Iraq Considering Lowering Women’s Legal Age of Marriage to 9

Just so you understand: in an Islamic country, you can’t check into a hotel with someone who is not your wife. If you go to a hotel with a woman, you have to show a paper that says she’s your wife.

Daily Mail:

A conservative coalition in Iraq has pushed proposals to lower the legal age of marriage for girls to just nine-years-old, sparking fierce backlash from activists and rights groups.

Protesters demonstrated in Baghdad this week to express their outrage at changes that would allow aspects of personal status matters to be legislated by religious sects, rather than the courts.

With many Iraqi marriages conducted informally and left unregistered, the revisions would allow figures from Sunni and Shia religious sects to finalise unions between people in law.

But critics fear the Shia code would be based on ‘Jaafari jurisprudence’, allowing girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to marry. Under current Iraqi law, both can marry from 18.

It sure does seem like a lot of old women protesting.

Maybe someone should ask the 9-year-olds what they think?

The amendments to Law No. 188, the Personal Status Law of 1959 have been pushed by a coalition of conservative Shia Islamist parties, which form the largest bloc in parliament.

The Coordination Framework attempted to carry out a first reading on July 24, but shelved the plans until last Sunday after meeting political resistance.

Under the new laws, marrying Muslim couples would choose either a Sunni or Shia sect, who would be able to represent them in ‘all matters of personal status’ – rather than the civil judiciary.

It’s funny that the US invasion and plan to turn Iraq into a so-called “anal democracy” resulted in way more extreme religiosity.

Fat, stupid white people think it’s wild to say “girls should be married off at 14.”

Well, the Islamic age of marriage is 9.

That means that somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 people on the planet earth think the age of marriage should be 9.

So, frankly, it’s something of an outrage that retardo-ass white people get outraged when you say “14” – a perfectly reasonable number.