America's Dirty Secret

Oprah featured an extremist religious group in Arizona which practices polygamy marriage between underage teens and older man, and this, involves incest. This knowledge shocked me. Not that I perceive Americans to be the most morale society, but USA is a civilised country, which upholds law and illegalize polygamy. How could this happen?

There is one man in Colorado who has 39 wives and 75 children, and is going to marry another girl, aged 16. A pretty one too. The girls here are forced to marry older men once they turn 16, and have completely no say in this. Main problem: girls here are uneducated [education is permitted only up till 10th grade, i.e. 14-15 of age]. They wear real decent clothing [and bun their hair]. Amat menutup aurat. Very religious it seems.

Most of them tend to accept this as their destinies, obligations, and what God requires of them. This religious clan practices incest, as they believe marriage should only be between those within the same blood line, as they think they are very closely related to Jesus. Shocking, eh?

If you ask me, I think that this is more of gender issues. Some girls who did not want to accept this as their doomed destiny came about and told the world about it, and some even tried to save other younger girls. One woman had succeed in convicting a man for child molestation, and is now trying to get the man who molested her sister prosecuted. Before, she was married to an older man as well, and was brought to realisation of this crude reality after seeing a female visitor and she thought to herself "I want to wear my hair like that as well" and so, ran from her 'home'.

Oh did I mention televisions are not allowed there? They almost have no contact with other parts of America, yet alone, the world, except for occasional visitors, once in a while.

How could this be happening in the United States? Incest and child molestation is immoral and vicious. And polygamy in such situations is a disgrace and abuse upon women, as women will without doubt be powerless, submissive, and door-mat to their husbands. If this is the case in USA, imagine what is happening to women from other uncivilised side of the world.