Iraq to lower the ‘age of consent’ for girls to nine

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/iraq-poised-to-lower-the-age-of-consent-for-girls-to-nine/

Posted here as it gets the most traffic. This is by far the worst news I’ve heard all year. Imagine at the age you were meant to start secondary school instead being forced to marry and have sex with an older man. Completely disgusting!!!

Yes they will, I just wish the western world didn't continue to support them. They are truly horrible people.

Indeed. I remember the story of the father who strapped bombs to his very young daughters who then walked into a police station and blew themselves up. Females are just seen as nothing in these situations

41,000 civilians?

how many Hamas were killed then?

Is this a joke?
half the inheritance?
allowed to divorce in some cases?

you also missed out the right to be beaten by their husbands, the right to be raped at 9, the right to be stoned, and the right to almost never get into heaven.

The Prophet ﷺ said: “I was shown paradise, I saw that most of its inhabitants were the poor… and I was shown hell, I saw most of its inhabitants were women.”

You might want to lay off the booze

I read this this morning in the Telegraph and felt physically sick. Those poor little girls will get raped by old men.

Exactly this. Is there any way to adopt these girls? I have a spare bedroom and would be willing to take a child and her mother.

God how utterly horrific. There could never be any justification for allowing that - no one’s religion/ culture/ traditions makes that ok.

God knows how the world can stop it though.

All they have to do is release the fucking hostages. They are even keeping dead bodies hostage. It is sick.

Or.....maybe you're just wrong every now and again. A difficult thing for you to comprehend, I'm sure.

This is an old story the western media just picked up recently. This proposed legislation was met with large protests and public backlash and was dropped

The second reading of the amendment to Law 188 was passed on September 16.
It isn’t the first time Shia parties in Iraq have tried to amend the personal status law – attempts to change it failed in 2014 and 2017, largely due to a backlash from Iraqi women.
But the coalition now has a large parliamentary majority and is on the brink of pushing the amendment over the line, said Dr Renad Mansour, a senior research fellow at Chatham House.

As asked, in what Muslim country are women's rights protected and girls will have the same equal access to opportunities as her male counterparts?

fixed that for you. Even in the countries with very high gender equality ratings (the nordics, usually) there are still big gaps. Finland only let women into the army in 1995, and same (weirdly) with their Rotary clubs. NZ, which does well on this index, is an extremely sexist and patriarchal culture--just look at the threats levelled at Jacinda Ardern and her child.

Ok. I would still be willing to take in a mother and child from these countries.

There are countless refugees in unsuitable temporary housing, if you contact your local council they can link you with charities and departments who do organise home stays.

It’s a lovely sentiment that you would be willing to open your home - unfortunately with the current asylum system in the UK this isn’t possible. As someone who lives in Iraq, a great way to support would be supporting Iraq’s own civil society organisations, youth advocacy groups who are passionate about changing the way things currently are in Iraq and also women led organisations and support sustainable development within the country

It's apparently considered 'racist' not to.

Without doubt, the most harrowing gut-wrenching piece of news of the year.
It is soul-destroying to read this kind of stuff. Western countries fucked it up big time with Iraq.

I know what it says in the article however I live in Iraq and it’s not entirely accurate in the way the writer has presented the information. As mentioned in previous posts, this was completely squashed in September after first being raised in around August (which is a couple months ago and is “old” for the article, considering it is reporting it as if this is currently going through our parliament when it has already been stopped) There was a large public backlash, protests, media coverage and SM campaigns in the country, protests run by women led organisations as well as higher level pressure from UN and human rights orgs active in Iraq.

The reason they say it was the closest it ever came is because of the make up of the current government means that it was technically a possibility - but in terms of popular opinion, like in previous years it wasn’t dropped due to the response of large parts of society with no more said about this within parliament - although I am sure it will be brought up again in the future.

this decision has 0 to do with western countries

I just cannot believe what is happening to women’s rights across the world, we have truly taking a step back and absolutely nobody gives a shit. Everyone will carry on turning a blind eye, femicide is a thing that is just swept under the carpet. I am sickened.

There was a piece in The Times a few weeks ago. If I can find a link l’ll post it. The story was about a Lebanese village. Israeli intelligence indicated that a suspected Hezbollah terrorist was active in the village, so they bombed it. When aid workers went in they found that a childrens’ playground had been hit. Toys and childrens’ body parts scattered everywhere according to those who witnessed the aftermath. Tuns out that Hezbollah member was actually an aid worker. An entire village wiped out. You say that the thought of young girls being raped by old men in Iraq sickens you. And yet you support a regime that bombs indiscriminately with no thought to the innocents involved.

You mean the same western countries who had a hand in installing these governments ?

What a ridiculous comment. Hamas don’t give a flying fuck about the civilian population. Why would they build shelters ?

It's perfectly possible to be alarmed about growing radicalisation and conservatism in many countries- not just Islamic ones but yes mostly- without 'liberating' the women and children of those countries by dropping bombs on them.