Muslim clerics declared victory last week in Niger after the government agreed to withdraw a course on sexual and reproductive health from the school syllabus. Islamic organizations and leaders denounced the classes as against Muslim values. Niger has the world’s highest fertility rate and 30 percent of girls are married by the age of 15. The country reports that average of around eight children per woman.
By age 18, 77 percent of girls are married in Niger which is predominantly Muslim.
The course, “Training on sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and young people for responsible behaviour,” was introduced in September in conjunction with the United Nations. It taught that people could decide if and when they had romantic relations or marriage. That outraged many clerics.
World health officials denounced the decision and noted that 73 percent of adolescent girls are still illiterate in Niger because they are forced into marriages. The spokesman for Islamic groups, Sambo Ousman, rejected such arguments as teaching “wrong” lessons and said that the decision to end the program affirmed that “the good running of education must involve Muslims.” He added that “Islamic associations do not in any way accept . . . the total lack of morality by undermining our values without exception, the confusion between freedom and licentiousness and the legalization of fornication and homosexuality.”
Annie
Yep! Why not? It wouldn’t stop all of it, but it would sure reduce it some. Plus, it would end the celebration of them.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky,
So are you saying homosexuality, fornication an licentiousness should be illegal in the USA?
Actually, it was a lot more fun when it was illegal.
Yeah, because us Americans are all for ” the total lack of morality. . . the confusion between freedom and licentiousness and the legalization of fornication and homosexuality.” Go USA!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
I saw Jacques Fecund open for Marcell Marceau in Paris, 2006.
Nigerian women, girls really, are reduced to little more than breeding stock. Western feminists are indifferent to the plight of their Nigerian sisters. See any protests in NYC? Any pleas for the State Department to assert power? Nah. It’s more important to work up support for Lena Dunham.
Feminists Without Borders. Carnak tears open the envelope and says “Name a thing that does not exist.”
I’d bet not one in 200 people knows what ‘fecund’ means.
/raises hand
semi modestly
Thanks!
Hey, I’m being moderated, for ‘fecundity!’
“Religion is religion – and science is science.”
Well, except for global warming, atheism and Christian Science, which are religions that wear the shamanic robe of science.
Pretty standard to do so, Annie.
Most of the world talks about fertility when intending fecundity.
I’d bet not one in 200 people knows what ‘fecund’ means.
Bill, yes an alternate reality it seems.
So you conflated fertility with fecundity Pogo, ok that’s clear now.
“Annie
Bill,
Once again we see the propaganda machine busy at work, the meme that Cilmate Change/ Global Warming and even Democracy/ liberalism is a religion is just plain silly. To say atheism is a religion is beyond silly”
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Annie – you have it 100% correct. Religion is religion – and science is science.
However, we always must remember that conservatives create their own reality. Cheney wasn’t kidding with the lie (and creating their own reality) they used to sell us the Iraq war . That is why there are still crazy comments about short form birth certificates – or why almost a significant % of conservatives actual think we found WMD in Iraq, that climate change is a religion or that death panels are anything other then the private sector corporatists working to to fatten their dividend, etc……
Fertility is often conflated with fecundity.
Similar, but DBQ is quite correct.
Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs.
Pogo said it, not me.
But educated women aren’t fertile,
You can be fertile and NEVER have a child. Those are two different things.
One is what you are. The other is what you do.
Actually Pogo, no you pulled a ‘Karen’. No offense meant Karen.
I don’t oppose either having children or educating women, lol! However I suspect you think western women are not having enough children. Amiright?
Educated women have fewer children.
Why do you oppose education, Annie?
See what I did there?
I pulled an ‘Annie.’