Posted on 03/16/2014 8:52:56 AM PDT by george76
60 percent of girls in Afghanistan are married before their 16th birthday.
“Despite a law setting the legal minimum age for marriage at 16 for girls and 18 for boys, international and local observers estimated that 60 percent of girls were married before the age of 16,” the State Department said in its most recent human rights report.
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Some girls as young as six or seven were promised in marriage, with the understanding that the actual marriage would be delayed until the child reached puberty. Reports indicated, however, that this delay was rarely observed and that young girls were sexually violated by the groom and the by older men in the family, particularly if the groom was also a child .
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It's hard to be really sure of the truth, when Muslims routinely lie when a truth would be discreditable to Islam.
Was the original description of the picture false? Or did the Hamas spokesman who denied it lie to the infidels? Who really knows?
The picture struck me as too **pat** to be a true representation of what is going on, considering what I know of Islam and Islam's cruel mistreatment of women and little girls.
And what I know is that the photo of little Islamic girls in a state very close to nudity (in the Islamic mind) is just not consistent. I even wonder if these little girls have been dressed this way as some kind of manipulation of the Western press, and I'm skeptical. There are all kinds of taquiyyah..
There is no point in embellishing an awful truth--such embellishment is a distraction and will eventually form a liability, as you will end up having to *explain* it.
Care and accuracy and skepticism--that will keep you effective in your arguments. Eschew emotionalism.
In all seriousness, that is what the Bible says. The MAN commands. The WOMAN obeys. Paul had much to say on the subject.
Yeh a great reason to marry off 6-8 year old children so they can be raped by 40 year old men.
I can’t believe you really believe that. And seem to think its OK. Oh wait I do.
Perhaps that’s because the average life expectancy at birth is 45.
A lot of the time, there are no "solutions" (all good effect, no bad effects), only trade-offs (a positive impact here creates a negative impact there).
If bans against child marriage became rigorously enforced there, do you really think girls would uniformly be treated better?
Here is the reality. In these Islamic countries the Koran and Islam rule. The Koran tells these people its OK to marry off young girls to adult men. Men take advantage of it. Its a perverse sick culture.There is nothing good about it. There is no redeeming value of this society whatsoever. None. You cannot name one thing. It has nothing to do with trying to make sure everyone gets fed. Its legal pedophilia.
Its not going to change either because the Theology of Islam rules the lives of all of these arabs. Its just worse in some countries than others but it goes on everywhere. Iraq is now changing its law so that 6-8 year olds can be married.
There is nothing to be done about it but at least we all need to be honest and call it what it is.
Its Islam. Its just Islam.
Agreed. It’s Islam. Now, how are you going to change their theologically-based culture without having to kill millions of them in the process?
One can only hope they kill each other off.
If islamo pedophiles like their sickness, looks like they can keep it. They chose the taliban muslims over freedom, they get all that goes with it.
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