S. Indramalar blogged regarding the Celebrity: “Khatijah (not her actual term)try forced to elizabeth household of college or university eventually, and my personal mother and my personal aunts told me that they had discover a partner for me personally. He was much avove the age of me nonetheless they told you he had been a good son and you can create manage myself. I didn’t know very well what are going on and why I got to wed this child. No matter if I said I didn’t need married, it told you I experienced in order to,” recounts this new 16-year-dated adolescent from Pahang exactly who wed less than just last year. [Source: S. Indramalar, The new Star, ]
Khatijah’s husband is a good 36-year-old widower; a well-acknowledged figure in the town who was searching for a special, more youthful fiance. “I really don’t wish to be expecting. I don’t wish to be partnered. I do want to works and you will proceed to KL. Bencilah (I dislike it),” claims Khatijah whom today manages her two-step children, old seven and nine.
“We are really not permitted to push until we’re 17, to vote until our company is 21. otherwise fifteen? Then there are the medical dangers … why should i present away children to help you instance dangers if for example the consequences are incredibly devastating?” says Suriani Kempe, Sisters when you look at the Islam’s Programme Manager having Advocacy, Legal advice and Social Training.