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Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric was quoted on Wednesday as saying it is permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who think they're too young are doing the girls an injustice.

Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country's grand mufti, said during a lecture on Monday that those who say women should not marry before the age of 25 are following a "bad path," according to the pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper.

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.

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."

"For it to be said that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger is wrong," Al Sheikh was quoted as saying. "A female who is 10 or 12 is marriageable and those who think she's too young are wrong and are being unfair to her."

The mufti said a good upbringing will make a girl capable of carrying out her duties as a wife.

"Our mothers and before them our grandmothers married when they were barely 12," said Al Sheikh, according to Al-Hayat.

There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year. And it's 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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that's kinda pedo to be honest...
like a 30 year old guy and 10 year old girl...
eww
 

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What's that thing they people say - we should be respectful of their culture and religion... there has to be a limit to that.


dp624 said:
that's kinda pedo to be honest...

like a 30 year old guy and 10 year old girl...

eww
50yo to an 8yo according to the article.
 

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lol see it is a religion of peace after all. peace and paedophilia
 

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And you wonder how their offsprings are going to turn out. Hopefully with no mental/psychiatric disorder :skip:
 

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RogueAcademic said:
That's the problem with a centuries-old religion (or millenia-old, including Christianity). It's not relevant for today's standards. But I guess you could argue that it remains relevant for today's Muslim standards in Saudi Arabia.
I don't know of this being said by the Pope or Chief Rabbi of Israel.
 

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JaredR said:
I don't know of this being said by the Pope or Chief Rabbi of Israel.

So... let me get this straight, you're bringing up the pope as a defence in a thread about inferential paedophilia...?
 

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the rabbi of israel condemns the marrying of children...

but bombing them is ok if they're muslim, LOL
 

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RogueAcademic said:
So... let me get this straight, you're bringing up the pope as a defence in a thread about inferential paedophilia...?
yeah, as much as I <3 catholics its not a good one to try and defend them on.
 

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So in their culture marrying tends to be for different reasons than the reasons we might marry. I don't dispute that. But it comes to a point where children aren't allowed to be just children, they have to be wives and mommies as well. That doesn' seem quite right.

But, comparatively, they aren't living in a dingy shack and at the age of 7 having to feed and care for their AIDS-infected parents and younger siblings...

The comment about women not being allowed to marry till they're 25 was kinda weird though: they're past their prime for child-bearing there, what's the go? If I wasn't allowed to have sex till then I'd definitely be screwing with the hired help.
 
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Rainie said:
And you wonder how their offsprings are going to turn out. Hopefully with no mental/psychiatric disorder :skip:
You know, it takes a 'special person' to strap bombs on their body and blow themselves up along with as many people as they can.
 

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zstar said:
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.
fuck off.

an 8 yr old girl in a shitty male-dominated country like saudi arabia would have trouble spelling her own name let alone carrying out the unyielding responsibilites of being an arab man's wife.

edit: i'm not calling you a liar, i just find it really dumb.
 
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