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Pikachuchupika
11/08/24 6:15:42 PM
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/iraq-poised-to-lower-the-age-of-consent-for-girls-to-nine/

Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children.
The proposed legal change also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance.
Iraqs parliament, which is dominated by a coalition of conservative Shia Muslim parties, is preparing to vote through an amendment that would overturn the countrys personal status law.
The legislation, also known as Law 188, was heralded as one of the most progressive in the Middle East when it was introduced in 1959 and provides an overarching set of rules governing the affairs of Iraqi families, regardless of their religious sect.
As well as bringing down the legal marriage age, the amendment would also remove womens rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance.
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11/08/24 6:16:16 PM
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GeminiDeus
11/08/24 6:16:35 PM
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And the GOP will say, "That's a great idea!" and bring it to the USA.

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SauI_Goodman
11/08/24 6:16:36 PM
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Middle east middle eastin'.

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EPR-radar
11/08/24 6:17:20 PM
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Patriarchy 101.

US wingnuts are busily taking notes (which is unnecessary, really). Patriarchy is essentially the same everywhere.

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11/08/24 6:17:21 PM
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DnDer
11/08/24 6:17:31 PM
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When we said we wanted the middle east to join the developed world and follow our example, we didn't mean following the republican example of maintaining child marriage as a policy.

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Prestoff
11/08/24 6:18:16 PM
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Libertarians need to move to Iraq now.

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Baron_Ox
11/08/24 6:18:27 PM
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wtf

smh, they want to legalize rape and pedophilia.

this is one of those cases where I feel global intervention is necessary.

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hmnut7
11/08/24 6:19:37 PM
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Whats worse they lowered the age of consent to 9

Or that theyre pretending they care if girls consent

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Diceheist
11/08/24 6:19:38 PM
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Look at how much the Cheneys liberated Iraq. /s
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Lokarin
11/08/24 6:19:50 PM
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It's not the age of consent tho; they don't get to consent in the first place.

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EPR-radar
11/08/24 6:19:54 PM
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DnDer posted...
When we said we wanted the middle east to join the developed world and follow our example, we didn't mean following the republican example of maintaining child marriage as a policy.
That always did ring especially hollow under a war mongering lying piece of shit like W Bush.

Now nobody in the world should want to follow our example, unless we somehow manage to flush the Giant Orange Turd and his entire filthy party down the toilet in the next few years.

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Bishop9800
11/08/24 6:23:07 PM
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GeminiDeus posted...
And the GOP will say, "That's a great idea!" and bring it to the USA.


Matt Gaetz would sponsor it......

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BlueBoy675
11/08/24 6:23:07 PM
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Charged151
11/08/24 6:24:57 PM
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Disgusting beyond words. Screw anyone who supports this measure.

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ZevLoveDOOM
11/08/24 6:26:33 PM
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major yikes...
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Xatrion
11/08/24 6:26:52 PM
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MartavisBryant
11/08/24 6:28:23 PM
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That's enough internet for me today

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YugiNoob
11/08/24 6:28:41 PM
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Euripides
11/08/24 6:28:43 PM
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Lokarin posted...
It's not the age of consent tho; they don't get to consent in the first place.

Correct, they are lowering the "legal to rape" age

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LeoRavus
11/08/24 6:37:13 PM
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HighSeraph
11/08/24 6:38:31 PM
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That's extremely fucked up

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Hikewne
11/08/24 6:41:02 PM
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Count_Drachma
11/08/24 6:44:58 PM
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Iraq's age of consent was never truly 18 because they already waivers involving child marriage

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/iraq-considers-drastic-changes-to-family-law/

More importantly "to lower" implies that this is something that's actually planned on happening. This is a PROPOSED law going back to something like May.

As your own article notes:
It isnt the first time Shia parties in Iraq have tried to amend the personal status law attempts to change it failed in 2014 and 2017, largely due to a backlash from Iraqi women.

So yeah, this is a case of "bad if it happens" but "they literally already tried it twice and failed"

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Sandalorn
11/08/24 6:46:35 PM
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Euripides posted...
Correct, they are lowering the "legal to rape" age

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EPR-radar
11/08/24 6:48:35 PM
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Euripides posted...
Correct, they are lowering the "legal to rape" age
Of course. Rape is one of the pillars of patriarchy.

In fact it may be the oldest case in point of the definition of conservatism: "in-groups above the law and out-groups with no legal rights"

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Bugmeat
11/08/24 6:48:43 PM
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They want to make it legal to rape nine year old girls? So it would not be innacurate to call Iraq a nation for pedophiles?


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EPR-radar
11/08/24 6:50:02 PM
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Bugmeat posted...
They want to make it legal to rape nine year old girls? So it would not be innacurate to call Iraq a nation for pedophiles?
Iraq is not a representative democracy, so I don't think it's fair to tar the entire nation with this shit. But its ruling class is fair game.

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fsurb28
11/08/24 6:50:08 PM
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That is flat out freaking sick, its a good thing Im not the worlds creator.

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Bugmeat
11/08/24 6:51:35 PM
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EPR-radar posted...
Iraq is not a representative democracy, so I don't think it's fair to tar the entire nation with this shit. But its ruling class is fair game.

I did say "for pedophiles" not "of pedophiles."


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Count_Drachma
11/08/24 6:54:00 PM
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Bugmeat posted...
They want to make it legal to rape nine year old girls? So it would not be innacurate to call Iraq a nation for pedophiles?

Would it not be inaccurate to call that a racist generalization?

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Jiek_Fafn
11/08/24 7:00:32 PM
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I'm trying to follow the insanity on this one? What is the significance of age 9?

Beyond being disgustingly low, its super specific and I don't understand what it's tied to. 10 was somehow too high for them and 8 was definitely too low by their standards?

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NeonPhoenix
11/08/24 7:07:04 PM
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What the fuck

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DnDer
11/08/24 7:09:23 PM
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Jiek_Fafn posted...
I'm trying to follow the insanity on this one? What is the significance of age 9?

Vague memory of admittedly deeply anti-Muslim accusations from the usual suspects that the religion was being kid-lovers because their prophet's first wife was 9 or something.

But I also heard she was some kind of caravan merchant capitalist genius.

So... I don't know, and someone will have to fact check that, but it's the only thing I can guess at.

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Puglia77
11/08/24 7:12:20 PM
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Jiek_Fafn posted...
I'm trying to follow the insanity on this one? What is the significance of age 9?

Beyond being disgustingly low, its super specific and I don't understand what it's tied to. 10 was somehow too high for them and 8 was definitely too low by their standards?
Probably the age where girls can start puberty.

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LeCh0nk
11/08/24 7:14:21 PM
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Jiek_Fafn posted...
What is the significance of age 9?
The highest number it can be to save costs on printing an extra digit on the documents, and they can say "at least it's not 8"

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Toonstrack
11/08/24 7:15:00 PM
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Yikes.

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McMarbles
11/08/24 7:19:26 PM
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*stock reaction image*

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Bladesyphon
11/08/24 7:25:04 PM
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Nope.

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Deyestus
11/08/24 7:25:57 PM
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I'm going to vomit.


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Mechu
11/08/24 7:28:42 PM
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I'm sorry wot??????

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FL81
11/08/24 7:46:47 PM
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ShineboxPhil
11/08/24 8:05:31 PM
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Went from being 50% of their country being occupied under ISIS draconian laws to now allowing this....


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ImagineUsngAlts
11/08/24 8:08:32 PM
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wow wtf I thought they were one of the more sensible countries in that region several years ago too. How you gonna do things worse than Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar

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rexcrk
11/08/24 8:18:08 PM
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LinkDaLunatic
11/08/24 8:38:12 PM
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The timing of this sure is interesting. It's almost like they knew this would be condemned... until some recent, massive change on the world stage...

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FolkenRawr
11/08/24 8:39:43 PM
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I blame President Elect, Protector of the World, Trump

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ssjevot
11/08/24 8:41:06 PM
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DnDer posted...
Vague memory of admittedly deeply anti-Muslim accusations from the usual suspects that the religion was being kid-lovers because their prophet's first wife was 9 or something.

But I also heard she was some kind of caravan merchant capitalist genius.

So... I don't know, and someone will have to fact check that, but it's the only thing I can guess at.

Aisha was engaged to Muhammad when she was 6 but lived with her parents until she was 9. That's the significance of 9. She wasn't his first wife, just one of many.

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