It seems that if this law is passed in Iraq, which is currently allegedly a secular state, it will allow the following:
1. 9 year old girls can be legally married 2. A child is the property of it's father over the age of two years, so fathers would automatically get custody following a divorce 3: A woman will never be allowed to refuse her husband sex, no matter what the circumstances
http://ab.co/1ckR1m9
Who thinks this is the sort of thing we're also going to see in Afghanistan now, after Karzai caves in to the Taliban?
Anonymous2014-03-08T22:25:19Z
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I'm sure those things, and worse, are already happening in Afghanistan, as they are in most Islamist (note this is different to Muslim) states.
I applaud those dozen women who demonstrated in Baghdad against the draft law. How brave are they?
Its just another piece of proof that we really didn't do a very good job when we invaded Iraq on the pretence of liberating them because they are worse off now than they ever were.
I bet they are wishing for the good old days of Saddam and that the rest of the world had stayed out of their country..
Oh dear, we do take our rights as women for granted. Hopefully it will not happen, poor little girls. Look at the fistula clinics in Ethiopia because of these tragic laws of early marriage.
So let's see. A government is elected in a country that is secular and then goes about enforcing rules based upon religious belief and ideology. Wouldn't happen here.