Pakistani Slave Brides, Underage Forced Marriage in Saudi Arabia: Connecting the Dots

August 19, 2008 by Phyllis Chesler  
Filed under News/Op-Ed

“Shaikha,” a 16-year-old Saudi girl, drank bleach in an attempt to kill herself because her father was forcing her to marry a 75-year-old man. And why? So that Shaikha’s father could himself marry the elderly man’s 13-year-old daughter! Shaikha begged and pleaded not to be forced into this marriage–even her mother supported her plea; all to no avail.

While such normalized atrocities continue in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Muslim world, Random House cancels the publication of a novel, The Jewel of Medina, based on the life of Aisha, the prophet Mohammed’s beloved wife whom he married when she was 6-years-old. The marriage was presumably consummated when Aisha was nine-years-old…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

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