MM Online - Kelantan child bride’s husband says wanted to marry her since she was 7 (extracts):
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The father of four told BH Online today that news of his marriage had only shocked the outside world, as most of the villagers and his friends had known about his wish for a while.
The man said he had told his friends, and even shown them a picture of the girl, known as Ayu, while he was in the holy land of Mecca.
Most of them, he said, had agreed to the union as the girl was not in school and came from a poor family.
The 41-year-old said he was unsure what made him feel like marrying the girl, but claimed it was not driven by desire.
Instead, he reiterated his claim that he wanted to protect Ayu and provide welfare for her.
“When news of our marriage spread, only outsiders were shocked because most of the villagers and my friends knew about it for a while,” he was quoted as saying.
“I knew Ayu since she was small because we were neighbours, and I also taught Al-Quran lessons to her ... it was then I told myself ‘one day I will take this girl as my wife’ and I did so four years later.”
“Believe me death and jodoh (destined partner) comes from Allah insult me if you must, but I am not scared or dissuaded from going through with the marriage because my new responsibility is teaching her to be closer to Allah.”
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... the sale of baby girls is the offer of marriage made on behalf of teenage, or pre-pubescent daughters, to older men, like the recent marriage of an 11-year-old to a 41-year-old man.
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IPOH, July 16 — The 41-year-old rubber tapper who married an 11-year-old girl in Kelantan reportedly said today he had wanted to tie the knot with the girl since she was seven years old.
The father of four told BH Online today that news of his marriage had only shocked the outside world, as most of the villagers and his friends had known about his wish for a while.
The man said he had told his friends, and even shown them a picture of the girl, known as Ayu, while he was in the holy land of Mecca.
Most of them, he said, had agreed to the union as the girl was not in school and came from a poor family.
The 41-year-old said he was unsure what made him feel like marrying the girl, but claimed it was not driven by desire.
Instead, he reiterated his claim that he wanted to protect Ayu and provide welfare for her.
“When news of our marriage spread, only outsiders were shocked because most of the villagers and my friends knew about it for a while,” he was quoted as saying.
“I knew Ayu since she was small because we were neighbours, and I also taught Al-Quran lessons to her ... it was then I told myself ‘one day I will take this girl as my wife’ and I did so four years later.”
“Believe me death and jodoh (destined partner) comes from Allah insult me if you must, but I am not scared or dissuaded from going through with the marriage because my new responsibility is teaching her to be closer to Allah.”
Allah swt has been dragged into the shame of the man's desire to have a 7-year old partner as his bed partner whether HIS Divine Self likes it or not or especially whether HE has approved or not. By the by, the man is a Muslim.
Mariam Mokhtar wrote in her Malaysiakini column titled The child bride: Cook, cleaner, prostitute and nurse (extracts):
An 11-year-old girl knows only what her parents tell her. She does not know about falling in love. She will never feel fulfilled without an education, or be able to explore her full potential.
She will be trapped in the cycle of looking after her old man, falling pregnant, taking care of her babies, and in a few years, not just deal with her own hormone-raging-teenage children who are only a few years younger than her, but also her husband who is senile, and probably has erectile dysfunction and double incontinence.
It would be a terrific bonus if she was enterprising enough to start a home business, like making kuih-muih or simple needlework, so he could live off her income.
If she were a headstrong woman, her husband might replace her with a younger model, by divorcing her and dumping her without any financial help, or perhaps send her packing to her family. After all, the Malay man is aware that syariah laws are very poorly enforced.
For the price of a small dowry, the man who marries a child bride is able to engage the services of a maid, baby-maker, child-carer, houseminder, cook, "lust satisfier" and more importantly, a nurse to care for him in his old age.
All in all, not a bad deal, eh?
She will be trapped in the cycle of looking after her old man, falling pregnant, taking care of her babies, and in a few years, not just deal with her own hormone-raging-teenage children who are only a few years younger than her, but also her husband who is senile, and probably has erectile dysfunction and double incontinence.
It would be a terrific bonus if she was enterprising enough to start a home business, like making kuih-muih or simple needlework, so he could live off her income.
If she were a headstrong woman, her husband might replace her with a younger model, by divorcing her and dumping her without any financial help, or perhaps send her packing to her family. After all, the Malay man is aware that syariah laws are very poorly enforced.
For the price of a small dowry, the man who marries a child bride is able to engage the services of a maid, baby-maker, child-carer, houseminder, cook, "lust satisfier" and more importantly, a nurse to care for him in his old age.
All in all, not a bad deal, eh?
I wonder what the Minister for Women, Family and Community Development will do other than to dismiss the shame as a legal act even though the bloke had to marry in Thailand outside Malaysian syariah jurisdiction.
And stop waving her Princess Iron Fan's magic apparatus - the shame won't go away. You as the Women Minister has failed the Malay community miserably.
Additionally, I advise her deputy minister to stay clear, and not take the heat on behalf of your superior.
In Malaysia, Christian ministers must NOT interfere in Islamic affairs, lest they suffer the same threats as Syerleena Abdul Rashid (DAP Penang) - for more see
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