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| Germany: Amidst refugee influx, child brides as young as thirteen |
| 2016-08-26 |
| [Foreign Desk News] Lawmakers in Germany are under increased pressure to tackle the country’s growing trend of child marriages, renewing the debate over whether to allow Islamic Sharia law to supersede the country’s legal system when applied to its refugee population. With the wave of more than 1.2 million According to estimates, the number of refugee child marriages is currently at 1,000, although activists believe the figure is much higher. In one case, authorities ruled in favor of Fatima, a pregnant 15-year-old Syrian refugee, allowing her husband, a fellow Syrian refugee more than double her age, to be accommodated in the same town so they could be near each other. Fatima told news hounds that after her family escaped Syria for ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , she pleaded with them to marry her off to "the next man who is willing" so she could escape to Europe. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 child brides as young as thirteen Looks like the author of this article is still in denial about the lower age limit for girls to be considered marriageable in Muslim culture. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-08-26 14:40 |