Sudan Is About To Execute A Teen For Defending Herself Against Rape

[jg10003]

Source: Huffington Post

The 19-year-old Sudanese woman is currently on death row in Omdurman, Sudan, for killing a man in self-defense. She was convicted of murdering her husband, who raped her on their “honeymoon.”

When she was 16, Noura’s family attempted to force her to marry a man, despite the fact that Islam prohibits marriage without consent. Refusing the marriage, she ran 155 miles away from her family home to a town called Sennar. She lived with her aunt for three years, determined to complete her high school education and with her eyes on further studies. In 2017, she received word that the wedding plans had been cancelled and that she was safe to return home.

It was a cruel trick. On her return, Noura found the wedding ceremony underway and was given away to the same groom she had rejected three years earlier.

Defiant, Noura refused to consummate the wedding for a number of days. Her husband became increasingly aggressive, and before the week was over, forced himself onto his teenage wife. With the help of his two brothers and a cousin who held her down, her husband raped her.

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-abdel-magied-sudan-rape-hussein-execution_us_5b036e66e4b0a046186f0f2d

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I hope that the forces for good will keep her alive and free.

A horrible horrible situation.

[Me.]

2. No Words

[quartz007]

3. I hope her family will not immigrate here

We do not need rapists here. There is enough of that crime going on already. We do not need more rapists arriving here.

[Hortensis]

8. I suspect they don't want you there either, also

suspect you're all safe. Noura is not.

[salin]

4. Horrific. For more visibility - K & R.

[mountain grammy]

5. I think marital rape is more common here than most think

even the president raped his first wife.

[cvoogt]

6. OK but not really the same thing

this case is rape plain and simple. She never consented even to be married.

[Hortensis]

9. Agree. Not at all the same thing, actually.

[yardwork]

11. Marital rape is rape, plain and simple.

Please don't negate the horrific experiences of others in comparison. Rape is horrific, period.

[cvoogt]

23. Yes rape is horrific but this was not marital rape because she never consented to the marriage!

The linked article also calls it marital rape. I don't think it can be called marital rape if the woman never consented to the wedding in the first place. The reason it irks me is that I actually dislike the term marital rape because it often seems to be used to make marital rape seem slightly less horrific than "non-marital" rape, when both are simply rape. I find the term "marital rape" to verge on victim-blaming. Rape is rape.

[SergeStorms]

7. This is what the GOP has in store....

for the United States. Theocracy. Re-education camps. Public execution. Every fupped-duck thing they can think of to limit choice and free thought in Americans.

[leftynyc]

10. Aren't things bad enough

without resorting to hyperbolic BS? The US doesn't ALLOW rapists, doesn't ALLOW forced marriage - these things are against the law which is obviously not true in Sudan (seems to happen an awful lot in Muslim countries for something that is supposedly against Islam).

[yardwork]

12. Actually, there is a problem with underaged forced marriages in the U.S.

[leftynyc]

13. Really?

The only ones I know that engage are those fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah/Northern Arizona. And even those people are on the run and being put in prison - BECAUSE IT'S AGAINST THE LAW.

[yardwork]

14. It's not against the law in many states. Google it.

[leftynyc]

15. FORCED MARRIAGE

is against the law in all states. Minors marrying with their parent's permission is legal in most states.

[yardwork]

17. How can a 12 year old give informed consent?

[leftynyc]

18. I have no idea

but if you have proof a 12 year old was FORCED to marry, you need to bring that to the police AS IT'S AGAINST THE LAW. I will fight you on this all freaking day. You trying to minimize what happens to many young girls in Muslim countries is truly disgusting.

[EX500rider]

19. Where was a 12yo legally married in the US?

[yardwork]

20. Some states allow this with parental consent.

[leftynyc]

25. Then it's not a FORCED marriage

Why are you pretending otherwise? Why the need to minimize and deflect from what's happening to young girls like this one?

[yardwork]

26. Stop it. You're acting like a bully. You're the one minimizing child rape.

[leftynyc]

27. Absolutely not

Your first instinct was to deflect and it happens here all the time when it comes to anything involving Islam. I got tired of that long ago and will never let it pass without calling it out. Go ahead and block me if you can't handle being taken to task for what you post.

[SergeStorms]

21. Do you think the GOP....

has intentions of keeping the status quo? There's enough going on right now where you should be convinced the right-wing has designs to turn the U.S. into a fascist/theocratic dictatorship. Is that "hyperbolic BS"? The GOP has showed time and again that laws mean absolutely nothing to them.
Stick your head in the sand if you wish, but I prefer to be prepared for what's coming. You apparently think the GOP is going to play by the rules. Good luck with that.

[leftynyc]

22. And you think we're heading to

FORCED marriage and the kind of place where rapists get off scott free while the victims get stoned to death or burned alive? They haven't even been able to make sure prayers are in schools and you want me to obsess over this kind of thing? My OTHER objection to this is the constant need to minimize what's happening to women and young girls all over the world by pretending anything like that is happening here or right around the corner. Because that's all the poster was trying to do - deflect from what's ACTUALLY happening by pretending the same thing is happening here.

[DashOneBravo]

24. +1

[heaven05]

16. religion inspired

and the powerful wanting to keep people fearing them. sad and anger-provoking. No human being should be treated this way by another so-called powerful human being. I just hope there is retribution against these type murderers somewhere in eternity.

[smirkymonkey]

28. This is so sick and tragic.

I hope the poor girl gets justice, and better yet, gets out of that hell hole.