Macbeth
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A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday.

Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labor, before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday, said the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children.

"Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care, the real case was the lack of education in Yemen and the fact that child marriages keep happening," said Seyaj President Ahmed al-Qureshi.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/14/ye … index.html
Now in another thread we all found out the vast majority of bf2s believed in moral relativity. Now considering morals are relative and all would it be wrong to judge Islam poorly because their morals are different then some of ours or are you supposed to keep an open mind and have respectfulness for other cultures?
AussieReaper
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Religious books need a disclaimer.

Like this one:

https://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7188/bibledisclaimer.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
AussieReaper
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And I'd like to know what the hell you think is so wrong with this:

https://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6328/92813385.jpg

https://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1092/25464662.jpg

https://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9274/26322359.jpg

https://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5121/84459292.jpg

https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4183/32356876.jpg

https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5039/71475960.jpg

https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7739/86860128.jpg

https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3051/86812212.jpg

https://img188.imageshack.us/img188/9439/77250206.jpg

Source
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
mtb0minime
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Do they not even have coat hangers in Yemen?
Dilbert_X
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Its more a cultural than islamic thing, as the article says - tribal tradition.
I'm pretty sure the bible, koran and torah don't specifiy a minimum age.

Still obviously its disgusting.

But then, there are nutballs practising backwards medieval religions all over the place.
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blademaster
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thats just sad creepy and weird way way way way way way toooo young, its not the religion its just people are fooked up I guess

Last edited by blademaster (2009-09-14 23:38:25)

CameronPoe
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Yemen is one of the most impoverished and unstable nations on earth. Poverty breeds stupidity and ignorance. You can't judge Islam on this - you judge Yemen. I just returned from Egypt yesterday and what is in the OP is a million miles away from what mainstream Islam is. The age of consent in most other Islamic nations is far more reasonable. And of course you must exercise moral relativity - but you can still register your disgust at such things though while accepting that it is none of your business.

Last edited by CameronPoe (2009-09-14 23:50:47)

mtb0minime
minimember
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Surprised no one's cracked a Borat "loose like sleeve of wizard" or "3 years later when she was 15..."
KuSTaV
noice
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Ugh. That's fucked up.

Must agree with CameronPoe. Some articles claiming that 'Islam' did it is rather...broad and wrong. Its the people that are fucked.
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FEOS
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Less Islam and more bassackwards tribal traditions.

I wouldn't say moral relativity so much as trying to avoid ethnocentricity. Biologically, she was mature enough to have offspring.

Who's to say that if she had conceived and tried to give birth in two or three more years she wouldn't have had the same problem?

Personally, I'm sickened. Married off at age 11, likely forced to have sex with her husband who was more than twice her age. Doesn't at all fit with Western standards of decency, but it's the tradition those people know and have known for centuries.
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The Yemeni parliament tried in February to pass a law, setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But the measure has not reached the president because many parliamentarians argued it violates sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age.
So Islam has something to do with it, but bottom line is tribal traditions are the root cause here.
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Beduin
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Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care
Thats the sad part.
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Spark
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Dilbert_X wrote:

The Yemeni parliament tried in February to pass a law, setting the minimum marriage age at 17. But the measure has not reached the president because many parliamentarians argued it violates sharia, or Islamic law, which does not stipulate a minimum age.
So Islam has something to do with it, but bottom line is tribal traditions are the root cause here.
It's pushing it to say that just because the Koran says nothing about it (either way) means it can't occur. Sounds like someone's making excuses to me.
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Hurricane2k9
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omg guys its dere cultur BE MOAR RESPEKTFUL
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m3thod
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DBBrinson1 wrote:

http://israelsmessiah.com/terrorism/teaching_hatred.htm

Awesome.
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https://www.zionismontheweb.org/images/israeli-girls-bombs3_580x435.jpg

It's just that these bombs didn't land on Nasrallah.  Want me to find the pics of dead Lebanese child with his guts spilling out?

Last edited by m3thod (2009-09-15 09:36:37)

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Lai
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m3thod wrote:

DBBrinson1 wrote:

http://israelsmessiah.com/terrorism/teaching_hatred.htm

Awesome.
To Nasrallah with Love

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/images/i … 80x435.jpg

It's just that these bombs didn't land on Nasrallah.  Want me to find the pics of dead Lebanese child with his guts spilling out?
I was listening to Tchaikovsky when I saw the picture you posted,.. magnificent.
CameronPoe
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Didn't you read the link?

Also, I've been in a hotel in Jordan while a Muslim wedding was taking place and it was the most bizarre thing ever for an Irishman: at the reception the men and women stayed apart in separate rooms and there was no booze. Nightmare.
m3thod
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CameronPoe wrote:

Didn't you read the link?

Also, I've been in a hotel in Jordan while a Muslim wedding was taking place and it was the most bizarre thing ever for an Irishman: at the reception the men and women stayed apart in separate rooms and there was no booze. Nightmare.
Typical muslim wedding tbh.
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Lai
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CameronPoe wrote:

Didn't you read the link?

Also, I've been in a hotel in Jordan while a Muslim wedding was taking place and it was the most bizarre thing ever for an Irishman: at the reception the men and women stayed apart in separate rooms and there was no booze. Nightmare.
Evidently not, if you post a whole row of those photo's in this thread, with no accompanying explanation

If there's just a small word "source" underneath, I assume it is just a formality for reference.
ghettoperson
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m3thod wrote:

DBBrinson1 wrote:

http://israelsmessiah.com/terrorism/teaching_hatred.htm

Awesome.
To Nasrallah with Love

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/images/i … 80x435.jpg

It's just that these bombs didn't land on Nasrallah.  Want me to find the pics of dead Lebanese child with his guts spilling out?
That's fucked up.

CameronPoe wrote:

Didn't you read the link?

Also, I've been in a hotel in Jordan while a Muslim wedding was taking place and it was the most bizarre thing ever for an Irishman: at the reception the men and women stayed apart in separate rooms and there was no booze. Nightmare.
I thought the whole point of weddings was to get hammered and then accidentally reveal embarrassing details about the groom to his parents-in-law?
FEOS
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CameronPoe wrote:

the most bizarre thing Nightmare ever for an Irishman: no booze.
It had to be done.
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Pedobear normally would approve of this thread, but even he's not that sick.
AussieReaper
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Lai wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

Didn't you read the link?

Also, I've been in a hotel in Jordan while a Muslim wedding was taking place and it was the most bizarre thing ever for an Irishman: at the reception the men and women stayed apart in separate rooms and there was no booze. Nightmare.
Evidently not, if you post a whole row of those photo's in this thread, with no accompanying explanation

If there's just a small word "source" underneath, I assume it is just a formality for reference.
If it makes you feel any better, plenty of others ran with the story in the same way you assumed it was...
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png

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