So you think that when the poster said it did not happen in the west he should have included instances from hundreds of years ago before making that statement? Really?
How often do forced arranged marriages happen today in the West?
Do you also think Like BO we need to mention the crusades when someone points out the barbarism of radical islam?
Regarding modern forced marriages in “the West”, I can't even comment on my daughters’ loser boyfriends without getting “the look”!
I was aware of “arranged marriages” going back to Solomon's time, and it has been a constant of familial action and foreign policy amongst the ruling class since ... well, very early on in the history of man.
Occasionally such arranged marriages produced happiness.
Personally, I appreciated Mercat’s observations as a recovering divorce attorney, and will look up the historical novels of Cadfael.
Of course, all of BO's ridiculous equivalencies are solely used to forward an agenda identical to the Godless Communists of my parents.