Married at 9, divorced at 10 ; Girl's memoir
In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35961722/ns/today-today_books/
I'm sure they'll be alot of backlash in response to her book, but it will be worth it if it helps even one other girl in this situation. I am really pleased she has a better life now, but she has still lost out on her childhood :-(
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their government should push magna carta for women...
Maani > i dont want to argue here about the country / countries. However, google and see you will get some facts..
If it was India, they would just burn all the book shops selling the book. Wonder how will they react here.
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I can't see the fundamentalists liking this. I think she's going to put herself in a lot of danger when the book is released here.
literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco
it dosnt happen in pakitan only some parts of it like in india as u said.
FS - i agree...
that man should be caned to death..
It happens in many parts of middle East and Afghanistan...Pakistan...and even in remote parts of India..
She is a brave girl …..she managed to get divorcee..but there are many poor girls trapped in such marriages:(