CNN: Child bride gets divorced after rape, beatings
This is the MOST viewed story on the CNN website today.
Nujood Ali is 10 years old, but she already has been married and divorced. It was an arranged marriage in which she said a husband three times her age routinely beat and raped her.
“When I got married, I was afraid. I didn’t want to leave home. I wanted to stay with my brothers and sisters and my mom and dad,” she said, speaking to CNN with the permission of her parents.
“I didn’t want to sleep with him, but he forced me to. He hit me, insulted me.”
As she plays marbles with her brothers and sister, Nujood is a portrait of innocence, with a shy smile and a playful nature….”
The news story is followed by a long discussion of readers on Islam and the west.. totally getting off topic.. the westerners going on about how this is a religious problem and the muslims (supported by a few correct minded westerners) trying to prove otherwise, branding it a cultural problem.
But are we really dealing with a problem here? The world is full of bad people. If one person does something, and I am not talking about a group of people, like American interogators at Abu Gharaib or Guantanamo, I am talking about ONE person, can it be generalized to the entire region, nation, or religion???
Like every other faith, Islam has its own guide lines. You have a problem with them, take a hike! Muslims are not going to stop practicing their religion just because some illiterate, ignorant fool who dropped out of high school in his freshman year, and who’s sitting somewhere in small town USA, listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching FAUX (fox) news decides that it is wrong for muslims to marry their children young.
BIG DEAL! So Islam tells muslims to marry their girls when they start menstruating! Could there be ANYTHING better than that? If only every society, including the modern day so called muslim societies, were practicing this today, we would have a lot less messed up teenagers, a lot less headache for parents, a morally healthy and ethical society and much less bastards in this world.
They object that men marry more than once. Islam allows them to. Now lets compare. And i am not comparing islam with christianity or judaism or hinduism or any other religion. My comparison is between the fundamental Islam and the modern western society… the society of the so called leaders of the free world. Coming to the point, In America, according to the federal government statistics posted HERE, an average male sleeps with 7 women in his life time. 29% men sleep with 15 or more partners. 9% of women say the same. Not the mention that 16% of Americans lost their virginity before the age of 15, and another 16% waited till they were 21.
Do I even need to go into the details of moral and ethical implications of these figures? And let me remind again. Muslim men are allowed UPTO 4 wives at a time. There are more than 1 billion muslims in this world. How many of them do you think marry 4 women at the same time? Would it be better to marry early than to get drunk and loose your virginity to a stranger at the age of 16? And would it be better to marry more than one woman legally, than to marry one and cheat on her?
According to another article on the MSNBC website, HERE, 22% of married men who participated in a survey said they had had extra marital affairs, for “thrills or true love.” The articles goes on to say that it is believed that the true number is supposed to be twice more than what the survey calculated, that is, 44%. That is almost half of the married population of the leaders of the free world.
So I ask again… where exactly is the problem???
