Iran moves to legalize marriage for girls under 10 years old
digitaljournal.com via Reuters / Darren Weir
23-Aug-2012 (5 comments)

When Saudi Arabia announced three months ago that girls as young as 10-years old would now be allowed to marry, Iran decided to drop the age limit even further. Iranian Christian news service Mohabat News reports a member of the Iranian Parliament (Majiles) Mohammad Ali Isfenani, "we must regard 9 as being the appropriate age for a girl to have reached puberty and qualified to get married. To do otherwise would be to contradict and challenge Islamic Sharia law."

He argues,"Before the revolution girls under 16 were not allowed to marry. Parents determined to get around the law would often tamper with their daughter's birth certificate. Under the previous constitution, people were legally regarded as adults when they were 18. After the revolution the age at which children were regarded as going through puberty was lowered to 9 for girls and 15 for boys.

Mohabat News reports statistics that show over the past few weeks, over 75 female children under 10 were forced to marry much older men. And... >>>

Darius Kadivar

Legalized Pedophilia

by Darius Kadivar on Thu Aug 23, 2012 02:11 PM PDT



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Rea

Mind you, 55+ impotent Frenchmen

by Rea on Fri Aug 24, 2012 05:39 PM PDT

... living on the island of Guadeloupe, filled with viagra, and going to the Dominican republic and Cuba as "tourists" are not better either.

What a sad world we live in ! 


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Rea

What is sickening about it

by Rea on Fri Aug 24, 2012 05:24 PM PDT

.... is that a bunch of 55+ impotent bastards have the power to decide the faith of a 9-year old little girl.


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Mehrban

Nauseating

by Mehrban on Thu Aug 23, 2012 03:33 PM PDT

Total Talibanization of Iran. 


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Darius Kadivar

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by Darius Kadivar on Thu Aug 23, 2012 02:27 PM PDT


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