Is the US Islamaphobic & racist for outlawing Child & Cousin Marraige?

[Gwendoline]

Yes US is Islamaphobic

No banning Child & Cousin Marraige is right

Other

A total of 69 votes were cast: 18 girls and 51 guys. See detailed results

[Anonymous]

Any country where killing pedophiles is illegal is corrupt. ㅤ

[Opinion Owner]

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[Opinion Owner]

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[Opinion Owner]

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[abc3643]

You are misinformed. The US does not "outlaw child and cousin marriage".

In the United States, for the most part, each state determines marriage laws.

The Federal Government cannot ban marriages but it can, constitutionally, "ban bans" of marriage. For instance, 10 years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that states could not ban same sex marriages and that, furthermore, any state and the Federal Government had to recognize same sex marriages performed in other states.

So, in the US, in many states, you CAN marry cousins or minors. However, each state is different and, furthermore, a marriage must be recognized by the state even if such a marriage was illegal to have been performed in that state. This is due to the "Full Faith and Credit Clause" in Article IV Section 1 of the US Constitution:

Article IV
Section 1
Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.

For instance, suppose the State of Pennsyltucky permitted marriage between a 14-year-old boy and a 20-year-old woman. However, the State of Lawnguyland does not permit such a marriage. So, if Billy Joe Jim Bob was 14 and Mary Sue was 20 when they were legally married in Pennsyltucky but then the couple moves to Lawnguyland, Lawnguyland must recognize their marriage even though performing such a marriage in Lawnguyland would be illegal.

[Screenwriter]

We have state laws in the U. S., that existed before we had a significant number of Somali here, banning child marriage. No one in any U. S. state can marry or abduct an 8 year old girl, as this story was describing. Legal marital age is usually 16 to 17.

In most U. S. states people can marry cousins, though it is still unusual for people to marry first cousins. There used to be laws banning first-cousin marriage, but most of them have been changed.

Child marriage would be child abuse in the U. S. and that's how our laws have developed. Again, this has nothing to do with being against Islam, as there was no significant number of Islamic people here when those laws were instituted.

I understand that are conflicts with Islamic law and U. S. state and federal laws, but that's how it's set up here. We do not operate under Sharia or any other religious law, as seems to be the case in Somalia.

So, these laws were not instituted against Somalis. They were in place long before they came here.

[emeraldsaphire]

This "Islamophobia" BS needs to stop. No, It's not "Islamophobic" to say it's wrong to rape kids. I know they are saying "child marriage" but we all know what that means. This is the same logic that defends the Muslim grooming gangs in the UK, or the city in the US that banned the pride flag.

I'm glad we are all against racism now, but the problem with racism is making judgments about people for nothing other then their race. Not saying that certain behaviors are bad.

[Gwendoline]

I agree completely. Out of all groups for instance in the uk because cousin marraige was never banned (there was never a need to) muskim babies have the highest mortality rate and highest rates of congenital defects.

[blackeagle007]

Trump is the one causing Islamophobia

[Gwendoline]

@blackeagle007 by not allowing child and cousin marraige?

[blackeagle007]

What does incest have to do with religion? there's rednecks who aren’t Muslim that marry cousins. It’s not religious, it’s cultural.

[blackeagle007]

by the way, many rednecks support Trump in the South

[Gwendoline]

@blackeagle007 cousin marraige is an established cultural practice among Muslims, even Muhammad married his cousin. Because Muhammad married his cousin to say cousin marraige is wrong is blasphemy and will get you a fatwa on you.
In England as many as 60% of Muslim marraiges are between cousins and its caused major problems for the NHS with children born with genetic defects.
Jews in America had a problem in the past thats why they now screen DNA of couples before they marry and have kids.

[emeraldsaphire]

@blackeagle007 Nope in Islam Marrying your cousin is halal, as is child marriage Muhammad married a 6 year old then raped her at 9.

Funny this about rednecks supporting cousin marriage. Practice is legal in many blue states like California and New York, but illegal in many redneck states like Texas, West Virginia and Oklahoma

[Gwendoline]

This is true. Also legal in the uk but nobody does it so need to make it ilegal. The uk was in complete shock when Jerry Lee lewis came with his 13 year old cousin wife.

[blackeagle007]

I see Trump has cause hatred in you both

[Chazmatazz269]

Not really. The risk of genetic defects as a result of inbreeding is actually kind of exaggerated. So cousin f*cking isn’t likely as dangerous as many people think. Genetic diversity has a great deal of empirical evidence supporting its superiority, and we do know that long term generational inbreeding has dire consequences. Such that it is a well recognized fact that bloodlines cannot succeed with excessive inbreeding.
That said, child marriage is and should remain illegal and immoral. Kids cannot properly consider the pros and cons of life altering decisions. Hell, most young adults can’t. The parts of the brain used for those kinds of risk and reward calculations doesn’t develop fully until our mid to late twenties. There’s plenty of research supporting that young adults don’t make great decisions largely because of this, regardless of the quality of parenting they may or may not have received.
Furthermore, the solution of arranged marriages might take a child’s questionable cognitive abilities out of the question, but brings in questions about long term autonomy. Maybe arranged marriages, but keep divorce a mutual consideration. I would be more concerned about other oppressive traditions then, like honor k*llings and men being allowed to beat and humiliate their wives.
It’s been said that the strict practice of Islam is incompatible with western culture. Generally i would agree and i don’t think the necessary legal and social reforms that would make them compatible is what is best for western civilization. Hell, even the strict practice of Christianity isn’t socially or legally universally acceptable here. Anyone pushing for more freedoms for Muslims likely has a tragically limited understanding of that religion and its fundamentalist practitioners.

[loveslongnails]

You can still marry a 14 or 15 year old in some states in the USA, with parental consent. If first cousins agree not to have biological children and only to adopt if they want kids, I don't see why they can't be allowed to marry.

The risk of genetic defects in children of biological cousins is too risky. They carry about 12.5% of the same genetic material, and that's way too much to be safe. But if they don't procreate, why do I give a shit if they get married?

Is the US Islamaphobic? It already was. Is the US racist? When has it NOT been?

[Gwendoline]

Yo say the risk of genetic defects in children is too great, now imagine successive generations marrying their cousins, maybe 8 generations

[loveslongnails]

There are places like that in the USA... just go the backwoods of Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas. Or visit Washington, D. C. and observe a cabinet meeting of the Trump administration. There's all kinds of generational defects going on there. You'll be asking "how many cousins in your family married to produce you?"

[FreyaRed]

They can do in their shith... ehm... I mean countries what they want. In countries where pedophilia is a crime and dysgenic inbreeding forbidden by law they should face harsh consequences, or should be removed permanently because of incapability of their retarded culture.

[Levin]

If only we would do the same here in the UK. Wasn't there some statistics that first cousin marriage was as high as something like 40% here in certain 'communities' 20 years ago...

As well as removing and curtailing benefits and expect people to have paid in.

Might solve our problems rather quickly...

The call to benefits is strong...

[Gwendoline]

Yes certain communities have the highest rates of babies born with special needs both mental and physical.
The UK never needed to, when in 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis landed with his 13 year old cousin who was also his wife the nation was shocked.

[Levin]

Well, funnily enough, there is a Muslim woman in my office and her sister has this exact issue. She has basically sacrificed her life for her, and by all accounts she's violent most days. I do wonder if it's as you say in terms of the marriage.

[Gwendoline]

Definitely studies have been done.
I used to volunteer at a women's shelter in the uk. We had women fleeing cousins they were forced to marry or fleeing because they didn't want to marry their cousin. One girl was found by her family and put into intensive care.

[exitseven]

There are genetic consequences for marrying your relatives. Having marriage for people as young as 10 is just plain sick.

This is a good example why Islamic culture will not be able to coexist in the US. We do not take too kindly to child abuse

[Gwendoline]

Was in a restaurant in turkey and two of the waiters had extra fingers. Was weird.

[exitseven]

One of them is an abnormality. two is a trend.

[Anonymous]

It's not islamophobic and racist. People will survive without cousin marriages and there is no obligation in islam to marry your cousin. The ruling has been made to protect young girls, and that's more important. The harm is even more obvious, when it comes to child marriages. Children have to be protected. Majority of muslims agree. If a man was to come into our mosque and say his daughter of 10 was ready to marry, he'd be beaten bloody.

[Gwendoline]

Im afraid thats not the case in Muslim countries. Even in the uk cousin marraige among Muslims is 60% and special laws had to be brought in because underage teen girls were being sent to Muslims countries to marry their male cousins.

[Opinion Owner]

And hence, not islamophobic. The ones who consent to cousin marriages can survive without it and it is not obligatory to marry your cousin. There are plenty other matches. But the teen girls being forced to marry their cousins, will not be okay.

Religious freedom is in no way, violated by protecting these girls.

[RandomGirl42]

It just makes me really sad that this is a question that still even has to be asked in this day and age. I just hope someday, someway we can figure out how to be decent to each other and to protect these children who are the future of the world.

Not a very good outlook to start them off with. We need to stop this cycle.

[SamIam96]

The US is Islamophobic and racist, period.

But, we are right to outlaw child marriage because it's immoral and amounts to rape of a person who isn't mature enough to make the decision to marry and have sex.

Cousin marriage is illegal for the same reasons as marrying siblings. The risk of bad genetic mutations is very high.

[boundless]

Didn't you see America cross the planet just to bomb the shit out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, etc. for the past several decades. Not only are we not afraid of Islam, we will cross oceans just to come to your house and kick you ass in front of your wife.

[boundless]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3utBFQBEng0

[AviatorTom]

Somalia can do whatever it wants. Here in the civilized world, there are legitimate reasons for banning child and cousin marriage. A child's body is not prepared for sex, and it is abuse to make it; if a child got pregnant, their body is not ready for 9 months of gestation and birth, with the child possibly dying in childbirth. Marrying your cousin and having a child together increases the risk of genetic abnormalities.

[Joshydavid25]

Honestly Islamophobia is seeming like the best route.. From what I've seen there's not much really good about true Islam.. They're looking to take over and conquer the world.. Which is why they are asserting their dominance in Western countries at this time..

[Shiprex]

US should also ban child genital mutilation too for that is abusing the child's right to bodily autonomy and a weird af sexual deviance based on bronze age mythology.

[Gwendoline]

I dont think jews or muslims would approve of banning child genital mutilation

[Shiprex]

Neither would white Christians in US as their women seem to have "preferences" for mutilated boys

[Dargil]

Islam is not a race. It is an ideology like communism or Nazism. Our incest laws predate Muslim incursion. They probably applied more to Mormons back in the day.

[Gwendoline]

Most muslims are non white.
Incest laws probably date back to isolated communities in the early colonies. You've heard of the blue men in Virginia, a family so inbred their skin turned blue.

[Dargil]

Indonesia have many Muslims. They are not know to be incestuous. African Muslims are and are some degree of black. West Asian Muslims are not a race. Like Christianity, Islam is a hodgepodge. And laws that regulate Christians are never considered racist, even by Muslims.

[sage2021]

Having forced sex, even though marriage, for a girl 10 years old is rape!

Do they have 10 year old boys marrying older women? I think 🤔 NOT! 🚫

[Miristheiss]

Call it whatever bullshit term you want.

Keep this shit OUT of our country.

That culture sucks. Why in the hell bring it here?

[BCRanger10]

This is my answer...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/45QgF9Ha7kE

[worldscolide]

No it's not. Only pieces of shit and evil people believe child marriage and incest marriage is acceptable. Somehow ilhan Omar got away with marrying her brother though

[beefcakebradybatson]

No. Some places are backwards, and America is (supposedly) a First World country.

[Gwendoline]

The uk is a first world country except in certain parts.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Lie. That's the ex-Muslim righty a**hole whose name mercifully escapes me spewing THAT BS.

[Gwendoline]

Seriously I grew up in the UK. There were places a white Christian girl could not go, hell we couldn't walk to school and that was around the corner

[Sevenpointfive]

we didn't really stop the mormons did we? it doesn't make it right though! pedophilia is not okay however you want to dress it up. that's really awful for those girls. sharia law doesn't say it's okay to marry a 10 year old.

[Flower7]

No, this has nothing to do with being prejudiced against certain types of people.

[Anonymous]

Cousin marriage is disgusting. Cousins ​​are a kind of siblings.

[Gwendoline]

Well if your parents were cousins and their parents were cousins and their parents were cousins and you marry your cousin its basically like marrying a brother or even parent.

[darkcloud1945]

Please send all these people back to their country, let them practice their beliefs there, not here, their beliefs are affront to our way of life

[Agape93]

If not wanting grown men to marry children is islamophobic, maybe we should be more islamophobic and kill the ones who want such a disgusting practice.

[sonic1000]

I used to think that the people of Minnesota were normal. Guess not.

[Ariesman81]

Hey hey hey... not all of us voted for Walz

[XXblack88]

No it's not this is people from other countries trying to bring their way of life to countries that don't share the same values and morals. as their home land very annoying to say the least

[DrPepper12]

Child marriage? Wrong under almost all scenarios

Cuz knockin boots? IDGAF

[IamRight]

I don’t think so, but if it is then this is a good kind of Islamaphobia.

[austinbooth]

No. Child and cousin marriage is unacceptable

[Ariesman81]

No. It's a manipulation tactic meant to prey on white guilt.

[Anonymous]

That type of marriages are not ok. But there are some American people who are islamophobic and/or racist, for some other reasons.

[Massageman]

No we aren't. We are just being cognizant of the DNA issues that can arise from inbreeding.

[tfan1]

It’s sick, nasty, wrong and illegal!

[Snakeyes7]

It is Islamophobic and that's based.

[shortster]

Nope. Child marriage should be outlawed.

[Anonymous]

It’s not right 🧕

[noohair]

Protect children...