Politics Do the left feel a change is needed?

[Procrastinator35]

You're comparing a political ideology which condones the marriage of children to adults which has led to huge numbers of children being abused across large parts of the Islamic world, with a religion which has an alarming amount of priests engaging in behaviour which is considered abhorrent by its followers. This behaviour is considered dispicable.

The false equivalent comparison of this argument is that in total there are only roughly 400,000 catholic priests in total globally, and only a small percentage of these priests are engaging in this lewd behaviour.

A Unicef study from 2000 to 2008 found that more than 43 per cent of women in Afghanistan which has a population of 30 million were married under age, some before puberty. This is considered halal

That's just Afghanistan.

These are wildly differing issues and to conflate the two in an attempted rebuttal of a post about the Islamic issue is trolling.

No....Attempting to depict a fundamentalist reading & interpretation of Islam for it's actual message....Which is love....Now That's trolling.

 

[Present Not Past]

Left, right, left, right. A change doesn't require a need. It's a need that produces the change.

 

[Maggie5]

No....Attempting to depict a fundamentalist reading & interpretation of Islam for it's actual message....Which is love....Now That's trolling.

It is worthwhile reading a couple of full paragraphs from that UNICEF report, which is doing some very good work in the area and it is not just underage girls but boys too. Shocking!

The prevalence of child marriage varies substantially between and within countries in South Asia[1]. Bangladesh (DHS, 2011) has the highest prevalence of child marriage in the region (66 per cent) followed by Afghanistan (46 percent), India (46 percent, NFHS-2005-06) and Nepal (41 percent, DHS, 2011)[2].These four countries are considered the region’s ‘hot spots’ due to their high child marriage prevalence. Girls living in rural areas are hardest hit by child marriage, and the problem is worst in rural Bangladesh with 70 percent of girls married early, followed by India with 56 percent. Girls from poorer households and scheduled castes and tribes in addition to girls with less education tend to marry at a younger age[3].

In the Arab region, the highest rates of child marriage are seen in the poorest countries—Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and South Sudan—where annual per capita incomes in 2011 were less than US$2,000. Egypt—the most populous Arab country—is home to the largest number of child brides in the region[4]. Compared to a generation ago, rates of child marriage have declined in Arab countries. Still, a significant number do marry young, and the decline in early marriage has stopped in some countries such as Iraq, where 25 percent of girls marry before age 18 and 6 percent do so before age 15.

[1] ICRW, “Solutions to End Child Marriage: What the Evidence Shows”, 2011

[2] SAIEVAC, Child Marriage in South Asia: realities, responses, and the way forward, 2013

[3] UNICEF, Information Factsheet on child marriage in India, 2011

[4] World Bank data, accessed at http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, on May 10, 2013, in Farzaneh, Roudi-Fahim,and Shaimaa Ibrahim, “Ending Child marriage in the Arab region”, 2013.

 

[Lethality]

No, they're hilarious.

 

[My name geoff]

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Geoff, this is not just an islam bashing thread.

 

[Maggie5]

Must Watch? Why is it funny?

 

[Gough]

Must Watch? Why is it funny?

This is better.