News That Make me Sick to My Stomach

24Sep08

Muslim girls can wed at nine

“The marriage of nine-year-old girls is not forbidden because according to the Hadith (the Prophet Mohammed’s sayings), Mohammed married Aisha when she was only seven-years-old and he consummated his union when she was nine,” wrote Sheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al-Maghraoui on his website (Maghrawi.net).

19-year-old gets reduced sentence for murdering his divorced sister

“Her actions hurt her parents, brothers and unmarried sisters’ honour and reputation and are considered by the court as dangerous and unlawful, especially to the defendant, since in our customs and traditions a man is valued by his sister’s behaviour and honour among his community,” the court ruled.

Five women beaten and buried alive in Pakistan ‘honour killing’

The killings have been defended by politicians from Baluchistan. Reacting to a female colleague’s attempt to raise the issue in parliament, Israrullah Zehri said such acts were part of a “centuries-old tradition” and he would “continue to defend them”.


Indian Woman Convicted of Murder By Brain Scan

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1 Response to “News That Make me Sick to My Stomach”


  1. 1 loolt Posted September 24th, 2008 - 6:58 am

    why did God bother giving us brains? wallah we use neither that nor our humanity.

    In these days? cross culturally girls getting married at 9? divorce is a crime punishable by death? centuries old traditions need to be protected for no other reason than them being old?

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