Thousands of women demonstrated outside parliament Sunday to oppose legislation banning the marriage of girls under 17. The protesters held up banners proclaiming “don’t ban what Allah made permissible,” or “stop violating Islamic sharia law in the name of rights and freedoms.” Proposed amendments to the civil status law stalled in parliament last August after severe opposition to a government proposal that would ban girls under 17 and males under 18 from marrying. Child marriages are common, especially in rural areas, where girls as young as eight have been married off.
via “Stop violating Islamic sharia in the name of rights and freedoms!”.
I bet Nojoud doesn't think (1, 2, 3) the same as these women.
From Yemen Times:
According to the International Center for Research on Women’s 2007 statistics, Yemen is one of 20 developing countries where early marriage is common. Nearly half of all Yemeni girls are married before the age of 18.Are these protestors aware about what they are really supporting?
Most women have their first child immediately after their first menstruation cycle and are likely to have a child every 12 months during their reproductive lifespan. Yemen's fertility rate is extremely high, with an average 6.3 children per each woman, and the country also has some of the highest mother and infant mortality rates worldwide.
According to research on early marriage in Yemen from Oxfam and the United Nations Population Fund, there are severe physical consequences that result from early marriage and subsequent early childbirth such as nutritional anemia, post-partum hemorrhages, obstetric fistula (a disorder that affects the bladder and causes leaking of urine or feces), plus mother and infant mortality.
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2 comments:
They must secretly be progressive atheists that actually agree with us because nobody could ever disagree with westerners or western women. WE KNOW that diversity doesn't really exist and that all people want what we want. It is just common sense.
By the way, we also have a female population that is having babies as teens and dropping out of high school in droves in my home state of California (not to imply that cultural diversity exists or makes immigration a problem). But, before we make it obvious to the people of Yemen that our values are universally agreed upon truths, we might want to convince our domestic population.
BTW, I would really appreciate it if someone could figure out why these women pretend to prefer their traditional Islamic-based familial arrangements when we know they don't like them.
Finally, I just would like to say "Thank God for the UN." I am so glad we are relying on them and Oxfam to create one world with one understanding. This is made easy by the fact that all people's around the world agree on the same values. I was just talking to the Yemeni refugees next door about that. The UN is the vanguard in busting down the doors that divide the West from "humanity."
Child brides are actually VERY lucky!
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