Parliamentarians in Iran have passed a bill to protect the rights of children which includes a clause that allows a man to marry his adopted daughter and while she is as young as 13 years.
Activists have expressed alarm that the bill, approved by parliament on Sunday, opens the door for the caretaker of a family to marry his or her adopted child if a court rules it is in the interests of the individual child.
Read it all (from September and from the queue of should-have-already-been-posted).
Unmitigated depravity.
Stone age.
In Islam adopted children are not really one’s children like biological offspring. They are wards, not relatives. The story behind this Qur’anic revelation is that Muhammad saw his adopted son’s (he had no biological sons) wife and desired her. So he had a revelation which said that only biological children are actual children. Therefore it was not immoral for him to marry his adopted son’s wife after the son obligingly divorced her.
The prohibition on adoption is one of the roadblocks Muslims face in understanding Christianity. Our talk of being adopted as God’s children sounds wrong to them, because their training is that God forbids such relationships.