Islamic Law: Saudi Father Weds Daughter, 10, to 80 year old pervert: "according to the shari'a his marriage is legal as long as the girl's father consents"

Saudi Arabia Saudi Father Weds Daughter, 10, to Octogenarian MEMRI

Articles have recently appeared in the Saudi press discussing the phenomenon of child marriage, which has been practiced in Muslim societies since the dawn of Islam. In Saudi Arabia, which implements the shari'a, child bride marriages are legal, since according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad married his wife 'Aisha when she was only six years old.
  
In August 2009, it was reported that a 10-year-old girl had been hiding for 10 days in her aunt's house after her father married her off to a man of 80. In response to this report, a Saudi columnist contended that child bride marriages were incompatible with Islamic values and that they violated the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Saudi Arabia is a signatory.
 
Following are excerpts from the article:

Fifth-Grader Wedded to an Octogenarian

The Saudi daily 'Okaz reported on August 25, 2009 that the father of a 10-year-old girl had removed her from her aunt's home, where she had been hiding for 10 days, and brought her back to her husband, who, according to the girl's relatives, is 80 years old. In an 'Okaz interview, the husband stated that he was not yet 80, accused the girl's aunt of interfering in his private life, and claimed that according to the shari'a his marriage is legal as long as the girl's father consents to it. He explained that the girl's father had first offered him his older daughter, but when the latter refused, the father had suggested the younger one, and he had agreed, since when girl was shown to him, he couldn't see anything to prevent their getting married.

UPDATE: GIRLS BURN THEMSELVES TO ESCAPE MARRIAGE

Comments

[PersonOfTheBook]

"according to the shari'a his marriage is legal as long as the girl's father consents to it"

Yet another reason why we DO NOT want "shari'a" in the United States.

Question 1: What kind of a god would give a 10-year-old girl's father that kind of power over her life?
Answer: the wrong god.

Question 2: I wonder how much money the "father" got for his 10-year-old daughter?

[PersonOfTheBook]

Thank you, President O-Bozo, for bowing down to these monsters.

Rather than bow down to them, why don't you try to use the prestige and influence of the United States to try to move them away from that kind of thing.

You do realize that it's wrong for an 80-year old man to marry a 10-year old girl, don't you, President O-Bozo?

[dented_uk]

These monsters disgust me.

[dented_uk]

Isn't this a form of bribery, when it is possible that these donors may affect policy changes?

Big Obama Donors Get Unprecedented Access to White House Staff and Toys
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:HFmuwd6FH9YJ:yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-obama-donors-get-unprecedented.html+obama+accused+of+selling+access+to+the+white+house&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

President Obama alleged to have given White House perks to top donors
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6896205.ece

Barack Obama accused of 'selling' access to the White House
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6461679/Barack-Obama-accused-of-selling-access-to-the-White-House.html

[Richard]

This is trafficking in human flesh more than it is a marriage. Sick. These marriages with little girls are as vile as the current custom of slavery (also prevalent in KSA). The differences between how daughters are treated in Islam and in the West is one of the starkest contrasts I can think of between the two cultures.

[www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1670185809]

The love affair many of the left have with radical Islam speaks of their ignorance to what these groups stand for. They are not American values.

I have to think of the student uprisings in Iran in the late 70's where young people demanded the ouster of the Shaw elevating Ayatollah Khomeini to power. I wonder how these students feel now. Probably the same way the naive haters of their own country will feel as we let them infiltrate our own society. For me, keeping the wool over my eyes makes me itch.

Roger Stockton
WesternPAC.org

[Elizabeth]

Sick bastards.

[daughter_of_eve]

Different "country", same bullshit...

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/10/29/2112069.aspx

Surprising to find this on msnbc's page.

These poor babies, how little their lives are valued.

[www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1591477762]

I believe the President has a ten year old daughter. Wouldn't an arranged marriage make a wonderful alliance for some Sheik? Is it possible he has even considered such a development? Sick if he has, sick if he hasn't.

[DeeDee]

Seen at The Religion of Peace from BBC: Somalian man who claims he's 112 marries 17-yr-old

[Isabellathecrusader]

"Saudi Arabia Saudi Father Weds Daughter, 10, to Octogenarian"

This is how the headline should have read:

"Father with no balls and member in good standing of Mohammad's Worship-the-Penis-Club sacrifices child on the altar of we-Muslim-men-agree-to-keep-perverted-sexual-activity-available-to-all-Muslim-men, to dirty old man for an ass and two melons. An exceptional bargain."

[seeteufel]

Daughter of Eve, what a positively sick suggestion. How dare you even suggest a noble Saudi marry an abd, a kaffir.

[daughter_of_eve]

seeteufel, I really f*(king hope you are joking because I am not in the mood for your, or anyone else's, bullshit. "Noble" Saudi my ass. There is no nobility in selling one's children.

[WAKE UP]

Where's the problem? It was good enough for that paedophile cult leader Mohammed.

[WAKE UP]

Seeteufel, if you being satirical (very badly, too) (and see how nice we are, giving you a moment's benefit of the doubt?) - if you aren't being satirical, then it's simple - YOU ARE NOT FIT TO LIVE IN THE WEST. GET OUT. Our patience with this bullshit is over.

[Joy]

What a CURSE to be born a woman in an Islamic country!! How lucky we here in the West are - and how much we take for granted! Yes, Obozo needs to reevaluate his "respect" for the Evil Kingdom of S.A. Send a picture of a fat, middle-age man from S.A. to the POTUS, suggesting that he'd make an excellent husband for one of Obozo's lovely, age-appropriate daughrers. If that doesn't make him puke, then get exceedingly angry, we'll know he's a devout Muslim in $1K fancy Western suits....