I'm not sure if this news story is real, I've got an instinctual reaction of skepticism against websites I've never heard of having outrageous anger inducing articles with no citations (PPedit: Oh wait, it does have citations, the same color text in my browser as the rest of the text, but they are in sweedish, so I have no idea what's going on except I think I've managed to gather that the man was 21? Or 12. Something like that.)
But damn, if it's real, no I don't think you can just say "Cultural relativism!" and leave it at that. "Case by case" doesn't really work as a basis for establishing laws to protect children from predators, you can't just throw up your hands and say "Culture" in order to allow terrible shit to keep happening, it should be stomped out asap, doesn't matter if it's foreign or domestic. I mean, just imagine a native Swedish family doing this and claiming it was their "culture".
Also wow Detoxicated. You're really going off the handle there, even if Speisa is a fake news site and this is just anti-islam propaganda, at worst you could say people who are speaking out against it have been duped, not that they themselves are partaking in some hideous crusade, at least in an active way. This is a pretty shocking and terrible thing, some anger should be expected even if it's fake. And a few others things:
Outrightly calling ALL of these child marriages a rape situation is one of the highest level of ignorance one can attain.
Doesn't matter, because they shouldn't be allowed if they are "appropriate" or not because it's more important to prevent child rape situations then it is to preserve child marriages.
By imposing your believes of anything on a different mindset you are nothing but a autocrat.
Honestly, society is all about forcing beliefs onto other people, that's what laws are. That's how society works. There's a line to be draw there, and maybe even fiddled with and pushed back and forth. Child marriages and pedophilia are way way past that line.
The issue with children being married is in each case to be viewed individually as the situation is different for everyone.
Too bad, the situation is different for people, but you still have to rule by whatever set of principles are likely to create the greatest good and prevent the greatest harm. Making it so adults can't fuck kids is one of those set of principles, even if the kid is "especially mature" making special cases exceptions just weakens the laws for what seems to be pretty spurious gain. It's hard for me to even imagine what gain could actually be had here, but to play devils advocate (this isn't really proper devil advocate really since I'm not actually arguing against what I think, but I just had to sorta adopt that mindset to imagine a healthy sexual relationship between an adult and a kid) even if there was something like an acceptable pedophilic relationship it failing because of laws would be a minor shame, an unacceptable relationship of such sort succeeding is a great tragedy. It's really not at all close to even in the cost benefits analysis.
There are cases where it was completely natural for two 14 year olds to marry in countries abroad
I'm not sure what you mean by natural here, everything is natural in one way or the other. That doesn't mean we should allow it. And to be honest kids marrying adults is probably a bigger issue then kids marrying kids, but neither should be allowed.
if you want to remain a democracy you must protect the individual freedoms of each subject within the democratic territories.
There's a limit to that in all societies, even in democracies. You need to have laws and rules, which by their nature limit freedoms. Laws not allowing pedophiles to fuck kids is in my opinion a fair enough loss of freedom.
If you want less immigrants in your country start investing in companies that actually work fairly with third world nations instead of
supporting exploitation companies.
This one I actually agree with so I figured I'd add a little blurb here.
But Russia
But Russia (maybe sarcastically?)
I'm not really sure what the whataboutism here is for or even how it's connected to this issue. Even if this was all a Russian plot and every actor within it are Russian spies planted into Sweden to bring down their society it wouldn't change the fact that this is an issue that Sweden should solve.
Edit 2: Ohhhh, is it not. What about Russia, but rather blaming Russia for the immigrants? Sorry, I misunderstood if that's the case and only got it after I posted.