12-year-old girl dies while giving birth

arshad5 · September 16, 2009, 1:28am

What you have failed utterly to grasp is that doesn’t matter what is acceptable in their culture or not…there are some things which are universally acceptable and not acceptable…

Arranged marriage in our culture is acceptable to us but not acceptable to westerners…similarly binge drinking is acceptable to westerners but not to us…

but there are some things that are not acceptable to both groups

such as:

female genital mutilation which is practiced in africa

marrying a girl at 11 years of age

human sacrifice

slavery

racism

Now if you went to South Africa in the 1950’s and saw that Apartheid discriminated against Blacks and you thought, hey thats south africa’s culture and it is acceptable to them, but if I went there at that time, it is WRONG plain and simple

And if you cannot grasp that simple concept…then we have nothing to discuss

Well marriage after a girl has reached puberty is not universally unacceptable.