Wrong on so many levels?

[d9f1c7]

How can Islam expect anything but disdain from the civilised world when this sort of thing happens? Traditional practice apparently!
http://news.sky.com/h...news/article/16189226

[d9f1c7]

well I don't know what planet you are on mate but this is not about car parks

[chaptazbru]

Agree. Poor kid.

[Zeuhl]

It may be associated with Islam but is not directly related to Islam

It's yet another example of traditional arab laws and cultural practices that are still medieval in nature

Locking up your women and worrying above all else about whether you can swap them for some camels might have made sense when they lived in tents in the middle of the desert but I think they need to modernise their thinking as we did several hundred years ago.

And yes, crime in car parks is also wrong on many levels :-)

[andy-hughes]

Of course this is a dreadful situation but -

other nations do not live by our culture and our laws, and although we find such situations abhorrent, there is little we can do to alter cultural traditions of other nations who grow up with these behaviours as the norm.

As far as Islam condonning it - i see no evidence to suggest that this is so - only a willingness by some westerners to provide a link that does not actually exist in order to perpetuate their notion that all Muslims are somehow backward barbarians who do not deserve oxygen.

Such ignorance and intolerence is not the way forward, for anyone.

[Zeuhl]

^^
Bit pointless you being here if you are incapable of expressing a view that isn't illegal, unintelligent or badly thought through.

In my experience, even views that are extreme or in some way unpopular are accepted if they display some level if intelligent thought, factual knowledge or reasoning

[Zeuhl]

All a question of interpretation I suppose

[whiskeryron]

//other nations do not live by our culture and our laws, and although we find such situations abhorrent, there is little we can do to alter cultural traditions of other nations who grow up with these behaviours as the norm.// I know that this shocking occurrence did not happen in this country but so many immigrants bring so much of their cultures with them, we must be very vigilant that things like this are not allowed to take place here.

W Ron.

[andy-hughes]

Rymnt - whom is the 'apologist' we are supposed to be ignoring?

[Zeuhl]

Agreed

especially as - conversely - many muslims have moved here to get away from this sort of abuse

[Snafu03]

Hmmm. Adequately fielded by some posters who like to make the link between Catholicism and child abuse.

[naomi24]

//the family of the victim sometimes agrees out of fear that she will not be able to find a husband if it is known she was raped.//

Within Islam it is common for the victim to bear the perceived disgrace of having been raped - and Morocco is far from alone in its ‘cultural’ practices.

[ChuckFickens]

"the admin team here disagrees."

You can express any point of view you like as long as it's done in a reasoned, mature and non-offensive way.

Nobody will ban or suspend you just because they don't agree with you.

[B00]

I might, however I can usually be bribed with an ample supply of cakes, and by ample I mean anything over a wheelbarrows worth.

[B00]

sorry, my reply was to Chucky.

[Zeuhl]

<<Anyone that finds an excuse that somehow attempts to justify the behavior>>

Just to be clear rymt

I can't see a single post on this thread that does that

[jno]

"A third of Britons believe a woman who acts flirtatiously is partially or completely to blame for being raped"

Which doesn't sound so very different from the attitudes in Morocco.

http://www.dailymail....omen-blame-raped.html

Obviously I abhor this.