Saturday, January 17, 2009

Top Saudi cleric: Ok for young girls to wed

"The debate over the controversial practice of child marriage in Saudi Arabia was pushed back into the spotlight this week, with the kingdom's top cleric saying that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed.
Saudi cleric Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh says it's OK for a girl aged 10 or 12 to get married.

'It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger,' Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti, said in remarks quoted Wednesday in the regional Al-Hayat newspaper. 'A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her.'"
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