A 17-year-old girl has exposed the scale of Islamic sex tourism in India, where Muslim men from the Middle East and Africa are buying "one-month wives" for sex, the Telegraph (British) website reports today (April 15, 2013).
Campaigners for Muslim women's rights said while short term "contract marriages" are illegal in India and forbidden in Islam, they are increasing in Hyderabad in southern India, where wealthy foreigners, local agents, and Qazis -- government-appointed Muslim priests -- are exploiting poverty among the city's Muslim families.
The victim, Nausheen Tobassum, revealed the scale of the problem when she escaped from her home last month after her parents pressured her to consummate a forced marriage to a middle-aged Sudanese man who had paid around 1200 pounds for her to be his "wife" for four weeks.
She told police she had been taken by her aunt to a hotel where she and three other teenage girls were introduced to a Sudanese oil company executive. The "groom," Usama Ibrahim Mohammed, 44, and married with two children in Khartoum, later arrived at her home where a Qazi performed a wedding ceremony.
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