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October 1, 2012 3:39 pm
Egyptian women fear regression on rights
By Heba Saleh in Cairo
Egyptian women?Getty
A cartoon recently published in an Egyptian daily shows an elderly bridegroom dragging by the hand a little girl in bridal garb clutching a teddy bear. ?Okay,? he sighs, ?I?ll take you to the amusement park but only after we?ve consummated our marriage.?
The joke, which is doing the rounds on Facebook, is part of an explosion of outrage in liberal circles provoked by Mohamed Saad al-Azhari, an ultraconservative Salafi cleric on the panel drafting Egypt?s new constitution. Along with some others on the panel, he wants to abolish laws setting 18 as the minimum age of marriage for girls...
October 1, 2012 3:39 pm
Egyptian women fear regression on rights
By Heba Saleh in Cairo
Egyptian women?Getty
A cartoon recently published in an Egyptian daily shows an elderly bridegroom dragging by the hand a little girl in bridal garb clutching a teddy bear. ?Okay,? he sighs, ?I?ll take you to the amusement park but only after we?ve consummated our marriage.?
The joke, which is doing the rounds on Facebook, is part of an explosion of outrage in liberal circles provoked by Mohamed Saad al-Azhari, an ultraconservative Salafi cleric on the panel drafting Egypt?s new constitution. Along with some others on the panel, he wants to abolish laws setting 18 as the minimum age of marriage for girls...