Posted on 02/20/2018 9:56:34 AM PST by Olog-hai
Turkey should again consider criminalizing adultery, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, revisiting an issue that caused outrage among secular Turks and warnings from the European Union when his party raised it more than a decade ago.
The Islamist-rooted AK Party floated the idea in 2004, two years after it first came to power, as part of a broad overhaul of the Turkish penal code. But the proposal caused a backlash from the secular opposition and EU officials said it could jeopardize Turkey’s efforts to join the union. […]
Turkey decriminalized adultery for women in the late 1990s. It had long been legal for men.
Erdogan, who is accused by critics of crushing democratic freedoms with tens of thousands of arrests and a clampdown on the media since the failed coup, has previously spoken of his desire to raise a “pious generation”. …
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I don’t have a problem with making adultery illegal.
Unless you are familiar with Islamic jurisprudence. Rape without male witness counts as adultery (rape with male witness is a gang-rape and an aggravated adultery of course). Punished by death (of the victim) of course.
I try not to tell other countries what they should or should not criminalize.
Although, personally, supporting terrorists and engaging in religious persecution are higher on my list than adultery.
Yes, but this is Islamic “adultery”, which means only women can be guilty of it under Sharia “law”.
What’s his problem? Is somebody after his wife?
Well, Emine wasn’t bad-looking when she was younger. But one never knows.
So if a country wanted to criminalize Christianity, that’s OK?
As long as that country is not the United States.
Of course, I think the United States should cut off all ties with such a nation.
Well, that’s nice. We went through all that with the USSR back in the last century, who criminalized all religions; it was costly enough, what with their constant propaganda and subterfuge war against us, never mind fighting us in the communistic UN.
We are currently enmeshed with the People’s Republic of China, who also officially bans all religions, especially Christianity.
“I don’t have a problem with making adultery illegal.”
It should be illegal everywhere. Only the Muslim version of adultery is similar to the religious leaders who brought to Jesus a woman caught in the act. They wanted to stone her, but apparently the man got away. (Probably had a sermon to give or something.)
In Islam, a woman who has been raped is guilty of adultery.
Also, assuming a given country is not being overtly hostile to other nations, why do you think people who are not citizens of that country should have any say in the laws of that country?
“I don’t have a problem with making adultery illegal.”
It should be illegal everywhere. Only the Muslim version of adultery is similar to the religious leaders who brought to Jesus a woman caught in the act. They wanted to stone her, but apparently the man got away. (Probably had a sermon to give or something.)
In Islam, a woman who has been raped is guilty of adultery.
“I don’t have a problem with making adultery illegal.”
It should be illegal everywhere. Only the Muslim version of adultery is similar to the religious leaders who brought to Jesus a woman caught in the act. They wanted to stone her, but apparently the man got away. (Probably had a sermon to give or something.)
In Islam, a woman who has been raped is guilty of adultery.
All military action to stop tyranny is a bad idea? unless the powers in question declare war on us?
George Washington warned us that we must be “at all times ready for war”, otherwise we would never keep the republic. Given the subversion from within, and from powers that we failed to go to war against merely because they never formally declared war on us, he was right in more ways than one.
I should clarify: I do not think it is “OK”, but neither do I think it is my place to tell others how to run their countries, nor is there anything I can do about it directly. It would certainly affect my decisions about whether I will personally travel to or deal with such a country.
Well, we never tell other countries how to run themselves. They, however, constantly tell us how to run ours. That’s a form of warfare, and it influenced presidents such as TR (to a degree) and Woodrow Wilson (more profoundly, who actually campaigned and won on such a craven slogan as “He kept us out of war”), and of course too many others (particularly FDR, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, the Bushes and Obama).
I did not say that. If you want to have a civil discussion please stop putting words in my mouth.
Constantly telling us what we should do is a form of warfare?
I disagree. Trying to force us to do something is a form of warfare. Telling us what they think we should do I just words. We are free to smile, nod, and refuse to comply.
...BTT....
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