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Let's be honest here, who do you know is a Puritan?
What does it matter if it's a practice the predates Islam and Christianity, it's still happening in these places and people use Islamic influences to justify it. And that's just an example, women are constantly rejected in their civil rights under Islam.
America has the more freedom than most countries, and certainly more than Islamic countries. Where is the dispute? It's factual. There are rules put into place where women are severally limited in their rights. Just because there are some Muslim female religious leaders in Egypt doesn't negate thousands of women who will be flogged for talking to men who aren't in their immediate family!
Pay rates, oh wow, how do women in America stand the discrimination of pay rates? Such persecution is criminal.
What does it matter if it's a practice the predates Islam and Christianity, it's still happening in these places and people use Islamic influences to justify it. And that's just an example, women are constantly rejected in their civil rights under Islam.
America has the more freedom than most countries, and certainly more than Islamic countries. Where is the dispute? It's factual. There are rules put into place where women are severally limited in their rights. Just because there are some Muslim female religious leaders in Egypt doesn't negate thousands of women who will be flogged for talking to men who aren't in their immediate family!
Pay rates, oh wow, how do women in America stand the discrimination of pay rates? Such persecution is criminal.
In particular regarding women, four recent cases illustrate the present state of Islam regarding woman.
1. Woman in a car with a man (not her husband)--she had her husband's permission. They are kidnapped and she is gang raped. She is sentenced to a year in prison and fifty lashes by the Sharia courts. When she appeals, her sentence is doubled.
2. A Filipino pregnant woman is raped and sentenced to one imprisonment. She is pregnant from the rape and loses the baby while in prison.
3. An unmarried woman is gang raped and sentenced to one hundred lashes for "illegal sex".
4. An American businesswoman is in the middle of a meeting when the power goes out in the building. They move the meeting to a private booth at a tea shop across the street. She is arrested for sitting with a man who is not her husband. She is strip searched and force to confess.
Our society is a worked in progress. The freedom and tolerance within our society is largely a result of the influence of Christianity. The societies of Islamic countries are the result of Islam.
I do not think that Moslems are evil, I think that Islam is.