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Old 05-14-2008, 02:26 AM
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Default Re: 8-year-old girl asks for divorce in court

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Originally Posted by jinnzaman View Post
He claimed that the Islamic ruling on a particular issue was "unmodern" without being able to articulate why modernity mattered and failed even to define what he meant by it. His incoherency as well as his use of self-propagating arguments is what makes his opinion irrelevant.

And prove to me why his opinion has value or that anyone's opinion has value while you're at it.
Maybe he was alluding to the 'modern' knowledge that preteen girls who undergo a childbirth have a much higher likelihood of loosing their baby, or their own lives because their bodies aren't ready to handle it.

Then again maybe he was just imaging what it would be like to give up his own 8 year-old girl to become the sexual partner of an adult male, and was making an arbitrary statement about it. In which case he'd still be as justified as anyone is to the contrary. Because every position on the matter is just that, arbitrary.
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