Afghanistan is seeing a resurgence in underage brides and mothers as desperate families sell their children in order to eat
  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    12 days ago

    Oh man, you’re totally right. So it’s of course bloody fine to make them sex slaves in “marriage”. And here I was thinking it was morally questionable. /s (just in case)

    And where in “the west” does that legally happen or be accepted by the majority of people due to religion?

    • Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      It’s cultural, not religious. You won’t find it in the many other countries of the same faith.

      They justify it with religion but that does not make it true. The actual shari’a forbids such a marriage if there is harm for the girl. A Qadi (religious judge) is supposed to void that contract even if the father insists.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        Yeah, I often heard this “argument”. That’s also a lot of cultures doing it. Most of them are, you guessed right. So they’re “doing it wrong”. In their eyes, you do. That’s the absurdly stupid with cults.

        Also your prophet was a literal pedo, so what? I shall take anyone defending it serious?

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      2·
      12 days ago

      Why would you put words in my mouth? Why sell a child once when you can do it over and over and over again?

      The point is, do you listen to anyone who doesn’t have their act together? Aren’t humans more likely to listen if they see someone who had the same issues found the strength to not only face them, but found ways to not only with will through to end the issues, but also heal at least some of the damage done?

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        12 days ago

        To be honest,I have no clue what you want to say. I want to assume it was somehow meant nice. No offense meant.

        Your initial comment just sounded like you wanted to excuse the Pakistani marital rape with western marital rape.

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          1·
          11 days ago

          No I’m saying it’s fine to want to help your neighbors, but ffs help your own.

          • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            11 days ago

            In the context of this topic, you mean I shouldn’t care about slavery in country X while I’m in country Y that also has slavery, but hidden and illegal?

            That’s a bit hard to do when you don’t see it. And a lot easier if some 50+ disgusting scumbag marries a 6yr old publicly. Or being otherwise public like this precise post suggested.

            That’s the same like: stop worrying about the school-shooters (that also coined the term) in the USA while there once was one in the whole of Europe too.

            • Maeve@kbin.earth
              1·
              11 days ago

              That’s not what I said. Both are problematic and we can and should care. I’m saying people don’t tend to care about what someone says when they view the someone as a hypocrite.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        There might be a correlation hidden here somewhere 😁

        And yeah I’ve heard how it looks in UK, specially London.