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Nepal names 3-year-old as new 'living goddess' http://www.france24.com/en/20170927-nepal-names-3-year-old-new-living-goddess?ref=tw_i "She will take her place on the Kumari's throne after we perform prayers and tantric rituals," Karmacharya said. Once she is anointed a living goddess, Shakya -- who, like her predecessors, belongs to the Newar community indigenous to the Kathmandu valley -- will only be allowed to leave her new home 13 times a year on special feast days. She will be paraded through Kathmandu in ceremonial dress and elaborate makeup to be worshipped. When outside, the Kumari -- who is considered an embodiment of the Hindu goddess Taleju -- is carried because her feet are not allowed to touch the ground. Selection criteria for aspiring Kumaris is strict and includes a number of specific physical attributes such as an unblemished body, a chest like a lion and thighs like a deer. Even if a girl fulfils all the physical requirements, she must then prove her bravery by not crying at the sight of a sacrificed buffalo. What a cruel way to treat a child, I really hate Satans world, so glad everlasting good things will soon be here. -
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What makes these men think that God approves of them marrying children and adding children to their harem of other wives? http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/11/iraq-don-t-legalize-marriage-9-year-olds Nature should tell them otherwise. The charity Medicines Sans Frontiers and representatives of UNICEF were on a BBC Radio 4 news documentary. They were taking reporters to some of the countries where child marriage is already allowed to see what could happen in Iraq. They gave shocking statistics of death in childbirth for under-age (by Western standards) girls in Moslem countries. They talked of touring the outskirts of Moslem towns and villages looking out for abandoned wives/young girls who resort to begging. Too young to stand the rigours of pregnancy and giving birth, if they hadn't died, it left them with damaged 'waterworks' and had left them incontinent. No longer able to keep clean nor useful to their husbands they are abandoned to beg outside the town like lepers until they die. International Charities were doing their best to find them before they died of blood poisoning or other disease to treat them. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-iraq-women-islam-idUSBREA270NR20140308 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/01/girls-are-the-worlds-forgotten-population-nine-facts-about-child-brides/ These children are being trafficked like slaves from poorer families to rich older men. Iraq wants to be like other Moslem countries, to have no consent or rights allowed for female children, marriage is to become a business transaction between the men of the families. Children are disappearing from schools here in UK to be forced into marriage illegally, but this problem is the least of what is going on here in the Moslem communities. Police are more concerned about how many boys and some girls are leaving the UK to fight in warring 'hot-spots' like Syria and if they aren't killed, are being radicalised to return to cause social problems here.
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