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1. Only desperate women want to be kidnapped into marriage. (22:53) 2. Kidnapper knows its illegal to kidnapper but simply don't care. (3:10) 3. Only Half of the marriages in Kyrgyzstan are done by kidnapping the female. (2:44) 4. Some women rather die than live with a man that kidnapped and raped her.(6:30) 5. A woman is forced into believing that dating before marriage is not a good thing. (2:57) 6. Men beg kidnapped girls parents for forgiveness. (5:29) 7. Women feel hopeless when they are kidnapped into marriage so they go along with it. (23:10) ............................................................................................................................................................... Conclusion: The notion of a man kidnapping a girl and taking her away to make her his bride is not only a known moral wrong but an illegal not also. To hide under the umbrella to tradition is only done by half of the people of mainly rural Kyrgystan therefore there the other fifty percent of the population does not approve of such actions. To say that a girl wants to be kidnapped and sublimely forced into marriage is to say that you agree with the callous act of rape. You say that some women wants to be kidnapped however I watched this video about eighteen times and yet have I seen one single girl planning then executing her own kidnap. Only once have I seen a woman stated that she felt it was time for her to get married as she was getting old but even her didn't find a guy and arranged her kidnapping. As a matter of fact many women struggle with their marriage before eventually taking their own life. (7:04) You say that the parents of the bridegroom ask the parents of the kidnapped girl for forgiveness, to ask for forgiveness is in itself an admission of guilt. If this is such a good tradition that you truly believe that this is done out of mutual love why is it that a girl is always kidnapped when she is without the immediate protection of her family and she is left defenseless and vulnerable. In your argument you say that the opposition to this way of marriage comes from the west, however, can you explain why politicians try hard to change this act that lies within the culture. I believe that they too live in Kyrgyzstan, and believe that this is an atrocious act. They believe that this leads to many suicides of the nations young girls and someone must take a stand and put a stop to this madness. (6:40) You also stated that the wife stayed overnight at the grooms house to consummate the marriage yet at no point of time did you say that the girl was happy to be married. She never said that she was happy. Everyone else said they were happy for her but it was her that suffered the indecent and humiliating act of being the victim of a systematic rape. People of all walks of life speaking any language knows that no actually means no. This is proven in the rape laws in Kyrgyzstan because on several occasions in the video it was mentioned. Sorry to tell you this but this culture is condoning the act of rape and men walk away holding their crotch while women hold their heads in their hands in humiliation