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Originally posted by wascurious
Where are all the "freedom of religion" right wing types? You have them over there too, right?
Originally posted by facchino
But on the religious front - what is it lately with more and more instances of stories that make you feel utterly disgusted at the Islamic faith. This, inciting hatred, sharia law system running in parallel to uk law, more I read more I despise the religion and the practitioners of it.
May not be the "PC" thing to say - but I cannot stand watching what Islam is doing in the uk, and elsewhere.
The current British law allows for Imans to carry out religious marriage ceremonies of consenting brides and grooms aged under 16 so long as they don't have sex until they are 16.
Daily Mail
Originally posted by ArtooDetoo
[Mohammed gets often portrayed on here as a peadophile for marrying a girl who was 9 years old, yet no one mentions that Virgin Mary was around 13 - 14 years of age when she gave birth to Jesus, wich just shows us that peadophilia at the time was accepted in almost every single culture.
Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 65
Narrated 'Aisha:
that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. Hisham said: I have been informed that 'Aisha remained with the Prophet for nine years (i.e. till his death)." what you know of the Quran (by heart)'
Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88
Narrated 'Ursa:
The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death).
Originally posted by ArtooDetoo
Practice of child marriages can also be found among other cultures, Jews for an example, yet you wont see fearmongerers like Ollncasino make a topic about it.
Originally posted by davespanners
I would really like a source (not another newspaper) for this
I'm still not going to put any faith in a Daily Mail story though to be honest
The Sunday Times today reported allegations that Mohammed Kassamali, imam at the Husaini Islamic Centre mosque, in Burton Street, told an undercover reporter that he could carry out the ceremony.
peterboroughtod ay.co.uk
Revealed: scandal of child brides
Mazher Mahmood and Marie Woolf
Muslim clerics in Britain are prepared to conduct sharia marriages involving child brides as young as 12, an investigation ...
Published: 9 September 2012
The Sunday Times
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
Is this really a religious thing though? There are parts of North America where the age of consent is 12, which means sex, not just marriage... legal sex.
The forced marriage of under-age girls is prevalent in many countries, with an estimated 25,000 young girls forced into marriage each day. The issue is becoming an increasing concern in the U.K., and in the London Borough of Islington.
Girls as young as nine-years-old are being forced into marriage in the London Borough of Islington, with marriages carried out by back street Imans.
"They have to cook for them, wash their clothes, everything. They are still attending schools in Islington, struggling to do their primary school homework, and at the same time being practically raped by a middle-aged man regularly and being abused by their families. So they are a wife, but in a primary school uniform."
Link
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
The fact is, perversion is everywhere but you know what is just as bad if not even worse? It's when people use these excuses in politics to promote wars against religions and rain bombs on those children's heads that us so called decent western folk think they are holding those perverts off of.
Now I'm not saying that is your game here, I'm just making a point and watching the progression of the thread
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
In the west you have countries where 12 year old sex is permitted and it doesn't take Sharia law to permit it.
Originally posted by MystiqueAgent
I...I guess it's because I grew up in a different light (perhaps much similar to the lot of you) but do they really see that 12 years of age is a viable age for marriage? I guess I should be asking just how they see this as a good time for marriage? I mean even arranged marriages usually end up connecting when they are older. Honestly while I am all for this freedom of expression and religion I'd have to say I would stop the line right here pretty much they would be cutting off that girl from experiencing the rest of her life.
Originally posted by ollncasino
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
The fact is, perversion is everywhere but you know what is just as bad if not even worse? It's when people use these excuses in politics to promote wars against religions and rain bombs on those children's heads that us so called decent western folk think they are holding those perverts off of.
Now I'm not saying that is your game here, I'm just making a point and watching the progression of the thread
There is no need rain bombs on the heads of Catholic priests or Muslim Imams. A visit by the police would suffice to enforce the law of the land.
Originally posted by NotAnAspie
In the west you have countries where 12 year old sex is permitted and it doesn't take Sharia law to permit it.
Where?