[BigM555]

Originally Posted by noodles

The one time I actually met him, I told him to do his sister a favor and move the fuck back to Iran and take Allah with him, because we try to avoid enslaving women in America.

So how'd that work out for ya? He's a pen pal now no doubt?

[noodles]

He got really mad, and looked like he was getting ready to beat me senseless. I just reminded him that we're allowed to insult Allah in America, and retalliation is an assult charge that carries prison time.

He told me something about staying away from his sister "or else", and I said that her delusions, and not his hollow threats, is the only thing preventing that from happening.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by noodles

He got really mad, and looked like he was getting ready to beat me senseless. I just reminded him that we're allowed to insult Allah in America, and retalliation is an assult charge that carries prison time.

He told me something about staying away from his sister "or else", and I said that her delusions, and not his hollow threats, is the only thing preventing that from happening.

Wow, what a dick.

[noodles]

I can't really blame him, since he was brought up that way. Religious indocrination is an ugly thing.

[distressed_romeo]

As an addendum to this story, some Muslims in London have apparently had 'teddy bear' or similar insults scratched onto their cars...

[distressed_romeo]

Originally Posted by noodles

I can't really blame him, since he was brought up that way. Religious indocrination is an ugly thing.

It doesn't make it any less disgusting. Apparently a lot of arranged marriages only succeed because of the insane amount of pressure from both families to stay together rather than because the couple are particularly happy.

[Nick]

agree fully its a total joke that it still goes on.

[Prometheus]

It's amazing the justifications you'll get if you give advocates of arranged marriages your opinion, namely, it's a practice that should've died out centuries ago. It's actually a fairly surreal experience, because you'll get the reasons why it's a good thing, and they almost make sense. Almost.

It constantly amazes and saddens me just how powerful that kind of religious and cultural imprinting can be, and how often it's, quite frankly, tragic. For instance, there are many people in my country - men, amazingly enough - that, thanks to their tribal teachings, think they can cure AIDS by having sex with a virgin. So, they rape female babies, the reasoning being that a 6 month old is most likely still "pure". Some call this a mere lack of education. Fuck. I'm sorry, but this kind of behaviour and thinking, this abhorrence, stems from something else, something deeper, and I fear that no amount of education can ever fix it.

Any religion/culture which places the male on a higher pedestal than the female - and correct me if I'm wrong here, but most of them do - needs to go. I have no time for anyone that, because he has a penis, thinks he is inherently better than a woman. I don't care if he's been raised that way, indoctrinated from birth to think that way, I couldn't care less. That whole way of thinking has no place in the modern world.
And what REALLY freaks me out is when the woman of said religions/cultures actually AGREE with this attitude, and have all the reasons and justifications they've been taught. And, once again, when they tell you why they think this way, it almost makes sense. Almost.

[distressed_romeo]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

It's amazing the justifications you'll get if you give advocates of arranged marriages your opinion, namely, it's a practice that should've died out centuries ago. It's actually a fairly surreal experience, because you'll get the reasons why it's a good thing, and they almost make sense. Almost.

It constantly amazes and saddens me just how powerful that kind of religious and cultural imprinting can be, and how often it's, quite frankly, tragic. For instance, there are many people in my country - men, amazingly enough - that, thanks to their tribal teachings, think they can cure AIDS by having sex with a virgin. So, they rape female babies, the reasoning being that a 6 month old is most likely still "pure". Some call this a mere lack of education. Fuck. I'm sorry, but this kind of behaviour and thinking, this abhorrence, stems from something else, something deeper, and I fear that no amount of education can ever fix it.

Any religion/culture which places the male on a higher pedestal than the female - and correct me if I'm wrong here, but most of them do - needs to go. I have no time for anyone that, because he has a penis, thinks he is inherently better than a woman. I don't care if he's been raised that way, indoctrinated from birth to think that way, I couldn't care less. That whole way of thinking has no place in the modern world.
And what REALLY freaks me out is when the woman of said religions/cultures actually AGREE with this attitude, and have all the reasons and justifications they've been taught. And, once again, when they tell you why they think this way, it almost makes sense. Almost.

Agree with everything here, although whenever I've heard people trying to justify cultural things like this, they usually can't come up with anything more than 'the [insert appropriate holy book] says...'. and act like that's justification enough.

[JJ Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by distressed_romeo

It doesn't make it any less disgusting. Apparently a lot of arranged marriages only succeed because of the insane amount of pressure from both families to stay together rather than because the couple are particularly happy.

Bari given life sentence for wife's murder

All except that one. That was my friends land lord. When they found her body in the other part of his place (I guess it had been there a little while) he was a little freaked out obviously, so I went over so we could have a smoke and chill and shit so he could get away since he doesn't have a car and I had my Mom's a lot of the time at that point. I don't know if they were muslim, but I'm pretty sure that was an arranged marriage. I guess that guy doesn't take very good care of his "property".