A 15-year-old girl from Pakistan was forced into prostitution in the U.K. by her mother-in-law, The Sunday Times of London reported.
The teen, whose name was not disclosed, arrived in the U.K. expecting to be married to a handsome and successful older man, the paper reported. Instead, she was married to a 40-year-old, unemployed, disabled man with the mental age of a 5-year-old.
The marriage was reportedly not recognized by the British Home Office, but was considered valid under sharia — or Islamic — law.
As if that weren't bad enough, the girl's mother-in-law then decided to take advantage of the teen's youth and good looks by offering her to men looking for sex, The Sunday Times reported.
According to the paper, the family "invited" men to rape her.
The girl eventually escaped her husband's family's home and is now living in a shelter.
How can Islamic law degrade a woman this way? Why is it only in Islamic law that women are treated worse than animals? They are sold and bought with little thought. Isn't there something in the Koran that reminds the male race that women are the ones who are bearing the children and should be treated like queens? Don't they see that women are God's gift to the world? What's wrong with this story?