Islam Islamic misogyny Mauritania

Mauritania: Girls Being Fattened up For Ownership…….

The value of a cow

How true Islam treats its women folk?

And the clerics and scholars throughout the Islamic world are sending emissaries to Mauritania, to tell them that women are not really the property of Muslim males. I think not. KGS

Girls being force-fed for marriage as junta revives fattening farms

Fears are growing for the fate of thousands of young girls in rural Mauritania, where campaigners say the cruel practice of force-feeding young girls for marriage is making a significant comeback since a military junta took over the West African country. Aminetou Mint Ely, a women‘s rights campaigner, said girls as young as five were still being subjected to the tradition of leblouh every year. The practice sees them tortured into swallowing gargantuan amounts of food and liquid – and consuming their vomit if they reject it.

“In Mauritania, a woman’s size indicates the amount of space she occupies in her husband’s heart,” said Mint Ely, head of the Association of Women Heads of Households. ”We have gone backwards. We had a Ministry of Women’s Affairs. We had achieved a parliamentary quota of 20% of seats. We had female diplomats and governors. The military have set us back by decades, sending us back to our traditional roles.

We no longer even have a ministry to talk to.” Mauritania has suffered a series of coups since independence from France in 1960. The latest, in August last year, saw General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz seize power after the elected president tried to sack him.

H/T: ESW

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  1. Interesting there is only a small reference, towards the end, to Islam.

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