Just because a young girl gets a period, it doesn’t mean she should get pregnant. It is dangerous for them, and the girl is not emotionally responsible enough to be a mother full time. Babysitting is one thing, but taking care of an infant full time is quite anothèr.
As we have a paedophile in the White House I doubt anything will be done until there's a regime change in the USA. I'm glad you're speaking up about this though Qasim. This is definitely a human rights issue too. This is just one more reason that I don't follow any organised religion. They all choose their own interpretation depending on their wants.
Religion has nothing to do with it. Islam actually prohibits child marriage and exploitation of women and girls. People will use their religions to justify whatever they want to do, and if there were no religion they would use something else.
That's exactly right. White "Christian" Nationalists are riding roughshod over the rest of us "in the name of God or Jesus" or whatever is festering in the cobweb brains of those who claim all the power over the rest of us. It has ALWAYS been about religion. And, by association, wealth unlimited.
Without a complete change in leadership and in our own laws, the US can never be relied upon to stand up for the rights of girls and women. We see now that we have monumental work to do in the US regarding all human rights. SOON, because we're backpeddling FAST.
Thanks always, Qasim, for your brilliant articles and for bringing these issues to the fore.
Thank you for always standing up for human rights, women’s rights and children’s, and in this case girls’ right… in Afghanistan, around the world and in our country. That this continues and the US isn’t leading by banning child brides, is appalling but not surprising since misogyny is a tenant of so many authoritarian regimes that abuse religion to enforce cruelty and their power over others.
I agree that this new rule, law, by the Taliban, is compulsory for us to stand up against, but HOW? The Taliban are fanatics. I do not know hardly anything about Islam ... but I see the women in head-to-toe coverings, including their faces. They have no rights -- men decide everything. Do "their" men even allow female Muslims to vote in the U.S.? I ask you, Qasim, because you are Muslim.
As an American woman, I am free, and do not like this obvious shuttering of women. Of course we should not allow child marriage in the U.S., yet fundamentalist christian sects, southern states, have laws with very low age as "adult" to marry. What MEN decided this? To me, it seems religions of all stripes, put restrictions on females, so again, Qasim, I ask you, what is the value of religion? It confounds and confuses and restricts people that the men who lead, decide upon. I subscribe because you are a human rights lawyer, and explain in detail and empathy, but every time restrictive religion is thrown in my face, I am angry and frustrated. I am moral and do good, am kind, ..... without a religion.
America seems to always be dragging its feet when it comes to women's rights. There are so many states here that still would take away most of women's rights if they could manage it, to whit abortion rights and contraception, plus the fact that the equal rights amendment still has not passed federally. Hopefully this is one of the many things we will update when the Dems again have power in the federal government.
Culture always molds religious practises. When I married we were wed outside the communion rail at my Catholic parish church because ours was a “mixed” marriage. My husband was Protestant. Child marriage is wrong and we should have signed the agreement. We probably did not want to roil up our oil producing friends. Currently, the tides have turned for the women’s movement - here in the US and in other countries. Our progress has been blocked by the current administration and SCOTUS. But only temporarily I hope.
Whats written in Quran is one thing and how it is interpreted can be entirely different. Crooked men will always find justification to do what they want.
If you’re proclaiming yourself a True Believer-in any religion-then know what your religion allows and doesn’t allow. Stop twisting the words of you sacred texts in order to justify the subjugation of women. To justify war. Slavery. Do human beings have a congenital inability to understand what they read? It seems every religion twists the words in order to get a life those in power want. Not what was written down by prophets, saints, apostles and disciples. This is why I have no use for organized religion. The leaders of religions never shut these people down and educate them on what the Bible, Koran, or any other religious text, actually says.
For any followers of Christ reading this, let's take the responsible path required by a direct reading of our faith too: denounce the abuse of all children everywhere. And let's work to free women and children everywhere - including the U.S. - because it is the ethical and faithful thing to do. We have to clean up our own houses too.
Just because a young girl gets a period, it doesn’t mean she should get pregnant. It is dangerous for them, and the girl is not emotionally responsible enough to be a mother full time. Babysitting is one thing, but taking care of an infant full time is quite anothèr.
We don’t have the words yet to describe these atrocities.
As we have a paedophile in the White House I doubt anything will be done until there's a regime change in the USA. I'm glad you're speaking up about this though Qasim. This is definitely a human rights issue too. This is just one more reason that I don't follow any organised religion. They all choose their own interpretation depending on their wants.
Religion has nothing to do with it. Islam actually prohibits child marriage and exploitation of women and girls. People will use their religions to justify whatever they want to do, and if there were no religion they would use something else.
That's exactly right. White "Christian" Nationalists are riding roughshod over the rest of us "in the name of God or Jesus" or whatever is festering in the cobweb brains of those who claim all the power over the rest of us. It has ALWAYS been about religion. And, by association, wealth unlimited.
Without a complete change in leadership and in our own laws, the US can never be relied upon to stand up for the rights of girls and women. We see now that we have monumental work to do in the US regarding all human rights. SOON, because we're backpeddling FAST.
Thanks always, Qasim, for your brilliant articles and for bringing these issues to the fore.
Another glaring example of the harm religion and religious literature do to women and girls. The patriarchy in all its glory!
One other thought came to mind that I shared a few years ago on social media...
Women MUST have a voice politically - Today, the age of consent in Texas is 16. It was changed the year women got the right to vote.
The year before? The age of consent was NINE.
It seems to always have been even in more progressive cultures, hiding in the shadows waiting for its time in the light.
trump’s Afghanistan deal enabled to return of the Taliban. Perhaps trump was hoping to vacation there someday?
Thank you for always standing up for human rights, women’s rights and children’s, and in this case girls’ right… in Afghanistan, around the world and in our country. That this continues and the US isn’t leading by banning child brides, is appalling but not surprising since misogyny is a tenant of so many authoritarian regimes that abuse religion to enforce cruelty and their power over others.
I agree that this new rule, law, by the Taliban, is compulsory for us to stand up against, but HOW? The Taliban are fanatics. I do not know hardly anything about Islam ... but I see the women in head-to-toe coverings, including their faces. They have no rights -- men decide everything. Do "their" men even allow female Muslims to vote in the U.S.? I ask you, Qasim, because you are Muslim.
As an American woman, I am free, and do not like this obvious shuttering of women. Of course we should not allow child marriage in the U.S., yet fundamentalist christian sects, southern states, have laws with very low age as "adult" to marry. What MEN decided this? To me, it seems religions of all stripes, put restrictions on females, so again, Qasim, I ask you, what is the value of religion? It confounds and confuses and restricts people that the men who lead, decide upon. I subscribe because you are a human rights lawyer, and explain in detail and empathy, but every time restrictive religion is thrown in my face, I am angry and frustrated. I am moral and do good, am kind, ..... without a religion.
America seems to always be dragging its feet when it comes to women's rights. There are so many states here that still would take away most of women's rights if they could manage it, to whit abortion rights and contraception, plus the fact that the equal rights amendment still has not passed federally. Hopefully this is one of the many things we will update when the Dems again have power in the federal government.
Culture always molds religious practises. When I married we were wed outside the communion rail at my Catholic parish church because ours was a “mixed” marriage. My husband was Protestant. Child marriage is wrong and we should have signed the agreement. We probably did not want to roil up our oil producing friends. Currently, the tides have turned for the women’s movement - here in the US and in other countries. Our progress has been blocked by the current administration and SCOTUS. But only temporarily I hope.
Whats written in Quran is one thing and how it is interpreted can be entirely different. Crooked men will always find justification to do what they want.
If you’re proclaiming yourself a True Believer-in any religion-then know what your religion allows and doesn’t allow. Stop twisting the words of you sacred texts in order to justify the subjugation of women. To justify war. Slavery. Do human beings have a congenital inability to understand what they read? It seems every religion twists the words in order to get a life those in power want. Not what was written down by prophets, saints, apostles and disciples. This is why I have no use for organized religion. The leaders of religions never shut these people down and educate them on what the Bible, Koran, or any other religious text, actually says.
For any followers of Christ reading this, let's take the responsible path required by a direct reading of our faith too: denounce the abuse of all children everywhere. And let's work to free women and children everywhere - including the U.S. - because it is the ethical and faithful thing to do. We have to clean up our own houses too.