Posted on 07/16/2012 11:47:20 AM PDT by Nachum
Wealthy tourists from the Persian Gulf are paying to marry under-age Egyptian girls just for the summer, according to a report.
These temporary marriages are not legally binding and end when the men return to their homes in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
The tourists pay a 'dowry' to poor families through intermediaries with prices ranging from £320 to £3,200.
The young victims - some under 18 - suffer sexual slavery and are forced to be servants to their 'husbands', claims the U.S. State Department report 'Trafficking in Persons'. BRIDE, 17, WHO WAS SOLD FOR £2,120
The shame of Aziza one of several 'summer wives' who live in villages around Giza, was highlighted by the paper.
Aziza - not her real name - married a 45-year-old man from Saudi Arabia when she was 17 because he promised to find a job for her brother in the Gulf, and gave her penniless parents the equivalent of £2,120,
The Saudi Arabian also bought her dresses and took her to top restaurants. He stayed a month before returning home, but promised she could join him later.
After waiting several months and now heavily pregnant, she tried to trace him through the Saudi embassy so her child could be formally recognised.
But her marriage was not officially registered which meant she could not prove her claim. Aziza had to return to her family and raise her baby as a single mother.
No foreigner can marry an Egyptian girl if there is an age difference of 10 years, according to state laws. But parents and marriage brokers are getting round the restriction.
They will forge birth certificates to make the girls appear older and the men younger. In 2009, a court in Alexandria jailed two registrars for conducting temporary marriages of hundreds
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Muslims forge birth certificates???? Who knew?
Just following after Mohammad’s conduct.
I am outraged that they are discriminating against older men.
Is there nothing these PIGS won’t stoop to?
This is part of islam to allow ‘temporary marriages’. It essentially makes prostitution legal.
From several sources (my brother married a Persian), I heard of a variation of this practice in Iran where men enter into a “temporary marriage”.
In Islam, a man is allowed 4 wives. So, our perp finds a willing woman, gets “married” by an Iman and gives her a “dowry”. When evening comes, he repeats, “I divorce you”, three times and they both go home - still faithful to Islam.
Salaam
Is that a picture of the “summer brides”?!?!?! What do they mean, “some” are under 18????
Seriously, what is that???
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