I haven't met many people who call themselves feminists who believe islamophobia is worse than peados, May. You're probably just encountering too many wankers on the internet.

I know how you feel; it's just one step forward, ten steps back.

He was betrothed to her when she was seven and he was fifty-one but he waited for two years before consummating the marriage. Well, couldn't have people calling him a paedo for having sex with a seven-year-old, could he? Nine is so much more grown-up.

How old was Mary in comparison to Joseph? Not defending pedos, just pointing out problems on religion

Yeah, but we don't know that the Israeli army isn't also raping the children during the genocide. Genocidal countries don't tend to treat the people they are stamping out of history well. When genocide occurs the hero is the one who fights back, hamas would not have the backing it did if it wasn't fighting against an atrocity. A child is affected by their entire civilisation being wiped out as much as they are affected by being peadoed. If Iran came and genocided you and stole your land would you say the people who rebelled were terrorists? Would you care if they had s**t morals if they could help stop your entire family being wiped out? I wonder can you imagine any other perspectives but your own?

Thanks. And for the record, the downvote you've got isn't from me. I don't play that game.

I'm blaming the Islamic fundamentalists for imposing such laws in Islamic theocracies. Nobody is blaming Islam for American marriage laws. As for American marriage laws, it's worse than you think. Although the majority of states that allow under-18s to marry forbid marriage for under-16s, there are 8 states that have no minimum age at all for marriage; it just needs parental consent.

Islam is the source of it... I am a Muslim apostate born under that cult. My penis was mutilated when i was a boy. Grew up where i was told i can have 4 wives and that the women needed to be covered up... By my islamic "ethics" teacher... WHO WAS A WOMAN! Ow an also that music and art was haram as the only bliss we should experience is listening to the Quran... She yelled at me when i was 12 because i disagreed... AND THAT was in a MODERATE Islamic country in North Africa... I asked about aisha. One imam said she was 9 another said she was 13. My brother, a Muslim but a somewhat rational man, claims it did not happen and fabricated by pedos... Needless to say, it is a big reason why I could not morally stay in that cult... The real question is WHY ARE YOU defending Islam... You could have looked all of this up... Read the Quran or listened to an imam preach about this subject... But no, you chose to virtue signal to get validation from "mob" you follow and parrot...

I fail to understand why ppl defend the existence of cults... There is a reason you are Christian or Sikh or Jewish or Muslim or Buddhist or Mormon or Scientologist or Amish ETC... If you are born under one of those cults. It is a FORCED on people when they are children with the threat of hell and punishment after death... Exclusion and shame and violence in life... They are the scams, mind viruses and pyramid schemes that only exist due to lies, mental and physical abuse... To this day I fail to understand why they that INTOLERANCE is TOLERATED and ENCOURAGED and given tax exemptions and defended by so-called "progressives" in the west who dislike Christianity specifically but are somehow OK with worse cults? They are all EVIL and take freedom away from kids!

I beg you to search to see if early sex and pregnancy will harm a girl’s body! Moreover, after getting married, girls cannot leave the family to explore the world and try out various possibilities. They will be bound by the responsibilities of men and motherhood!

？？？？Is this correct?Is it worth publicizing?Isn’t it all an exploitation of women’s bodies and life possibilities!Judging from your avatar, you are also a woman, how could you say such cold words?

Really? You think it's more significant that the religion that rules the country was mentioned than the fact that they will make it legal to rape a 9 year old girls?

This is too much!

How about we let people be outraged by multiple things at once? A problem in one place doesn't mean that nothing bad can happen anywhere else. The world is a terrible place, and sometimes we need to draw attention to multiple parts of it.

OH MY GOD. The dude's name is literally 'UK Grandad'. Why "looking closer to home ?" USA is NOT the home of 95% of the population. We absolutely get that you have a$$hole trying to monitor abortion, we get it, we REALLY do get it. Could we please, for once, STOP making it about the USA everytime we talk about the sheer, violent (and actual) patriarchy that women and girls (and men!) go trough in the arabo-muslim world. Every time we try to sheer light on abuse, some girl is saying 'yeah but Trump...'. We GET IT, go fix it, I'll support you. We are talking about abject and abusing laws that are not even brought to light by media except....for the right & far right. Sorry about the rant, I'm starting to be seriously annoyed about the constant gaslighting, while so many of my friends were arrested on the basis of not 'respecting' ramadan.

Becky, maybe before telling me what I should be outraged about you should look closer at the opening words of my comment....'Today I learnt...'. I've been aware of of the American situation for decades, and it isn't all owing to Christian cultists. Supposedly progressive groups such as Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Children’s Law Center have all opposed bills to introduce age limits to marriage in California (one of 8 states with no minimum age requirements), with Planned Parenthood arguing that age limits would impede on the reproductive rights of minors and their ability to decide what is best for them, their health, and their lives, and the ACLU claiming that legislation intrudes on the fundamental rights of marriage. So, yes, America has a problem, too, but it's one that both the Left and Right don't want to fix, with each side using their own warped definitions of 'freedom' to justify the status quo.

One more thing, Becky. Regarding your comment to me that before getting outraged by "Islamic perverts" I should look closer to home because child marriage is still legal in the majority of US states; I am approximately 2,500 miles from Baghdad and 3,500 miles from New York. Iraq is 1000 miles closer to my home than is the US.

Why did you get downvoted for pointing this out? This is meaningful information. It's the way the point is framed, as in, ''how about you don't care about those peados because peados are where you live too'' - that's how it reads when it should be - eww, peados but also, there's peados right beside you too - eewww.