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In reply to the discussion: Susie Bright on the Sex-Obsessed Paris ISIS Manifesto [View all]Yorktown
(2,884 posts)23. Some brain malformation, according to medicine.
Pedophile priests, like most pedophiles, appear to suffer from a brain malformation.
But the Talmud or Quran sentences which are ambiguous on the subject make it worse.
It's compounded by some clerics which would also benefit from a mental hospitalisation.
The practice is also sanctioned by many among the countrys ultra-conservative religious authorities, including Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh, the kingdoms grand mufti.
"If a girl exceeds 10 or 12 then she is eligible for marriage, and whoever thinks she is too young, then he or she is wrong and has done her an injustice,'' Al Sheikh told a Riyadh university audience in January as reported by the newspaper Al Hayat.
"If a girl exceeds 10 or 12 then she is eligible for marriage, and whoever thinks she is too young, then he or she is wrong and has done her an injustice,'' Al Sheikh told a Riyadh university audience in January as reported by the newspaper Al Hayat.
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Because Americans have a hard time realising that everything isn't always about them (n/t)
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2015
#33
True. Especially with priest forced to be single. But I was talking about the holy texts.
Yorktown
Nov 2015
#16
Seriously? You claim ignorance of Fundamentalist Christianity's obsession with female virginity?
hunter
Nov 2015
#41
Don't become a terrorist, join a band. Put down the gun and pick up a guitar
NightWatcher
Nov 2015
#6
Yep. Sexual repression makes people nuts. ISIS is the cousin to our own anti-sex domestic puritans.
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#13
Indeed. From the manifesto: "targeting the capital of prostitution and obscenity"
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#20
I've noticed she has this odd symbiotic media relationship with "Wheelock College"
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#39
It seems to me the way to piss these people off is to have sex, watch smut, listen to rock and roll
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#40
I think she's on to something. Islamic societies seem to forbid any kind of emotional or physical
smirkymonkey
Nov 2015
#25
I wasn't aware of that. But do Islamic cultures really encourage involvement in
smirkymonkey
Nov 2015
#28