I think you are seriously confused.
In the first place I am a Deist, not an atheist. I have gotten into my Mormon heritage and general religious background elsewhere on this board.
In the second place, that is my actual picture as my avatar and I am not Jewish. My abtiris goes back to the 1300's, and there are no Jewish names in it.
In the third place, I believe I understood your quote quite well: Islam says no sex before marriage, which leads to an increased divorce rate. I was merely pointing to the increased divorce rate.
I do not need Sir Luggoyo's approval. He was not in Jilib when I was there and I thought I made that point.
What I do regognize is that my observations are strictly anecdotal. They relate only to the families that I lived and worked with at one location during one period in time. I don't think anybody has an accurate feel for the actual marriage and divorce statistics among Somalis any more than there are accurate population figures.
I would point out that Mormons also forbid sex before marriage. As far as I am aware there were no divorces in my father's family before my parents' gereration, in which one person out of six was divorced twice. In my generation, two of thirteen women and six of eight men have been divorced at least once. I do not have a better explanation for this than to say it has followed the general trend of an increased divorce rate in the West.
I don't have a clue where you came up with the 50%-80% figures, but they don't seem unreasonable. AbdiWahab thought he saw a pattern or he would not have opened this thread. Clearly, I have no basis at all for anything currently going on in the diaspora, but my experiences in Somalia leave me unsurprised at the topic.
I think you are just overly sensitive that I used your quote to support my position.
