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Catholic Answers Apologist, Trent Horn.

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Alright, so Michael Jones is a Protestant apologist on YouTube,

though he focuses more on secularism.

He's a solid guy, and recently he's been debating Muslim apologists on the topic of child marriage.

Now some Muslim clerics have spoken out against child marriage,

but it's not uncommon in Muslim countries for children as young as nine or ten

to be married to older men.

They usually don't live together until puberty, but it's still awful.

And even in places where this is technically illegal, the law doesn't get applied

against certain Muslim groups.

The human rights organizations recognize the child marriage is extremely traumatic for these girls,

and it usually involves slavery and forced marriage because these girls are too young to consent.

Here's a clip from CNN showing a nine year old girl being married to a 55 year old man,

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