Child Brides and Concubines

A round-up of recent 'shock-value' sex slavery or coercing-children news to be picked out from the Gulf news but presented to you in a neat digest: concubines and child-brides while common in Medieval times have less of a place in today's society; and celebrating Egypt's initiative by a woman to really implement a change in the way things are done around here.

Children are better-placed as bridesmaids than brides. Child brides is still a problem in many countries: Yemen has come to the fore recently.

Kinzi Blogs: My Treasure [2]

For some a rehash, for some a useful reminder or neater presentation of these recent eye-raising Gulf news stories: "Two nausea inducing articles back to back, courtesy of blogger Descantia. Pardon the old news, I’ve had them sitting in drafts for a couple weeks, no time to blog anything that requires any extra brain-drain."

American Bedu [3]

Kuwaiti woman supports s*x-slavery for women

"Salwa Al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti political activist, relates in this video how on a recent visit to Maccah, religious scholars told her that having women turned into sex-slaves is a good thing. They also cited parts of Islamic scripture to her which support the enslavement of women for the purpose of sex. Apparently she has taken it hook, line, and sinker, and is now calling for a new law allowing sex-slaves for men so hat they can have halal sex besides their wife (/wives) and therefore saving good Muslim men from zina and fornication."

Land and People [4]

This woman (and Egypt) kicks ass

Well well, it seems 'change' really is afoot! Arabs put their money where their revolutionary mouth was: as we applaud Egypt's initiative by a woman to really implement a change in the way things are done in the Arab world- starting, fittingly with Egypt, saying no to aid-dependency. "Egypt declines World Bank loan as incompatible with national interest:"