We can develop our knowledge of the cultures we are not so sure of. This thread will lead down the practices Islamic countries and how they sex offfense are dealt with, if they are investigated at all. Raping a Christian women is not a death penalty punishment, if he is a Muslim man.On the contrary, the raping of a Muslim woman by a Christian man is a "Death Penalty" offense. Look it up, it is, what it is!
Why the harsh contrast, long held tradition places the Muslim as a higher being than a Christian, Jew (Pagan was to convert to Islam or die!). Mohammed wrote glowingly of "People of the Book", this has been replaced by new thinking from Islamic thinkers who corrupted the Prophet's teachings.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/25/middle-east-child-abuse-pederasty
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"The moral hypocrisy is outrageous in a country where homosexuality is not only strictly forbidden but savagely punished, even between two consenting adults. However, men who sodomise young boys are not considered homosexuals or paedophiles. The love of young boys is not a phenomenon restricted to Afghanistan; homosexual pederasty is common in neighbouring Pakistan, too. In my view, repression of sexuality and extreme gender apartheid is to blame.
And in the Middle East, it's young girls who are considered desirable and men are able to satisfy their lusts legally through child marriages. In Yemen, more than a quarter of girls are married before the age of 15. Cases of girls dying during childbirth are not unusual, and recently, one 12-year-old child bride even died from internal bleeding following sexual intercourse. In another case, a 12-year-old girl was married to an 80-year-old man in Saudi Arabia.
So why is the practice of child marriage sanctioned in Muslim countries? Unfortunately, ultra-conservative religious authorities justify this old tribal custom by citing the prophet Muhammad's marriage to Aisha. They allege Aisha was nine years old when the prophet married her. But they focus conveniently on selected Islamic texts to support their opinions, while ignoring vast number of other texts and historical information, which suggests Aisha was much older, putting her age of marriage at 19. Child marriage is against Islam as the Qur'an is clear that intellectual maturity is the basis for deciding age of marriage, and not puberty, as suggested by these clerics."
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