While feminist screech and whine about fake inequalities in America and the Western World, the East continues to remind us how lucky we are to live on this side of civilization.
From the Daily Mail:
An eight-year-old child bride has died in Yemen of internal bleeding sustained during her wedding night after being forced to marry a man five times her age, activists have claimed.
The girl, identified only as Rawan, died in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia.
Activists are seeking that the monster who killed her and the family that sold her into this forced marriage face criminal charges for her murder.
The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Yemen and has attracted the attention of international rights groups seeking to pressure the government to outlaw child marriages.
Yemen’s gripping poverty plays a role in hindering efforts to stamp out the practice, as poor families find themselves unable to say no to ‘bride-prices’ that can be hundreds of dollars for their daughters.
More than a quarter of Yemen’s females marry before age 15, according to a report in 2010 by the Social Affairs Ministry.
Local authorities are denying the story, but the journalist who first reported the story says they are covering up the crime. This wouldn’t be too surprising given the laws in Yemen governing such child brides:
In Yemen, a 2009 law set the minimum age of marriage at 17, but was soon repealed after conservative lawmakers said it was “un-Islamic,” according to Al Bawaba. Parents can now sell off their girls at any age, though the men are theoretically supposed to wait until the girls hit puberty before having sexual intercourse.
I can’t imagine a parent doing such a thing to their child, but then, I guess that’s what makes me American.
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