ChrisL
Diamond Member
There's been a lot of scandal in the UK in regards to sexual crimes against children being covered up going back some years.
A ‘big political cover-up’ of 1980s pedophile-ring in U.K. Parliament?
This is also from July but - it's disturbing to read the occupations of some of the people arrested but it sounds like they are taking things seriously and trying to clean it up: National Crime Agency - UK-wide operation snares 660 suspected paedophiles
An unprecedented six-month operation coordinated by the NCA and involving 45 police forces across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland has led to the arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles.
More than 400 children across the UK have been safeguarded.
Some of those arrested had unsupervised access to children in the course of their work. They include doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers.
In my other thread about Pakistani men raping 1400 girls, I consistently maintained that authorities were involved in it. But most people who engaged in the discussion on that thread just latched on to one aspect of the culprits - their Pakistani/Muslim origin. They kept maintaining that this happened because UK society is too PC. This line of argument never made any sense to me because British society although is a great society, it still does have great deal of racism that it needs to overcome. Now there are new reports coming out which indicate that high level UK politicians were involved in child prostitution rings, which proves my initial line of argument that I consistently made in my other thread.
Well I agree that there are pedophiles of all origins, but having sex with children is an acceptable practice in a lot of predominantly Muslim cultures.
This is what I meant when I spoke of culture clash. Something that is a crime in America or the UK, can be a perfectly acceptable practice in another culture. They don't think there is anything wrong with bedding down with a 12-year-old child.
Sex with children is not exactly widely acceptable. In many parts of the world - Muslim and NON-Muslim, girls are married at 12, which is also considered puberty. It's driven by poverty, culture, the idea that girls have little value (and it's not worth educating them) - even, in war torn areas - marrying them young to save them from rape. Not too long ago, when a supposed child bride was killed in Yemen - huge numbers of people protested child marriages, demonstrated against the government for laws preventing this and for enforcement of existing laws. It ended up being a hoax but it drove action.
It's a complex problem.
I googled the Yemeni child bride and do not see where it was ever exposed as a hoax.
Oh, there have been other young girls who have died on the wedding nights due to internal bleeding. I know you're going to find other excuses, but I'm sorry, but this religion is awful and yes, it condones these types of actions against women. It's a very horrible and oppressive religion towards women and girls.
Child marriage - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Most religions, over history, influenced the marriageable age. For example, Christian ecclesiastical law forbade marriage of a girl before the age of puberty.[24] Hindu vedic scriptures mandated the age of a girl's marriage to be adulthood which they defined as three years after the onset of puberty.[25] Jewish scholars and rabbis strongly discouraged marriages before the onset of puberty.[23] In contrast, some Islamic marriage practices have permitted marriage of girls below the age of 10, because Shariat law is based in part on the life and practices of Muhammad, the Prophet, as described in part in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. The Prophet married Aisha, his third wife, when she was about age six,[26] and consummated the marriage when she was about age nine.[27][28]
Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).
—Sahih al-Bukhari, 7:62:64
Obviously still having problems. I'll give you some time to work out your reply. Lol.