AbooTasleemah1:


That's the problem... This religion needs no modification whatsoever. What was recommended is that you can add money to whatever you're giving out, not that you can replace it with money. Islam is not going beyond the boundary set by the Messenger (salaLlaahu' alayhi wasslam)

You said " what was recommended is that you can add money to whatever you are giving out" The question here is who made the recommendation? You said the religion needs no modification whatsoever, that is true.

[if some one renounced his past stances on issues considered to be controversial by some quarters and is still considered by critics to be unfit to hold public office then I think they need to spread their net to cover more other controversial public figures even from the critics own extraction or affiliation whatsoever.
In the political history of this country we have seen people who committed acts of treason but were later forgiven and allowed to participate in national activities after they expressed remorse by renouncing their past treasonable acts and they are not from the north or even muslims.
The deliberate unslaught against Dr. Isa Pantami is nothing but a calculated attempt to blaickmail the gentleman just because he is a northerner. But these critics forgot that they can only bark but not bite and barking against anything from the north has been the hall mark of their ancestors who died miserably with bitterness filled in their hearts without achieving anything.
Northerners are here to stay and there is nothing weak barking charlatans can do.
you are a loser if you think the north is your enemy.
I am not a fan of Dr Pantami , I differ with him on a lot of issues, but the north is a red line for haters.
quote author=Arewa1stSon post=101025312]Northerners are always on the defense online, never on the attack and that’s where most of our problems stems from. We need to fix up!!

One thing I know Is that Isa pantami will never resign or be fired!

I spoke with him and I'm happy with the conversations that ensured between us... That these animals are dealing with a very intelligent and smart creature!!

So let the media offensive continue!!they're dealing with a Diallo!!

A Diallo is always Victorious!!

That's why we are called the vikings of Africa!!

Buhari,Elrufai others faced worse than this... Yet they're standing tall and powerful!!

We have already developed a thick skin against hate!!

I'm just happy that our leaders are finally waking up!![/quote]

[Pls ur number quote author=Akamariner post=101020370]Interesting, if you ask me.

Over 50million email list available for sale, with a free email software as bonus.[/quote]

You should be worried that Mary the mother of your god Jesus was married off at the age of 12 to a 90 years old carpenter or better still your worry should be channelled to the age at which the mother of your god Jesus was impregnated by your god Jesus and gave birth to himself ( your god Jesus) who is an indivisible part of the trinity.
Can you tell me the age at which the mother of your god Jesus was impregnated by your god Jesus and gave birth to himself ( jesus) ?

Go and read your Bible and give me the answer.
Morally decripit

TruthHurts1:
This is beautiful from God's Word. Meanwhile some other filthy mindset can only offer child rape to the girl child. With their filthy mindset they use rape as an instrument of religious conversion by abducting little girls and holding them as hostages for refusing to renounce their religion.

[Hahahaha
You no serious , any wayyour guess was rightquote author=Romanoff post=100720900]I knew they would be dark skinned. [/quote]

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Mokason288:
This story has the hand written of Village people

[Nairaland a happy making enclave
This welcoming go sweetquote author=Haaj post=100548075]I beg I no wan laugh today uote author=iamyemiakins post=100546630]The outgoing crusher (Adamu) welcoming the incoming crusher (Usman) into the crushing cult like[/quote]

I beg I no wan laugh today uote author=iamyemiakins post=100546630]The outgoing crusher (Adamu) welcoming the incoming crusher (Usman) into the crushing cult like[/quote]

I no fit laugh oo I begquote author=FalseProphet1 post=100538971]I see her giving birth to a female child and I see her naming the child gold. This I have seen.[/quote]

[I am not idiot but the reverse is the case
You saidi can see Southerners condemning it ,look at yourself shameless lot, the question here is don't you Southerners have the habit of fucking minors ? If you are sincere to yourself you will definitely agree with me.
You should be worried that the mother of your god Mary was married off at the age of 12 to a 90 years old man or rather your worry should be channelled to the age at which the mother of your god gave birth to your god.
Morally decripit soul..

READ BELOW ABOUT YOUR SLAVE MASTERS EXPLOITS OF UNDER AGE GIRLS.... MUMU

Because of ignorance and hatred you will see bunch of uninformed people when ever an issue of under age marriage took place in the north, they will abuse Islam and Muslims for been backward etc, but they don't see any thing wrong when their underage daughters and sisters are taken out for sexual outings in the name of 'boy friend/girl friend' or prostitution , they have no problem seeing their little daughter or sister having sex in the street with a stranger and come back to them crying with baby in hand, very pathetic form of reasoning, I wonder why a normal person will not be comfortable with a legal underage marriage with consent from all parties concerned but will be comfortable seeing his underage daughter or sister fucking around to the extent of bearing a bastard through friendship or prostitution. Leave Islam and Muslims alone.
Even those nation's you consider civilised and you look forward to emulate are practicing underage marriage, an example is the United States of America, it is even widely spread over there, not that alone but underage marriage is backed by their laws, the Constitution, in some states in the US a person can marry a girl even below the age of 12 with the consent of her parents and a judge ,
you people need to enlighten yourselves with knowledge of other peoples' cultures and don't allow yourselves to be brain washed by mere media propaganda.
If you people should read more and become constructive in your criticism of Islam you would find yourselves neck deep in what you accuse others of practicing.
Read the articles below and get informed .

Unchainedatlast.org


About Child Marriage
Unchained started and now leads a growing national movement to end child marriage in the U.S.

Child marriage, or marriage before 18, was legal in all 50 U.S. states. Thanks to Unchained’s relentless advocacy, that is changing. Delaware and New Jersey in 2018 became the first two states to end this human-rights abuse, followed by American Samoa in 2018 and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania and Minnesota in 2020.

However, child marriage remains legal in 46 states and is happening in the U.S. at an alarming rate: Unchained’s groundbreaking research revealed that nearly a quarter-million children as young as 12 were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010 – mostly girls wed to adult men.
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CHILD MARRIAGE IN THE USA

On pushing for legislative change in New Jersey

"We thought, last year, that New Jersey was going to be our first victory. I worked personally for two years to get that bill through with strong bipartisan support. Nobody objected to this bill. It was a really popular bill. Gov. [Chris] Christie claimed that the reason he did this was that ending child marriage would somehow interfere with religious customs in this state. But I publicly challenged Gov. Christie to name a single religion that requires child marriage and he still has not responded. In fact, religious leaders from many different faiths came out in support of the bill to end child marriage, in New Jersey and in other states. I had no idea what Christie was thinking other than there was some other reason that he did it. And, in fact, he later admitted that the reason he did it was because he was lobbied by an anti-choice group that was concerned that ending child marriage would somehow increase abortion rates, which is absurd. There's no study that has ever shown that."

"Of the countless survivors we've worked with, who went in front of a judge and went through a judicial review process before being forced to marry, not a single one of them ever felt safe enough to tell the judge what was actually happening."
FRAIDY REISS
On how widespread child marriage is

"For a long time, nobody knew the full extent of America's child marriage problem. But we at Unchained At Last recently undertook this groundbreaking research project. We retrieved marriage license data from across the U.S. What we discovered is 12 states, unfortunately, don't even track the data. But in the other 38 U.S. states, in just the decade, 2000 to 2010, more than 167,000 children as young as 12 were married. Almost all of them were girls married to adult men."

On whether this is related to religion or not

"The data that we retrieved from across the U.S. did not include identifying information about the children who were married, for the most part. So we don't know from the data why they were married or whether they were from specific religions. We know from the women and girls who reach out to us that this is happening in every major religion, in minor religions and in secular backgrounds."

On loopholes that let child marriage go forward

"Usually in those cases where a judge's approval is required, that goes along with parental consent, which, unfortunately, we know is often parental coercion. But what typically happens is the child — it's usually a girl, almost all the children who marry in the U.S. are girls — that girl who is being married off is effectively disempowered throughout this process, because it's a judge and her parents who are making these decisions for her. So, unfortunately, in many states legislators assume that if a judge is involved in the process that that's somehow protecting children and preventing forced child marriages, where, in fact, what we know from the many survivors that we've worked with, is that of the countless survivors we've worked with, who went in front of a judge and went through a judicial review process before being forced to marry, not a single one of them ever felt safe enough to tell the judge what was actually happening. Every single one lied to the judge and then forever felt somehow complicit in her own forced marriage. Which means rape on her wedding night, rape repeatedly thereafter, pulled out of high school, her hopes and dreams for the future gone."

On her personal experience

"I didn't have reproductive rights. I had no financial rights, not allowed to work, maintain my own bank account or credit card. It took me 12 years to get out of that marriage. And when I finally escaped with my two daughters, out of this abusive marriage, my family shunned me. They punished me for leaving by declaring me dead. But after I got out, managed to rebuild my life as a dead woman, after my family had declared me dead. I founded Unchained At Last to help other women who are escaping from a forced marriage, either trying to say no to a forced marriage before it happened, or trying to escape from one after it already happened. And at Unchained At Last, we're almost always able to help the women 18 or older who call to beg for help in this traumatic situation.

"I have had almost no contact with my family, with a couple of exceptions. But they still consider me dead. It's been 13 years now."

This segment aired on May 24, 2018.

Related:
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The Loopholes That Allow Child Marriage In The U.S.
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Ashley Belanger
SEPTEMBER 07, 2017
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Wedlocked is a Teen Vogue series about child marriage in the United States that examines the history of the practice and its modern reality, as all 50 states have laws with provisions that that allow people under 18 to marry.

It's likely that some Americans assume child marriage happens only in developing nations, where one in three girls are married before 18. But it happens around the world, among people of different faiths, and in secular homes. It happens across the United States, where religion can play a unique role in preserving the practice of child marriage — it’s at once a reason some minors are forced to marry early, and also why some lawmakers insist the law must not be changed to end the coercion.


In May, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have ended legal child marriage in his state, in part because he said that he believed it would violate religious customs. “I agree that protecting the well-being, dignity, and freedom of minors is vital, but the severe bar this bill creates is not necessary to address the concerns voiced by the bill’s proponents and does not comport with the sensibilities and, in some cases, the religious customs, of the people of this State,” he said. In New Jersey, the law remains that minors can marry with parental consent at 16, and anyone younger can marry with consent of both parents and a judge’s approval.

Between 2000 and 2015, there were at least 207,468 marriages involving minors in the United States, according to figures from PBS's Frontline. Marriage involving minors — which most often involves young girls and older men — doesn’t always occur due to strict interpretations of religious custom. Jeanne Smoot, Senior Counsel for Policy and Strategy with the national organization Tahirih Justice Center, said the non-profit has examined more than 500 child and adult forced marriage cases in the U.S., and she tells Teen Vogue that no major religion “actually promotes child marriage.”


A National Marriage Survey conducted by Tahirih in 2011 recorded responses from girls involved in child marriages from Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, Baptist, Muslim, and other faiths. Advocacy organization Unchained At Last, which helps victims of forced marriage, has suggested that the practice is pervasive across faiths. Perhaps that's why lawmakers continue to bow to certain traditions.

Amanda Norejko is Matrimonial and Economic Justice Project Director with Sanctuary for Families, a legal organization that works with Tahirih and provides legal counsel and advocacy for diverse communities dealing with gender violence in New York, and she agrees with Smoot’s assessment. “We’ve actually seen this phenomenon across a number of different religions,” she tells Teen Vogue. “We’ve worked with Orthodox Jewish clients, with Christian clients, clients from a lot of different religious backgrounds for whom their communities and their families have a tradition of early marriage.”

“It isn’t exclusive to the Muslim population,” she says, negating the notion that child marriage is only an issue among those who practice Islam.

Norejko worked on a coalition that recently revised the language used for New York’s updated marriage law, raising the minimum age to marry to 17 with written judicial and parental consent. “New York has a very diverse population. We have some communities where child marriage is common, and we were really trying to make sure that we addressed their needs,” she says. Their goal was to “be culturally competent and respectful of different cultures while at the same time, not using those cultures as an excuse to allow people to be victimized, particularly minors.”


In New Jersey, the bill struck down by Christie would set 18 as the minimum age to marry in the state, with no exceptions. “It was a really strong bill that would’ve ended all marriage before 18,” Fraidy Reiss, Founder and Executive Director of Unchained At Last, tells Teen Vogue. Her organization advocates on behalf of victims of forced marriage, and she was directly involved in introducing the legislation in New Jersey, even providing testimony that influenced the judicial committee that ultimately helped the bill advance through the New Jersey Senate. Her bill passed both houses, and she says it had the support of religious groups in the state. “It would’ve made New Jersey the first state to do so,” she says.

So when Christie vetoed the bill, saying its protections created a “severe bar,” Reiss challenged the governor to name the religious groups whose customs the bill violated. She did not receive a response. As of this writing, a request by Teen Vogue for comment from Christie’s office was also unreturned.

According to Smoot, it’s not necessarily religious institutions that condone or promote child marriage, but parents working to safeguard a moral standard. “In some cases, we’ve seen families use religious guilt-tripping to pressure a girl to marry – for example, threats that God will condemn them or that the congregation or community will shun them if they do not marry,” she says.


“While marriage before a certain age is not a religious requirement, some religious sects do promote marrying earlier rather than later, in order to pre-empt and prevent sexual relations outside of marriage,” she explains. This may be true in many faiths, including Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities.

Unchained At Last, Sanctuary for Families, and Tahirih Justice Center work together to provide services to victims of forced marriages in all communities. They also partner to change laws, and Reiss plans to continue pushing for stricter laws in her home state of New Jersey despite the recent defeat. She says the bill's sponsors have already promised to reintroduce it in January. “Even if Governor Christie found some weird religious cult somewhere that insists on marrying off children when they’re 12 and sacrificing virgins every Wednesday, even if he found that religion, this bill still is Constitutional,” Reiss says. “And Governor Christie had absolutely no reason to veto it.”

If you are facing or fleeing a forced marriage or know someone who is, contact the Tahirih Justice Center’s Forced Marriage Initiative to get help at fmi@tahirih.org. Visit preventforcedmarriage.org to find out more.

Related: Child Marriage in the United States, Explained

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quote author=Starzo post=100201364]
see this idiot indirectly supporting pedophilia

at least you've seen Southerners here condemning it but you people openly support destroying the life of premature girls.
I spit on pedophilic terrorists[/quote]
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Starzo:

see this idiot indirectly supporting pedophilia

at least you've seen Southerners here condemning it but you people openly support destroying the life of premature girls.
I spit on pedophilic terrorists

[I am not idiot but the reverse is the case
You should be worried that the mother of your god Mary was married off at the age of 12 to a 90 years old man or rather your worry should be channelled to the age at which the mother of your god gave birth to your god.
Morally decripit soul..

READ BELOW ABOUT YOUR SLAVE MASTERS EXPLOITS OF UNDER AGE GIRLS.... MUMU

Because of ignorance and hatred you will see bunch of uninformed people when ever an issue of under age marriage took place in the north, they will abuse Islam and Muslims for been backward etc, but they don't see any thing wrong when their underage daughters and sisters are taken out for sexual outings in the name of 'boy friend/girl friend' or prostitution , they have no problem seeing their little daughter or sister having sex in the street with a stranger and come back to them crying with baby in hand, very pathetic form of reasoning, I wonder why a normal person will not be comfortable with a legal underage marriage with consent from all parties concerned but will be comfortable seeing his underage daughter or sister fucking around to the extent of bearing a bastard through friendship or prostitution. Leave Islam and Muslims alone.
Even those nation's you consider civilised and you look forward to emulate are practicing underage marriage, an example is the United States of America, it is even widely spread over there, not that alone but underage marriage is backed by their laws, the Constitution, in some states in the US a person can marry a girl even below the age of 12 with the consent of her parents and a judge ,
you people need to enlighten yourselves with knowledge of other peoples' cultures and don't allow yourselves to be brain washed by mere media propaganda.
If you people should read more and become constructive in your criticism of Islam you would find yourselves neck deep in what you accuse others of practicing.
Read the articles below and get informed .

Unchainedatlast.org


About Child Marriage
Unchained started and now leads a growing national movement to end child marriage in the U.S.

Child marriage, or marriage before 18, was legal in all 50 U.S. states. Thanks to Unchained’s relentless advocacy, that is changing. Delaware and New Jersey in 2018 became the first two states to end this human-rights abuse, followed by American Samoa in 2018 and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania and Minnesota in 2020.

However, child marriage remains legal in 46 states and is happening in the U.S. at an alarming rate: Unchained’s groundbreaking research revealed that nearly a quarter-million children as young as 12 were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010 – mostly girls wed to adult men.
_________________________


Wbur.org

CHILD MARRIAGE IN THE USA

On pushing for legislative change in New Jersey

"We thought, last year, that New Jersey was going to be our first victory. I worked personally for two years to get that bill through with strong bipartisan support. Nobody objected to this bill. It was a really popular bill. Gov. [Chris] Christie claimed that the reason he did this was that ending child marriage would somehow interfere with religious customs in this state. But I publicly challenged Gov. Christie to name a single religion that requires child marriage and he still has not responded. In fact, religious leaders from many different faiths came out in support of the bill to end child marriage, in New Jersey and in other states. I had no idea what Christie was thinking other than there was some other reason that he did it. And, in fact, he later admitted that the reason he did it was because he was lobbied by an anti-choice group that was concerned that ending child marriage would somehow increase abortion rates, which is absurd. There's no study that has ever shown that."

"Of the countless survivors we've worked with, who went in front of a judge and went through a judicial review process before being forced to marry, not a single one of them ever felt safe enough to tell the judge what was actually happening."
FRAIDY REISS
On how widespread child marriage is

"For a long time, nobody knew the full extent of America's child marriage problem. But we at Unchained At Last recently undertook this groundbreaking research project. We retrieved marriage license data from across the U.S. What we discovered is 12 states, unfortunately, don't even track the data. But in the other 38 U.S. states, in just the decade, 2000 to 2010, more than 167,000 children as young as 12 were married. Almost all of them were girls married to adult men."

On whether this is related to religion or not

"The data that we retrieved from across the U.S. did not include identifying information about the children who were married, for the most part. So we don't know from the data why they were married or whether they were from specific religions. We know from the women and girls who reach out to us that this is happening in every major religion, in minor religions and in secular backgrounds."

On loopholes that let child marriage go forward

"Usually in those cases where a judge's approval is required, that goes along with parental consent, which, unfortunately, we know is often parental coercion. But what typically happens is the child — it's usually a girl, almost all the children who marry in the U.S. are girls — that girl who is being married off is effectively disempowered throughout this process, because it's a judge and her parents who are making these decisions for her. So, unfortunately, in many states legislators assume that if a judge is involved in the process that that's somehow protecting children and preventing forced child marriages, where, in fact, what we know from the many survivors that we've worked with, is that of the countless survivors we've worked with, who went in front of a judge and went through a judicial review process before being forced to marry, not a single one of them ever felt safe enough to tell the judge what was actually happening. Every single one lied to the judge and then forever felt somehow complicit in her own forced marriage. Which means rape on her wedding night, rape repeatedly thereafter, pulled out of high school, her hopes and dreams for the future gone."

On her personal experience

"I didn't have reproductive rights. I had no financial rights, not allowed to work, maintain my own bank account or credit card. It took me 12 years to get out of that marriage. And when I finally escaped with my two daughters, out of this abusive marriage, my family shunned me. They punished me for leaving by declaring me dead. But after I got out, managed to rebuild my life as a dead woman, after my family had declared me dead. I founded Unchained At Last to help other women who are escaping from a forced marriage, either trying to say no to a forced marriage before it happened, or trying to escape from one after it already happened. And at Unchained At Last, we're almost always able to help the women 18 or older who call to beg for help in this traumatic situation.

"I have had almost no contact with my family, with a couple of exceptions. But they still consider me dead. It's been 13 years now."

This segment aired on May 24, 2018.

Related:
Delaware Expected To Be The First State To Ban Child Marriage Outright
The Loopholes That Allow Child Marriage In The U.S.
The Joy Of Leaving An Arranged Marriage — And The Cost
Kentucky Votes To Ban Child Marriage
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Child Marriage and Religion in the United States
No major religion “actually promotes child marriage," experts say.
Ashley Belanger
SEPTEMBER 07, 2017
Image may contain: Rug
Tallulah Fontaine
Wedlocked is a Teen Vogue series about child marriage in the United States that examines the history of the practice and its modern reality, as all 50 states have laws with provisions that that allow people under 18 to marry.

It's likely that some Americans assume child marriage happens only in developing nations, where one in three girls are married before 18. But it happens around the world, among people of different faiths, and in secular homes. It happens across the United States, where religion can play a unique role in preserving the practice of child marriage — it’s at once a reason some minors are forced to marry early, and also why some lawmakers insist the law must not be changed to end the coercion.


In May, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have ended legal child marriage in his state, in part because he said that he believed it would violate religious customs. “I agree that protecting the well-being, dignity, and freedom of minors is vital, but the severe bar this bill creates is not necessary to address the concerns voiced by the bill’s proponents and does not comport with the sensibilities and, in some cases, the religious customs, of the people of this State,” he said. In New Jersey, the law remains that minors can marry with parental consent at 16, and anyone younger can marry with consent of both parents and a judge’s approval.

Between 2000 and 2015, there were at least 207,468 marriages involving minors in the United States, according to figures from PBS's Frontline. Marriage involving minors — which most often involves young girls and older men — doesn’t always occur due to strict interpretations of religious custom. Jeanne Smoot, Senior Counsel for Policy and Strategy with the national organization Tahirih Justice Center, said the non-profit has examined more than 500 child and adult forced marriage cases in the U.S., and she tells Teen Vogue that no major religion “actually promotes child marriage.”


A National Marriage Survey conducted by Tahirih in 2011 recorded responses from girls involved in child marriages from Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, Baptist, Muslim, and other faiths. Advocacy organization Unchained At Last, which helps victims of forced marriage, has suggested that the practice is pervasive across faiths. Perhaps that's why lawmakers continue to bow to certain traditions.

Amanda Norejko is Matrimonial and Economic Justice Project Director with Sanctuary for Families, a legal organization that works with Tahirih and provides legal counsel and advocacy for diverse communities dealing with gender violence in New York, and she agrees with Smoot’s assessment. “We’ve actually seen this phenomenon across a number of different religions,” she tells Teen Vogue. “We’ve worked with Orthodox Jewish clients, with Christian clients, clients from a lot of different religious backgrounds for whom their communities and their families have a tradition of early marriage.”

“It isn’t exclusive to the Muslim population,” she says, negating the notion that child marriage is only an issue among those who practice Islam.

Norejko worked on a coalition that recently revised the language used for New York’s updated marriage law, raising the minimum age to marry to 17 with written judicial and parental consent. “New York has a very diverse population. We have some communities where child marriage is common, and we were really trying to make sure that we addressed their needs,” she says. Their goal was to “be culturally competent and respectful of different cultures while at the same time, not using those cultures as an excuse to allow people to be victimized, particularly minors.”


In New Jersey, the bill struck down by Christie would set 18 as the minimum age to marry in the state, with no exceptions. “It was a really strong bill that would’ve ended all marriage before 18,” Fraidy Reiss, Founder and Executive Director of Unchained At Last, tells Teen Vogue. Her organization advocates on behalf of victims of forced marriage, and she was directly involved in introducing the legislation in New Jersey, even providing testimony that influenced the judicial committee that ultimately helped the bill advance through the New Jersey Senate. Her bill passed both houses, and she says it had the support of religious groups in the state. “It would’ve made New Jersey the first state to do so,” she says.

So when Christie vetoed the bill, saying its protections created a “severe bar,” Reiss challenged the governor to name the religious groups whose customs the bill violated. She did not receive a response. As of this writing, a request by Teen Vogue for comment from Christie’s office was also unreturned.

According to Smoot, it’s not necessarily religious institutions that condone or promote child marriage, but parents working to safeguard a moral standard. “In some cases, we’ve seen families use religious guilt-tripping to pressure a girl to marry – for example, threats that God will condemn them or that the congregation or community will shun them if they do not marry,” she says.


“While marriage before a certain age is not a religious requirement, some religious sects do promote marrying earlier rather than later, in order to pre-empt and prevent sexual relations outside of marriage,” she explains. This may be true in many faiths, including Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities.

Unchained At Last, Sanctuary for Families, and Tahirih Justice Center work together to provide services to victims of forced marriages in all communities. They also partner to change laws, and Reiss plans to continue pushing for stricter laws in her home state of New Jersey despite the recent defeat. She says the bill's sponsors have already promised to reintroduce it in January. “Even if Governor Christie found some weird religious cult somewhere that insists on marrying off children when they’re 12 and sacrificing virgins every Wednesday, even if he found that religion, this bill still is Constitutional,” Reiss says. “And Governor Christie had absolutely no reason to veto it.”

If you are facing or fleeing a forced marriage or know someone who is, contact the Tahirih Justice Center’s Forced Marriage Initiative to get help at fmi@tahirih.org. Visit preventforcedmarriage.org to find out more.

Related: Child Marriage in the United States, Explained

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quote author=Starzo post=100201364]
see this idiot indirectly supporting pedophilia

at least you've seen Southerners here condemning it but you people openly support destroying the life of premature girls.
I spit on pedophilic terrorists[/quote]

[That is true
quote author=Kubernetes post=100198271]This one na southern end time girl.
Very typical.
Imagine if this had happened in the north, some people would have brought Religion into it.[/quote]

Kubernetes:
This one na southern end time girl.
Very typical.
Imagine if this had happened in the north, some people would have brought Religion into it.

That is true brother, it is hypocrisy that governs their mental faculty.
Had it been it was a news of an underage marriage from the north you will see them claiming Islam is this Islam is that, I don't know how those people think how can you be comfortable to the fact that your underage daughter or sister is been bleeped by a man in the name of ' boy friend ' and you see backwardness in a legal marriage of an underage girl? This kind of reasoning defies logic.
What most of these fools don't know is that those they look forward to as civilized societies like the United States of America do engage in child marriages. Indeed child marriage is widely spread in the US . Even children below the age of 12 are been married off in the US legally through constitutional backing.
We should stop the abuse.
Any one who accuses Muslims on child marriage should read the below write up so as not to continue wallowing in ignorance.