Can you imagine having your life threatened over marriage? Many single women in Somalia have their lives threatened everyday over marriage and rape. Groups of men storm in the homes of single women and hold them at gun point and force them to marry or have sexual relations with them. There have even been stories of women who are beheaded if they refuse to marry their attacker, and then the head is sent to the home of the woman's father. Ironically these attacks also happen on women who are already married! Many, gangs rush into the homes of married women and force them to have sex with them right in front of their husbands. This story disgusts me in so many ways. Even though having a wife is something that defines you as a man with an "ok" amount of money; it has never been that serious to be married.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11437595
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