As if the Court not agreeing to a divorce for an EIGHT-YEAR-OLD child who was married off to a 58-year-old man for the paltry sum of 30,000SR [$8,042.89], earlier this week, wasn't enough...
16-year-old Shaikha and 11-YEAR-OLD Abeer have not been able to get a ruling in their divorce cases, either. They are married to old men - one of the husbands is 70 and the other is 75! And, they were married off "in trade." You know. The "if you let me marry your daughter I will let you marry my daughter" type of deal. I don't get why a dowry was paid. I mean, really, wouldn't that be like just exchanging the 'same' money? "Here. I will give you a dollar. Now, you give me the dollar back." One dowry was slightly higher than the other in this instance, though. Apparently one of the daughter's was worth slightly more than the other daughter - but I'm not sure which was deemed worthy of the extra 5,000SR. The article says "The two guardians received SR50,000 and SR45,000, as dowry to exchange each other's daughters." [$13,304.82 and $12,064.34, respectively.]
The article also says that the 16-year-old, Shaikha "had tried to commit suicide by drinking Clorox but she was rescued." Who would have thought that a young girl would go to such extremes just to NOT marry a man some 54 to 59 years her senior?!?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
gotta say. reading your blog just makes me ANGRY. sick to my stomach angry.
ReplyDelete~ShyAsrai
Angry because I write about things that are happening, here, but not angry at me, right? Hey - I had absolutely nothing to do with setting up the marriages of an 8 YEAR OLD or an 11 YEAR OLD or a 16 year old. The child marriages make me angry - and sick to my stomach - as well, Shy Asrai.
ReplyDeleteof course i'm not angry at YOU. not being a liberal, i don't get angry at, or blame, the 'messenger'.
ReplyDeletei'm deeply angry at the things that are happening; at the wilful blindness of americans (& other westerners) who are apologists for these sick, sick muslims societies.
as far as i'm concerned, self-preservation trumps 'diversity'.
~ShyAsrai
"as far as i'm concerned, self-preservation trumps 'diversity'." Well said, Shy Asrai. Well said!
ReplyDelete