Saudi Cleric Defends Marrying Under Age Girls: Human Rights are for Christians, etc.

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just cause something is part of a culture doesn't make it immune to criticism or protect it from change. and fuck that, its not about being on a moral high ground, rather its raising questions to the culture in question about the logic and the ethics of their practices. if i saw some guy beating up an old lady, i'd stop it. does that make me a 'moral policeman'?
 

k3n

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just cause something is part of a culture doesn't make it immune to criticism or protect it from change. and fuck that, its not about being on a moral high ground, rather its raising questions to the culture in question about the logic and the ethics of their practices. if i saw some guy beating up an old lady, i'd stop it. does that make me a 'moral policeman'?

Also keep in mind we get a huge chunk of our oil from these sick freaks. So we have every right to be concerned how they "run things".
 

Hacp

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just cause something is part of a culture doesn't make it immune to criticism or protect it from change. and fuck that, its not about being on a moral high ground, rather its raising questions to the culture in question about the logic and the ethics of their practices. if i saw some guy beating up an old lady, i'd stop it. does that make me a 'moral policeman'?

Sometimes, its best to leave things alone. If we protested and reacted to every injustice that happened, we would be wasting a shitload of taxpayer time and money. Why don't we worry about the US first and let other countries worry about themselves?
 

bobsmith1492

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Sometimes, its best to leave things alone. If we protested and reacted to every injustice that happened, we would be wasting a shitload of taxpayer time and money. Why don't we worry about the US first and let other countries worry about themselves?

You have to be careful; that's the mentality that let Hitler take over all of Europe and slaughter millions of Jews, gypsies, and others.
 

Hacp

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You have to be careful; that's the mentality that let Hitler take over all of Europe and slaughter millions of Jews, gypsies, and others.

Lol it always leads to hitler? No, we have nukes now. There aren't going to be any mass slaughters that we don't want.
 

brownzilla786

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Lol it always leads to hitler? No, we have nukes now. There aren't going to be any mass slaughters that we don't want.

So, in order to avoid a mass slaughter we will threaten an even bigger mass slaughter? Bob has a point, but it only works in extreme examples. Generally speaking, we should not involve ourselves with other nations, but in SOME instances it might be necessary.
 
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Sometimes, its best to leave things alone. If we protested and reacted to every injustice that happened, we would be wasting a shitload of taxpayer time and money. Why don't we worry about the US first and let other countries worry about themselves?

we can bring shit up if it could possibly affect us. we're buying shit from people who think that nonsense like that is ok.
 

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Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif: Aisha said that when a girl reaches the age of nine, she becomes a woman.

No wonder they're so ass-backwards. They get to justify their terrorism and pedophilia based on their holy book.
 

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I think that what he's saying is those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

If that's what he's saying then he's admitting that marrying underage girls is wrong. However, since America has killed children in Iraq, that gives us no right to complain about what is essentially child-slavery and child-rape.
 

brownzilla786

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If that's what he's saying then he's admitting that marrying underage girls is wrong. However, since America has killed children in Iraq, that gives us no right to complain about what is essentially child-slavery and child-rape.

Sounds logical to me, especially since the marrying of children is such a minority. It's very likely that America has killed more children (obviously from collateral damage) through its wars than saudi men has married children. If you look at it from his perspective, it sounds silly that America would be worried about marrying children, once again, especially because it rarely happens.
 

gingermeggs

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the us has millions of ten year old girls that live in poverty, have no parents, have no homes, live in dangerous neighborhoods, have no education etc... maybe americans should just shut the heck up and stop worrying about what is going on in other countries until we have our own act together, which will be never.
So true- clean up your own back yard before you try to "moralize" everyone else.
He who casts the first stone' as the saying goes.
If some country can get living life close to perfect, it just might become virulent worldwide!
 

gingermeggs

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war in iraq and afghanistan are irrelevant.

saudi arabia is trying to justify its infant-raping by saying the USA "kills" children in foreign muslim countries.

it's like you raping someone, and then telling the judge other people rape each other too...as if it makes it okay.
It's like shit coming outta your head'
Who was the western nation which set up the Saudi monarchy?
Many different types of spiders, live under different shape and sized rocks, all are venomous!
 

halik

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The apologists are strong in this thread

You sure you can see us all from up there?
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I see that as a flipside of the cartoons of Muhammad - nutty muslims can't tell us what to do, but that goes the other way as well.

How would you feel about US trying to stop amazonian tribes from marrying off their 10-12 y/o daughters?
 
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Kadarin

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You know this is what they did in the old days. People used to marry off their daughters. Obviously, in our culture, it is wrong but other cultures still do this. Why should we tell other people from foreign countries what to do with their lives? Just leave them alone and maybe they won't bomb our buildings anymore.

Doesn't work so well, because that culture breeds fast and wants to spread.
 

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You can criticize them all you want, but in the end it's still their country, and their laws, and none of our f'ing business. Don't give the trigger-happy leaders an excuse to start yet another war in the ME.
 
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You can criticize them all you want, but in the end it's still their country, and their laws, and none of our f'ing business. Don't give the trigger-happy leaders an excuse to start yet another war in the ME.

Hehe, WHAT nation would start a war against a nation so cuddled and protected by the worlds only super power?

SA is a sheithole of a nation where they burn schoolgirls alive and produce more terrorists than any other one nation but it does enjoy the protection of the US.