Posted on 07/31/2008 2:32:22 PM PDT by Nachum
A 60-year old Saudi man has agreed to postpone his marriage to a 10-year old girl after protests from a human rights group.
The elderly man decided to take a second wife in a challenge with the girl’s father, who said he was afraid of his first wife and dared him to take a second one.
But the man agreed to postpone his marriage after the Saudi National Human Rights Association sent a letter to the Emir of Hail, a city in northwestern Saudi Arabia, AlArabiya.net reported on Sunday, citing Saudi newspaper Al-Madina.
The report did not say for how long the groom has agreed to put off the wedding.
Saudi sociologist Abdullah Al-Harbi said that marriages like this one usually involve the groom-to-be paying huge amounts of money to marry a much younger girl.
In this case the father of the girl asked for a 100,000-riyal ($26,656) dowry.
“These marriages usually end up in failure, and the girl usually goes through trauma due to living with a man who is much older,” he told the newspaper.
Geez...those FLDS freaks at least had the decency to wait until menarche.
L
Since when is 60 considered elderly?
Just doing what mohammed would do....WWmD?
Frickin’ pedophiles.
In the United States the whining liberal scum would scream child molester. But, if one is a pig molesting mo-ham-head moslem then it is ok to “marry†a 10 year old child. What kind of sick f**k religion condones such action? We better wake up and realize that this could be here. This and honor killings could be coming to a neighborhood near you.
The raping of these children has little or nothing to do with the failure?
How does one sell their offspring?
Islam is hate nothing more or less.
Comment:
You got that right.
For many of us headed towards the big 60 in a few years the comment by the author was highly offensive.
I thought the age of 60 was equivalent to the old forty.
However, 10 is slightly young for most knuckle dragger's but about right for fanatical 9th century camel drivers, NAMBLA and many Liberals.
Oh yeah I've heard the mooseSlime rationalizations... A 6 yr old! There aint no rationalizing that, it's plain SICK!
You sure his last name isn’t Jeffs or Jessop?
Saudi National Human Rights Association? Who knew one existed?
Or at least 10 1/2. :O)
“The report did not say for how long the groom has agreed to put off the wedding.”
Until the press goes away.
INNOCENT!!
For sure in this case.
“Since when is 60 considered elderly?”
lol, I used to think anyone over 30 was elderly. I guess it depends on your perspective.
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