{"id":13468,"date":"2019-10-05T08:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2019-10-05T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:24:41","slug":"scandal-of-young-iraqi-girls-sold-for-sex-in-temporary-pleasure-marriages-that-can-last-as-little-as-an-hour-as-one-shia-cleric-claims-it-is-no-problem-at-all-to-wed-a-nine-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/scandal-of-young-iraqi-girls-sold-for-sex-in-temporary-pleasure-marriages-that-can-last-as-little-as-an-hour-as-one-shia-cleric-claims-it-is-no-problem-at-all-to-wed-a-nine-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal of young Iraqi girls sold for sex in temporary &#8216;pleasure marriages&#8217; that can last as little as an hour &#8211; as one Shia cleric claims it is &#8216;no problem at all&#8217; to wed a nine-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-05-Iraqi-girls-as-young-as-NINE-are-sold-for-sex-in-temporary-marriages.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-05-Iraqi-girls-as-young-as-NINE-are-sold-for-sex-in-temporary-marriages.png 669w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-05-Iraqi-girls-as-young-as-NINE-are-sold-for-sex-in-temporary-marriages-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Tim+Stickings+For+Mailonline\">Tim Stickings For Mailonline<\/a> &#8212; October 4, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Shia clerics were filmed offering brief marriages in a BBC documentary in Iraq<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>One claimed there was &#8216;no problem at all&#8217; with &#8216;marrying&#8217; girls as young as nine\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Undercover With The Clerics &#8211; Iraq\u2019s Secret Sex Trade is on BBC iPlayer\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Young Iraqi girls are being sold for sex in temporary &#8216;marriages&#8217; that can last as little as an hour, a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/bbc\/index.html\"><em>BBC<\/em><\/a><em> documentary has revealed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Shia  clerics were filmed offering &#8216;pleasure marriages&#8217; in which men, usually  banned from having sex outside marriage, can pay a dowry for an interim  wife.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>One cleric claimed it would be &#8216;no problem at all&#8217; to marry girls as young as nine under Islamic law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The practice is banned in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iraq\/index.html\"><em>Iraq<\/em><\/a><em>  but eight out of 10 Shia clerics who were approached were willing to  carry it out &#8211; and one of them even offered to help procure young girls,  the <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/extra\/iuKTEGjKgS\/teenage_iraq_brides\"><em>BBC News<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0investigation found.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including video,  images, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7537529\/Iraqi-girls-young-NINE-sold-sex-temporary-marriages.html#newcomment\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7537529\/Iraqi-girls-young-NINE-sold-sex-temporary-marriages.html#newcomment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail, by Tim Stickings For Mailonline &#8212; October 4, 2019 Excerpt: Shia clerics were filmed offering brief marriages in a BBC documentary in Iraq One claimed there was &#8216;no problem at all&#8217; with &#8216;marrying&#8217; girls as young as nine\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/scandal-of-young-iraqi-girls-sold-for-sex-in-temporary-pleasure-marriages-that-can-last-as-little-as-an-hour-as-one-shia-cleric-claims-it-is-no-problem-at-all-to-wed-a-nine-year-old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13470,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions\/13470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}