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  • Out of money? Sell your daughter

    02/16/2005 5:14:31 AM PST · by SJackson · 134 replies · 2,836+ views
    Jewish World Review ^ | 2-17-05 | Haytullah Gaheez
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Zeva's eyes filled with tears as the 10-year-old's father took her by the arm and handed her over to the man from whom he had borrowed 50,000 afghanis, or about $1,000. MARRIAGE MINDED? Muslim girls are still victims of institutionalized pedophilia "I cannot pay you in any other way. Take my daughter," said Gul Miran, 42, a farmer in Nangarhar province. Like many other farmers in Afghanistan, Gul Miran had planned to pay back the loan with the proceeds from his crop of poppies, which would eventually be turned into heroin. But as part of its stepped-up...