Italy expels Muslim leader who defended marriage to 9-year-old girl.
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1shgxzr/italy_expels_muslim_leader_who_defended_marriage
Italy expels Muslim leader who defended marriage to 9-year-old girl.
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1shgxzr/italy_expels_muslim_leader_who_defended_marriage
The way this headline is phrased, it implies he is defending a specific marriage, perhaps even his own.
This isn’t what happened, even according to the article itself.
Quote (machine translated):
Pretty far from advocating child marriage.
EDIT: To clarify, it sounded to me like he was answering in an abstract, academic “this is what the book says” kind of way, and being taken out of context. Seems like I was wrong, and he’s actually just like that.
Okay no, let’s not defend this pedophile. Because that is what he is if these quotes are true.
Il Giornale is a right wing rag, but unless your claim is that the quotes are fabricated, this guy is advocating child marriage
“Se il nostro Profeta ha sposato una bambina di 12 anni, perché anche altri non lo possono fare”
“A nove anni una bambina è una donna e la puoi sposare”
You would not accept “Actually a 9 year old could have entered puberty so it isn’t pedophilia” from anyone else, so why do it here?
Seriously, we can recognize biased reporting while NOT ignoring this guy is endorsing pedophilia folks.
Okay. That adds some context. I did locate the show in question but didn’t bother trying to identify and watch the segment because I don’t speak the language. I guess I didn’t pull on this particular thread hard enough.
The quote you highlighted yourself was already bad though. There is no need to pretend that what makes the frothing xenophobic hysteria bad is that it targeted an innocent guy this time, it can target correct people and it is still wrong to make a big story out of every sin made by those of the wrong skin color, ignore the crimes of the powerful and celebrate with glee at the torment of anyone brown.