Moroccans and rights groups are speaking out against a recent fatwa that would allow parents to marry off their underage daughters. Opponents to Cheikh Mohammed Maghraoui's fatwa say the marriage of nine-year-old girls is a violation of human rights in general, and children's rights in particular. Maghraoui said that at the age of nine, girls are capable of marriage, just like Aisha was when the Prophet Mohammed married her. "We thought we were rid of those problems after the passage of the family code, which included a number of guarantees to protect children from early marriage, and after setting up...
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Fatwa authorising underage marriage
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