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"EvilBill[AGQ2]" wrote:

>Some (Muslims that is, not members of your family AFAIK!) have *killed*

> young women for not wanting arranged marriages... AFAIK there isn't anything
> about arranged marriages in the Koran either! Still like you said this is
> probably only a very small proportion of all practising Muslims.
>

Well, the Koran isn't the only thing that Muslims are supposed to follow, they
also follow the teachings of their prophet and the sayings of some trusted
scholars.  However, arranged marraiges *are* mandatory by Islam, there is no
dating/courtship etc.

> And yes I was referring to the militants. I blame Saddam Hussein and the
> Ayatollah Khomeini - they set bad examples... what does Ayatollah mean
> anyway?

Well, I can tell you it means "something" of Allah  (hence the  'llah' at the
end). I never was big on arabic.  But then, I'm not an arab...