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Post by lildude8218 on May 1, 2009 15:41:06 GMT -5
Okay guys, please do not continue down the road of "I wanna do this to that person." I don't care how right or wrong the person may be, it's just completely unnecessary to go that far.
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Post by Slim Loves Lily on May 1, 2009 15:41:07 GMT -5
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Post by The_ripoff_artist on May 1, 2009 15:44:04 GMT -5
Goes to show you how smurfed up the world is. Some cultures.
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Post by Dr. Marlowe on May 1, 2009 16:05:59 GMT -5
Okay guys, please do not continue down the road of "I wanna do this to that person." I don't care how right or wrong the person may be, it's just completely unnecessary to go that far. This irritates me for other reasons, because its just a whole lotta talk. Who's to say you wouldn't get your ass kicked or the power drill turned around on you? It's just people acting tough over the internet.
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Post by Mr Ismaeal Naji on May 1, 2009 16:14:54 GMT -5
im glad my palestinian traditions never had bullshit such as this
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on May 1, 2009 17:05:46 GMT -5
The guy's favorite song:
I'll show myself out.
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Post by nate5054 on May 1, 2009 17:07:24 GMT -5
Awesome society the Middle East has.
Awesome.
Remember boys and girls, we cannot judge!
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on May 1, 2009 17:16:20 GMT -5
Good old Saudi Arabia. On an unrelated note You ever known an insane kid who is constantly doing horrible things like calling the other kids names, beating his little sister with a bat, and lighting small animals on fire? Yet your mother keeps trying to force you to be friends with him. And you want to scream, because all the adults know whats going on, and should be stepping in to stop him. But you know that the adults will let him get away with doing horrible unspeakable things, because his dad owns a gas station, and the adults are all afraid of losing their discount cards.
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Post by FrankGotch on May 1, 2009 17:50:32 GMT -5
Good old Saudi Arabia. On an unrelated note You ever known an insane kid who is constantly doing horrible things like calling the other kids names, beating his little sister with a bat, and lighting small animals on fire? Yet your mother keeps trying to force you to be friends with him. And you want to scream, because all the adults know whats going on, and should be stepping in to stop him. But you know that the adults will let him get away with doing horrible unspeakable things, because his dad owns a gas station, and the adults are all afraid of losing their discount cards. I was trying not to get political. But here's a hint instead of people think of countries. I guess that since other people have gone further then me on the subject without reprimand I will just spell it out for you. It seems like a good 90% of the nastiness that goes on in that part of the world is either coming out of, or being funded by the country in question. Yet for some reason (I'm sure everyone knows the reason) our "leaders" in the west keep telling us what a great "friend" the country in question is. Despite the fact that the country in question commits grievous human rights violations, and is a poster child for everything that "we as a global community" are supposed to be against.
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Post by amsiraK on May 1, 2009 19:24:12 GMT -5
*waves 'Politics' juju stick in front of this thread*
And there's no end to how wrong this is.
That said, who knew that "because he has cooties" is a valid divorce charge?
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Post by Mr Ismaeal Naji on May 2, 2009 23:24:44 GMT -5
Awesome society the Middle East has. Awesome. Remember boys and girls, we cannot judge! no you cant, you racist
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Post by Mozenrath on May 2, 2009 23:29:31 GMT -5
*waves 'Politics' juju stick in front of this thread* And there's no end to how wrong this is. That said, who knew that "because he has cooties" is a valid divorce charge? He taped over Dora for their wedding video. Things just went downhill from there.
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Post by Premier Blah on May 3, 2009 0:20:39 GMT -5
*waves 'Politics' juju stick in front of this thread* And there's no end to how wrong this is. That said, who knew that "because he has cooties" is a valid divorce charge? He taped over Dora for their wedding video. Things just went downhill from there. I'd be amazed if they even had that over there.
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Post by Dr. Marlowe on May 3, 2009 0:23:46 GMT -5
Did they have sex? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 3, 2009 0:27:34 GMT -5
Did they have sex? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere. It's possible that sex was never the point, given a lot of odd marriages are actually more for property purposes, such as when you hear of such things as women marrying snakes in India. Married people are often allowed more privelages and rights, and there's also the chance it was some means to "unite" two families. Given they were even allowed to divorce, odds are it was not consumated.
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Post by Dynamite Kid on May 3, 2009 10:02:17 GMT -5
You people might want to look at the context before you start threatening guys with power drills. This isn't some rapist situation, this is the law in another country. This particular case, maybe, because the dad forced his daughter into it and so her husband can't be that good a guy either, but this is just what things are like in some other countries. I'd suspect that in numerous other countries they'd think we were disgusting and socially deviant for allowing sex outside of wedlock.
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Post by Throwback on May 3, 2009 10:26:23 GMT -5
This may be wrong, but I don't care. All I want is 20 minutes alone with the dude, that's it. Just me, him, a locked room, and a power drill. You kinky bastard.
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Post by FrankGotch on May 3, 2009 11:46:53 GMT -5
You people might want to look at the context before you start threatening guys with power drills. This isn't some rapist situation, this is the law in another country. This particular case, maybe, because the dad forced his daughter into it and so her husband can't be that good a guy either, but this is just what things are like in some other countries. I'd suspect that in numerous other countries they'd think we were disgusting and socially deviant for allowing sex outside of wedlock. You may want to brush up on SA culture and its hard line fundamentalist laws before you start giving the law the benefit of the doubt just because its the law. Case in point. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1874471.stmThe Mecca city governor visited the fire-damaged school Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers. In a rare criticism of the kingdom's powerful "mutaween" police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday. About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred. Saudi hospital staff carry a victim of the girl school fire to an ambulance in Mecca 15 girls died in the blaze and more than 50 others were injured According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam. One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya". The Saudi Gazette quoted witnesses as saying that the police - known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - had stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned "it is a sinful to approach them". The father of one of the dead girls said that the school watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out. "Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," the newspaper concluded. ****************************************** www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15836746/AL-AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia - When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined the judge would punish her — and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received. ******************************************* www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3399484.eceA US businesswoman living in Saudi Arabia fears for her life after the religious police issued a rare statement defending her arrest this month for having coffee with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh. Yara, a 37-year-old married mother of three, said that she was strip-searched, forced to sign false confessions and told by a judge that she would “burn in hell”, before she was released on February 4. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice denounced her publicly with a statement posted on the internet on Monday night saying that her actions violated the Sharia of the country. “It’s not allowed for any woman to travel alone and sit with a strange man and talk and laugh and drink coffee together like they are married,” it said. ******************************************* I could keep going forever, but you get the point. I'll be the first to admit that no legal system is perfect, and every country has its faults. The difference is that most countries recognize the problems and are working to correct those wrongs. SA on the other hand refuses to admit that anything is wrong, and in the field of human rights while even countries like Afghanistan and Iran are making progress SA continues to regress.
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Post by Dynamite Kid on May 3, 2009 11:53:53 GMT -5
Alright, fair enough, but I just know that a 50-year-old marrying an 8-year-old could be legal in Islamic law, I just can't really go into it on this forum because of the politics discussion ban.
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Post by FrankGotch on May 3, 2009 12:09:23 GMT -5
Alright, fair enough, but I just know that a 50-year-old marrying an 8-year-old could be legal in Islamic law, I just can't really go into it on this forum because of the politics discussion ban. Oh, its absolutely legal by the laws of SA. I was never arguing that it wasn't legal. My problem is with the law itself not the legality of the mans action.
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