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.
Somebody tell Gaetz. That might be one way we get rid of him.
Don't give him ideas...
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6ea2126c-9ff2-452c-894e-6e7f92e85081.jpeg?format=webp
Oil rig explosion is code!
"Consent"
Like consent even comes into it
If they can consent to extra sprinkles on their ice cream, they can be child sex slaves.
(Edit: I just wanna say I'm so glad I didn't need the /s for people to... Wait, I hope people aren't actually agreeing with this)
Digital footprit
Age of “unprosecutable rape” is more like it.
Con (people that) sent (isnt the smell of child rape)
So does that align with Mohammad 's second wife?
All religion is just a framework to be shitty.
I dont know why you'd be downvoted, people should be reminded of this often.
The prophet Muhammad married his wife Aisha when she was 6 years old. According to the history he waited until she was 9 to start raping her.
Edit: he was 53 when he started raping his 9 year old wife. Fucking gross.
I would assume the downvotes are more for the “religion is a framework to be shitty” part. I’m also going to get downvoted for a similar reason.
Religion is justification for one’s moral compass / desires.
You see people who think it’s morally okay to rape kids or take away women’s rights or the rights of trans people or the rights of gay people etc. These people can’t justify morals (or lack thereof) logically so they use religion to give them a false sense of rationality. Hence you think religion is a framework for being shitty.
However, there are other people who use religion to justify “good” behavior like compassion and acceptance. These people are still reliant on fallacious beliefs, but their actions are not “shitty” so they get offended. Furthermore, others—who know people in this second category—may also think the remark about religion being shitty is not correct and is rude. That’s why it’s getting downvoted.
Fun sidenote, we can actually formally prove that religion or at least absolute morality doesn’t matter, and that people will just do what they want no matter what:
Proof. We seek to prove that people do whatever they want regardless of the existence of a god or absolute morality. We have three natural cases:
Case 1: Assume neither god nor an absolute purpose/morality exists. Then a person will default to their own morals. Hence, if neither exists, people will do whatever they want.
Case 2: Assume a god or purpose/morality exists that does not align with a person’s current morals. (For example a god that required you to strangle six puppies every year or required human sacrifice, or raping kids, or blowing up hospitals, or working in finance, etc.). Then this person will not follow that god/purpose because they are a bad god/purpose. Hence, a person will do whatever they feel is right regardless even with the existence of a true deity/purpose when that god/purpose does not share their morals.
Case 3: Assume a true god or purpose does exist and that it aligns with the morality of a person. Then that person will be living that way anyway, so the existence of the god or purpose has no effect on them doing whatever they want.
In each case a person will do whatever they want regardless of the existence or non existence of a god or a true purpose/morality. Q.E.D.
I should note that while I did come up with this proof myself several years ago, I learned later that Marcus Aurelius and other philosophers beat me to the punch by several centuries. But hey philosophy is the study of understanding existence, if we both exist in the same existence we can and should be able to discover the same facts about reality.
Fucking disgusting
Came here and expected this as the top comment.
I quickly googled this and mostly found sources like Fox News or Times of India that follow some agenda.
So here’s a Guardian article on the topic in case anyone was wondering about a commonly known source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/09/proposed-iraqi-law-change-would-legalise-child-say-activists
Basically there are some religious hardliners that are in the pocket of Iran that want to reduce the marriage age to 9 which would effectively end up in legalizing child rape. Opponents of this are being accused of „western decadence“. So basically after the
destabilizationliberation of Iraq politics are dominated by the same people that run Iran.The people
sufferingenjoying their liberation are the normal people as usual.Opponents of this are being accused of „western decadence“
Those damned hedonists indulging in the luxury of... checks notes... keeping their dicks out of kids.
So basically after the
destabilizationliberation of Iraq politics are dominated by the same people that run Iran.I mean, they were
destabilizedliberated by the same people...In the meantime, in Iran, age of consent is
1513 (Src https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_Asia). Too low as well, but not 9 FFS.
As if women in these countries have the right to consent or not in the first place
They follow muhammad right to the letter don't they?
At least they're consistent 🤮
I'm so glad we brought freedom to that country 👏👏👏
Mission Accomplished
That's grim
What a weird arbitrary number. I wonder where they got that idea from.
Qur'an
Nope, al-bukhari
Their "prophet" Muhammad had a 6-year-old "wife" (read: child sex slave) who he fucked when she was around 9, Aisha.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha
Isn't religion just wonderful?
And yet 2 billion people basically worship this guy... Yikes on so many damn bikes.
from 15, apparently
I mean, some US states have lower... We need to work on it.
The youngest age of consent in the US is currently 16, unrestricted, but 14 if you're within a few years of the 14-year-old.
I didn't know the majority of the US age of consent was 16, I thought that was a European thing.
but only 12 states have the age of consent at 18.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States
I understand that Saddam Hussein was a terrible man. But it sucks that support from his opposition is what helped push this. They're not bad because they are Shia; they are simply the worst of the people that opposed Hussein. This is what happens when you prop up puppet governments. The rights of the people aren't important to the puppeteer.
Tl:dr: Even with Saddam Hussein's death, Iraq never got its freedom.
At the time when we launched the aggressive and illegal invasion of a sovereign county, we were doing it for Democracy™ and Human Rights™
At the time, you would have been called a traitor, shill, or insane to suggest otherwise.
After some years, it becomes absolutely clear none of it was true. It was all for imperialist motives. It seems that the propaganda is strong, but it has a short half life. Today you'll have trouble finding someone defending the US invasion of Iraq.
I think we are seeing the same thing with Ukraine war. In 10, 15 years people will see the war for what it is- a progressive destabilization of Eastern Europe and intentional proxy war.
But right now- it's Sovereignty™, International Law™, and Democracy™
We destroyed Iraq. We doomed millions of people for generations. And we are participating right now in the destruction of another country.
It's just that we do. We destroy.
I think we are seeing the same thing with Ukraine war. In 10, 15 years people will see the war for what it is- a progressive destabilization of Eastern Europe and intentional proxy war.
I was wondering what you meant by this but now I think I get it. We created a puppet state in Iraq to get a "buffer" against Iran. The same way Putin wants Ukraine to be its buffer against the rest of Europe. Did I get that right?
I agree with the rest of what you said.
So they just want to legalize what they've been doing all the time anyways?
Matt Gaetz b like rubbingHandsTogether.gif
Al-Bukhari ruined islam.
Nah, Islam was already ruined from the start since it was made up by a schizophrenic warmongering sex-obsessed pedo 💀
🤮
Read the headline, immediately checked if this was some the onion type of magazine
Well, it has been that kind of day
YIIIIIIKES
Meanwhile, in America...
That guy from Rhode Island is stoked.
They probably got Trump's blessing on this one
more like age of coercion
At what age have you become sexually active?
Whenever your parents make you, apparently
What a weird and arbitrary number. I wonder where they got it from.
It's The Religion of Peace, you see, which in looking the other way, in no way infantilizes the entire culture, which is good, because they're marrying the girl infants away
Nothing to see here guys. All cultures are equal and thinking the West has a better way is colonialism
/s
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.
