Saudi Arabia... "Hey, at least we're trying"
Tell me, o' filthy spawn of Shaitan...what exactly are you dirty sons of pigs & dogs doing to solve the virus-like spread of 50 year-old auto-workers & dairy farmers... mistakenly marrying 8 year-old girls? -- 
Hang on a sec'...
"Defenders of child marriage say the practice is part of Saudi culture."The "defenders"... yeah... let me guess... elderly Saudi men?
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POSTSCRIPT: It's sorta like loving Justin Bieber...
...only more wrinkly.
Interestingly, as Mrs N points out to me... the way the BBC phrases their article... we should actually be blaming those precocious little pre-teen Saudi vixens...
" -- an attempt to stop underage girls from marrying -- "... somewhat ingenuously overlooking the fact that ol' dad gets to pocket a wad of cash that'd choke a camel.
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LAST WORD: Selling human beings...
...isn't that called slavery?
In 2005, her parents in Punjab paid an exorbitant dowry and sold her off in an arranged marriage to a Mississauga stranger with the expectation she’d bring them all to Canada.Oh Canada.
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Mrs N is right - it should have read "...from being married to..." And definitely the bribe to Dad should have been front and centre.
As an aside, do you see child brides where the money goes in the opposite direction?
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yup... pre-pubescent girls... a valuable... some might say "redeemable" commodity.
well, in some places anyway.
lemme see... 8 year old saudi girls can marry... but 30 year-old women aren't allowed to go out alone or drive cars.
yeah, israel... that's the place we should be raging about.
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What a joke. This is just fluff for the western media's consumption, that's all. If they really wanted to stop Muhammad's example of old men marrying children then they would just pass a law banning it. Pretty simple, isn't it? How can you ban a behavior their prophet engaged in? Muslims believe Muhammad to be the perfect man, and he is to be emulated for all time.
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steve, you're absolutely right... this is just fuzzy-bunny fluff that changes absolutely nothing... in fact, it actually contractually codifies child-rape.
the money quote here is... "Saudi Arabia has no law against child marriage."
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The inevitable result of Cultural. Social and Religious Relativity. The Glories of Diversity require they be all accorded the same respect.
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isn't that what we nasty, knuckle-draggin' neocons get slagged for all the time... insisting that there actually is "right & wrong"?
sigh.
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