Summary
Proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as 9 to marry, sparking outrage from rights groups and survivors like “Batta,” who endured abuse after being forced into marriage at 11.
The changes would shift decision-making power to clerics, undermining existing protections for women and children established in 1959.
Supporters claim the amendments promote family values, but critics call them a violation of children’s rights and a step toward legalized child abuse.
Activists and lawmakers are working to block the controversial proposal.
Were illegal marriages a thing when Saddam was still in charge, or were legislation proposals with any ambiguity about passing a thing when Saddam was still in charge?
Yes. No. Respectively.
Great JAQing off about a dictator who gouged out children’s eyes.
For those wondering about the issue of child marriage in Iraq before the modern day who aren’t perpetual apologists for whatever fascists they can find to drool over,
https://international.la-croix.com/world/in-iraq-activists-fight-against-potential-return-of-child-marriages
I don’t know why you have to be so hostile over a genuine question.
Because you have a pattern of ‘just asking questions’ on every fascist cunt who comes up? I apologize for having a basic sense of pattern recognition.
Who else did I ask questions about?
Oh, is this going to be like the last time you played dumb as to your past statements, and then when I brought receipts you went silent on the topic and proceeded to waste my fucking time? If it is, I’d at least like to know beforehand.
You certainly have a wild imagination because if you’re referring to the time I think you are, the last time you brought “receipts” it was you linking to posts of mine not containing anything you claimed I wrote. I don’t know why you’re so angry at me, but perhaps you would be better able to read my posts and not hallucinate patterns if you weren’t in a blind rage.
It really is unfortunate because I appreciate the information you gave in your initial response, but the hostility was so off-putting.
Fucking lol
Maybe stop cheerleading atrocities and fascists if you can’t even keep track of how often you fucking do it.
Oh, I’m sorry that I was rude to you when all you were doing was trying to play your usual “Amerikkka Bad” card by whitewashing a dictator who tortured and murdered on a literally genocidal scale. You know, not unlike what you do with Assad? Would you like to play apologist for the Taliban next? I know you’re just drooling over the possibility.
I don’t know what you think that link is supposed to show, but you’d have to be on something powerful to think me saying democrats should try to stop the genocide instead of sending billions in support is somehow me “cheerleading atrocities”.
I still don’t know what I did to piss you off so much, but apparently you’re so angry that you’ve built a whole strawman of me and you’ve just been fighting with that strawman this entire time. Have fun with that, hope it helps you relieve stress.
What hostility? Don’t “just ask questions” if you’re not man enough for the answer.
Yeah, what hostility? 🙄
Then you add in some dumb shit about being “man enough” without a shred of self-awareness. Are you trolling or are you genuinely like this? Note that PugJesus has yet to show where I was “just asking questions” ever, but don’t let that get in the way of your cheerleading for his baseless accusations.