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[–] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Country run by pedophiles apparently

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Apparently??

I don't think it's ever been much of a secret. Not all of them are monsters, just the ones in power and their concubines

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The people voted for this though. The secular dictatorship was replaced by a democracy, and this is something Sunni and Shia parties agree on with a majority in the parliament. The old (abolished) law was introduced in 1959 with the beginning of the republican era after the end of the monarchy in 1958.

Even the opposition to it doesn't look that popular, not a lot of people:

The US put Iraq through sanctions, killed its scientists, and artists, and then invaded it and destroyed its infrastructure. The majority of Iraqis left through all that trauma had nothing but their religion institutions and tribal connections left, and through the democratic system the US imposed voted for this directly or indirectly. It sucks, but the destruction of Iraq started decades ago.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it is a parliamentary democracy.

A democracy is never a guarantee of favorable or progressive outcomes.

[–] Yuki@kutsuya.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Nonetheless, it's still run by pedophiles. And if this is because of voting, then the people voting on this are pedophiles as well.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Could be anywhere then

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is this real? What did they accomplish?

[–] Cryan24@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago
[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh great, now some US states are gonna get jealous.

Y'all-queda is taking notes

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm so glad we brought freedom to that country 👏👏👏

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I don’t know if Netanyahu is glad now that the Iraqi resistance is attacking Israel. But he did a good job selling it to congress.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are those nine year olds also allowed to vote?

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

We're not talking about humans. It's just girls.

/s... Obviously...

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why not just remove it entirely? 9 is oddly specific

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Because 8 is too young, you pervert!

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 13 points 1 week ago

I guess it matches Aisha's age in the Qur'an

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

What other legally binding documents can a nine year old sign?

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Libertarian paradise

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought this was the onion at first, WTF, it's insane. Now wait for proposals in red states to do the same. 🤢

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think The Onion has better taste than to joke about this topic.

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure I saw a similar onion article a few years back.

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

The Onion had a whole sketch where they interviewed a pedophile.

[–] HumanPenguin 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wondering if anyone who knows the language/region.

Can confirm the terms they use. Because age of consent when its clear the child is not able to express a chioce or old enouth to understand what they would be agreeing to.

Seems like a western interpretation. Or are the laws there really that hypocritical in their terminology.

[–] fatur0000new@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did they also make rule about marrying widows? Apart from Aisha, all of the Prophet Muhammad's wives were widows

Sorry for bad english. English isn't my native language and i use translator

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Poor timing for anyone who just accepted a four year position on Trump’s cabinet.

[–] 4vr@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Iraq is bringing back child marriage!!

So this is what US/UK war on achieved.