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Originally Posted by mapuc
I'm not any type of expert regarding Quran, Haddith a.s.o. The only thing I know or have read in some very old(from the beginning of the 90'ies) some doctorate made by a man who was studying religion and old tradition.
According to this doctorate many of our religious tradition have somehow been interlaced into the Bible, Quran and the Torah.
I clearly remember him mention the female circumcision in North Africa and some old tradition and the same when it comes to boys. in the Middle east .
Markus
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I know it is a very sensitive issue we are discussing in this thread. Many religious would say that I do not know what I'm talking about and maybe they are Right. I however have choose to believe this guy and what i wrote in his doctorate and many other books related to this.
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Not really sensitive, many strange customs and marriage rituals regarding different tribes, but most have always held to the age of puberty or after, although some don't. They're some tribes that the father must take the virginity of his daughter before marriage.
Most marriage rituals of old were based on the woman being the property of the father. In biblical times children were economic, so women were married off and having babies near puberty. Women highly outnumbered men due to war, so polygamy was another God given right for men. Many customs are strange, but they often met a need in days of old.