We all love a ‘loophole’. That’s what makes tax avoidance such fun, its why shutting down parliament was such a hoot, loopholes are just neat and canny way of sidestepping rules. And thus they cause consternation and upset among the very conservative types as they perceive the whole loopholey thing as ‘cheating’. But what when the conservative types need their own loopholes? What happens then??
You can’t get more conservative than the Shia Muslims of Iraq. They’re really strict. Adherent to their rules as laid down by all those holy of holies who spend their days restricting everyone’s lives. In the name of God, obvs. And yet some ‘clerics’ have devised a cunning plan to help people… errrr… well, to help men… to… have sex with women. Outside marriage, sleazy and dirty, effectively prostitution but that is TOTALLY ILLEGAL under Sharia law and thus would NEVER be even entertained as a thought. Ish. Except by men. Who often think of little else.

The clerics use a tool (no pun) called a ‘temporary marriage’. And it is beyond the merely loophole and enters the realms of total hypocrisy. Its called a ‘temporary marriage’. Presumably this only works in places where polygamy is allowed, like Iraq, Utah. And the ‘cleric’ not only issues you with a marriage certificate for this temporary arrangement, lasting as little as just 1 hour, but also provides you with a ‘bride’ too. I mean that’s a service any religion can be proud of. Though any other religion might prefer to use the word ‘pimp’, rather than ‘cleric’.

The tragedy of all this really is that these vile men will provide girls as young as 9 for this ‘temporary marriage’. These ‘clerics’. But its a problem the imams and the big-wigs are familiar with and are trying to, blah, blah, blah, usual bollocks.

The problem is not with the loophole. The problem is with the law which creates the need for these ridiculous measures to become necessary. I’m not saying ‘all men are rapists’ but if you assume they are then banning them from visiting prostitutes, or probably, in this case, issuing death sentences or similar on anything approaching ‘sex trade’ does not make the problem disappear. Only from sight. Which, like banning drugs, like the Prohibition, like banning most things, just sends it underground. Or creates the need for stupid, ridiculous, hypocritical, transparent abuses. In this case of women. And young girls.

Ban all laws which ban anything!! Its the only way forward.

Happy Friday

A xxxx