[lit-ideas] sorry about the lack of a subject line Re: (no subject)
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:59:33 +0000 (GMT)
My mailer's supposed to stop that happening.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Sun, 23/1/11, Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: (no subject)
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, 23 January, 2011, 12:29
> I forgot
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> I recently finished a book called, "Why I Am Not A Muslim."
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> Among the things I learned: that people who call the
> prophet
> a pedophile do so because he married
> a nine year old girl,
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> Yes. I don't know how common that was in the
> sixth/seventh centuries, I did finally remember there were
> child marriages (marriages of children aged 7 to 12/14 -- in
> England in the Middle Ages, and, presumably, before that
> too. (7 because the church refused to recognise/allow
> marriages below the age of 7 except where interests of state
> were involved). We have no idea how widespread the
> practice was, as records are faulty.
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> Yet nobody goes rampaging around yelling "paedophile" about
> all of that.
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> (I add that paedophilia was not necessarily involved in
> dynastic child marriage or indeed in non-dynastic arranged
> marriages.)
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> Currently, there is a concern in Western countries that
> some Muslims are taking daughters to the home country for
> circumcision and early marriage. I have read about
> this issue being of concern in the U.S. and Canada
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> this puzzled me slightly - the early marriage part, that
> is. I'd have thought the US and Canada would, like the
> UK, recognise only legally contracted marriages. The
> main relevant "home countries" have minimum marriage ages
> similar to ours. Saudi Arabia has no minimum marriage
> age but then, I take it a Saudi child marriage contracted
> there would not be accepted here. (The Yemen also I
> think must have no minimum age.)
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