“This is not exploitation. This is generosity.”
“Just because we have lost our homes, they think our women are free for the taking,” refugee Ibrahim Naimi, 42, said this week as he arranged water pipes in his makeshift cafe at the camp, home to 42,000 Syrians. “We are going to prove that you cannot buy Syrian women.”
Refugees and relief officials said increasing numbers of Arab men and matchmakers have made their way to the camp, some of them posing as aid workers. They say the problem is growing along with the camp, near the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq, in part because many refugee families are impoverished and desperate.
United Nations officials said that most of the marriages are brokered and that many are not consensual. The results, they said, include increasing numbers of child brides and marriages that, in some cases, end in abandonment or forced prostitution. U.N. and Jordanian relief agencies estimate that some 500 underage Syrians have been wed this year.
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Well one thing I will say, you do not want to be born a female in any rop type country! They treat women below their favorite goat. These people are beyond horribe the way they deal with any females.
I feel so sorry for them, I really do.
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letget on November 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM
LOL. Just like the real UN “aid workers” who like to use food and other aid to bargain for sex from desperate people, though the UN folk usually prefer their sex slaves of the very young variety (not that arabs who idolize a pedophile have any problem with that).
Come to think of it, there’s not much of a difference between a UN aid worker, an arab street savage, or mohammed their moon idol. They all deserve each other and and to be restricted to each other.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on November 24, 2012 at 5:41 PM
Under-aged, according to who?
Sharia law – you know, the law that the “rebels” are fighting for – approves of marriage starting at seven years old.
Nor is the consent of the bride of any importance, they are considered chattel property to be disposed of as their father wishes.
Rebar on November 24, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Not just women.
In Afghanistan, for example, it’s very common for men to subject pre-teen boys to sexual harassment & worse.
itsnotaboutme on November 24, 2012 at 6:03 PM