Cat vids return to Pakistan as YouTube turns on censor-matic Pakistan has allowed YouTube to traverse its digital borders again, after Google agreed to oversight by the nation's telecoms regulators. Pakistan barred YouTube in 2012, after the film Innocence of Muslims hit the service and sparked often-violent reactions to its supposedly blasphemous content. The nation decided it could …
Saudi Arabia doesn't have an age-of-consent nor a minimum age to marry... You only require parental consent. And given that in many areas of the country, women and children are property, it isn't all that rare that parents will give their daughter to someone as a gift.
A former coworker of mine found out about that after getting some guys daughter to celebrate the signing of a multi-billion dollar partnership deal between our company and theirs. Once he returned to the US, he enrolled her in a boarding school and emancipated her (She was 12 at the time). The whole deal actually hinges on their staying married. Good thing for them that adultery and cohabitation aren't illegal here...
Great that she is being looked after and everything. However any company accepting such a 'present' for a deal is just encouraging them to keep these archaic practices, but I guess the billions spoke more to them and some other company would have jumped in anyway,possibly with worse results for the girl. Lovely world we live in.
Not quite. In the UK, the marriageable age is 16 all round, with parental consent. In Pakistan, it's 18 for boys and 16 for girls.
Besides, when an act of parliament is struck down by a bunch of clerics because it is "blasphemous" then you can claim the situation is equivalent.
Note that they didn't just complain about the law. They had - and exercised - the power to strike it from the books.
> "In fairness, as well as being an awful film Innocence of Muslims was specifically designed to anger Muslims."
So what?
Jeremy Corbyn was specifically designed to anger David Cameron, but I don't see the PM burning effigies or rioting. These people need to grow up and get thicker skins. Their god is presumably big enough and old enough to protect himself.
Perhaps, but I think a lot of the people that Govern Muslim countries, and perhaps Muslims themselves, go overboard on matters that are a non-issue and yet don't treat more serious matters in the same light.
The response to that film, and also a lot of the cartoons, is way too overboard. Inciting hate and anger isn't right but there was still no need for any of those responses.
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