Well, I personally think that stoning and forced marriages are bad things. I hope that makes you happy. But the point is you seem to want to make a case against Islam. Actually, when you think about it, you tend to hear about stonings because they are rare. Hundreds of people put to death by the state in the US and China are so workaday that you don't see them in The Times very often unless you search around on the bottom of page 33. That isn't in any way to justify stonings, but it's worth remembering that there are over a billion Muslims on this planet and you hear about stonings, how often? I'm an atheist and I think Christianity has done much damage, but I'm not going to make a whole case against it on the basis of a few errant priests. I have far better arguments. Stonings are horrible and it's good that we get to hear about them, but I have to wonder what your motive is in pointing up this one example when so many other rotten things are going on in the names of any religion or none.

It's quite interesting, actually, that not all young Muslims are opposed to arranged marriages (and, in many cases, the pejorative western epithet "forced" is not the best term to describe them). Maybe this whole "marriage" business needs a good looking at...