So the article I posted a couple days ago about the Hamas sponsoring a mass child bride wedding seemed to get quite a bit of attention from readers and bloggers around the net. Pretty much every anti-jihad site I know of picked it up.
There’s a lot of dispute on what actually happened at this event. Sky News reporter Tim Marshall, who claims he was at the event, has been going around the net commenting that this wasn’t in fact a mass child bride wedding, but the girls in the pictures are actually the nieces/sisters of the grooms. Tim Marshall blogged about this yesterday saying that Hamas is yea um, evil or something…but most are just “ordinary people” who “need a break”…
Sure Hamas have cold blooded killers among them, sure they support the murder of children in Israel,sure they are cracking down on women’s rights, but many of their supporters are just ordinary people. And they need a break.
The men and women are sitting, Most ignore the speeches, some even ignore the prayers. Then the fireworks explode, the cheering begins, and in march the Hamas scouts, bashing drums, looking every inch the future Hamas fighters many will be. Then the grooms, aged about 18 to about 28. They are holding hands with their young nieces and cousins, little girls aged from about 3 to 8, made up to the nines, wearing white wedding dresses.
First of all, I don’t ”give a break” to any group of people who vote TERRORISTS into power…What’s interesting is that Tim and his “on the scene coverage”, which essentially has no pictures or video evidence of there actually being a bunch of brides there who were of age, later ADMITS that he NEVER SAW THE REAL BRIDES.
Also, what did the AP expect when they wrote an article about a mass wedding and then show the grooms walking with a bunch of young girls in white dresses? Sane people can see the writing on the wall, cmon now.
He goes on to rant about the “ultra-right Islamophobic blogosphere” and their obvious bias against Islam.
It showed how much some people want to believe nonsense like this, as it re-inforces their prejudices, always a comfortably fun thing to do.
So we shouldn’t have a prejudice towards terrorist groups? Or are we just idiots when we read an article from the AP about a mass wedding that shows grooms walking around with young girls in white dresses. Does he think we’re all a bunch of Islamophobes (in which he sympathizes with Islamic pedophelia) or just a big group of idiots who can’t see the writing on the wall? Even, the Daily Mail earlier this year reported on Saudi Arabia’s Senior most cleric giving the OK to Pedophelia. It’s not ALL Muslims, obviously, and that’s really noth the point anyway. The point is to call it like we see it.
Then Marshal goes on and scoffs at the notion that just because we’re outside of Gaza, that means we know nothing about Islam and we’re just a bunch of arm-chair Muslim haters…
Most of the stuff I read was outright, unthinking, gleeful, Islamophobia from people who clearly knew nothing about Arab popular culture.
Sorry, Tim. We know PLENTY about popular arab culture, and especially when it comes to children, it ain’t pretty…
And to top it all off, he drops this little nugget at the end of his post basically ADMITTING HE DIDN’T SEE ANY OF THE ACTUAL BRIDES IN THE AUDIENCE…
Perhaps I was making up the fact that the brides were elsewhere. It’s possible. But who would you believe, the reporter who went to the event, or a desperately poor version of citizen journalist, sitting at home, making things up, not checking anything, and either unknowingly or deliberately, writing hysterical anti Islamic nonsense.
I believe the writing on the wall, Tim, until proven otherwise. I don’t trust your pro-Muslim bias any more than I do the other rabid anti-Israel, radical Muslim sympathizing journalists in the mainstream leftist media…
The conclusion is this…Until we see EVIDENCE that there were adult female brides at this event, why in the world should we believe a biased reporter like Tim Marshall? For me, the evidence speaks for itself…
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Oh God, not another one!
1. America recognises the dreadful things that happened to the Indians.
2. Israel responds to aggression. After a while, rocket attacks become a bit tiresome. If Hamas hides behind women and children during retaliatory action, civilians will get killed.
3. Give us the figures pertaining to civilians killed by Americans in Iraq. You seem to suggest that if, indeed, America has killed to extent you claim it's OK for Hamas to carry on as they do.
4. Biased? You must be joking.
5. Tell the news from both sides? This site attempts to plug a huge gap in the reporting by the MSM.
6. OK, Einstein, what is the truth?
7. Nazi's (sic)? Bet you were top of your class in history.
8. How to determine a terrorist? He's the one who, unlike American and Israeli servicemen, does not don a uniform or attempt to conform to the Geneva Conventions. He/she strikes from the shadows or mingles with innocent civilians to strike terror and cause maximum bloodshed. Americans are not noted for such behaviour.
9. Pull your head out of your rectum.
Dear friend,
About the absense of photos of the brides
Under a certain interpretation of the muslim tradition
images of real women
above the age of first menstruation
(which at the first islamic era occured earlier than today)
are not considered proper.
Of course i dont support this view, but
this can be found at any historical record.
So, brides can very well be above the age of 12
but not depicted at an image. The absense
of photographs of older brides doesnt mean they didnt exist.
Women may show a small part of their face
but they must not be photographed
Hamas has a conservative view and thus it is
obvious they wouldnt allow a photo.
Also, in all Mediterranean countries (like Palestine), Christian or Muslim,
little girls or boys help in the ceremonies, dressed up
very officialy. In these cultures, the girls usually get dressed white
“bride-like” and the boys “groom-like”.
In those cultures, saying to a boy child “you look like a groom”
or -to a girl- “you look like a bride”
it is considered as a wish about their distant family future.
Thank you
HAHAHAHAHA Ti malakes eiste!
If Mohammed, actually married a 9 years old during his time, today he will be a pedophile. Therefore, he would go to Prison. And when release, would have to register his new address every time he relocates.
If Mohammed, actually married a 9 years old during his time, today he will be a pedophile. Therefore, he would go to Prison. And when release, would have to register his new address every time he relocates.
Apparently in your book, anyone can start up their own religon, just like Mohammed and if he can find enough converts or force enough people to convert, then that gives the religion validity. I am an atheist and your nonsense is a perfect example of why I do not believe in the existence of a god, any god. There are too many bloodthirsty and idiotic individuals running around the earth doing heinous acts in His name for him to exist. If he did, and he had even one of the traits believers attributed to him, he would intervene. He does not, so ergo their is no god. Don't start on the freewill BS. God's traits of omnicience, onmipresence and omnipotence, preclude free will. But you brain dead theists wouldn't know that because you are too busy surpressing every rational and logical thought that ever entered your mind. “Submission to god”? You mean banging your head on the ground a couple of times a day and repeating gibberish? I would just as soon lay down with a pig than with Mohammed, the pig has less blood on his hands and in the moral sense is the cleaner of the two.
My first impression was that the little girls were the brides. Then I remembered that brides are not present at Muslim weddings. Then — on one video I saw about this the camera panned to the crowd for an instant, to show the real brides — older girls in teens, the ones I could see, and all looking pretty glum.
But, what's the role of the little girls in wedding dresses? How is that a part of the orthodox Muslim wedding ceremony? Never saw anything like that before. Can anyone translate the spoken words on the video?
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