The link: http://arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=118866&d=4&m=2&y=2009 The headline: Al-Manie responds to NSHR concern on child marriage The story: JEDDAH: Health Minister Hamad Al-Manie responded yesterday to a letter sent by the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) regarding child marriage by asserting that such practice could inflict physical and psychological damage to the young girls. The NSHR had sent a letter to the minister regarding the guidelines and procedures surrounding how premarital testing should be performed as related to marriages of young girls. In his response Al-Manie underscored the adverse health effects that pregnancy can have on young girls, including anemia, miscarriage and high blood pressure, which can lead to kidney failure, hemorrhaging, and seizures. He also mentioned that there is a significant increase in cesarean sections and mortality resulting from complications during childbirth by girls. In addition, to these health effects, other consequences of underage marriage also can have detrimental effects on the unborn children of underage spouses. Citing the same report, Al-Manie also said that suffocation of the fetus within the mother’s womb could occur from intense restriction of blood necessary in feeding the unborn child. ... ___________ Follow up question: How does the government convince people to not emulate the Prophet Mohammed in this one aspect?
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I think that you have misunderstood the situations, It is not the Government who is doing that... It is the people themselves who are practicing life like in the old days, and One thing els, why is the whole world focusing on the Arab culture that much. They want to practice their own religion their own way. So what the HECK is all that fuss about the Arab/Muslim nations. Some time I keep wondering, Is it any Buddy´s Business who comes to my home ? So please think of all those Arabs through Generations have been doing this with success and nothing happened WELL ? I do not want to mention some other things in here , I am afraid to heart people that bad. But in brief, Why does the European children practice sex in a very early age and we are all quite about it? I know what I am doing and aware of the whats going on in Europe. I live here ( Europe)
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The average age of the commencement of sexual activity in the EU is 15 years and 8 months. The very lowest age of consent, is 14 years. In Islam a girl is considered a woman as soon as she has her first period, and ready to have sex with her husband. Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha when, in solar terms, she was 8 years and 9 months old. Teenage sex =/= child marriage Mohamed B, if you don't like the way things are done in Europe where the kuffar have taken you into their homes and given you a house and a job and a standard of living that is greater than anything you could have dreamed off in the Shariah paradise you came from, feel free to leave. And by the way, we all know that non-Muslim foreign workers in Saudi Arabia are allowed purely for economic reasons. They are isolated from the general population in their own compounds and they have no political representation whatsoever. Saudi Arabia has 5 million expatriates, and still quotes itself as 100% Muslim. Religious apartheid at its finest - even Israel calls itself only 76% Jewish.
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In reality, there are heaps of non-Muslims who get pregnant at a young age. A few years ago, there was one at the age of 12. Many non-Muslims practice sexual intercourse in high school even in year 7 - where they are at the age of 11 or 12. When a young Muslim gets married, she has the support of her family around her. An unmarried non-Muslim would not have such support if she got pregnant at a young age.
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You have all totally missed the point of this question. Its not who has a better system to deal with young pregnancies either inside or outside marriage. Its not which group of girls get into sexual activities BY THEIR OWN CHOICE at a young age. This is totally about the health risks incurred by very young teenage (and younger) pregnancies, which is not only condoned by the Islamic states but actively encouraged by their ruling theocracies. Actually often the clerics are the worst ones at taking exceptionally young girls as a wife.. In many parts of the islamic world, marriage as young as possible is encouraged and condoned and it is quite common to find child wives and mothers at the age of 9 and 10. In the West, this is not only vigorously discouraged, but steps would be taken to prevent this happening to the point of instituting serious legal codes to protect the child. I once worked with a middle eastern woman who was a grandmother at 22. She was virtually sold as a bride to a much older man by her father (mum had no say). She had absolutely no say in her marriage and what happened to her during it. She said she was forced into sex constantly and against her will but learned to just keep her mouth shut to avoid beatings. She had her first child in marriage at the age of 10. When her own daughter turned 11, she too was ''sold'' or traded to one of her husband's friends in exchange for the friends young daughter, (7 year old) who became this woman's husbands second wife. The woman's daughter gave birth and as both the woman and her daughter said 'Thankfully it was a boy, so no more girls to go through the agony we've been through'. The woman and her daughter were both so physically damaged by childbirth at such a young age that neither of them were capable of having further children. The young 7 year old second wife suffered several years of rape by her husband before she finally matured enough to become pregnant and died due to complications during the pregnancy. When I met this woman, she and her daughter had both been discarded by their husbands who had gone on to take several more very, very young brides. Under Islamic law, the mother has no rights to her children and if she is divorced, her husband can and will take the children from her and with no provisions to see her children again. She can also be tossed out of the family home with nothing more than the clothes she stands up in and enough money to feed herself for a couple of weeks (if she is lucky). This is why there is a very high but very hidden prostitution rate in Islamic countries. These women, often 12-14 year olds, have been married, had a child or two, been tossed out by the husband for a younger model, and left to their own devices. Sometimes their families will take them back, but it is regarded as a huge disgrace and so the parents (read - father) won't have them back. If they are 'lucky' they will be sold again to someone as a third or fourth wife but this time they will be hard used as house workers and child minders whilst the husband enjoys his younger first and second wives, or as farm labourers or money earners of some description. In effect, not much better off than a slave. They had both managed somehow to leave their countries (illegally) and had made their way to the west. They have both had the physical and internal damage done to them repaired to where they can lead a normal life and both lead very quiet lives. Both are working unskilled factory jobs in the same company and live together. Neither of them will remarry or have kids and both of them have left islam.
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