Muslim Young Bride

And the western people said that we Muslim women are under great oppression and are often looked down as sex slaves. Thank you for your concern.

Child Married at Very Young Age
Their definition of young or very young is certainly amusing. 18years and above is the age of full legal responsibility. I have no objection whatsoever on this matter. But their perception that only people above 18 are highly matured and capable of making their own decision is very misleading and mmm..not so clever :P At 16 years old, when they were still busy playing farmville on facebook because they believe that they are still underage and should not be responsible for anything other then setting the home computer network or doing the lawn mowing once a while, my mother took a step ahead and started her own family and real life farmville at the same age. Just because they are not capable and REFUSED to take the responsibility and the joy of being in legal and traditional marriage, that doesnt mean that other people are not (should not be) capable of doing so. They should learn to stop talking about other people's culture and start looking into real world. 

Ms Facebook is not real, honey. Nor does Mr Google. Take a look into real life and real issues, not something about muslim women that you googled and can make you sound so intelligent if you can make a comment or two after you read them on the online paper. Since you love google so much, maybe you can start to read real issues on pedophile cases or pedophile priests or even child sex abuse - at least these articles were written by your own people, unlike many stories about one of us that were made controversial in the hand of dirty journalists (but still, you think you would look good if you copy and paste something about muslim related issues in your blog).

The problem is that they are comparing their green apples with our rotten ones. Now, some of them will begin to defend themselves by saying that these statistic (from the links i gave above) showing thousands of pedophile cases that happened in USA as 'unfortunate and isolated' cases and should not be made into comparison. Then, they should really listen to themselves. Freedom speech is practiced everywhere in western countries, but they seemed to be lacking of the "freedom to be heard" and "freedom to be wise". Thus, those who do the talking are likely to be only the absent minded people who read/listen less, less knowledgable, and have less shame, but are capable of doing more "convincing talk".

Let's get back to the young bride issues. I must say, at least, these young children are married, and these young brides' honor/pride are highly dignified. Let me make it clear that Ive never agreed on anything that would put a child to a condition that she could be sexually abused after marriage. The abuse which unfortunately can escalate to death penalty in the name of honor killings (which is rare in most Muslim countries) happened in few countries where regardless of the religion, women has always been poorly/abusively treated. They are cases involving Hindus, atheists, some Muslims. And you can always guess the name of the countries.

Although some stupid western people trying to impress their colleagues on their "vast knowledge" in international/ human right issues by 'generalizing' all issues that relate to muslims as religion issues, they failed to see that these are more to local cultural problems. There are billions of Muslim in this world today - Canadian, American, French, Chinese, Pakistanis, Saudis, Egyptians, Indonesians, Malaysians, Thais, Japanese...Now, you need to hear yourself again when you say anything about Islam, because you might be insulting some of your Japanese friends :P. Islam is a religion of peace. But culture and education are two main factors that contribute to one's personality and social life.  

Is the girl happy? How do you decide who is naughty happy or not?

There are worse cases in western countries. To avoid downgrading myself to the same level as these internet trolls who are playing Anderson 360 on every topic they googled, I would rather they do their own research the way they used to. Google.
- 1 in 3 soldiers - US military rape
- child murder
- newborn abused and killed
- pedophile cases: jaycee dugard and elizabeth smart
except for the last link above, the other links contain such heartbreaking stories, I would NOT recommend anyone to click on the second and third links.

I love to read unbiased report that everyone can benefit from, and like it even more if the solutions are proposed (rarely is the case). But here's an interesting one - this article here. The reference I show here isnt from any academic journal/sources, but the compilation showed some interesting statistic about 'single mother and the parenting problems/risks' and there were also citation for each statistic written (though i have no way in knowing how accurate these figures are). It is written there that 41% of these single mothers were never married. Im just...surprised, and at the same time i am really curious about the actual number/percentage of these women out of all women who have illegitimate child/ren.

Let's be fair.


Women and Children Sexual Abuse is not a problem that  happen only in certain countries. Or within certain community. Or restricted to certain religions.This is a global issue. Women have the right to protect themselves, and to feel secured, and to love, and to be loved.

I feel secured and very comfortable when I can choose my own dress that I put on myself.