Hunter gatherers, both boys and girls did not reach sexual maturity until 15years old, the abundance of food in post hunter gather societies made young girls and boys mature earlier so a child’s mind is not mature enough to be a mother or father until at least 15 years of age.
Please explain this rule; Among its most controversial provisions, it says that the silence of a girl reaching puberty can be interpreted as consent to marriage.
What does this actually mean? Is it literal? And if so, please provide reasons why a girl may not choose to say “no.” Seems obvious and having to clarify so people cannot justify this by saying ‘all she has to do is say no.’
The Taliban claiming this is Islamic is obscene. Silence is not consent, puberty is not adulthood, and trapping a girl in marriage because her husband’s word counts more than her own is not religion. It is patriarchal violence with a beard and a stamp pad.
Although I haven’t been able to confirm this, I am under the impression that the USA has ‘returned’ some Afghan families to Afghanistan that have been here for the past four or so years. Try to imagine being an Afghan girl who arrived in the USA four years ago at age 9, then spending four years here, making friends, playing soccer, thinking about a career, and BAM, at age 13, your family is told the program that brought them to the USA is being brought to an end and they must return to Afghanistan.
The timing of this action by the Taliban is probably not coincidental.
Perhaps when Nuremberg 2.0 begins to hand out sentences, we can ship off these convicted perps and their families to Afghanistan. The Taliban may welcome the money.
AS long as electoral politics leans so heavily against female representation, the US can never qualify as a full democracy. Women can work, women can study, but women are not represented meaningfully in any elected body in this nation. Nor are they represented meaningfully in any of the judicial or law enforcement agencies (in which we have an abundance of male power with all the brutality and ignorance that entails.) Within every professional grouping, medicine, law, science, higher education, male dominance reigns. Male collegiality conspires to depress, to close ranks to erect barriers to female participation - still using the ancient tropes of marriage and childbirth/and rearing to deny women rights and equality. One could even postulate the recent increase in mother and child mortality as the self serving proof of female unreliability. Death in childbirth was the perfect staging for serial monogamy and polygamy for eons.
One geneticist - maybe more than one, predicts the eventual decline of the male half of our species. An early signal of that may be the diminishing sperm counts although it may be that exposure to the toxins so ubiquitous on the planet is equally to blame. Ironically almost all of those toxins have come about from the work of male scientists, heedless of the damage to themselves.
Male aggression has always endangered the survival of the sperm donors. Are they subliminally aware of this and is this stoking their punishment of females?
This is horrifying and heartbreaking on every level. My Mother was so over protective of myself and my sisters, we were certain it was because of her being abused as a child. The thought of any parent willingly allowing their daughter to be wed, and then sexually abused as a child boggles the mind. We have got to do better by the children of the world, not just here.
Thank you for speaking out on this issue. I have been speaking out on this for almost 50 years, in solidarity with Muslim women and also against such practices here in the U.S. But I do not in the slightest expect our current misogynous regime to take on this fight.
When patriarchal society governed by deeply insecure and fragile men who must constantly and violently oppress women and girls and deny them their human rights and autonomy to the extent their economic and social survival are wholly dependent upon submission to men who need to diminish them for their own sense of masculinity to remain in tact and validate their self worth and prescribed purpose- it not only normalizes men’s desires but treats them as his needs to be fulfilled at the expense of the lives of women and girls. Religion is for men, not women.
Hunter gatherers, both boys and girls did not reach sexual maturity until 15years old, the abundance of food in post hunter gather societies made young girls and boys mature earlier so a child’s mind is not mature enough to be a mother or father until at least 15 years of age.
If a girl fails to speak up she is assumed to be open to marriage to an adult man.
Yet if she does speak up about it she’s severely punished or jailed for defying a male dominated society.
In much the same way underage girls in the US are preyed upon by older men.
America has destroyed the Middle East on behalf of Israel
Please explain this rule; Among its most controversial provisions, it says that the silence of a girl reaching puberty can be interpreted as consent to marriage.
What does this actually mean? Is it literal? And if so, please provide reasons why a girl may not choose to say “no.” Seems obvious and having to clarify so people cannot justify this by saying ‘all she has to do is say no.’
The Taliban claiming this is Islamic is obscene. Silence is not consent, puberty is not adulthood, and trapping a girl in marriage because her husband’s word counts more than her own is not religion. It is patriarchal violence with a beard and a stamp pad.
It’s plain child rape
Absolutely disgusting that they're doing this, it hurts children and makes Muslims look bad.
Although I haven’t been able to confirm this, I am under the impression that the USA has ‘returned’ some Afghan families to Afghanistan that have been here for the past four or so years. Try to imagine being an Afghan girl who arrived in the USA four years ago at age 9, then spending four years here, making friends, playing soccer, thinking about a career, and BAM, at age 13, your family is told the program that brought them to the USA is being brought to an end and they must return to Afghanistan.
The timing of this action by the Taliban is probably not coincidental.
Perhaps when Nuremberg 2.0 begins to hand out sentences, we can ship off these convicted perps and their families to Afghanistan. The Taliban may welcome the money.
Absolutely right on Qasim. You are our hero 👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
AS long as electoral politics leans so heavily against female representation, the US can never qualify as a full democracy. Women can work, women can study, but women are not represented meaningfully in any elected body in this nation. Nor are they represented meaningfully in any of the judicial or law enforcement agencies (in which we have an abundance of male power with all the brutality and ignorance that entails.) Within every professional grouping, medicine, law, science, higher education, male dominance reigns. Male collegiality conspires to depress, to close ranks to erect barriers to female participation - still using the ancient tropes of marriage and childbirth/and rearing to deny women rights and equality. One could even postulate the recent increase in mother and child mortality as the self serving proof of female unreliability. Death in childbirth was the perfect staging for serial monogamy and polygamy for eons.
One geneticist - maybe more than one, predicts the eventual decline of the male half of our species. An early signal of that may be the diminishing sperm counts although it may be that exposure to the toxins so ubiquitous on the planet is equally to blame. Ironically almost all of those toxins have come about from the work of male scientists, heedless of the damage to themselves.
Male aggression has always endangered the survival of the sperm donors. Are they subliminally aware of this and is this stoking their punishment of females?
The Talibangelicals in America are every bit as bad as the Taliban. Two sides of the same coin.
Worse, the Americans think they're more white so get away with more.
Thank you! This is what the US does best - blames others for conduct we engage in ourselves.
This is horrifying and heartbreaking on every level. My Mother was so over protective of myself and my sisters, we were certain it was because of her being abused as a child. The thought of any parent willingly allowing their daughter to be wed, and then sexually abused as a child boggles the mind. We have got to do better by the children of the world, not just here.
Thank you for speaking out on this issue. I have been speaking out on this for almost 50 years, in solidarity with Muslim women and also against such practices here in the U.S. But I do not in the slightest expect our current misogynous regime to take on this fight.
When patriarchal society governed by deeply insecure and fragile men who must constantly and violently oppress women and girls and deny them their human rights and autonomy to the extent their economic and social survival are wholly dependent upon submission to men who need to diminish them for their own sense of masculinity to remain in tact and validate their self worth and prescribed purpose- it not only normalizes men’s desires but treats them as his needs to be fulfilled at the expense of the lives of women and girls. Religion is for men, not women.
The only problem with “religion is for men, not women” is that one half of humankind is willingly ceding a tool of power to the other.
The contrasts of law, treaty, and Islam are truly remarkable. Thank you for defining each premise for a better understanding.
In learning about 30 state Republicans voting, in essence, to approve child rape by marriage is unfathomable and frankly, abhorrent.
Continuing devaluation of females, considering them unworthy of a childhood and education. It is sure as hell here too.
Kudos to you Qasim.