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After running away from her first marriage (she was married at 13). She finally got a divorce and then was told to marry her cousin who was literally coming out of prison.
How can someone care so little for their own kids. Absolutely vile.
For the same reason that American Christians would be a gay person to death and then argue the gay panic defense in court.
They've been raised to believe that these made-up rules for their imaginary friend are a more important consideration than the reality right in front of them.
I would still feel sad that I had to kill my daughter to uphold those rules... Not fucking dance in the street. Unless it's also in the rules: "and you'll like it". 🤪
And gay hate is even explicitly laid out in the quran. It’s not a “fringe” thing in the least.
Nope. Thats just religious extremism for ya.
For example 36 white American Christians in Oklahoma just voted against ending child marriage and they quoted the Bible as their reason
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/36-oklahoma-republicans-vote-against-child-marriage-ban/ar-AA24bCyP
"Rep. Derrick Hildebrant quoted Hebrews 13:4, questioning “Hebrews 13:4 – ‘Let marriage be held in honour among all.’ Does ‘among all’ now only mean those who are 18 and older?”
And here's another white Christian proposing a bill to give the death penalty to woman who seek abortions. He serves on the board of a church in north carolina.
"The legislation, backed only by Republican state Representative Keith Kidwell, would classify abortion as first-degree murder and open the right of another person to defend the life of the unborn baby** as they see fit.**"
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-bill-deadly-force-stop-abortions-north-carolina-12005136
"Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
Religious extremism is inseparable from religion. And the religion in question in that story about the murdered girl is islam.
Jesus Christ, the writers are getting lazy...
You do realize that "Christianity bad" doesn't mean that "Islam bad" is false, right?
Both can be true at once.
I will however dispute that it is a question of extremism. The fact is that a majority of muslims, globally, hold views that I would consider to be misogynistic (feel free to update me on that if there is a more recent global study with the same scope).
If something is the norm in a group rather than a fringe idea, it can hardly be considered extremism. Given that Islam has many of these misogynistic values close to its' core, it isn't particularly shocking either.
As such, considering the above, I consider Islam to be bad on the whole. Note: this doesn't mean that someone is inherently "bad" due to being muslim, or that "good" muslims don't exist - I am acquainted with a few.
Misogyny doesn't automatically mean ritualistic murder, dude.
Christianity is barbaric, cruel and hateful
Judaism is cruel, barbaric and hateful
Islam is barbaric and hateful and cruel
They're all fucked
What's happening in the middle east would be happening regardless of their superstition. It's a region that has always been unstable, and WWI & II resulted in the west trying to drag them into their sphere of influence to take the oil
But I'd like to see the people who did this burn slowly, as well as anyone in the world who thinks it's ok
That's extreme ideology for ya.
https://truthout.org/articles/nc-gop-lawmakers-propose-amendment-legalizing-murder-to-stop-abortions/
If this passes I hope politicians that restrict pregnant women's access to food, shelter, and medicine have their affairs in order.
That's brainwashing for ya*
~25% of all humans are Muslim, do you seriously think every single one agrees with this?
A good example is that only a tiny part of Christians are pedophiles but you, based on the logic in your comment, think all of them are.
Islam isn't the issue, extremism and shitty humans is. The vast majority of Muslims think this is just as fucked up as we do, because the vast majority of humans are just like us.
Islam is enabling that behaviour in the very least.
No, that's people brainwashed by ideology "for ya". You don't seem to have the mental capacity to process that, so just try to talk to people you disagree with more, and widen your horizon.
Religion is an ideology that brainwashes.
How does this describe Islam specifically and not any religious group with fundamentalists?
This particular situation (from the news) is specific to islam.
Don't feed the trolls
More of a question for the two dozen or so people upvoting the comments. Even if they’re trolling (and not just an islamophobe), there’s clearly a fair number of people that think these are reasonable opinions to hold. Getting people to think about the beliefs they hold is an important part of reducing -phobic behavior in general.
You're right!
I'll happily condemn any ideology (not just religious ones) that teaches people it is okay to force underage girls into marriage and murder them when they try to escape.
Did you have one in mind?
Were you aware that child marriage is legal in most of the US and attempts to close state level loopholes are fought tooth and nail, often successfully, by Evangelicals? The form of child rape we’re more familiar with isn’t better than people halfway across the world doing the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
And that makes said marriage good under islam? Or what is your point?
Yes, I was.
Disconnecting religion from law & institutions was a brutal process that took centuries here in Europe, and it is very disconcerting to see organized religion exerting an increasing influence in society. In the US it is less "freedom from religion" (like we have here) and more "freedom of religion" (please pick one).
As I said, you don't have the mental capacity to process what's wrong with your comment. Try to evolve a bit.
Stop being in denial, it's all over most holy books, and especially the one that condoned this specific murder.
It's a good thing we've got you here to tell people they're stupid and should evolve.
But you didn't say that. You said "No" it wasn't islam, then you described islam.
You'll understand one day instead of whatever this is you're doing here.
What is the difference? Religion is brainwashing.
That's just a long way of saying "islam"