8-year-old girl asks for divorce in court
Nojoud Muhammed Nasser Thought that might grab your attention. It certainly grabbed mine when I was doing my morning round and checking out the Yemen Times to see what was happening in that part of Islamic Hell.
It seems that an 8 year old child took it upon herself to disobey the orders of her father and approached the authorities in Yemen and demand a divorce for after accusing her husband of sexual and domestic abuse. What courage this child displayed.
“My father beat me and told me that I must marry this man, and if I did not, I would be raped and no law and no sheikh in this country would help me. I refused but I couldn’t stop the marriage,”Yemen Law was amended in 1998 to allow marriage to children even if they are below the previous age limit of 15 and sex may take place with a female child, when the husband decides that she is ready or mature enough. Well the child Nojoud was raped and then she was married as her father had threatened.
“He used to do bad things to me, and I had no idea as to what a marriage is. I would run from one room to another in order to escape, but in the end he would catch me and beat me and then continued to do what he wanted. I cried so much but no one listened to me. One day I ran away from him and came to the court and talked to them.”However, Nojoud cannot prosecute because she is under-age but court judge Muhammed Al-Qathi(and in all fairness an obviously decent man) heard her complaint and ordered the arrests of her father and husband. The father was later released and will face no charges but the little girls husband is in jail whilst the case is being investigated. However he said from his cell:
“Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him. This lasted for two months," added Nojoud. "He was too tough with me, and whenever I asked him for mercy, he beat me and slapped me and then used me"
“Yes I was intimate with her, but I have done nothing wrong, as she is my wife and I have the right and no one can stop me,"You see the whole problem is, that Moslems live their lives as closely as possible to those of their dead Cult Leader. And if Mohammad the Madman can marry a six year old, then so can they. Mohammad however did at least wait until his "wife" was nine before taking her to bed. Interesting article here on Incest in Islam and how the sick old goat created his "Have any woman I like" Card.
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