Quote From: roaringredheadI just finished A 1000 Shining Suns, which is a follow-up to The Kite Runner. Both books discuss the Taliban rule in great detail. I'm telling you, the similarities in this religious sect and the Taliban were too close for comfort.
I haven't read the book, because I didn't like The Kite Runner, but in Reading Lolita in Teheran, we are told the age a girl can marry in Iran is nine!
Here in Israel it is 17-1/2 (for both boys and girls).
Fundamentalist Jews and Arabs are trying to lower it, but without success, so they just have secret religious ceremonies that they don't register with the authorities. As far as they are concerned, since the marriages are religious they are legal to them.
