Iraqi Parliament: age of consent proposed to be lowered to 9 years old from 18 years old

[Debp]

Of course, this is probably already happening in fundamentalist Muslim families.

The Parliament has to vote on the law a second time apparently.

 

[Scott Downey]

Forced consent by religious intimidation?
And I have seen videos of children forced to marry young and they are crying, screaming.
There is no consent.
And in Islam, girls and women have no voice, notice the more oppressive that culture, the more the women are covered up.

 

[Wrangler]

Good God! The earliest possible rational age of consent would coincide with ancient and Biblical Bar and bat mitzvah of 13 yo, coinciding with the biological transformation of puberty. i.e., sexual capability, if not sexual maturity.

 

[Debp]

Forced consent by religious intimidation?
And I have seen videos of children forced to marry young and they are crying, screaming.
There is no consent.
And in Islam, girls and women have no voice, notice the more oppressive that culture, the more the women are covered up.

I saw a video where the little girls were married off to old men....one man was about 70 or older. The ten year old said she would kill herself if her parents married her to him.

The other girl in the video was 9 I think....she was taken off by a man who looked older than middle aged. She was crying, too.

Good God! The earliest possible rational age of consent would coincide with ancient and Biblical Bar and bat mitzvah of 13 yo, coinciding with the biological transformation of puberty. i.e., sexual capability, if not sexual maturity.

Mohammed married one of his wives when she was six. They consummated the marriage when she was nine years old. Very evil.

 

[Wrangler]

Mohammed married one of his wives when she was six. They consummated the marriage when she was nine years old. Very evil.

I could always understand a man having sex with a 15 yo, though technically a minor, an obvious grown women, by biological standards. (Some say Mary was probably 14 when she conceived Jesus and 15 when she gave birth.) That is, as a man, I was made to be sexually attracted to a woman.

But pre-puberty is disgusting to me. I was NOT made to be sexually attractive to biological children. The thought makes me sick. It is evil.