In another brilliant work of public relations magic, Saudi Arabia's top mufti made the following statement regarding child marriage:
It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger," Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti, said in remarks quoted Wednesday in the regional Al-Hayat newspaper. "A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her."
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In December, Saudi judge Sheikh Habib Abdallah al-Habib refused to annul the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 47-year-old man. The judge rejected a petition from the girl's mother, whose lawyer said the marriage was arranged by her father to settle a debt with "a close friend." The judge required the girl's husband to sign a pledge that he would not have sex with her until she reaches puberty.
This isn't really about religion. It is about the pathetic men that say they speak for religion in Saudi Arabia. They are cavemen, stuck in the eighth century. More than that, I think that they are deliberately provocative in order to prove to themselves or whoever that "Islam" is independent from the pressures of the west and they basically can do whatever they want, damn the criticisms. This guy is a joke. He even looks like a joke right out of Tash ma Tash. The problem is that he and people like him are creating more jokes of men to take their place as the supposed voice of Islam in the Kingdom. Until their power can be broken, stupidity will continue to reign in Saudi.
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