Summary
Proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as 9 to marry, sparking outrage from rights groups and survivors like “Batta,” who endured abuse after being forced into marriage at 11.
The changes would shift decision-making power to clerics, undermining existing protections for women and children established in 1959.
Supporters claim the amendments promote family values, but critics call them a violation of children’s rights and a step toward legalized child abuse.
Activists and lawmakers are working to block the controversial proposal.
I have maybe a handful of memories made under 9 years old. Just imagine being married for as far back as you can remember. These poor girls
Oh don’t worry, trauma victims will have plenty of memories from that age 🤢🤮
More proof, to me at least, that there is no god out there.
I mean really yeah.
Either God doesn’t exist. Or God does exist and allows this crap to happen, which is akin to just approving of it. And if that’s the case hail Satan.
worse. if god exists he created the world knowing this would happen. he created the evil and is watching it play out. and guess what, if you dont kiss the ring you burn forever.
who the fuck would ever want that god to exist?
I would imagine that fueling rape and child abuse is the point.
Republicans are taking notes.
They don’t need to take any notes. Child marriage is legal and still happening in many US states. And you guessed it, it’s Replicans who defend those laws, by invoking “family values”.
It’s horrible that they plan to change the law to allow that to happen over there, but we here in the US aren’t in any position to feel morally superior about it till we finally ban it ourselves.
Was this a thing when Saddam was still in charge?
Were illegal marriages a thing when Saddam was still in charge, or were legislation proposals with any ambiguity about passing a thing when Saddam was still in charge?
Yes. No. Respectively.
Great JAQing off about a dictator who gouged out children’s eyes.
For those wondering about the issue of child marriage in Iraq before the modern day who aren’t perpetual apologists for whatever fascists they can find to drool over,
“I lost my life the day my marriage began. I was 13, and the man I had to marry was 20 years older than me.” Shaima’s story is one told only within the intimacy of a home. Nestled on the couch of a modest yet tastefully decorated living room, she sips her Turkish coffee, ensuring there are enough grounds left to read her fortune in search of signs of better days. She smokes cigarette after cigarette, taking a long drag before exhaling as if symbolically releasing her life story.
Born in 1977 in a village near Basra in southern Iraq, Shaima was the eldest of nine siblings raised amid the violence of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War. It was a childhood “with just enough money to buy bread each day, nothing more,” she recalled. “My father sold me to the brother of one of his friends. I didn’t want to marry him; he was too old, violent, and always angry. But I couldn’t refuse.” From this forced marriage came five children. “I had my first child at 14. I was so young and exhausted that one day, I fell asleep while breastfeeding my baby girl. She suffocated and died.” The silence that followed the confession is crushing.
I don’t know why you have to be so hostile over a genuine question.
Because you have a pattern of ‘just asking questions’ on every fascist cunt who comes up? I apologize for having a basic sense of pattern recognition.
Who else did I ask questions about?
Oh, is this going to be like the last time you played dumb as to your past statements, and then when I brought receipts you went silent on the topic and proceeded to waste my fucking time? If it is, I’d at least like to know beforehand.
You certainly have a wild imagination because if you’re referring to the time I think you are, the last time you brought “receipts” it was you linking to posts of mine not containing anything you claimed I wrote. I don’t know why you’re so angry at me, but perhaps you would be better able to read my posts and not hallucinate patterns if you weren’t in a blind rage.
It really is unfortunate because I appreciate the information you gave in your initial response, but the hostility was so off-putting.
You certainly have a wild imagination because if you’re referring to the time I think you are, the last time you brought “receipts” it was you linking to posts of mine not containing anything you claimed I wrote.
Maybe stop cheerleading atrocities and fascists if you can’t even keep track of how often you fucking do it.
It really is unfortunate because I appreciate the information you gave in your initial response, but the hostility was so off-putting.
Oh, I’m sorry that I was rude to you when all you were doing was trying to play your usual “Amerikkka Bad” card by whitewashing a dictator who tortured and murdered on a literally genocidal scale. You know, not unlike what you do with Assad? Would you like to play apologist for the Taliban next? I know you’re just drooling over the possibility.
