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Muslim Weddings Nojoud Ali of Yemen was forced to marry, at age nine, a man of 30. For this her father, who has two wives and sixteen children, received 1,100 euros. Nojoud’s husband beat and raped her on a daily basis. Twenty-five percent of Yemeni girls aged 10 to 14 are married. Unlike many others, Nojoud was able to obtain legal counsel and, in April 2008, she won a divorce. She said, “I will go back to school and never, ever marry again. I am so happy to be free once more.” Not quite. Now the world’s most famous little Yemeni girl, people seek to interview her nearly every day. They pay her father for the privilege. Her father keeps her home from school to give interviews, and forbids her to see her counsel. In collaboration with prize-winning French journalist Delphine Minoui, Nojoud wrote a book, I, Nojoud, Ten Years, Divorced. It has sold well. It has been published in eight countries and is a best-seller in France. With royalties from it, she has bought a house for her family. On the fifth of March, Nojoud was to receive a Women’s World Award in Vienna, but was not allowed to leave Yemen. The award was accepted on her behalf by Queen Noor of Jordan. Yemen is not unusual among Islamic countries. In Saudi Arabia, for example, neither the birth nor the death of a woman is recorded. A subject of that kingdom remarked that in its treatment of women it was like a man who thinks with but half his brain. To regain access to Middle East oil in the 1970s, Europe agreed to allow far greater immigration from Islamic countries. Consequently, honor killings and forced marriages have soared. It remains to be seen whether Islamic society can counter such practices, and whether western civilization can tolerate them. Albert W. L. Moore, Jr. |