Fwd: Mass Child Marriage in Gaza

[pranav chaudhary]

MASS CHILD MARRIAGE IN GAZA....

BYE/PRANAV



 

Shocking Child Mass Marriage in Gaza   Hamas sponsored a mass wedding for four hundred and fifty couples. Most of the grooms were in their mid to late twenties; most of brides were under ten. Muslim dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar, a leader of Hamas, were on hand to congratulate the couples who took part in the carefully staged celebration. We are saying to the world and to America that you cannot deny us joy and happiness, Zahar told the grooms, all of whom were dressed in identical black suits and hailed from the nearby Jabalia refugee camp. Each groom received a gift of 500 dollars from Hamas. The pre-pubescent girls, dressed in white gowns and adorned with garish make-up, received bridal bouquets. We are presenting this wedding as a gift to our people who stood firm in the face of the siege and the war local Hamas strongman Ibrahim Salaf said in a speech. The wedding photos tell the rest. The International Center for Research on Women now estimates that there are 51 million child brides now living on planet earth and almost all in Muslim countries. Twenty-nine percent of these child brides are regularly beaten and molested by their husbands in Egypt; twenty six percent receive similar abuse in Jordan . Every year, three million Muslim girls are subjected to genital mutilation, according to UNICEF. This practice has not been outlawed in many parts of America . Unbelievable! WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE, LIBERALS & FEMINISTS?!     !

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[rema nagarajan]

THE WORLD DATA ON CHILD MARRIAGES QUOTED HERE IS TOTALLY WRONG!   FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CHILD MARRIAGES IN THE WORLD TAKE PLACE IN INDIA. IT EVEN HAPPENS IN THE CAPITAL OF THE COUNTRY AND MOST OF THEM HAPPEN IN THE HINDU COMMUNITY. JUST GO TO A PLACE LIKE RAJASTHAN AND YOU WILL SEE! YET, THERE IS NO OUTRAGE IN INDIA ABOUT THIS!   SO PLEASE TRY AND IMPROVE YOUR OWN COUNTRY BEFORE YOU START EXPRESSING HORROR ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING THOUSANDS OF KILOMETRES AWAY IN SOME OTHER COUNTRY! Rema Nagarajan Times Insight Group Times of India 3rd floor, Times House 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg New Delhi-110002 Ph: 23302000 extn:2840 --- On Fri, 11/27/09, pranav chaudhary <pranav.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

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