@lamprey263 said:
Here's a better article to follow up with...
The hypocrisy of child abuse in many Muslim countries: Child marriage and pederasty are tolerated in Muslim societies where homosexuality is strictly condemned - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/apr/25/middle-east-child-abuse-pederasty
The article above points out this same tradition exists in parts of Pakistan. Boys as sex slaves it says are a symbol of social affluence. Not only is it okay to have sex with young boys but it's a symbol of social stature.
It also explains how in the Middle East it's common for young girls to get married off to older men and sometimes when they haven't even reached puberty, because intellectual maturity and not physical maturity is the basis for which young girls are force to marry older men. In places like Yemen, one quarter of young girls are married off before the age of 15.
This is TheGuardian so I wouldn't take it seriously if I were you. The people working in TheGuardian aren't simply news reporters they are news makers. They have a tendency for visiting the most unknown places, reporting on the most unknown incidents. Seriously some of the things they write, I as a Middle Eastern who knows some of the backward places of his country and the region too to some extent have never encountered.
Besides the article is talking about Pakistan and Afghanistan. I can tell for certain that it's a cultural thing among them as I've not seen nor heard of any such things existing among other Muslim countries except Afghanistan personally. Well Afghanistan is a poor country with an uneducated nation and it's not that hard to invent something in your religion like the permissibility of having intercourse with kids. (Which is totally ridiculous since as the article in the OP suggests there will be punishment for any sexual act outside of marriage anyway.)
@lamprey263 said:
Reminds me of a conversation I had with my roommate who served in Afghanistan, and he was versed some in their culture. We were watching Kite Runner and there was that scene where the kid was raped by that religious conservative douchebag. And I pointed out like "how can they do that if they're so religiously strict" and he told me how that's actually okay with them because it's not gay since the one getting fucked is not really a man yet. Jeez.
Your friend hasn't seen the entire land of Afghanistan and has not met all the people and not every part of Afghanistan has the same culture so maybe tell your friend it's time to lay off that hasheesh pot and stop generalizing. Of course people want to justify their wrongdoings using anything including religion.
Well people who gave this guy the time of their day, well they have a problem in my opinion. So this isn't even a bit shocking to me. The guy seems like a Salafi to me. Funny how he talks about being a Sunni. They aren't Sunni. They are the only sect worthy of Takfeer for believing God has literal hands and literally sits on a throne. These Salafis...
-insert the f word- them.
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