Iraq follows Muhammad's lead and lowers marriage age to 9-year-old

The prophet of Islam Muhammad, married Aisha bint Abi Bakr ( c. 613/614 – July 678) when she was six-years-old and still playing with dolls. The marriage was consummate later after the child's father's begged Mo to wait until she was older. So the pedophile waited until she was nine and then sexually abused her because that's what it's called.

What a guy.

When the United States invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, the aim was to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein and modernize the Islamic country by freeing them of their Islamic bonds. There would now be open elections and the people would have say in their government.

When we officially withdrew our combat troops on December 18, 2011, everything went back to "Iraq normal." So if you should enter Iraq, make sure you set your watches back 1400 years because they're back at it.

The Iraqi Parliament is currently preparing to take a page out of Islamic scripture and go back to the good old days by amending their Personal Status Law. This basically eliminates all women's rights and lowers the minimum marriage age for girls to nine and boys to fifteen. 

This is just the start.

The Iraqi Parliament debated amendments to the Personal Status Law on Sunday that would effectively dissolve the country’s universal standards to protect women and girls on matters such as consent to marriage, alimony, and custody of children by allowing men to opt out, choosing traditional Shi'ite or Sunni Islamic mandates, instead. 

Little girls would have no choice.

Although child marriages, sex slavery, and other abuses are rampant in modern-day Iraq, they are not technically legal. Iraqi law currently requires both men and women to be 18 years old to enter marriage, allows a woman to inherit her husband’s assets in the event of his death, and allows for unconditional inter-religious marriage.

But that's set to change and feminists in the US have been silent.

The amendments to the secularized Personal Status Law was passed in 1959, and would allow the relevant men in a marriage or proposed marriage to choose whether to apply Sunni sharia rules or Shiite sharia. It does not discuss other religions, such as Christianity, Zoroastrianism, or the Yazidi faith, which once boasted vibrant constituencies in Iraq but were almost entirely exterminated by the Islamic State (ISIS) “caliphate” in the past decade. Members of minority religions would most likely have to abide by the current form of the Personal Status Law if Muslims are in control.

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