>>>>>http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
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>>>>>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/IndexPhoto&cid=1123495333292
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>>>>>http://www.alarabiya.net/english.html
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>>>>This caught my attention in alarabiya:
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>>>>"Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti okayed marriage for girls starting at age 10 and criticized those who want to raise the legal marriageable age, according to news reports. Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh said a girl becomes ready for marriage at 10 or 12 according to Islam and stressed that Islamic law is not by any means oppressive to"
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>>>Mohammed had a 9 year old wife, so it must be okay in the eyes of the Mufti . . . . or else.
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>>""Our mothers and grandmothers got married when they were barely 12. Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age.""
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>>Yeah, and 100 years ago we had kids that age going down and working in mines, or cleaning the fluff from under unguarded cotton mills, and getting mangled, or climbing through chimneys to clean them. Doesn't mean it's still OK today. These fatwah intoning people make me sick.
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>Yes. In many ways it seems as if the middle east is stuck in the middle ages, doesn't it?

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