Here’s the vid from Al Jazeera. Shock at 1:40, and the last 30 seconds nails the look of horror to your face.
Another vid, have a trash can near, in case of vomit:
Youtube Link … the “more info” part has a few more articles.
The basics are, Hamas hosted/funded a mass wedding for 450 couples. The men appear to be in their 20′s. The girls are half their height, appearing to be around 9-ish. Each couple is given cash (sources differ on the amount, $500usd or $612usd) to fund their journey into rape-ville.
There’s several articles published online from July 31st. Most are middle eastern, and the American ones have the least info. Several from Canada, Europe, Australia have basically the same story: Link.
The anti-radical-islam blogs have published it the most and have more photos than what is shown in the Al Jazeera video. Tim Marshall, of Sky News seems to be the first to dispute the apparent pedophilic wedding ceremony, claiming that he was there, and that the little girls are neices of the grooms, which is a cultural norm for weddings. Here’s a link to the best pro-Hamas event summary I found. Strange how Tim and other deniers of child brides can’t come up with one blasted photo of age-appropriate brides at this ceremony. Additionally, nobody I’ve read has yet attempted to explain the last 30 seconds in that video, and how incredibly obvious it seems that the little girl is getting into the rape-mobile and then gazing mournfully out the window of her marital home.
None of my preliminary searches have uncovered anything about nieces dressing up as brides for play during the wedding. Admittedly, most documents are a brief overview of the event such as this. There are however, several references (like this) to Islamic wedding norms that include marriage of an older man to a girl as young as ten. It seems odd that if pedophilia could in any way be suggested by these ceremonies, they would officially address it in an article like this.
But hey, I’m sure that we culturally ignorant Americans just don’t understand.
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Did someone say something about 9 year old girls?
Oh, Roman, you nutty freak!
Hey, I recently heard how depressed you are in prison, and I’ve decided to cheer you up by sending you some new shoes with nice strong laces.
Polanski jokes aside, I’m skeptical.
My immediate reaction when I saw the girls was that they were flower girls (or some equivalent). Though, I most likely had that reaction because my brain can’t translate 9-year-olds into brides. Because that is revolting.
However, I do agree that this whole thing could go away if any video or photographic evidence showing real adult brides would surface, which it has yet to do. Hey Tim Marshall – you said you were there. Didn’t you have a camera? The AP was there. Didn’t they have a camera? Al-Jazeera was there. Where is their footage of the real brides?
As an aside, I love how the Daily Kos is used as an example of the pro Israel lobby. Oh, those wacky right wing Kossaks.