New Zealand school girls being forced to marry their rapists.

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Permalink Reply by The Nerd on March 15, 2010 at 12:21pm

I'm sure to them forced marriage is better than leaving the girl alone and unable to find a husband to care for her (because she's "spoiled goods"), which goes to show just how deeply fucked up their society is.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Anker on March 15, 2010 at 12:48pm

Is there another link to the video? I'm unable to watch this as it just shows the loading screen.

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Permalink Reply by Rayray on March 15, 2010 at 1:22pm

Sorry Jennifer, I cannot find any other link to it. Maybe there is another way someone smarter than I could help you with.

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Permalink Reply by Andrea Isbell on March 15, 2010 at 6:35pm

I couldn't get the video to load in the flash player, but it did in windows media player (after I downloaded a plug-in for Firefox, at least).

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Permalink Reply by Pirate Bard on March 15, 2010 at 1:11pm

Meh. It's their fault anyway for provoking the men's uncontrollable lust in the first place... right? Wait, I'm a man, in America where women wear all kinds of crazy crap and can act as sexy as they want and I've never raped anyone. Crap. There goes that argument...

Oh! I know! "They're in a different culture" so that magically makes rape the girls fault because in a different culture it's impossible for men to control themselves... right?

Sorry. I'm in a terribly un-PC mood today and sick of people not only hiding behind religion but "culture" to excuse their attrocities.

*Note: I am not in any way implying that the OP is doing or making any of the above excuses. This is just my reaction to the link, not the OP.

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Permalink Reply by Rusty Gunn. on March 15, 2010 at 7:58pm

Is NZ a muslim country?

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Permalink Reply by Scott on March 15, 2010 at 8:35pm

Assuming that these numbers are even remotely accurate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_Zealand#Religions_...
We can see that christian is declared dominant, while islam is counted as very small.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Anker on March 16, 2010 at 9:10pm

Downloaded the wmp plugin and it worked. That man says that it is a cultural thing to force girls to marry young and to marry rapists, but that it is not in the Quran. I don't know if that's true as I haven't read it myself yet. However, it is in the Christian Bible that if your daughter is raped and betrothed, the rapist owes the father x amount of shekels. If she is not betrothed, she is then to be married to her rapist and he cannot divorce her. Why is it then that a culture whose religion forbids forced marriage frequently commits this atrocity and our culture whose largest religion endorses it does not?

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Permalink Reply by Rayray on March 17, 2010 at 5:50am

I posted this link to my facebook and my cousin (who "really loves Jesus") replied that she "...hate(d) everything about rape..." and I quoted that verse to her just to let her know I hate one more thing than she does about it. She was shocked. I told her that is just a small piece of why we should be concerned with what is in that book. She didn't want to talk about it anymore. I know, what a shocker.

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