90-year-old Saudi weds 15-year-old girl

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crimsontide06 said:
Oh it is fine for someone older to be married...they should marry someone their own age.
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why marry own age? Does Quran ask us to marry our own age partners? :S

If you are right then all the marriages in this woeld in which man was 25 yo and woman 24 yo are annulled and invalid just cuz they were not their "own age!"
 
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If that girl lives in Indonesia, now she is still in the school, then marry a man who chosen by herself. Maybe a man in her age, maybe a man in her father age. But no matter how old her husband, she marry her own choice.

The case in this thread is clearly a forced marriage, something that actually against Islam. We cannot close our eyes.
 
Where I am from, America, maybe its that growing up...we are taught by tv, school ...media...that it is immoral for an older man/woman to be with someone younger, so this is where my thoughts come from.
 
And I'm living in Indonesia. The country that has largest number of Muslim people who believe that Sunnah for old men who want to get married again is marry poor widow!
 
consensual or not, the thought of a crusty old man sexually touching a young girl makes me want to throw up...+o(
 
CosmicPathos said:
if hes 70, he has no more desire to be with a young woman and have children?
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Of course, he would have that desire. DID YOU FOR ONE SEC, look at the age of the girl? Do you think a 15-20 year old girl would have the desire to marry and father children of a 70 year old wrinkled grandpa? This story is not only about the 70 year old man...it is about how the parents sold their daughter to an old rich man for money.. and the fact that they were able to do this by staying within the laws of Saudi Arabia is even more sickening..
 
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I wish all the fake muslims who CLAIM to follow islam but based on their personal own beliefs would just drop off the earth....you are making those of us who are civilized and have morals, look bad..
 
To the people who seem to think the only options are:

A) Be forced to marry someone old enough to be your great-grandparent

or

B) Have premarital sex and then have an abortion

Please be aware that there is a whole spectrum of what we like to call 'Islamic and reasonable behaviour' between these two extremes.

Ah, the Internet, the home of insanely false dichotomies.

Also - this story is being used as anti-Islamic propaganda. As such, let us please be mindful of the manner in which we respond to it, if we respond to it at all.
 
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My issue is with people who think IT IS OK for an old man, in general not just in this story, to marry/have sexual relations with a child.

If that's the case then ok, let's take some old men on a field trip to some daycare centers so they can choose which 4 year old they want to get in bed with. :heated:

19 should be the age of consent, maybe 20. Yes, people mature, sexually, before then but the thought of a 15 year old having sex makes me barf +o(


My other issue is the age gap...if this was a 27 year old woman I would still be disgusted, I wouldn't care about the issue if it was her choice... but still disgusted.
 
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In my opinion, this makes me sick. I mean 90 y/o with 15 y/o?
Most likely a forced marriage.

Whatever happens happens for a reason. Maybe the 90 y/o would make a good companion. You never know right?
 
crimsontide06 said:
choose which 4 year old they want to get in bed with.
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The fact that there is no law in Saudi Arabia that stipulates a minimum age for marriage, I wouldn't be surprised if such misdeeds have taken place too. But I think, and thank God for this that at least the general understanding in Saudi Arabia is that one can only consummate marriage when the girl hits puberty..but there is no stopping parents from wedding off their child daughters to old men for dowry...and for this pedophiles from taking out their lust on such delicate girls which have just reached puberty..the best part...it's all legal. I hope someone proves me wrong here..you can't imagine how glad I will be..
 
Roasted Cashew said:
The fact that there is no law in Saudi Arabia that stipulates a minimum age for marriage, I wouldn't be surprised if such misdeeds have taken place too. But I think, and thank God for this that at least the general understanding in Saudi Arabia is that one can only consummate marriage when the girl hits puberty..but there is no stopping parents from wedding off their child daughters to old men for dowry...and for this pedophiles from taking out their lust on such delicate girls which have just reached puberty..the best part...it's all legal. I hope someone proves me wrong here..you can't imagine how glad I will be..
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They really need an age of consent. Where I live (Canada), it is 16 which I believe is just. Not sure about the following...



Saudi Arabia
Any kind of sexual activity outside marriage is illegal in Saudi Arabia, but there is no restriction on the age of marriage. For instance, in 2008 a Saudi court refused to annul a marriage between an 8 year old girl and a 58 year old man. A prohibition on marriage under the age of 14 was being considered by the Ministry of Justice in late 2008. According to cleric Ahmad Al-Mu’bi, the appropriate minimum age for sex "varies according to environment and traditions."
 
The old man was 90 and apparently had been married around 18 months earlier to another 15-year-old, who had run away. I find it disgusting, happens everywhere in the world though. What if the girl got pregnant? How cruel to give birth to a child and die soon after, isn't a man suppoused to take care of his wife and children. Instead you'd leave a widow without any support and a child to take care of. I can guarantee you, being a young widow with children isn't attractive to potential marriage proposals, that's just how many cultures work. Yet what's worse than that, is that poverty drove a girl to accept this kind of proposal which she clearly didn't want, it's sad. Hope things will get better in time for families in the area.

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ba51th said:
I would wait for facts that qur'an and hadith forbid 70 years old "dude" to marry with 15 years old girl, before casting judgment.
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The Qur'an and Hadith doesn't even prohibit a 100 year old to marry a 1 year old child baby... So should that be legal too?
 
Wow! In the west, 100 year olds sleep with teenagers, massage parlors, escorts............. plane loads of pedophiles arrive in taiwan, and to the poverty stricken villages in India - in the name of building shelters exploit children and women, esp. children because women can be found elsewhere too.

NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING!

HYPOCRISY OF THE WEST AND MEDIA BE ****ED!
 
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