Iraq Legalizes Pedophilia for 9 Year Old Girls

The Iraqi government approved a new law stripping the rights of all non-Muslims in the country. They also effectively legalized child marriage by lowering the minimum legal marriage age to just 9. Will there be any protest against this true apartheid state?

Legal Pedophilia & Child Marriage

The amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law is causing controversy, especially among women’s rights supporters. The new law allows men to decide upon marriage whether to follow Sunni or Shiite family law and give clerics unprecedented legal authority. Critics say it would deprive Shiite women of basic rights and even open the door to child marriage.

One of the most controversial effects of the amended law would be the legalization of “pleasure marriage,” a concept unique to the Shiite sect. A pleasure marriage, known in Arabic as nikah mut’ah, is a temporary marriage that can last as little as an hour. Unlike a permanent marriage, a pleasure marriage does not require registration in court or the presence of witnesses.

Critics say that the legalization of pleasure marriage would be devastating to the status of Shiite women and will be used to legitimate child marriage and prostitution.

Iraqi nongovernmental organizations, human rights activists, lawyers, Sunni clerics, and many political parties have heavily criticized the amendment. But the ruling Shiite coalition, known as the Coordination Framework, insists on passing the amendment, as do Iraq’s Shiite clerics.