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Flogging the Muslim Rape Victim

By Asma Marwan on April 3, 2013

It’s hard to believe, but a 15-year-old rape survivor has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public! Let’s put an end to this lunacy by hitting the Maldives government where it hurts: the tourism industry.

The girl’s stepfather is accused of raping her for years and murdering the baby she bore. Now the court says she must be flogged for “sex outside marriage” with a man who has not even been named!

President Waheed of the Maldives is already feeling global pressure on this, and we can force him to save this girl and change the law to spare other victims this cruel fate. This is how we can end the War on Women – by standing up every time an outrage like this happens.

The rest of this article: Muslim Woman in Maldives Raped, Sentenced to Flogging (h/t Atlas Shrugs)

This entry is filed under Children's Rights, Maldives, Rape and Abuse.

Over 5,000 Saudi Girls Under the Age of 14 Are Married

By Asma Marwan on November 21, 2012

There have been 5,622 marriages where the bride is under the age of 14 in Saudi Arabia, said Ali Abdul Rahman Al Roumi, a social services academic at Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University, adding that specifying a legal age would not solve the problem, and may lead to “even bigger problems”.

A number of families from “rural areas” have been marrying their daughters off to older, rich men, according to the Saudi owned Al Hayat newspaper.

We must solve this, by at least looking at the difference in age in cases where the bride is young, in which case it can be deceptive” he said. He did not specify what period of time that figure represents.

Read the rest: More Than 5000 Brides under 14 in Saudi Arabia. (h/t to thereligionofpeace.com)

And why does the imam not want to specify a legal age for marriage? Because according to Islamic doctrine, Mohammed married his wife Aisha when she was six years old and consummated the marriage when she was nine. And if Mohammed did it, then it’s sunnah and permitted for all Muslims.

This entry is filed under Child Marriage, Children's Rights, Saudi Arabia. | 1 Comment

Taliban Shot Malala Because She Was Propagating Against Islam

By Asma Marwan on October 16, 2012

And we thought it was because she was a female who dared to confront those who wanted to deny her the right to be a human and have an education.

Taliban insurgents said on Tuesday that the Pakistani schoolgirl its gunmen shot in the head deserved to die because she had spoken out against the group and praised U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Pakistan’s Taliban described Yousufzai as a “spy of the West”.

“For this espionage, infidels gave her awards and rewards. And Islam orders killing of those who are spying for enemies,” the group said in a statement.

“She used to propagate against mujahideen (holy warriors) to defame (the) Taliban. The Quran says that people propagating against Islam and Islamic forces would be killed..
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“We did not attack her for raising voice for education. We targeted her for opposing mujahideen and their war,” said the Taliban. “Shariah (Islamic law) says that even a child can be killed if he is propagating against Islam.”

Read the rest: Malala Shooting Justified Under Sharia Says Taliban.
(h/t to JihadWatch.org)

This entry is filed under Activists, Afghanistan, Children's Rights, Education, Pakistan, Taliban.

Update on Malala

By Asma Marwan on October 16, 2012

Two well-wishers posing as relatives have been stopped by police from visiting Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban who has been flown to the UK for specialist medical care.

The visitors, one of whom claimed to be Malala’s mother, were prevented from seeing the 14-year-old after turning up at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Officers are guarding the site as Malala receives care under tight security conditions. She had been targeted by the Taliban because she was campaigning for better education for girls.

Read the rest: Well Wishers Posing as Family Stopped from Visiting Malala Yousafzai.

(h/t to NewEnglishReview.org)

This entry is filed under Afghanistan, Children's Rights, Great Britain, Pakistan, Taliban, United Kingdom.

The Number of Child Brides Under 10 on the Rise in Iran

By Asma Marwan on August 28, 2012

I truly wish these women activists the best but Fardous Azadi can work her fingers to the bone, and it will not change the fact that child marriages from the age of nine years will always be tolerated in Islam. Why? Because Mohammed married Aisha at six and consummated the marriage when she was nine. Child marriages (as long as the girl has had her first menses) are Sunna and legal under sharia law.

A new report from Iran has revealed a striking rise in the number of child brides under the age of 10-years-old.

The Union for the Protection of Children’s Rights said that in 2010, at least 713 marriages of girls under 10-years-old were registered in the country, more than twice as many as registered in the three years before.

Farshid Yezdani of the Union was cited by TREND news agency as reporting at least 75 child marriages were registered in the capital, Tehran, last year.

The report also released numbers for 2010, which showed some 342,000 marriage contracts among adolescents under 18-years-old were registered, of which 42,000 involved girls between the age of 10 to 14.

Women’s rights activists across the world have called on the Iranian government to end the marriages of girls under 18-years-old, arguing that the girls are not able to decide their future at that time and that marriage should be a partnership agreed upon by both the husband and the wife.

“It is a worrying trend to see and something that we are all working hard to end,” said Iranian women’s rights activist Fardous Azadi, who told Bikyamasr.com that she has been working closely with a number of European organizations in an effort to educate people in Iran.

“The best way to end this kind of practice is to give information on how to better one’s life without infringing on a child’s ability to have a childhood,” she said. “And we are being successful, we believe, in changing a lot of the perceptions toward this practice.”

Read the rest: Child Marriages on the Rise in Iran. (h/t to Atlas Shrugs)

This entry is filed under Child Marriage, Children's Rights, Iran.

ACTION ALERT: End Child Marriages in Yemen

By Asma Marwan on May 22, 2012

Equality Now calls upon the Yemeni government to make the rights of women and girls a priority, to pass and enforce a law prohibiting child marriage, and to ensure the safety and human rights of child brides who have ended their marriages.

Sign the petition to end child marriages in Yemen.

This entry is filed under Child Marriage, Children's Rights, Yemen.

Sudanese Girl Sentenced to Death By Stoning

By Asma Marwan on May 22, 2012

Intisar Sharif Abdalla, believed to be between 15 and 17 years of age (although prison authorities claim she is 20) was sentenced to death in accordance with Article 146 of the Sudanese criminal law albeit without legal representation.

The judgment was made on May 13, 2012 after just one hearing and came after an “admission of guilt” plea following torture and brutal beatings by Sharif’s brother who instigated the case. Her co-accused however remains un-convicted and walks freely.

This absurd decision demonstrates both the inhumane and brutal sanctioning to death for committing sexual relations outside of marriage, but furthermore calls into questions the legal institutions and frameworks applied, especially as the “admission of guilt” was made under duress.

Read the rest: Sudanese Girl Sentenced to Stoning

This entry is filed under Children's Rights, Forbidden Love, Sudan and tagged Stoning.

Education for Girls Is Against Sharia: Islamic Cleric

By Asma Marwan on May 9, 2012

A former lawmaker and cleric from Kohistan district (Pakistan), Maulana Abdul Haleem, termed formal education for women un-Islamic and asked parents to pluck their daughters from school, or else they would be ‘doomed’.

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Maulana Haleem, who was an office-bearer of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl until recently, was delivering a Friday sermon, at Jamia Masjid Komila, on who is dayoos, or those liable to be condemned to hell.

“It’s beghairti (immodesty) to equip girls with secular education,” the cleric said, adding that those Kohistani parents who were sending their girls to schools were acting against ‘Islamic shariah’ and the local customs.
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When approached for comments, the cleric stood by the contents of his sermon, and insisted that several Hadith books prohibit girls from receiving degrees and certificates in ‘secular education’.

He did not actually quote any reference though. Asked to explain how parents would be doomed for their daughters’ education, the cleric said that formal education paves the way for girls to enter the job market.

“When they permit their women to work, they give them a free hand to mix with na-mehrum (men they are not related to by blood) – by doing so, the girl’s father, brother or husband become dayoos in the eye of the shariah,” he said.

Such people will never enter Paradise, he added.

The only responsibility men owe to women is their sustenance, and not education, he said. In return, the women should stay at home and look after their children and family members, he added.

Read the rest here: Ex-Lawmaker Decrees Against Education of Women in Islam .
So the cleric seems to be saying that females should be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. I guess he forgot that Mohammed’s first wife, Khadija was literate and ran her own business. These guys are such comedians. Except it’s not funny if you’re a female in his family.

This entry is filed under Children's Rights, Education, Pakistan.

ACTION ALERTS: Help Muslim Women!

By Asma Marwan on May 9, 2012

Please take action on these two issues:

Lowering of the Age for Marriage in Egypt.

Equality Now issued an urgent alert today calling on Egyptian authorities to stop the minimum age of marriage from being reduced to as low as 9 years old for girls. If adopted, girls could be married off by their families without their consent putting them at risk of physical and psychological harm.

Go here to take call for a stop to Islamic efforts to lower marriage age of Egyptian girls.

Getting rid of Hatem Al Haj, the pediatric pervert doctor who thinks that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is honorable for a little girl.

Hatem Elhagaly (AKA “Hatem Al Haj”) works as a doctor with special interest in child development in Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Albert Lea, MN. He is also a proponent of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
In an Arabic-language paper entitled “Circumcision of Girls: Jurisprudence and Medicine” (original here and here), Elhagaly (AKA “Al Haj”) repeatedly points to the idea that FGM is “an honor” for women, ignoring FGM’s extremely detrimental effects on women’s health and the barbarity of the practice. He attempts to justify his ideas by referencing scholars from several schools of Islamic thought and also the words of Muhammad, including the idea that FGM is desirable “because it is more beautiful to behold and better for her husband.” (for more info on Dr. Hatem, see previous article: Islamic Doctor Says Female Genital Mutilation is an Honor.)

Go here to call for the firing of Dr. Hatem El-Hagaly.

This entry is filed under Children's Rights, Egypt, Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriage, United States.

Saudi Grand Mufti Authorizes Marriage to 10-Year-Old Girls

By Asma Marwan on April 28, 2012

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah has given the official thumbs-up for Muslim men to marry girls as young as 10.

According to the Australian news portal The World Observer, the Grand Mufti also criticized those who desire to raise the minimum age of marriage to 25.

While lecturing at Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University in the Saudi capitol of Riyadh, the Sheikh stated:

“Those who call for raising the age of marriage to 25 are absolutely mistaken.

“Our mothers and grandmothers got married when they were barely 12.

Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age”

Read the rest here: Saudi Grand Mufti Authorizes Marriage to 10-Year-Old Girls.

Muhammed married Aisha when she was 6 years old and consummated the marriage when she was 9. It is sunnah. So the Grand Mufti is doctrinally correct in saying this pedophilia is okay. Sad, isn’t it?

This entry is filed under Child Marriage, Children's Rights, Saudi Arabia. | 1 Comment

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