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« on: September 07, 2008, 05:14:45 am »



Under age marriages were very common in the West throughout the middle ages.  Though this information is carefully suppressed by television and internet media (while the slander of under age marriages is thrown entirely upon the Muslim community), the evidence of this culture that the West hasn't been able to muffle is the reflections through literature. 
 
It wasn't uncommon in medieval Europe either.  Reflections of it are found in numerous novels and plays.  In Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' about the five Bennett sisters in search of husbands, Elizabeth, aged 20 is the eldest.  The next four in the order of birth are Jane, Mary, Kitty and Lydia.  Kitty elopes with her much older boyfriend and they get married when she's hardly 15. 
 
Majority of Shakespearean plays depict child romance and marriages.  Shakespeare himself married when he was still a minor.  To cover it up, biographies of Shakespeare stretch his age to 18 at the time of marriage to officially show that he wasn't a minor.
 
In Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," Pip and Estella start romancing while still well below 13 years of age.  If it wasn't for Estella's arrogance, Pip would have married her.
 
Child marriage was clearly not rare in America uptil the 19th century.  That can be seen from the style acquired by American literature featuring some of the most popular historical novels based on real experiences.   
 
Jane Galt, a well known blogger, writes ..   
 
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From one of my old favourites, 'By the Shores of Silver Lake', a sequel to 'Little House on the Prairie': 
 
The homesteader's wife came out to the buggy, lugging the basket of washing ...
You must excuse the way I look," she said. "My girl was married yesterday, and here come the threshers this morning, and this wash to do. ...
 
"Do you mean Lizzie got married?" Lena asked.   "Yes, Lizzie got married yesterday," Lizzie's mother said proudly. "Her pa says thirteen's pretty young, but she's got her a good man and I say it's better to settle down young.  I was married young myself."

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Her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, wrote a book called 'Old Home Town' based on her experiences growing up in Missouri in the late 19th century.  In it she similarly describes several girls married before the age of sixteen.
 
The average age of marriage in Europe began to rise from mid 19th century primarily because of poverty that began getting more widespread.  Jane Galt mentions, "I am under the impression that in many western places, average age of first marriage has more to do with poverty and the supply of land than culture; it's primitive birth control. In Ireland, it rose sharply with the abolition of primogeniture, and fell again after the Famine, when the ratio of mouths to acres decreased." 
 
In Mexico and all over Latin America, uptil the 19th century, no one (male or female) above age 15 would ever be found unmarried. 
 
Marie Antoinette (Maria Antonia before marriage) of the Austrian royal family of despots and the last queen of France who was executed during the French revolution in the mid 18th century was married at age 14 to the crown prince of France, Louis, a 15-year-old fat, awkward and mentally feeble groom.  It was a purely arranged marriage fixed by Marie's mother, Maria Theresa. 
 
In modern times, Western females of school going age don't get married but their new culture is a lot worse than child marriage.  Many of them begin the practice of losing their virginity while still not finished with primary school, and this extra-marital sexual activity with multiple partners goes on till age 30 or more till they get married, if they at all do.  The culture has become so widely recognized in the West that these young girls are nowadays given the HPV vaccine between ages 6 to 8 as most of them become sexually active even before puberty.  It has also brought about the scourge of sexually transmitted diseases (viz. HIV AIDS) that have infested non-Muslim societies including sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Russia, China, far East, and North & South Americas. 

Yeah, sounds disgusting.  It's much more than a little weird that these are the people who go about attacking "under age marriages" in other cultures.
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Excellent piece, Sister Heba.  You are right on the spot about this.  The West conveniently conceals it's authentic history on this issue.  But unfortunately for them, their literature is so full of this common custom in their society that prevailed for long that it spills the beans.

The marriage of under age girls is common in the Mormon sect even nowadays.  Yet, ironically, the abuse of under age girls and boys is a lot more common in the mainstream North American society.  However, when mainstream Americans bash the culture of under age marriages, they never talk about the Mormons.  In fact, an influential Mormon, Mitt Romney, also ran the race for a Rep presidential candidate this summer.


In modern times, Western females of school going age don't get married but their new culture is a lot worse than child marriage.  Many of them begin the practice of losing their virginity while still not finished with primary school, and this extra-marital sexual activity with multiple partners goes on till age 30 or more till they get married, if they at all do.  The culture has become so widely recognized in the West that these young girls are nowadays given the HPV vaccine between ages 6 to 8 as most of them become sexually active even before puberty.  It has also brought about the scourge of sexually transmitted diseases (viz. HIV AIDS) that have infested non-Muslim societies including sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Russia, China, far East, and North & South Americas. 

Yeah, sounds disgusting.  It's much more than a little weird that these are the people who go about attacking "under age marriages" in other cultures.


Couldn't agree more!

Actually nowadays gradually the average age for marriage has risen in the West to late 20s or early 30s because of two reasons.  First, it's because of the rising cost of living and rising poverty.  Secondly, their lustful values have driven them to the lowly practice of living together out of wedlock.  Thus, marriage as an institution is not a necessity any more in the West.  If a girl or woman wants a child, they don't necessarily have to get married.  All they need to do is to find a man.  It's exactly the same approach as the mating of animals.

You're also so correct in pointing out that the prosmiscuity of the non-Muslim world has wrecked havoc with HIV AIDS.  Despite the WHO's efforts to downplay this issue, they are no more being able to conceal the fact that this problem is the most serious threat to the world.  I read in a journal that actor Richard Gere who's campaigning for the awareness of this dangerous disease referred to AIDS as the real terror of this world.  The fact is that AIDS is a disease most rife in non-Muslim countries.  If you make an AIDS graph of all countries of the world in alphabetical order, the graph will go down for all Muslim countries and shoot up for non-Muslim countries.  The whites blame the blacks for spreading AIDS, the blacks blame the whites and they both blame the poor monkeys of Africa.  But no one is focused on the most important issue, that is, to change their lifestyle by improving their morals.
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