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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wearing the hijab for modesty causes less destruction in society than the wanton, reckless, immediate gratification and satisfaction of lust. We see this in teenage pregnancies, adultery, STDs, broken families that result, cancer, broken lives.

I do not respect such behavior but you still have the right to engage in it. Normally I do not voice my opinions about this and follow a live and let live philosophy,  but if you think its fine for you to criticize women who choose to wear hijab, then its fine for you to hear about destructive western behavior.[/quote]

How did you leap from our Ann Taylor working woman who has several partners before settling down, to making her into a teen mom with STDs? These things don't follow. This is another false dichotomy.

You mention divorce rates, but they're quite high in Muslim countries. The veil doesn't stop men from thinking they can do better. Or from taking another wife (many of us think polygamy is destructive, but that's not our topic here.)

We agree teen pregnancies are destructive. But speaking of teen pregnancies, many Muslim countries allow girls to be married at quite young ages. You condemn teen pregnancies, but do you support marriage at such young ages?

STDs, while awful, are generally treatable.

Like others here, I don't think the veil is a good tradeoff. While I think kids shouldn't have sex at young ages, I'd prefer a solution that involves freer access to condoms than, effectively, putting a condom over my entire daughter.[/quote]

When the United States had mostly teen brides (pioneer days for example) we had fewer unwed teen mothers for sure.  But we probably had for more teens having sex and babies back then than we do now.  I am sure that is true for the muslim world as well. Very likely with so many teen and young girls marrying in those countries, they have just as many if not more teen girls having sex and babies than in the United States.  They just happened to be married 14, 15 & 16 year olds as opposed to unmarried high school students.[/quote]

I checked and even though I lived in the Middle East, I found it surprising how high the average age at marriage is.  The average age of marriage of females in the US is about 27.  In the Middle East, this age is exceeded in Algeria, Dijbouti, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, and Tunisia.  The lowest is Yemen at 22.  Egypt, Iraq, and Iran are all around 23.

https://www.quandl.com/collections/demography/age-at-first-marriage-female-by-country

Apparently there is a marriage crisis in the Middle East--men must pay for all the costs of the wedding and furnishing an apartment, and are expected to be able to support their wives, although understandably in light of high male unemployment there is a new bias towards women who can bring in an income.  This has resulted in delayed marriage for both men and women.[/quote]

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