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To: Tax-chick
I just read in "Human Events" that over 50% of 13-year-old girls in Afghanistan are married. Moslems don't give a hoot in heck about child-rape. Dakota Fanning is a lot older than Mohammed's wife Aisha.

I certainly don't want to be put in the position of defending muslims, but there's a big difference between child brides (which weren't that uncommon here in the US until relatively recently - in fact I believe that several states still allow 14 year olds to marry)and films about chaining young girls to radiators and using teenagers as human ash trays. These type of films and the like coming out of Hollywood only feed into the muslim's claims that our society is corrupt and Godless.

None of this means the muslims are any better, but we are supposed to be the better society.

42 posted on 01/19/2007 11:03:09 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Tokra
there's a big difference between child brides ... and using teenagers as human ash trays

Not in the Islamic world, unfortunately.

46 posted on 01/19/2007 11:49:07 AM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: Tokra

I agree that the films are degrading. However, my point was that the treatment of young girls in Islam is also degrading. At least Dakota Fanning is merely acting. A girl her age in Pakistan or Afghanistan is likely to be married to a man two or three times her age, a first cousin or uncle (so she gets to have babies with birth defects, yippee!) and has no hope of escape.

Therefore, on this point at least, Moslems have no room to judge our sociey, in my opinion.


48 posted on 01/19/2007 12:08:11 PM PST by Tax-chick ("I don't know you, but I love who you seem to be.")
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