Fifty year old man receives divorce papers....from his eight year old Wife

Starguard · Apr 30, 2009

...and people complain that American laws are crazy!

8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband

By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press Writer Hadeel Al-shalchi, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 12 mins ago

CAIRO – An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday.

Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child marriage a "clear and unacceptable" violation of human rights.

The girl was allowed to divorce the 50-year-old man who she married in August after an out-of-court settlement had been reached in the case, said her lawyer, Abdulla al-Jeteli. The exact date of the divorce was not immediately known.

A court in the central Oneiza region previously rejected a request by the girl's mother for a divorce and ruled that the girl would have to wait until she reached puberty to file a petition then.

There are no laws in Saudi Arabia defining the minimum age for marriage. Though a woman's consent is legally required, some marriage officials don't seek it.

But there has been a push by Saudi human rights groups to define the age of marriage and put an end to the phenomenon.

One Saudi human rights activist Sohaila Zain al-Abdeen was optimistic that the girl's divorce would help efforts to get a law passed enforcing a minimum marriage age of 18.

"Unfortunately, some fathers trade their daughters," she told The Associated Press. "They are weak people who are sometimes in need of money and forget their roles as parents."

It was not clear if the man received money for the divorce settlement. The man had given the girl's father 50,000 riyals, or about $13,350, as a marriage gift in return for his daughter, the lawyer said.

The 8-year-old girl's marriage was not the only one in the kingdom to receive attention in recent months. Saudi newspapers have highlighted several cases in which young girls were married off to much older men or young boys including a 15-year-old girl whose father, a death-row inmate, married her off to a cell mate.

Saudi Arabia's conservative Muslim clergy have opposed the drive to end child marriages. In January, the kingdom's most senior cleric said it was permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who believe they are too young are doing the girls an injustice.

But some in the government appear to support the movement to set a minimum age for marriage. The kingdom's new justice minister was quoted in mid-April as saying the government was doing a study on underage marriage that would include regulations.

There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year. Activists say the girls are given away in return for hefty marriage gifts or as a result of long-standing custom in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that marriage will protect them from illicit relationships.
Click to expand...

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_saudi_child_marriage

Ten Lubak · Apr 30, 2009

The more I learn about Saudi Arabia, the more I dislike it.

Saudi human rights activist, Sohaila Zain al-Abdeen
Click to expand...

Yeah, good luck with that - you'll probably be jailed or beheaded in no time.

Rimjob Bob · Apr 30, 2009

This is an affront to Allah and His Prophet.

Uncle Albert · Apr 30, 2009

"Unfortunately, some fathers trade their daughters," she told The Associated Press. "They are weak people who are sometimes in need of money and forget their roles as parents."
Click to expand...

Far, FAR too kind.

Any father who would sell his daughter is a savage, cowardly sack of rancid pig shit, and any culture that condones it is beyond redemption.

Starguard · Apr 30, 2009

You ever see this movie "Foreign Bodies"

According to this movie, fathers in the Phillipines sell their own daughters like auto dealers sell cars.

Phoenix · Apr 30, 2009

Uncle Albert said: ↑

"Unfortunately, some fathers trade their daughters," she told The Associated Press. "They are weak people who are sometimes in need of money and forget their roles as parents."
Click to expand...

Far, FAR too kind.

Any father who would sell his daughter is a savage, cowardly sack of rancid pig shit, and any culture that condones it is beyond redemption.
Click to expand...

You haven't met mine
If I could away with it, I'd trade her for a carton of smokes...

oldfella1962 · Apr 30, 2009

Any father who would sell his daughter is a savage, cowardly sack of rancid pig shit, and any culture that condones it is beyond redemption.
Click to expand...

When I was in "the sandbox" my buds and I had an epiphany:

We figured out why the people of the ME (including North Africa, Southwest Asia, call it what you want) are batshit crazy, fatalistic psychopaths. Their whole life they see nothing but sand, wind, cruelty, fear and ugliness.

Yes, I've lived in deserts in America, and they're beautiful.
The sandbox sucks ass no matter how you slice it. How can a shithole like that breed nothing but insanity?

So of course the average Joe can't wait to die and end his or her misery.
Misery loves company, so of course they are jealous as shit and want to make us as miserable as them (by turning the world to Islam).

Captain J · Apr 30, 2009

Ten Lubak said: ↑

The more I learn about Saudi Arabia, the more I dislike it.
Click to expand...

WTF is there is like about it at all???

Captain X · Apr 30, 2009

Oil?

Uncle Albert · Apr 30, 2009

Some of those middle eastern chicks are damned cute, and might appreciate learning how a real man treats a woman.

If only I knew any real men.

bryce · May 1, 2009

Captain J said: ↑

Ten Lubak said: ↑

The more I learn about Saudi Arabia, the more I dislike it.
Click to expand...

WTF is there is like about it at all???
Click to expand...

The falafal and shawarma are pretty damn yummy.

Beyond that - I got nothing.

Log in or Sign up

Fifty year old man receives divorce papers....from his eight year old Wife

Starguard Fresh Meat

Ten Lubak Salty Dog

Rimjob Bob Classy Fellow

Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

Starguard Fresh Meat

Phoenix Sociopath

oldfella1962 the only real finish line

Captain J 16" Gunner

Captain X Responsible cookie control

Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

bryce Optimism - It's Back!

Log in or Sign up

Fifty year old man receives divorce papers....from his eight year old Wife

Starguard Fresh Meat

Ten Lubak Salty Dog

Rimjob Bob Classy Fellow

Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

Starguard Fresh Meat

Phoenix Sociopath

oldfella1962 the only real finish line

Captain J 16" Gunner

Captain X Responsible cookie control

Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

bryce Optimism - It's Back!

Useful Searches