Summary

Proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as 9 to marry, sparking outrage from rights groups and survivors like “Batta,” who endured abuse after being forced into marriage at 11.

The changes would shift decision-making power to clerics, undermining existing protections for women and children established in 1959.

Supporters claim the amendments promote family values, but critics call them a violation of children’s rights and a step toward legalized child abuse.

Activists and lawmakers are working to block the controversial proposal.

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    4 months ago

    You certainly have a wild imagination because if you’re referring to the time I think you are, the last time you brought “receipts” it was you linking to posts of mine not containing anything you claimed I wrote. I don’t know why you’re so angry at me, but perhaps you would be better able to read my posts and not hallucinate patterns if you weren’t in a blind rage.

    It really is unfortunate because I appreciate the information you gave in your initial response, but the hostility was so off-putting.

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      4 months ago

      You certainly have a wild imagination because if you’re referring to the time I think you are, the last time you brought “receipts” it was you linking to posts of mine not containing anything you claimed I wrote.

      Fucking lol

      Maybe stop cheerleading atrocities and fascists if you can’t even keep track of how often you fucking do it.

      It really is unfortunate because I appreciate the information you gave in your initial response, but the hostility was so off-putting.

      Oh, I’m sorry that I was rude to you when all you were doing was trying to play your usual “Amerikkka Bad” card by whitewashing a dictator who tortured and murdered on a literally genocidal scale. You know, not unlike what you do with Assad? Would you like to play apologist for the Taliban next? I know you’re just drooling over the possibility.