• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean, you only can see so many news about women, gay people, trans people and everyone else being oppressed in islamist countries before you get pissed off a little.

    And they want to bring that shit here. That’s not made up by me, that’s their words. I’m not against immigrants - anyone who wants to escape those shitholes is welcome if I have anything to say.

    I’m just saying that we should not tolerate that violent cult. If you want to believe that god thinks a man is above women, that gay should be stoned to death and other nice things in this “religion of peace”, your place is far away from where civilized people live.

    And if you’re a religious leader who puts these nonsenses into other people’s heads, you should be jailed for endangering the public.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      And they want to bring that shit here.

      Where? Look, I’m not saying Iraq is a shining beacon of humanist values, but 4 US states have no minimum marriage age, and the age of consent is 12-14 in a bunch of EU countries as well.

      When I was a kid, my 14 year old classmate married a 68 year old priest. This shit is everywhere and not specific to Islam.

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        I’m not saying Iraq is a shining beacon of humanist values

        That sounds like a really huge understatement. That’s like saying Mengele didn’t have the best bedside manners with his patients.

        I can’t really speak for the US, I was talking mainly about Europe. My country has an age of consent of 15 and I’m pretty fine with that. I think 14 is fine as well, though there would need to be some exceptions, like only with similar-age people. 12 sounds too young, but I really don’t know the specific laws of the EU countries, hopefully it’s not as simple as “you’re 12 now, you can get fucked by a persuasive 40yo and all’s fine”.

        If nothing else, you most likely already hit puberty when you’re 12 which cannot really be said for 9 years old. Muslims wanting to marry 9 year olds is regular pedophilia and/or slavery. You basically buy a 9yo kid, beat her a few times a day if she doesn’t listen to what you say or doesn’t do what you want her to do, if you’re a pedo you rape her when you want to, if you’re not a pedo you wait a few years until you start raping. I don’t think anything similar is happening in any EU country at scale (there are always exceptions of course, but the difference is they have to hide it from everyone because the society is not okay with it).

        And sure, everyone always argues “but it’s not the religion” and yeah, maybe they’re partially right. My two counterpoints are that their religion specifically says that their Sharia “law” is the only permissible law and way too many muslims believe that. And the other counterpoint is purely statistical: If there’s too much correlation between two things, you should maybe be a little more cautious.

        Add to that my beef with adult people who believe in imaginary beings ruling over their life and murdering, raping and enslaving in the name of said imaginary beings. On this particular point I don’t really care whether you believe in a pedophile prophet or a sure-to-be-white Jesus who hates gays or an all-knowing god who can’t make his goddamn mind and destroys the world for shit and giggles.

        Note that I’m not saying we should stop immigration or whatever, I’m fine with immigrants, I just think we should ban the religion. And put people responsible for the brainwashing into prison, like we would do with any other cult that promotes violence.

        When I was a kid, my 14 year old classmate married a 68 year old priest.

        That would not be possible in my country.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          2 days ago

          So on the one hand, I didn’t read the article, and from the headline saying “Iraq amends bad law” I thought they are going from marrying 9 year olds to something more sensible, but they seem to be moving in the opposite direction. I was a moron, and I do apologize for that.

          On the other hand, I wasn’t saying any of this to make excuses for either the Islamic world or Iraq. It’s just that we also have so much shit to clean up on our own plate, that laughing at the Middle East seems counterprodctive as to me, it tries to relativize our own shittyness. I’m not saying that it’s not horrendous, but we can do precious little about it, while we can do much more about Hungarian oligarchs using orphanages as brothels (I’m sadly not making this up).