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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/14/moroccan-girl-commits-suicide-after-being-forced-to-marry-her-rapist/A 16-year-old Moroccan girl has reportedly killed herself after a judge ordered her to marry the man that raped her.
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I hate to sound rude BUT honor is so important in that part of the world Part of me is asking IF she actually committed suicide or IF she was given it.
Either way that poor girl suffered too much in such a short time.
MADem
(135,425 posts)GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)WingDinger
(3,690 posts)As far as marrying your rapist is concerned.
Stephanie Kopf
(13 posts)That is just unimaginably terrifying, not to mention what that poor girl went through.
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)if Santorum gets into office.
One of the laws in the bible says that women are required to marry their rapists.
Same shit, different sky daddy.
eShirl
(18,503 posts)just a different name for the same one
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Jewish, Christian, Muslim... all the same God.
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)Thanks for the correction. Maybe I should have worded it as 'Different religion'.
My bad.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)The religions of Abraham are bloody ones.
grand earth trine
(8 posts)but man-created "sky daddy." Just because Man stuck his fingers in the pie doesn't make the Pie wrong!
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)grand earth trine
(8 posts)Pi???
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)Do you mean God like in patriarchal bullshit?
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Jewish was first, then christianity branched off with jesus and islam branched off with the prophet mohammed.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)tiny little willie tingle if he ever hears of it.
I've said it before and I will keep saying it until they slap the toe tag on me: Fundamentalist religion of ANY and EVERY kind is the greatest threat to the continued survival of the human species.
malaise
(269,157 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)A girl is the father's property, just like a cow or a goat. Because she gets raped, her value is then lost. So the father doesn't want to bother supporting her any more since she no longer has any value. So she gets thrown to the rapist to support or kill as he sees fit. It's kind of like in a store, you break the merchandise, you buy it. Same idea.
It wasn't until the 1960's or 70's that US rape laws got changed...before that they were laws against the damage of property. Raping your wife damaged a husband's property, a girl, a father's property. Rape was considered a property crime rather than a serious crime like murder of a man.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Not all, but some. Jews...well that is their law. Perhaps we need to be worried about them in power (not the Jewish people as far as race, Jewish as far as religion).
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)just like our own homegrown American Taliban. This is what comes from having religious people have governmental/judicial authority.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)This is where the GOP will take us.
poor girl. RIP.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)"The teen, known only as Amina, ate rat poison after the Tangier judge ruled that her 26-year-old rapist could marry her instead of going to jail, according to the Moroccan publication al-Massae.
The ruling came after Aminas family asked the court to punish the man. The paper said that Amina committed suicide at the home of her husbands family."
unless the writer messed up and meant she was in the home of the rapist's family...
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)yes..do`t get divorced if your husband beats you.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/13/wisconsin-gop-to-battered-women-dont-get-divorced/
the more i think about it there is`t that much difference at all....