Saudi Judge Rules Against 8 Yr. Old Girl, Enforces Marriage to 47 Yr. Old
I guess this is what Obama was bowing down to the other day. I, however, would not be granted the “luxury” to even look King Abdullah in the eye for being a woman. If I recall correctly, Saudi’s also don’t let women drive cars under national law as well as various other barbaric legislation and rules.
I am still waiting to hear from the feminists on Middle Eastern misogyny. These liberals want to protect these countries from “war” but allow for the mistreatment, objectification and disdain for females that they so abhor here (although there may still be some sexism and glass ceilings, we are far from being barbaric and abusive towards women). Unless, of course, you’re a conservative female running for office. The liberal left continues to have the misconceived notion that they maintain a monopoly on feminism and that feminism is only a political ideology, when its intent was for all women of every background to have equal rights.
If these hypocrites, like Annette Benning, want to go over to hostile countries in the Middle East and wear burkas and attempt to engage in diplomacy, then I suggest they stay there and conform to their culture for a year and see how they like being a woman over there. I prefer to keep mandatory burkas and Sharia law out of the United States, thank you very much.
A Saudi mother is expected to appeal a judge’s ruling after he once again refused to let her 8-year-old daughter divorce a 47-year-old man, a relative said.
Sheikh Habib Al-Habib made the ruling Saturday in the Saudi city of Onaiza. Late last year, he rejected a petition to annul the marriage.
The case, which has drawn criticism from local and international rights groups, came to light in December when Al-Habib declined to annul the marriage on a legal technicality. His dismissal of the mother’s petition sparked outrage and made headlines around the world.
The judge said the mother, who is separated from the girl’s father, was not the legal guardian and therefore could not represent her daughter, the mother’s lawyer, Abdullah al-Jutaili, said at the time.
Why is the mother not the legal guardian of the child after separation from the father? Oh, that’s right, she’s a female.
The girl’s husband pledged not to consummate the marriage until the girl reaches puberty, according to al-Jutaili, who added that the girl’s father arranged the marriage to settle his debts with the man, who is considered “a close friend.”
How considerate of him… Selling your child to pay off your own bad debts – I have no words for this, just disgust!
In March, an appeals court in the Saudicapital of Riyadh declined to certify the original ruling, in essence rejecting al-Habib’s verdict, and sent the case back to al-Habib for reconsideration.
Under the Saudi legal process, the appeals court ruling meant that the marriage was still in effect, but that a challenge to the marriage was still ongoing.
The religion of peace – unless you are a woman, child or an infidel…
Obama Pulls Another Radical Rabbit Out of His Hat and Plants Him in his Cabinet
Harold Koh, a former dean of Yale Law School, has been nominated by President Obama to be the State Department’s legal adviser.
Harold Koh believes in foreign precedent as a way to set the rule of law in the United States. He does not have a particular regard for the U.S. Constitution and has also considered a place for Sharia Law. He is a true believer of what he deems the “transnational legal process,” believing that the differences and disparities between U.S. law and International law should disappear.
Obama is also considering him as a possible U.S. Supreme Court appointee in the coming years. He would replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg nicely, since she is a progressive much like Harold Koh. However, Koh goes a little further than even Ginsberg and is a little more radical than she due to his beliefs in Sharia Law.
He also values the opinions of the world’s imams. A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says Koh in 2007 told the Yale Club of Greenwich that “in an appropriate case, he didn’t see any reason why Shariah law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States.”
