11-year-old marries 10-year-old cousin

[Gumleaf]

Wednesday Mar 19 10:04 AEDT


An 11-year-old boy has married his 10-year-old cousin in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported.

Mohammed al-Rashidi and his unidentified cousin will seal the marriage they contracted under the sharia laws of Islam and move in together after a ceremony to take place in the summer, Al-Shams, newspaper said.

"I am ready for this marriage. It will help me study better," Mohammed, who goes to primary school in the northern province of Hail, was quoted as saying by Al-Shams.

"I invite all my classmates to do like me," the boy said, adding that he wanted to "crown a love story through marriage".

The schoolboy's father, Muraizak al-Rashidi, told the newspaper he was busy sending out invitations for a summer celebration to seal the marriage.

Dahim al-Jaber, the headmaster at Mohammed's school, said marriage at such a young age was "inappropriate" but wished the couple a happy life together.

[Gavin]

The world just gets weirder and weirder

[The Batman]

What is wrong with these people marriage is suppose to be a sacred bond between two people who love each other and all the boy is concerned about is studying better and that doesn't even compare to the fact that he's only 10 and she's 11 these parents are irresponsible.

[theOperaGhost]

One question.
How is being married to his 10 year old cousin going to help him study better?

[Gumleaf]

One question.
How is being married to his 10 year old cousin going to help him study better?

maybe she is a superior student and will tutor him. lol :P

[theOperaGhost]

maybe she is a superior student and will tutor him. lol :P

Yeah cause I forgot, 4th grade was soooo hard. lol

[japanman]

ok they did it we cant stop them but seriously come on lol

[The Resurrected One]

Hmm.

Well, Dahim was normaler (is that even a word?) than the others. Muraizak seems like a nice guy, working on the celebrations and such.

But how will the marriage make Mohammed "study better"? lol, well, maybe because his sexual needs will be given to him now so he can focus on other things besides that. :D


But I dunno what to say about it that sounds intelligent, but it's just strange.

[[[chickaroo92]]]

Isn't this shocking....

Getting married at age eleven is, really...really young. I mean, doesn't he want to go to high school, and collage? And, doesn't his cousin want to do the same? before making 'future' plans? Like....wow.

Also. I personally don't think that cousins should marry each other...

[scassie]

i used to play mommy and daddy at that age. i didn't flunk so it helped me studi i guess. lol

[Sugaree]

that's a little disturbing (the story not your scassie :P)

I mean can you imagine how funny it's going to be when they are trying to have sex :P?

"Where's this thing go?" "It goes in here" "Where" "HERE!" lol

[Techno Monster]

The world is so odd these days...

[Underground_Network]

ONE WORD SUMS IT ALL UP: INTERESTING

[Triple7]

Isn't this shocking....

Getting married at age eleven is, really...really young. I mean, doesn't he want to go to high school, and collage? And, doesn't his cousin want to do the same? before making 'future' plans? Like....wow.

Also. I personally don't think that cousins should marry each other...

Thinking ethnocentrically, yes it is weird. To them, it's normal. The father's sending out invitations for a celebration. The headmaster thinks it's "inappropriate" but he's not condemning them, instead, he wishes them well.

[Patchy]

As Triple7 said its not normal in our culture but there its normal.

I feel sorry though, thats kinda taking a big part of there childhood away

[Serenity]

You guys, it's not like they're sending these kids packing to their own home to start a new family and live their own life on their own...I mean the boy even said they're still gonna be in school, etc...

[Hauptmann Kauffman]

You all need to ermember, it is a differnet culture. Saudi Arabia is a VERY differnet place from the western world

[thesphinx]

That's interesting..

[japanman]

Hmm i relized somthing they are no different then us and what we see as wierd they see as not weird visa versa.they live and thats how they grew up so they have there culter we have ours. we all have culter as our basic backround.

[Whisper]

When i was 11 girls had cooties
good for him
everyones getting laid but me
piss
me
off

[Serenity]

lol Cody you always have a way of putting things into perspective

[Triple7]

we all have culter as our basic backround.

... which is the basis of ethnocentrism.

When i was 11 girls had cooties
good for him
everyones getting laid but me
piss
me
off

:console:

:P :D

[goin to work]

When i was 11 girls had cooties
good for him
everyones getting laid but me
piss
me
off

ya me too

[Sugaree]

When i was 11 girls had cooties
good for him
everyones getting laid but me
piss
me
off

well I'm sorry to hear that cody xD but maybe you should get out to town more and see if there is any good ones out there for you? XD

[NeoKitai]

I am not surprised. People can get married at any age there, but his cousin... really?

[The Batman]

Please don't bump old threads look at the dates of the last reply. :locked: