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Iraq is closer to amending its marriage laws which would lower the legal age of consent from 18 to nine, allowing old men to marry young girls, according to a report in The Telegraph. Dominant Shia Muslim parties in the Iraqi Parliament have proposed an amendment to the country's "personal status law" that could see a Taliban-style rollback of all women's rights. If passed, the legal changes will deprive the Iraqi women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance as well.
Fucking hell.
it's over the weebs won
Its so husseinover...
I'm okay with any weebs who want 9yo girls moving to Iraq.
Better than the UK...
This shit right here is why everyone else hates islam. And why there's such a huge shift to islamo"phobia" nowadays. The religion should be banned and all their religious leaders should be jailed for eternity.
Edit: To all the downvoters: Care to explain how not wanting the religious nuts to take away rights from women around me is bad? Care to go and explain the same to the women in the picture protesting their rights being taken away? That it sucks, but all people have the right to believe in their god?
The religion should be banned
Would you apply the same to Christianity?
If you read my comment history, you know I would. But I'd start with islam, just because they're currently the more crazy ones.
You realize that Iraq's current minimum marriage age of 8 is exactly 8 years higher than California's minimum age of 0?
Oh, sure, my bad! That makes it okay. If other countries do it, it's ok, right? Also, is California known for oppressing women as much as Iraq (or muslim countries in general)?
By the way, in case you didn't know, what you just did is called whataboutism.
No, neither is okay, but at least it doesn't make Iraq uniquely wrong in this. What I'm saying is that there are shit laws all over the world, and trying to move past them should be celebrated, instead of "well they are unwashed Muslim barbarians, look at how much better our culture is".
All I'm saying is don't "start with Islam", all of this shit is equally bad.
More crazy then evangelical Christians in the USA? More crazy than Jewish Rabbis supporting genocide of Palestinians?
More crazy then evangelical Christians in the USA?
No idea, but they definitely have more power than the US idiots.
More crazy than Jewish Rabbis supporting genocide of Palestinians?
Just about the same. But only muslims want to export their "religion" to the world, so that would still be my focus.
No.
Yes.
Well that comment went 0-100 in no time flat
I mean, you only can see so many news about women, gay people, trans people and everyone else being oppressed in islamist countries before you get pissed off a little.
And they want to bring that shit here. That's not made up by me, that's their words. I'm not against immigrants - anyone who wants to escape those shitholes is welcome if I have anything to say.
I'm just saying that we should not tolerate that violent cult. If you want to believe that god thinks a man is above women, that gay should be stoned to death and other nice things in this "religion of peace", your place is far away from where civilized people live.
And if you're a religious leader who puts these nonsenses into other people's heads, you should be jailed for endangering the public.
And they want to bring that shit here.
Where? Look, I'm not saying Iraq is a shining beacon of humanist values, but 4 US states have no minimum marriage age, and the age of consent is 12-14 in a bunch of EU countries as well.
When I was a kid, my 14 year old classmate married a 68 year old priest. This shit is everywhere and not specific to Islam.
I heard about a dude who killed someone with a teaspoon. I think we should ban teaspoons.
See how ridiculous that is. It’s on the same level as you grouping billions of people together by the actions of a few.
White priests were molesting children so by your metric everyone following that religion was also doing that.
Edit: I live in Manchester, UK. Whenever something bad has happened in the city. The Muslim community are the first ones out here feeding people and taking care of people via volunteering or whatever.
White priests were molesting children so by your metric everyone following that religion was also doing that.
No, if you actually read what I wrote: all the priests should go to jail and the religion should be banned. I think I've gone enough against the Lemmy hive-mind even without you putting your (surely unintended) lies into my mouth.
I heard about a dude who killed someone with a teaspoon.
How unfortunate! Once you start hearing about it every other week, maybe we should do something about that, cause that would imply spoons make it easier to kill someone and should be banned. Like we do with guns, you know?
As with guns, spoons, or religion, it's the people that are the problem, not the instruments they use. But if you take away their tools, it gets harder for them.
Yet you don’t see how you generalising billions of people by the actions of a minuscule fraction of those.
Religion doesn’t enable people to do these things. Bad people do and if it wasn’t religion it would be something else.
How many teachers also molest children? Teaching isn’t something we should ban, so it isn’t the tool. It’s people that gravitate towards things that will get them access to children.
Religion doesn’t enable people to do these things.
True! Religion just makes it possible to control masses for the leaders. And a clearer consciousness for the bad actors. After all, how can it be bad if the speaker for the god himself told you it's okay?
Again. Without religion bad actors would rise up, because they’re bad and that’s just what it takes to rise up.
Enough people are controlled in the west without religion, well I guess you could say capitalism is a religion for some.