Monday November 22, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

It's important to listen to the statements made by world leaders. By listening we can learn a lot about a people, a country, a society.

Yesterday Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced in the official press that girls should marry at age 16 and 17.

He was quoted as saying, "we should take the age of marriage for boys to 20 and for girls to about 16 and 17."

Ahmadinejad was responding to the new reality in Iran.

The average age of marriage in Iran is now 24to 26 years old. For Ahmadinejad an increase in the average age at which Iranian citizens marry is a sign of the religious degeneration of Iran. It is a symbol of the West's victory over the Islamic Republic.

Ahmadinejad has to respond. Ahmadinejad is calling on Iranians to return to their traditional ways.

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