Evidently Old Testament law allows for marriage with young girls like it’s sister religions.
A 14-year-old Israeli girl has got a divorce from her 17-year-old husband, making her what media are describing as the country’s youngest divorcee. The two sweethearts had exchanged vows in front of friends, exchanged a ring, and the union had been consummated.
The pair went on to get a divorce after the boy’s parents offered the bride a sum she couldn’t refuse. I like the rather casual and informal nature of their wedding ceremonies; gather a few friends, get a ring and voila, you’re married! We could go digging through scripture and find where marriage with girls even younger is justified in Judaic religious law just as the Islamophobes have done, providing us with voluminous and erroneous information about this subject as it applies to Islam, but I’ll spare the readers what would be a chore for me. However, there’s more!!
Pigs are now kosher in Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. Some Israelis think pigs are better at detecting terrorists than dogs. At first when I read this article I thought the settlers were hoping the pigs would be protection against Palestinian intrusion on their land, a kind of natural animalistic force field. Evidently it’s against religious law to raise pigs so this is a big step to get approval allowing them. Perhaps pig farms will be in Israel’s future, in which case there might be something to the purported claim that Israelis are the descendants of monkeys and pigs. I guess for now they’ll have to import them, the pigs that is, from their main ally, the US. Oink!
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