Yemeni Pre-Teen Forced Into Marriage, Dies During Childbirth
AMMAN, Jordan — A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children’s rights group said Monday.
Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labor, before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday, said the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children.
“Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care, the real case was the lack of education in Yemen and the fact that child marriages keep happening,” said Seyaj President Ahmed al-Qureshi.
Born into an impoverished family in Hodeidah, Fawziya was forced to drop out of school and married off to a 24-year-old man last year, al-Qureshi said.
Child brides are commonplace in Yemen, especially in the Red Sea Coast where tribal customs hold sway. Hodeidah is the fourth largest city in Yemen and an important port.
More than half of all young Yemeni girls are married off before the age of 18 — many times to older men, some with more than one wife, a study by Sanaa University found.
While it was not immediately known why Fawziya’s parents married her off, the reasons vary. Sometimes, financially-strapped parents offer up their daughters for hefty dowries.
Marriage means the girls are no longer a financial or moral burden to their parents. And often, parents will extract a promise from the husband to wait until the girl is older to consummate the marriage.
The issue of Yemeni child brides came to the forefront in 2008 with 10-year-old Nujood Ali.
She was pulled out of school and married to a man who beat and raped her within weeks of the ceremony.
To escape, Nujood hailed a taxi — the first time in her life — to get across town to the central courthouse where she sat on a bench and demanded to see a judge.
After a well-publicized trial, she was granted a divorce.
The Yemeni parliament tried in February to pass a law, setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But the measure has not reached the president because many parliamentarians argued it violates sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age.
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Too bad they can’t get ACORN funding involved. Then it would be all good.
Reading this s**t makes me say, thank God I live in America (what’s left of it).
Question: Since sharia law is okay in the UK, do they do this crap there too?
It is shit like this that causes my eyes to bleed when I think about Islam.
Why is it everytime I hear of one of these type of stories (selling/trading girls, stoning women to death, etc.) I envision the scene from one of those Star Wars movies where Anakin Skywalker was slicing up sand-people with his light-saber?
typical islam…this story is only one of millions that goes on everyday! here take a look at these two Iraqis with narration by the US Army.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02f_1173182854
-aTb
Fed UP Combat Veteran!
Typical islam and remember,typical islamic president.The one will never criticize his true”faith” or those involved in it’s satanic ideology who put him in power.
you are correct Hawker, thank you for adding that…
-aTb
It just occurred to me this morning, just now, that recent efforts at legislation to ease up on, and thereby legitimize, sex offenders (to protect their rights) is a prelude to sharia or at least make allowable crap like this. I don’t know if I have something, or making my point clear … it is still early in the morning for me and I haven’t had enough coffee yet.
well Bobby, I think you may have something here…. there is a saying that goes on here and it is perceived as a joke in the military but there is much validity to it…here it is;
to islam and the ragheads, their view on sex is “women are for babies and boys are for pleasure” and it is soooo true.
-aTb
Fed UP Combat Veteran
In islam it’s,”Women are for babies and boys are for pleasure”
aTb-Thats a keeper - LOL!!
WTF is wrong with these people? They’re so obsessed with virginity that they encourage child rape and sex slavery. I know not all of them are like this, but those people allow these fucks to “drive the bus”. Seriously, as a culture, they haven’t and will never evolve or advance themselves to intelligent humans. Their fucked up view of religion and humanity keeps them in the stone-age.
they have not evolved for 2k years, what makes you think they are going to evolve now??????? If we want to change these idiots, we need to change a generation, kill of the adults and raise the kids, that is the only way true change will occur. These idiots are in no way ready to take charge of their country…and it will go upside down once we leave here but hey there is only a vast amount of oil reserves here and once a nuke is dropped, what do you think will happen to the worlds energy and then to the cost of food???etc etc etc shit rolls down hill. and if you think its bad now, just wait…
-aTb
ISLAM,religion of PEACE…
This child could have grown up to be many different things. Could she and or her baby, have had a surviving chance, if only someone had attempted to do a Caesarean section? What a tragedy all around.
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Well then, Sharia also doesn’t stipulate that we can’t nuke every Muzzie capitol on earth.
So, I suppose it’s bombs away?
Yeah, I like that idea.
Islam is the religion of pedophilia, beginning with Mohammed and legislated into acceptance thru sharia law.
Disgusting pedophiles all.
Sick and wrong and the POS in the WH has invited them to visit
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html
Pam Geller and others are starting a SIOA (stop the islamization of America) the same day. Wish I had the time to fly back up there to support them.
thank you for reposting WESTCOASTGIRL!!! We need a PROTEST SET FOR THAT DAY THERE TO LET THE MUZZIES KNOW THEY ARE NOT WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or this will become another england…its bad enough as it is now!
If they came here to be true Americans, thats another story, but most of them are not here for that reason!!!
-aTb
Neither is obama.