There is no minimum marriage age in the Yemen, and marriages are consummated when the bride is as young as nine years old. Before the young girl reaches the age of nine a man may engage in all kinds of nasties to the young girl as long as there is no penetration, for example, sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy are allowed. So when you read other bloggers calling Mohammed a paedophile you now know where this comes from.

1400 years ago, there might have been some demographic imperative demanding that young women birth early and often. But Christianity and Judaism long ago abandoned those parts of the Bible and Torah that we consider barbaric today. It is time Islam did likewise. It is not Islamic fundamentalists that pose the greatest danger to modern civilization, but moderate Muslims like those in Yemen who treat their women as cattle and fill the world with more Muslims than they can adequately care for, feed, or educate. It is the world's fastest growing religion and I say that with the same trepidation as I would mentioning a spreading disease.

These Yemenite children, who fill the streets of Yemen's cities, are headed nowhere, much like their donkey.

Some details:

Fairfield University,
Yemen's Economy

Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the world. It has a per capita GDP of US $460. 42% of the people live in poverty and one in five is malnourished. Some of the major problems that Yemen faces are a limited access to basic services, a high fertility rate (6.7%), high illiteracy rate, especially among women (73.5%), high unemployment (40%), significant inequality, and a diminishing non-renewable water supply.

Yemen Observer,
Yemen’s fertility rate remains one of the highest

At any given moment, nearly 16 percent of women in Yemen are pregnant, according to the latest survey of health matters by the Ministry of Health. This is a very high number of pregnant women, particularly as the government has been trying to encourage people to carefully plan their families and space out births, so as not to risk the health of mothers and children. The strain of continuous pregnancy and birth can have a ruinous effect on women’s health, particularly if they begin having children at a young age. According to Yemen’s most recent Demographic, Maternal and Child Health Survey, 48 percent of women between the ages of 20 and 24 were married before the age of 18. Fourteen percent, meanwhile, were married before the age of 15.

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