Yes, witch hunt. Muslims are so kind: Muslim parents kill daughter for she was in love with Italian http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/53233 Muslim stabs wife when daughter becomes Christian in Australia http://sweetness-light.com/archive/muslim-kills-wife-because-daughters-christian-conversion Daughter 'threatened if she denounced Islam' http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23058304-2,00.html Canada: Muslim Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab http://www.thehotjoints.com/2007/12/11/canada-muslim-father-killed-daughter-for-not-wearing-hijab/ Imam's daughter in hiding after her conversion to Christianity sparked death threats http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rsion-Christianity-sparked-death-threats.html Muslim Father Regrets His Failure to Kill Baby http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192691.php Hmm, that took about 6 minutes to find and build this post. Wonder what I would find if a few days were spent searching
âHonor Killingâ is Absolutely Islamic! by Syed Kamran Mirza Honor killings, which occur with shocking regularity in certain parts of the Middle East and South Asia, target women whose actions â actual or suspected â violate the honor of their family, an honor which is thought to depend on the sexual purity of its female members. Victims are always being killed/slaughtered mercilessly by her own family members. Honor killing is a manifestation of global phenomenon in general and Muslim nations in particular. Since this terrible inhumane practice does exists only among the Muslims of the worldâvery often civilized people do blame Islam as the precursor of this dreadful act. Most others do not agree with this notion at all; and they try to put the blame on the tribal/cultural practice, and do not consider Islam is anyway responsible for it. In this essay I shall analyze the real issues, cause and origin, and pattern of this heinous act amongst the Muslims of the world to postulate if there is any link, or incitements that originates from the very core of Islam. http://islam-watch.org/SyedKamranMirza/honor_killing.htm
zzz - do yourself a favor and avoid posting or even reading threads discussing women and children. your writing on those subjects manifest more than you probably want law enforcement to know. When you combine your writings on women and children and your hatred of white christian males..... whoa.
I don't hate white Christian males, women, or children. I don't hate anyone. I hate what some people do, but I don't hate them in the way you suggest... Now, getting back to the question, at what age do you think it is okay for a girl to be having sex? What if she is having sex with someone of the same age? What if she is having sex with another girl? How do you determine at what age it is appropriate? I am not putting forth any age, nor am I defending any particular age, but you came up with the age of 10, and I am wanting to know your criteria.
From Wikipedia: According to the traditional sources, Aisha was six or seven years old when betrothed to Muhammad.[1][3][4] American historian Denise Spellberg states that "these specific references to the bride's age reinforce Aisha's pre-menarcheal status and, implicitly, her virginity."[3] She stayed in her parents' home until the age of nine, when the marriage was consummated ...well if the 'traditional sources' are so out of whack on a simple question of how old she was, how much credence can we give to any of those stories about Muhammad? This is a sincere question. Maybe you need to ask yourself that question before you come back with an answer for us.
You guys should give Moe a break. It's not like he banged his niece on their wedding night. Like a wise prophet should, he gave her some time to grow up and waited until she was a matronly 9 years old before he popped her cherry.
I asked myself to consider the source....Ahhh, from Wikipedia and "traditional" sources...of what happened umpteen centuries ago, and these verbal stories are 100% now intact and true? Sorry, I have seen bogus things in our own American history due to the bias of the historians, so we are to believe in an objective scientific manner that these ancient stories from another part of the world are true as reported in Wikipedia and by "traditional sources"? I am not questioning arranged marriages of children, that is still a common practice in some countries today, but the date of "consummation" and age of the bride are to be taken as a fact because of a blurb in Wikipedia and "traditional" sources? Look, I'm not telling people what to believe, I just find it funny when avowed atheists like RM refer to unscientific and unprovable reports from well over a millenium ago...some people will betray their own consistency of thought to bash some group they hate...just as RM bashes Muslims and Arabs citing old stories as some supporting evidence to prop up his hatred. It is very fine line, because I am a strong proponent of freedom of religion and a religion's ability to practice their beliefs without government intervention, so whether or not the stories in scriptures are "true" as reported....it is all about personal faith with things that happened so long ago without proper methods of recording "history" as it happens and the verification process. Hell, in our court system today, it is widely known that the testimony of so called eye witnesses is often false, so what to say about what really happened in Mohammed's day? Or Christ, or Buddha, etc. That is a matter of faith, and a matter of a particular society's law, which I don't believe is really any of our business to pass judgment on other cultures...especially when our culture is so far from perfection. The moral absolutists will do so, but few can make an absolute argument to defend their position. Moralists will do their thing for any number of reasons...