Ohh… Thoughts!

I’ve read this news while I’m blog hopping, I can’t seem to believe it.  Is it really true? According to the author (tampi.tblog.com), there was a paper by a Moroccan scholar that states that a woman girl can marry at the age of 9.  Sheik Mohamad mentioned earlier this month that the marriage of a nine years old was allowed by Islams as the Prophet Mohamed consummated the marriage to one of his wives at that age.   This is seem to be ridiculous, what at 9 nine year-old girl knows about relationship, sex, family and responsibility?  What am I thinking is that they are just justifying their pedophile acts with religious stuffs.

I got curious because of this, so I tried to research something about this.  I dig some articles and I found out that it is really happening in some Islamic tribes where girls as young as 9 years old are forced to marry older men through arranged marriage.  There was a report in the Pakistan news that a 17-year old girl was killed in so-called “honour killing” because she annulled her husband whom she was forced to marry at the age of nine.

In Wikipedia, I found that in Ethopia  children in rural areas are married young. It is not uncommon to see girls as young as 6 years of age being married. It is also unusual for a girl to be 16 and yet unmarried.  I was astounded.  What do they know about marriage life?

Well, what can the Captivating Capiz Zinnia and The Seer say about this.  At the ripe age of 20+ is still unattached.

Note: MOROCCO TOP BODY OF ISLAMIC SCHOLARS HAS CONDEMNED A MUSLIM THEOLOGIAN FOR ISSUING A RELIGIOUS DECREE THAT GIRLS AS YOUNG AS NINE YEARS CAN MARRY.