Neo Mujico
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
xc2215x@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

Iraq set to lower the age of consent to just nine years old

womensagenda.com.au

external-link
message-square
10
fedilink
80
external-link

Iraq set to lower the age of consent to just nine years old

womensagenda.com.au

xc2215x@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago
message-square
10
fedilink
Girls as young as nine could be forced into marriage in Iraq, as conservative groups in parliament push to lower the age of consent.
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • anachronist@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    9 months ago

    • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      Is this real? What did they accomplish?

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    9 months ago

    Why not just remove it entirely? 9 is oddly specific

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      9 months ago

      Because 8 is too young, you pervert!

    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      9 months ago

      I guess it matches Aisha’s age in the Qur’an

  • Cryan24@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    9 months ago

    What other legally binding documents can a nine year old sign?

  • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    deleted by creator

  • Alsephina@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    9 months ago

    Libertarian paradise

  • moistclump@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    9 months ago

    :(

  • Fatur_New@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    Did they also make rule about marrying widows? Apart from Aisha, all of the Prophet Muhammad’s wives were widows

    Sorry for bad english. English isn’t my native language and i use translator

  • Ramen 🍜(she/her)@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 months ago

    deleted by creator

World News@lemmy.ml

worldnews@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !worldnews@lemmy.ml

News from around the world!

Rules:

  • Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc

  • No NSFW content

  • No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 548 users / day
  • 1.24K users / week
  • 2.29K users / month
  • 5.63K users / 6 months
  • 7 local subscribers
  • 37.1K subscribers
  • 8.76K Posts
  • 18.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • Jack.@lemmy.ml
  • zephyreks@lemmy.ml
  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org