Iraq set to lower the age of consent to just nine years old
Iraq set to lower the age of consent to just nine years old
Girls as young as nine could be forced into marriage in Iraq, as conservative groups in parliament push to lower the age of consent.
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Nothing to see here guys. All cultures are equal and thinking the West has a better way is colonialism
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You're acting like plenty of politicians in the West wouldn't do this if they could.
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State a single mainstream western political movement in which marriage at 9 is not complete insanity
Age of consent to sex, not marriage.
https://www.ageofconsent.net/world
According to this, it looks like the closest country to this age of consent is Nigeria, at 11.
If you want age of marriage, in the US, looks like four states will let you marry at any age, but require special conditions like parental approval or court approval:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States
California, Utah, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
Nigeria is not "the West"
Child marriage in the US is rare, in sharp decline and is heavily skewed towards poverty and Native Americans. Numerous political movements exist to raise minimum marriage age to 16-18.
So again, name a mainstream Western political movement where marriage at 9 is not insanity
Nigeria is not "the West"
I didn't say it was. I'm just indicating wherevthe floor is.
Sure the west and their settler colonialism massive resource extraction and so on is great. And its not like the many religious problems against say homosexuality in christian Africa can't be directly be blamed on christian missionaries. And its also not like poverty and brutal attacks on secular nationalists in the middle east in the name of fighting communism has anything to do with modern political Islam. No sir.
That's quite some whataboutism. I'm clearly talking about the insanity of 9 year old girls being forced to wed..
That is clearly a reach given the statement "thinking the west has a better way is colonialism" is a massively ahistorical racist take.
You don't think the West has a better approach on whether or not 9 year old girls are forced to wed?
You could have left colonialism out of it. You brought the western shit into the discussion. If you just said the west has better age of consent, everyone would agree.
No, I was making the point that it's currently popular to shit on the West exporting its ideals, but when it's something as blindingly obvious as "maybe 9 year old girls shouldn't be forced into marriage" then maybe on this one occasion that sense of superiority is well placed and necessary