freediver wrote on Mar 15
th, 2014 at 7:52am:
What are you suggesting Karnal? That it is only respect for the law, rather than a more fundamental objection to child marriages, that prevents (more) Australian Muslims marrying off their children to dirty old men?
You’ve hit the nail on the head, FD.
Your Muselman is just like every other group with or without a fundamental objection to child marriages, and I’ve listeda few. Indians, I believe, are the third highest immigrant population. I’m not sure that they have fundamental objections to child marriage. You’ll have to ask.
Better do it in another thread though.
This, as you know, is not how the law works. We don’t make convictions based on our perceived lack of a fundamental objection to something. The Grand Mufti expressing his strongest objections ethically, legally, but not religiously, does not prove a case against him.
All your leads - the imaginary figure of 38 defactos, the Facebook shopping, "hundreds" of forced underage marriages - have come to nought.
The old boy’s serving stool if you’re hungry. I’ve declined.
It looks a bit stale to me.