It's now legal in Pakistan for men to marry underage girls once they menstruate

On February 3rd, the Sindh High Court in Karachi ruled that men can marry underage girls, under Sharia law, after they have experienced their first menstrual cycle. This is the same set of laws that rule homosexuals, adulterers and blasphemers should be put to death and that it's okay to lie for the sake of Islam.

Sharia law [Islamic law as handed down in the Koran] allows men to marry girls as long as they've had their first period. The prophet of Islam, Mohammed, married Aisha when she was 6-years-old and still played with dolls, and on the pleading of the child's father, who gifted his daughter to Mohammed, he waited a full three years before having sex with the child, thus consummating the marriage.

So Sharia law is actually more conservative than the prophet of Islam by having the adult male having to wait until the child has her first period.

The ruling of the court in the case was of 14-year-old Huma Younus, a Catholic girl who was abducted,  forcibly converted and married off to a Muslim adult in October 2019. Her parents went to the police and the court seeking justice in the matter.

The teen’s parents said that the girl was born on 22 May 2005 and have provided a Catholic baptismal certificate and school testimony as evidence that she is merely 14 and thus, the marriage was invalid and illegal, citing the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act, which prohibits the marriage of any child under the age of 18.

But the Muslim judges ruled the marriage between the child and her abductor, Abdul Jabbar, was legal under Sharia law because she had already experienced her first period.

After the high court’s regressive verdict, Younus' parents and their lawyer Tabassum Yousaf, announced that they will seek justice from Pakistan’s Supreme Court. 

They plan to fight this injustice to the bitter end, but Pakistan is a theocracy and it's doubtful that the Sindh High Court ruling will be overturned. In order to do that, they will first need to set their watches to the Twenty-First Century.

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