[TRIGGER WARNING: statutory rape, coercion, child abuse, domestic violence] القاصرات (The Minors)

[inkedfeathers]

There's an Egyptian TV series airing this Ramadan tackling the social issue of older men marrying very young girls (12 years old on average)...

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[trickseybird]

That sounds like a great series.
I think justification of any violence leads to more violence, especially of a vulnerable group :(

[kanimaki]

I'll just leave this here: a standardized high school textbook for Islamic studies (that every Muslim student in our country's public schools has to use). Someone else translated it from Malay to English.

[inkedfeathers]

I think your scrapbook is private? The picture doesn't show up and when I try to follow the direct URL, it tells me I don't have access to it.

[kanimaki]

Hmm it won't let me edit my post again so:

[inkedfeathers]

Refusing to hav-- LOSES HER RIGHTS, WHAT. Will be rough-handed, whaaaat, what, what-

I'm sorry, I don't have any words for this, except why are they writing so many things they can't even cite evidence for, oh, right, because it goes against Islamic teachings, so if they cited any reliable ahadeeth for many of these claims, they'd prove themselves wrong!

That's horrifying and I am so sorry it's taught in schools (not that my country's that much better in that regard... think of the strictest rulings imaginable and most hardline interpretations possible, then multiply that by a hundred, and then present it as the only way to understand Islam, firm refusal to accept any other view points for decades and you've got our system for the most part.)