All categories - 9 February 2007

We live in a society where it's perfectly normal for people to cohabit after one night of sex as strangers or for someone to leave his or her spouse of many years just because he "wants some space" or found someone more attractive.

I have come to believe that a couple who lives together, sleeps together and shares what they have is married whether or not they have a piece of paper. I think that people who cohabit without a legal marriage because they think they can easily leave at any time are lying to themselves.

It is more than a tradition that the state and church give permission and blessings to our marriages. Under the concept of separation of church and state, the government has assumed that responsibility and is only guided by the cultural norms of the moment.

2007-02-09 21:06:52 · 12 answers · asked by maxnull 4 in Marriage & Divorce

OK...aside from the 'im a conservative, im a liberal' debate...why do we only have two political partys with power in the U.S. Why hasn't there been a third party to really step it up.... I bet if they only had enough money a rational party like the liberiterians could do it....Why do we the people continue to vote for these rich republican/democrat A-whole?. Why America? Does it just broil down to who has the most money?Is that who gets elected?

2007-02-09 21:06:48 · 10 answers · asked by yellowmedia 3 in Politics

The Times --February 09, 2007
Our mosques are importing jihad
Mary Ann Sieghart
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article1354063.ece

Gina Khan was born in Birmingham 38 years ago to Pakistani parents, she has run away from an arranged marriage, dressed herself in jeans and dared to speak out against the increasing radicalisation of her community.

"There are mosques springing up on every street corner, she says, pointing them out to me as we drive to her tiny house in Birmingham, near the district where nine men were arrested last week on suspicion of plotting to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier.

[Two suspects have since been released without charge, a man has been accused of plotting to kidnap and kill a member of the British Armed Forces, four other men have been charged with terrorism offences
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GAAPIE1HHYUODQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/09/nterr209.xml]

Over the past 15 years, she says, there has been an influx of jihadist thinking into her part of Birmingham. Bookshops sell radical literature and the mosques preach separatism and hatred. The Government and the white Establishment have allowed it to happen. And she is outraged about it. "It's all happening on your doorstep," she says, "and Britain is still blind to the real threat that is embedded here now".

"I truly believe that all these mosques here are importing jihad. The radical teaching is filtering through, and these mosques are not regulated. They are supporting everything that is wrong about Islam. We within the community knew this. People are lying. They are in denial. They knew they were bringing in radicals."

"But there are still more English and British people, no matter what, and if they got together and wanted to stamp out this radicalism, they could. I am wasting my time talking to my own people; that is why I am sitting here talking to you, to open your eyes."
Khan is particularly worried about how mosques are brainwashing children and young people: "To me, it is starting to look like a cult." And her local community certainly seems to be in denial. "After the raid I went to the corner shop here, and they were all saying it was a conspiracy. I turned round and said, 'No, it is not. Let us be honest'.
"They say we're being victimised. We're not. The truth is coming out at last, but it's 20 years too late."

Three issues in particular enrage her: forced or arranged marriages for teenage girls, polygamy and the veil. Khan herself was pressurised into marriage at the age of 16 by her father, against her mother's wishes. "I was manipulated by my dad's side of the family into a teen marriage — you know, you are a passport for someone from Pakistan. My mum wanted me to study and make something of my life because she knew what this country had to offer."
Khan married and became pregnant, but after her baby died she says that she suffered terrible postnatal depression and left the marriage. Her family disowned her, as did the Muslim community.

The mosques, she says, collude in these marriages, as they do in the informal polygamy that she claims is rife in Muslim communities. "It is still very, very common here, polygamy. This is Pakistan I have just brought you back into" she says, gesturing at the streets of terraced and semidetached houses. ...

So, although polygamy is illegal in Britain, it is still, says, Khan, being practised with a Muslim seal of approval. The "marriages", after all, are being sanctioned in the mosques.

Having banned teen marriages and the veil, cracked down on polygamy and ensured women's representation in mosques, Khans next priority as prime minister would be to get rid of faith schools and teach Britishness more effectively. Although her children are taught well at an excellent Catholic school, she fears that Muslim schools exacerbate separatism. "Britishness should be compulsory in schools, taught by English teachers. And we should let kids know how valuable their British passports are around the world."

"Compared with Third World countries, compared with every Muslim country, we Muslims are a lot safer here, I know that still. I would not want to leave and move to Pakistan or anywhere on my own as a woman with a grown daughter. I know that now, though it may have taken me a lifetime to realise it. I am so lucky to have been born here.
"We are women, we are treated equally here. If I am raped or sexually abused, the cruellest things that can happen to a woman and leave a residue on your life, this is a country that supports you. I do not have to hide. They are going to help me, give me counselling. What are they going to do in a Muslim country? Stone me. I need four witnesses. They are going to ostracise me, as if I am dirty."
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"Muslim women aren't suppose to make waves. I didn’t even hear my own screams and tears for 34 years. I have now stepped back and decided to understand and challenge my religion."
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the veil, teen marriage, polygamy, 4 witnesses (the rapists perhaps ?) for proof or, if not, the stoning of the raped woman, and so on, are all part of Koran/Hadith and Sharia-laws, they are state laws in Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.

but, sure, in the name of "open mindeness", "non-biogtry", "non-racism", "multi-culturalism" we should not condem this things so as not offend the "muslims' sensibilities" but rather twist our legal system to "accomodate" them

2007-02-09 21:06:47 · 6 answers · asked by Analyst 7 in Religion & Spirituality

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She has a best friend, he went to work in another country and he keeps talking to here so often, now she is in a trouble, her ex is chasing her and her best friend offers to come to offer his help. She is confused sometimes he acts as a lover and other times as a friend. knowing that he is in a daily contact with her. Is her friend in love with her?!

2007-02-09 21:05:48 · 4 answers · asked by Sara007 5 in Singles & Dating

I am at a sleepover with my friend. Why are you still on??

2007-02-09 21:05:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

what do you think we can do to improve things for the american mother? i have always felt like people look down on mothers in our culture. sometimes i wonder if thats why people get abortions and dont want to be moms. mothers are not revered. people always assume young mothers want welfare and to eat potatoe chips all day. on the television, i feel they are portrayed as haggard and fat and like their lives are passing by and they long to do other things than to be trapped into being a mother. i have never felt mothers were are respected as i see them being respected in other cultures. however i am happy that a lot of actresses are having babies and still maintaining their careers. thats a positive. what do you think? what do you think we can do to improve things for the american mother?

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2007-02-09 21:03:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I think my girlfriend loves me beyond a shadow of a doubt. She tells me I need to be “possessive.” I am like what? She says that I am not jealous enough and that I need to be possessive. I am wondering if this is a red flag.

2007-02-09 21:03:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

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2007-02-09 21:03:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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