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2009-08-29 Arabia

Saudi Child Bride Turned Back Over to 80-Year-Old Husband

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Posted by ed 2009-08-29 09:02|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Geert Wilders take:
Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders has seized on a news report from Saudi Arabia for peppery written questions to the cabinet. In these, he compares the Islamic prophet Mohammed to a pig.

Wilders has requested clarification from Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen on a marriage in Saudi Arabia between an 80 year old man and a 10 year old child. The child had run away from her elderly husband, but was brought back to him by her father, the English-language website Arab News reports based on a Saudi newspaper.

Wilders asks the minister if he shares the view that "this man is behaving like a pig, just like the barbarous Prophet Mohammed, who married the six year old girl Aisha." The PVV leader wants Verhagen to summon the Saudi Arabian ambassador to express his repugnance.

Posted by tipper 2009-08-29 10:23|| 2009-08-29 10:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Where are ALL the women's rights groups? Where are ALL the children's advocacy groups? Their silence is absolutely deafening.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-08-29 10:36|| 2009-08-29 10:36|| Front Page Top

#3 If it wasn't reported in the New York Times or by NPR it didn't happen, WolfDog, and so they needn't exercise themselves about it. And given that it was reported by FoxNews, to them it's like Opposite World, a reason to celebrate those quaint traditions that work so well for the Saudis, and isn't her wedding outfit so utterly photogenic! when National Geographic runs a feature, never mentioning the child bride's actual age.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-29 12:57|| 2009-08-29 12:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Normal respone is outrage, but I have to wonder just what an eighty year old man can do, I'm betting he's lost the ability to perform years ago, and this gets him a free maid, cook and helper in his old infirmity.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-08-29 13:31|| 2009-08-29 13:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I won't take that bet, Redneck Jim, when one hears that the little blue pill is prescribed freely in nursing homes, and the occurrence of sexually transmitted diseases continues to rise. Not to mention there are lots of acts that don't involve the missionary position.

/the result of a very progressive public school education.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-29 13:48|| 2009-08-29 13:48|| Front Page Top

#6 We need to stand up for this little girl. It'a clear that none of the feminists, progressives, or liberals see a reason for protest. Culture, religion be damned. This kind of abuse has to stop.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-08-29 19:34|| 2009-08-29 19:34|| Front Page Top

#7 What do you suggest, Richard?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-29 22:23|| 2009-08-29 22:23|| Front Page Top

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