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[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Afghanistan attacked us on 9-11? They were all Saudi nationals. We attacked Afghanistan because they don't have oil. Saudi Arabia does.

they may not have oil, but they do have some very valuable raw minerals waiting to be mined.

[joe bloe]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

technically, he was one, but marrying children was pretty common back then.

He was a fifty three year old having sex with a nine year old. He married her when she was six. Pedophilia may have been customary for his tribe, but it was still pedophilia.

What makes it worse is that Mohammad is a role model for 1.6 billion Muslims; consequently marrying children (little girls) is still practiced in some Muslim countries today.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by joe bloe

He was a fifty three year old having sex with a nine year old. He married her when she was six. Pedophilia may have been customary for his tribe, but it was still pedophilia.

What makes it worse is that Mohammad is a role model for 1.6 billion Muslims; consequently marrying children (little girls) is still practiced in some Muslim countries today.

aisha was her name I think. she even has her own hadith.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by liberaldevil

Rule Britania!

Remnants of an Army - gotta luv Lady Butler!!!

[joe bloe]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

aisha was her name I think. she even has her own hadith.

Yes Aisha was her name. Mohammad said that Allah had told him in a dream to marry Aisha. In 1979 shortly after the Islamist revolution in Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini began to convert their legal system to one strongly influenced by Sharia law. This included legalizing child brides (nine year olds).

From Wikipedia:

Society
See also: Social class in Iran
While the revolution brought about some re-Islamisation of Iran, particularly in terms of personal appearance—beards, hijab—it has not prompted a reversal of some modernizing trends or a return to traditional patterns of family life, (such as polygamy and the extended family with numerous children).
Despite the lowering of the legal age of marriage for women fell to 9,[46] and the Ayatollah Khomeini's support for early marriage for females,

It is recommended that one hurries in giving husband to a daughter who has attained puberty, meaning that she is of the age of religious accountability. His Holiness, Sadegh [the 6th Imam] salutations to him, bade that it is one of a man's good fortunes that his daughter does not see menses in his own house.[47]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...public_of_Iran