From the Astute Bloggers:
ONLY IN ISLAM:The court ruled there was a "real and substantial risk" they would be forced to marry.
The girls, now aged 12 and 14, became wards of court in 2007 after their parents made plans to send them to Pakistan.
Two of their older brothers had been forced into marriage there in 2005.
SICK.
THERE SHOULD BE NO PLACE WITHIN CIVILIZED HUMANITY FOR AN IDEOLOGY WHICH TEACHES THAT IT'S FINE FOR PARENTS TO FORCE DAUGHTERS INTO MARRIAGE AT AGE 9, AND WHICH ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO TEACH THEIR SONS THAT MURDERING SISTERS CAN RESTORE FAMILY HONOR.
SUCH AN IDEOLOGY SHOULD BE ERASED FROM THE FACE OF TH EARTH - AS SLAVERY WAS.
Pastorius,
ReplyDeleteI agree, this is something we'd be much better off without. However, getting rid of it, will be much easier said than done unfortunately.
Also I have correct something you said. Slavery is still around. Its just the type of race based slavery that we used to have in the U.S and many western countries no longer exists.
...but Mohammad himself, the grand poobah of Islam, set the standard by marrying a 9 year old girl. How could it possibly be wrong for his erstwhile followers to emulate such noble behavior (ignoring the fact that it was abhorrent back then, too)?
ReplyDeleteAs long as this ideology exists, slavery will always be around in any form possible. Look at the plight of young christian house-slaves (oh, sure, some get paid... 20 cents) in Pakistan, the kidnapping and forced conversion of koptic christian girls in Egypt or the treatment of Asian (household-)workers in Saudi-Arabia.
ReplyDeleteThis slavery is sometimes just called "domestic violence", then it's "dhimmitude", then it's "Jihad". But it all boils down to one thing: Islamo-fascism
A great article on modern slavery is in the September 2003 issue of National Geographic. A real eye opener.
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