I know of many good Muslims who are completely baffled by some adherents to Islam. The Saudis are the keepers of most of the many Islamic shrines and therefore hold that they have a right to determine what is Islamic and what is not.
A Saudi court has seen fit to allow a girl of 8 to "marry" a man of sixty! This on the condition that he does not have sex with her until she reaches puberty. Some condition.
I think this has nothing to do with a religious understanding, nothing whatsoever to do with God's designs in the world. It is all about the power and corruption of a very despicable regime that has usurped religion, trodden on the humanity of its people and conned the world into buying oil at inflated prices.
I know this is going to be lost on such men as this benighted "judge", but Jesus said that anyone who did wrong to children would be better off having a millstone round his neck and being flung into the depths of the ocean. Warning indeed!
President Obama has been urged to lead the way. Perhaps he could start by denouncing this evil and suggesting that Saudi Arabia shapes up by joining the civilised world. Roll on the electric car!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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