A Playground Marriage, a Soft Media War, a Legal Crime…………….
“A senior Saudi cleric said the Prophet Mohammed's marriage to a nine-year-old girl some 14 centuries ago cannot be used to justify child marriages today, a Saudi newspaper reported Thursday. The comments by Sheikh Abdullah al-Manie, a member of the Council of Senior Ulema (scholars), followed the marriage of a 11-year-old girl to a man 68 years her senior. Manie told Okaz newspaper that circumstances are different today from when Islam's Prophet Mohammed married young Aisha. Aisha's marriage "cannot be equated with child marriages today because the conditions and circumstances are not the same," Manie said. The sheikh spoke as the case of a girl in the city of Buraidah, in al-Qasim province, marrying a man estimated to be 80 years old, sparked new criticism of Saudi Arabia not having a law banning child marriages……. According to a report last week in Al-Riyadh newspaper, the girl was given in marriage by her father against both her and her mother's wishes. The newspaper reported that the marriage was sealed by a dowry payment and had been consummated………..” Alarabiya
These horrible marriages by elderly Saudi pedophiles have been quite common, but unreported in the past. It looks like certain elements of the Saudi elite are waging a “soft” campaign in their media against this abominable practice. Gradually some shaikhs are being recruited to criticize the practice on public, although the heavyweigths among the shaikhs (the Mufti, etc) who supported this practice in the past are silent.
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These horrible marriages by elderly Saudi pedophiles have been quite common, but unreported in the past. It looks like certain elements of the Saudi elite are waging a “soft” campaign in their media against this abominable practice. Gradually some shaikhs are being recruited to criticize the practice on public, although the heavyweigths among the shaikhs (the Mufti, etc) who supported this practice in the past are silent.
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