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“Those who call for raising the age of marriage to 25 are absolutely mistaken.”
That’s what Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti,Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh said when asked about marrying minor girls without their consent, according to The World Observer.
He also insisted that girls are ready for marriage by age 10 or 12.
“Our mothers and grandmothers got married when they were barely 12,” he said, according to the Observer. “Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age.”
Omid Safi, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, told The Huffington Post that al-Sheikh’s comments show he is out of touch with modern Islam.
“The Mufti’s quote is disastrous on so many fronts, namely because it removes the element of consent from marriage, (no 10-year-old girl can reasonably be expected to give her consent to marriage to an adult),” Safi wrote in an email. “It is yet another indication of the way in which the Saudi religious authorities are out of touch with their own populations and the emerging consensus of Islamic norms worldwide.”
Categories: Age, Asia, Islamism, Law and Religion, Marriage, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Women Rights
I do not think that 10 or 12yrs old girl can get married.qout from the holy Quran (do not strack the lags of young girl) study shows that,that age has no knowledge of rasieing up a baby
A logical ‘right age for marriage’ would be to ‘coincide’ with the age of the start of ‘sexual activity’ in those countries which do not bother to get married these days.
A survey showed that the average age in Iceland was 15, in other European countries 16 or so.
I know that ‘Human Rights Organizations’ think 15 is too low an age to get married. Well, in that case they should also speak out against ‘start of sexual activities’ at that age.
this shows that those the So called Saudi’s Mufti……….really didn’t get the main purpose behind marriage