Islamic Sharia's Insructions on Child and Forced Marriage
"Chad, which is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, has the highest rate of child marriage in the world – 70 per cent of girls are married before they are 18, according to Unicef.""Around 30 per cent of girls are married before they turn 15.""The Higher Islamic Council in the eastern town of Mangalmé has decreed that men must pay £12 and women up to £30 for refusing to marry. Local authorities said the fine, known as “amchilini”, is based on the Quran and follows Sharia law.""This is despite a law that was passed in 2015 to criminalize child marriages. The ruling also contravenes the constitution which states that Chad is a secular country."The Telegraph
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| Women who refuse marriage proposals in northern Chad will have to pay a fine of up to £30 - Marco Di Lauro /Getty Images |
In Islamic countries women are considered a form of chattel. Somewhat like livestock. With the difference being that they are owned by men -- quite literally -- as human breeding stock. Their role is to satisfy men's carnal desires, to bear and care for children, to cook and to care for their menfolk, to quietly go about fulfilling their male-dominated obligations as all-around serfs. According to Islamic Sharia law, as soon as a girl is nubile she should be placed in marriage.
Muhammad, the Prophet who brought Islam to the Bedouin of he Arabian Peninsula, set the stage when he betrothed himself at age 50 to a six-year-old child, consummating their marriage when she was nine years of age. Needless to say he already had a harem of multiple mature women as wives. Generally in Islam now, 13 is considered an appropriate age for a young girl to be handed over to marriage, and usually with a much older man.
Recently, the Higher Islamic Council in the eastern town of Chad's Mangalme has decreed that men must pay a $19 penalty should they refuse to marry. Women who refuse marriage are to be fined up to $47, on the other hand. The fine, known as 'amchilini' has its base in the Qur'an and follows sharia law.
Human rights groups, hold that the law is a violation of a national law guaranteeing freedom of marriage. A #StopAmchilini protest was launched by the Chadian Women's Rights League to exact pressure on authorities in hopes of having the ruling repealed. "If we have to set fines for free people it becomes a forced marriage which we condemn", they stated.
"Religious leaders must not abuse their authority. The consent of marriage must be free", stated a member of the League. The law will invariably have the consequence of penalizing underage girls who are already often forced into marriage in the central African country. 70 percent of girls in Chad are given into marriage before age 18. Roughly 30 percent are married before age 15.
A law was passed in Chad to criminalize child marriages, in 2015. Chad's constitution states the country to be a secular one, likely to achieve a balance between adversarial factions of Muslims and Christians dominating the nation. The Christian minority is succumbing to fears that the country's legal framework is moving toward sharia.
It was found by the most recent census that 52.1 percent of the population was Muslin, with 43.9 percent Christian. For over three decades, Chad, geographically huge and one of the poorest countries in Africa, has been ruled by a Muslim dynasty.
Labels: Central Africa Chad, Child Marriage, Penalties for Refusing Marriage, Ruling on Marriage Eligibility
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, August 16, 2022
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