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18. Precisement!

Thu Oct 11, 2018, 12:03 PM

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The Feminine Power Supporting the Prophets [View all] guillaumeb Oct 2018 OP

And in addition: guillaumeb Oct 2018 #1

Because marrying a 6-7 year old girl and then consummating the marriage Stargleamer Oct 2018 #2

And what did you think of the actual article? guillaumeb Oct 2018 #5

Not much Stargleamer Oct 2018 #7

Yeah. How does all that work out for Muslim women in general? MineralMan Oct 2018 #17

You can stop at "Mohammad's first wife". Voltaire2 Oct 2018 #3

I will assume that you stopped reading at that point. guillaumeb Oct 2018 #4

I did edhopper Oct 2018 #6

An apologist, cherry-picking stories. MineralMan Oct 2018 #9

Yabbut it didn't. Although, sometimes some people MineralMan Oct 2018 #16

"Patriarchal establishment that hijacked Islam" Act_of_Reparation Oct 2018 #10

... Major Nikon Oct 2018 #12

Precisement! MineralMan Oct 2018 #18

Article has an unintended irony marylandblue Oct 2018 #13

And deliberate obfuscation Act_of_Reparation Oct 2018 #19

In almost all Islamic countries women are by law Voltaire2 Oct 2018 #15

Much of that happened relatively recently Major Nikon Oct 2018 #20

And here as in the Islamic world, it is old men perpetrating that. MineralMan Oct 2018 #21

Prior to that many of these countries were explicitly Voltaire2 Oct 2018 #22