13-year-old girls sold for so-called 'pleasure marriages' in Iraq
This custom is permitted by Sharia law, one of the clerics said, adding that marrying such a young girl temporarily is acceptable.
IRAQI SHI’ITE cleric Muqtada al-Sadr shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Najaf, Iraq, on May 12.(photo credit: REUTERS)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF