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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 02:03 AM Original message |
10 year old Yemen child bride granted divorce from 30+ year old man |
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d_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:13 AM Response to Original message |
1. ... |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 08:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. No shit. Why are no charges being brought up against the parents? |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Hey, it's cultural and must be tolerated when it's done to women, right? |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Cultural relativism |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Couldn't agree more |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 08:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
22. Please don't misinterpret this. |
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momster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 09:26 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Education for Women |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:11 AM Response to Reply #22 |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
33. I realize I didn't answer your actual question |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 05:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I'm surprised I haven't seen a reply to that effect yet. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 09:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. At least she was married |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 04:50 AM Response to Original message |
3. Wow |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 05:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Except that she'll probably be dead in less than a year |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 05:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. If anyone |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. ummm, no... It's child sexual exploitation plain and simple |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 08:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. No, it's a world poverty thing |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:07 AM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Is it? |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 05:51 AM Response to Original message |
10. This is not culture - it is poverty. |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:04 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Not quite |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. My husband's great grandma was 12. |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Anecdote is not the plural of data |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 07:50 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Who's defending it? |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Not to mention that the "parents" in this case didn't appear to give two shits about the girl |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Well, you're just being intolerant by not tolerating abuse in the name of culture |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:33 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. You are correct... |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
15. That polygamous Mormon sect in Texas would understand this. |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 06:32 AM Response to Original message |
17. Note, this is unacceptable in Islam for starters |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 08:25 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. thank you. I have lived half my life in the Islamic world. This is EXTREMELY RARE!! |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:19 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. So you're saying |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:02 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. your impression of the Islamic world is simply way out of wack!! |
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Rosemary2205 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:51 AM Response to Reply #30 |
38. Nobody said any such thing and you know it. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
27. So she's back on the singles' scene now? |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
31. She should disown her parents too! |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
32. What the fuck is wrong with some people....this kind of shit gets me so angry... |
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renate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
35. what an amazing girl! |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I agree.... |
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erpowers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
37. Read A Book About a Story Like This |
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