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Will New ‘Democratic’ Egyptian Constitution Allow 9-Year-Old Girls to Marry?

Egyptian Cleric Yassir Barhami Says 9 Year Old Girls Can Marry | Constitution

Egypt's Yassir Barhami says 9-year-old girls should be permitted to marry. (Photo via BikyaMasr)

An ultraconservative Egyptian cleric– who is part of the committee drafting Egypt’s new constitution– is suggesting the country drastically lower the age limit at which girls can marry, Egyptian media is reporting.

According to BikyaMasr, cleric Yassir Barhami cited the Koran in stating that once a girl begins menstruating, usually around 14-years-old, she should begin having children.

Therefore, he reportedly explained, “it is permissible for the girl at the age of 9 or 10 to marry.”

United Press international adds:

Barhami is a Salafist, a member of the ultra-conservative wing of Islam.

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Manal al-Taibi, who resigned from the constituent assembly to protest calls for a lower marriage age, said Barhami and his allies want to legalize child rape. [Emphasis added]

It should be noted that Barhami’s position doesn’t seem to be popular within the assembly, but as moderates resign or are pressured to leave, there are fewer voices to balance the fanatical Salafists.

Reuters related Thursday:

A group of high profile liberal and leftwing politicians in Egypt has said it will quit the assembly charged with drafting the country’s new constitution within a week unless its concerns over Islamist-influenced content in the document are addressed.

The constitution – which is being drawn up by a 100-member assembly – is meant to be the centerpiece of a new democratic Egypt after veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year and its successful drafting is being seen as a litmus test for its new Islamist rulers including President Mohamed Mursi. [Emphasis added]

Ahmed al-Boraie, a former labor minister, summarized his complaints, commenting: “This is a constitution that brings Egypt backwards not forward.”

(H/T: WeaselZippers)

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Comments (142)

  • doggsforromney
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:14pm

    were is the american women’s lib on this issue…..or hillary….someone ask them.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • MyLord100571
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:39am

      You ask where hilliary is on this? She is with them! She has applauded them and stood by them! Odumbo and The Devils Wife Hilliary is against this country. Against our freedom’s. Against the 1st and 2nd amendment. Odumbo has send his dog Hilliary to the u.n. to give her consent to them on our gun rights and has stood by a known Muslim Brotherhood supporter and thanked them for their petition to the u.n. for anti islamist laws to be passed, that basically says you will go to jail if you say anything negative about the islamist.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on October 1, 2012 at 2:11am

      @doggsforromney
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:14pm

      were is the american women’s lib on this issue…..or hillary….someone ask them.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      ***
      Don’t ask hilary to speak out, she’s too busy trying to figure out how to explain the fact she was partying instead of beefing up security at our embassies for 9/11.

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      Mil Mom  
  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:13pm


    Don’t you just love the headline “ALLOW” 9-year-old girls to marry.
    Shouldn’t that be “FORCE” 9-year-old girls to marry?

    Pedophilia and perversion, it’s the Islam way.

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    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:21pm



      Little girl: “Mommy, I want a Ken doll for my 9th Birthday.”
      Girl’s Mother: “You are getting a stinky, wrinkled, old pervert, for your Birthday.”

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  • BloodSweatandTears
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:09pm

    Is that nasty mark on his head where the offended camel kicked him?

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    • GlennaBeckski
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:25pm

      Hahahahahahahahahahahaha I noticed that also but didnt come to such a clever conclusion!!

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:08am

      No, it’s the mark of an extremely pious muslim who spends a lot of time on his face in what he calls prayer.

      One of the oddities is that muslims criticize Jews and Christians on how we pray. We don’t pray w/our face to the ground. This is another point of derangement for them. They cannot believe that God loves us. They believe we have to buy Allah’s favor. Their fear of Allah is not respectful awe as Jews & Christians know. Their fear is a knee-knocking fear and likely deep loathing of Allah.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:12am

      LOL! Thumbs up!!

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    • mike_trivisonno
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 9:05am

      “…Is that nasty mark on his head where the offended camel kicked him?….”

      It is the Mark of the Beast. Devout muslims smack their forehead to the ground while worshiping the Allah deity. If the muslims had their way, no one would be able to engage in any sort of transaction unless they bore the mark.

      The false prophet and his church have grown and spread for 1,400 years. Many have fallen away and have been deceived by Mohammed and the deity he presented as God.

      Allah is not God. Mohammed was not a good man. Islam is a false religion.

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 9:48am

      Oh, I just figured it was where he got hit in the head with a baby rattle while he was on his Honeymoon with his new wife.

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  • Tankertony
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:08pm

    Barbarians will be barbarians.

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  • TheGrtDcptn
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:04pm

    satan worshippers…

    I will pray for the innocent victims who have no voice…

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:03pm

    @massminority

    Wasn’t that back in the 1800′s? (1841)

    Isn’t that old news?

    The-Monk  
  • BloodSweatandTears
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:02pm

    Yeah, it allows them to marry but just for the weekend…how considerate.

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:15pm

      I’m not kidding they “marry,” these girls just for the weekend so as not to be out of the tenets of their faith…disgusting.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:09am

      You’re right. It’s a serious problem for girls in “tourist” destinations.

      Concubinage is a different matter entirely.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:01pm

    Only if their newly passed 6 hour rule (law) applies…..

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  • All_Out_of_Bubblegum
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:58pm

    What was the sudden of wind? Egypt’s population of goat’s, sheep & donkey’s just blew a sigh of relief!

    What a disgusting people…

    I stand with Israel!

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  • Free2speakRN
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:56pm

    What would Muhammed say?

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  • Meyvn1
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:42pm

    Islam is Sick.

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    • booger71
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:04pm

      Plus the muslim men are spreading SARS all over Europe and the middle east. The WHO were told to remain silent.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:29pm

      Not surprised these sexually repressed pedophiles would be in favor of raping children. I now think I understand why they bury their women in burqas, so other sexually repressed muslims cannot see the 10 year old brides and thus, don’t rape them. It does take four witnesses to convict a muslim of rape, as they all lie like our President.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:11am

      The world is sick, Islam is only a symptom of it’s sickness.

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      Gonzo  
  • Watermain
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:42pm

    Why wouldn’t they? Those ugly bastards have no other way to have contact with women. No woman in her right mind would get close to one of those pigs.

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    Watermain  
  • tommysoap
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:28pm

    The rioting morons insist calling Muhammad a pedophile is an insult, as there are several Imams on youtube saying it’s OK to have sex with a nine year old because “Muhammad is the model”.When are these Islamic apes going to realize their Prophet was an opium polluted child raping degenerate?

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Not only that, but it is also a good thing for a girl to “come of age” in her husband’s house rather than her father’s.

      Furthermore, sex is only prohibited if the 9 yr old girl cannot support the weight of her husband.

      Savages! Not even dogs behave this way!

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    • Watermain
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 11:24pm

      @elena: at least a dog can lay a mean bite on some pervert trying to defilo them. These people are pigs. Don’t any arab women have knives so they can “Lorena Bobbet” the filth they have to cohabitate with?

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:12am

      Waterman — this is all they know. They have never known freedom as we know it. It’s like the proverbial Stockholm Syndrome.

      This is also why when the rich young women and men leave their islamic countries, they behave so badly. They have no inner discipline or knowledge of how to discipline themselves.

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  • GlennaBeckski
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:23pm

    Oh Dear God!! What a perverted bunch of filthy pigs!!

    I shudder to think of having some old, smelly, rotten, demonic, putrid, disgusting piece of crap put his hands on me. Can’t even wrap my mind around some innocent child having to endure it.

    May they all rot in hell and soon!

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  • neiman1
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:18pm

    What could possibly go wrong. Obama told us these were great people just yearning to be free. Obama’s Director of Intelligence told us they were moderate and mostly SECULAR…. The same idiot declared he was the one telling the President there were no terrorists attacks in Libya.

    It’s time to dump the whole team

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  • randy
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:16pm

    WILL NEW ‘DEMOCRATIC’ EGYPTIAN CONSTITUTION ALLOW 9-YEAR-OLD GIRLS TO MARRY?

    Should it not read……

    WILL NEW ‘DEMOCRATIC’ EGYPTIAN CONSTITUTION ALOW MUSLIM PEDOPHILES TO FORCE 9-YEAR-OLD GIRLS TO MARRY?

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    • CatB
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:23pm

      @ RANDY …

      Yes it should!

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      CatB  
    • GlennaBeckski
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:31pm

      U R so right!!

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      GlennaBeckski  
    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:47pm

      Did I mention that Mohammad was in his 50s when he had sex w/Aisha?

      Many of these girls end up w/husbands who are DECADES older than they are. Widows have zero status in that culture…

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      Elena2010  
    • marecanine
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 8:32am

      If you saw “The Project” then you know that the “team” is much bigger than just the Obummer administration. It goes very deep into our government and will need a long time to root it out. But, it will be a good start to get the Oboogey man out of our White House

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  • normbal
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:15pm

    I’m confused. So calling Mohammed a pedophile is, or isn’t disrespecting him and islam? Speak truth, risk the wrath of President Obeyme, The UN’s World Court, Al Qaeda, The Muslim Brotherhood? I’ll speak truth to power anyday. Pedos.

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:14am

      The muslim concept of slander is quite different fm ours.

      Slander accusations in the West countered by facts.

      Slander in the muslim world is tied to the person’s feelings abt what you said of him. If his feelings are hurt, regardless of the truth, he can assail you for slander.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:13pm

    Oh yes, do make infant and maternal mortality rise in a third world country by forcing girls to have babies before their bodies and psyches are ready for it! What a novel idea.

    **sarcasm off**

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:08pm

    And these are the sick freaks our president is pandering to. Will he give his youngist daughter to a muslim pedophile.

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  • Plan B
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 10:00pm

    Nasty Pediphiles

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    Plan B  
  • COFemale
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 9:59pm

    What are you smoking?

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  • COFemale
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 9:57pm

    So they want to follow in Mohammed’s footsteps and become pedophiles. What a sick group of men. This tells me we need to eliminate these animals by any means and if this is the people Barack Obama wants to associate with, then he better keep his daughters hidden. They are both in the appropriate age range. They might get “punished” with a baby” as Obama put it.

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  • Talent-Keyhole
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 9:53pm

    Okey dokey. Meanwhile, I’m lighting a candle to St Jude, the Patron Saint of the Impossible; sacrificing a white dove to Baal the Engorged One; Receiving the bite of a poisonous viper in the name of !iX The One Who Will Destroy; Genuflecting to the East and the Host of Allah the All Knowing; Calling out the Sacred Names of the Sacred Ones Whose Names Are Unknown but Still Sacred; Beseeching the Slayer of Worlds, Gobbler of Lives and First Among Equal Ghods

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  • godhatesacoward
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 9:52pm

    My daughter is 7………………………..Sorry had go vomit! WTF??????????

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 7:33pm

      What better way to justify the sick ways of satans star pupil, Mohammad. Make it normal to wed and bed little girls. Even this wacko Imam won’t lower standards to mohammad’s level and have sex with a nine year old… wonder why?

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  • RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
    Posted on September 29, 2012 at 9:52pm

    The sick pigs. Death to islam!

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    • XScramblerX
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 9:44am

      Well I’m at the point where in public, with witnesses around, I will ask muslims if they support the marriage of 9 year old girls. I will ask them why they worship a pedophile prophet. Why do you support a religion of hate and intolerance towards women. Why do you accept that stoning a woman or a gay person is righteous. Then I will tell them that their ideology and religious beliefs are not welcome in our country! If millions of Americans ask these questions in public, they will know that we do not COMPLY!
      We can’t wait for politicians or the soros media to ask these questions, we must take our country back from ourselves!

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    • XScramblerX
      Posted on September 30, 2012 at 9:47am

      “correction” We must take this country back ourselves.

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      XScramblerX  

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