More insanity from the ME

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by eddie

I cannot in any way, picture being romantically involved with someone so young.

Could you imagine going to a family get together, visiting relatives you haven't seen in years, and you walk in holding hands with a 9 year old girl.
They would ask you "Is this your daughter?"

And you would answer,"No, this is my wife."

The whole idea is so ignorant, even if it is a tradition over there.

Can't argue with that assessment/scenario

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by eddie

I cannot in any way, picture being romantically involved with someone so young.

Could you imagine going to a family get together, visiting relatives you haven't seen in years, and you walk in holding hands with a 9 year old girl.
They would ask you "Is this your daughter?"

And you would answer,"No, this is my wife."

I once had a troop with the other extreme issue. He married his former step-mother. hmmmm

When he showed pictures, we all automatically assumed that it was a picture of him and his mother. Nope, his wife. hmmmm

Way way better than the Yemen issue. But still.

Legally there is nothing wrong with marrying your former Step-mother, but if she was your step-mother when you were young, there is a oogy factor there.

That would be like me marrying one of The Frau's daughters. Legal but ewwwww.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by eddie

I cannot in any way, picture being romantically involved with someone so young.

Putting aside the age issue (which I think we all agree is abhorrent), it should be recognized that in Arab and other cultures marriage is not necessarily linked with romance or love. Marriage can culturally be a obligation or a duty disassociated with whether either party loves the other.

In our culture, marriage is linked to love.... at least at first.

But I am sure that even in the US, we can find instances of marriage based more on necessity or convenience absent of romance/love.

I know about a few of them when I was in the military.

[Armistead]

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

Edit:
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.

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.

[mapuc]

about eddie's post

If a relative, friend or some other male came to me with a little girl and presented her as his wife. I surely would be arrested after what I had done to this male person.

Markus

[eddie]

Originally Posted by mapuc

about eddie's post

If a relative, friend or some other male came to me with a little girl and presented her as his wife. I surely would be arrested after what I had done to this male person.

Markus

I agree Markus!

[Betonov]

I love how the British East India company employees handled such ''traditions''

"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."

Charles James Napier




And I'm feeling bad because a 17 year old has become a little too friendly with me for my comfort

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Betonov

And I'm feeling bad because a 17 year old has become a little too friendly with me for my comfort

Wait a year and enjoy.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Wait a year and enjoy.

Legal age for sex is 15 I believe in my country, so legality is not an issue.
But still, even 20 is too young for my taste.