file such a case on behalf of her daughter and said that the petition should be filed by the girl when she reaches puberty.
Responding to a question about parents who force their underage daughters to marry, the mufti said: 'We hear a lot about the marriage of underage girls in the media, and we should know that Islamic law has not brought injustice to women.'
The mufti said a good upbringing will make a girl capable of carrying out her duties as a wife and that those who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a 'bad path'.
'Our mothers and before them, our grandmothers, married when they were barely 12,' said Al Sheikh, according to the Al-Hayat newpaper.
There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year.
It is also not clear whether these unions are on the rise or whether people are hearing about them more now because of the prevalence of media outlets and easy access to the Internet.
Activists say the girls are given away in return for hefty dowries or as a result of long-standing custom in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships.
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6 comments:
"a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships."
Hmmm, I wonder how that works? FEar of being murdered? If the girl is married and did have an illicit relationship she would be committing adultery and stoned to death, right?
Maybe it is that the man in the illicit relationship would also be committing adultery and her husband would insist on his murder as well?
He looks like a dirty old man to me.
Margaret
Is that guy dropping a load in his dress?
Hungarian Crusader-1453
May Allah guide everyone.
A pedophile, helping pedophiles, under laws written by a pedophile. Not hard to see how that would be very morally and spiritually unhealthy and damaging to everyone, not just the women. Human beings do not need this evil enslaving decent people and terrorizing little girls.
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