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BarkellWH
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 RE: Ahmadinejad's Bodyguards (in reply to kudo)
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you will not understand what the middle east is truly like if you never lived there. its funny that most westerners who live in the middle east end up loving it and staying there for a long time, and when they have to leave for some reason, they wish to come back to the mid-east! its true!
Chester referred to "being a woman in a Muslim country." He was not referring to the Middle East, he was referring to Muslim Countries. Now, I have lived for many years in Muslim countries, from Pakistan (Peshawar) to Malaysia and Indonesia. My experience is that the closer you are to the Middle East and South Asia, the more restrictions are placed on women. The further away you get from the heartland of Islam in the Middle East (e.g., Indonesia) the more freedom women enjoy. I think this is because Islam in places like Indonesia is grafted on to a much older Hindu/Buddhist culture, and therefore is much more relaxed.
Nevertheless, even in places like Malaysia, any imposition of Sharia Law creates problems for women. Some examples regarding Sharia Law:
A. Women may inherit only half of what men may inherit.
B. In a Sharia court, it takes two women to equal the testimony of one man.
C. Perhaps most egregiously of all, if a woman is raped and wishes to take her case to a Sharia court, she must produce four (count them, four!) male witnesses to the rape in order to prevail. It is as if rape were a spectator sport. What's worse, if a woman cannot produce four male witnesses, she herself is charged with adultery.
This is not a case of projecting Western values on Muslim societies. It is a case of human decency. Yes, many women in Muslim societies readily accept their fate. But it is because they have been acculturated to it and know nothing else. It is like the caged bird who, while protected, does not know that a world exists outside the cage.
Cheers,
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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Date Feb. 21 2012 0:42:03
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BarkellWH
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RE: Ahmadinejad's Bodyguards (in reply to kudo)
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I have done plenty of research and have lived and experienced life in several Muslim countries over many years, Kudo. I stand by everything I wrote in my post above. You, however, have not provided any evidence to refute anything I have written. It is not I, Kudo, who should "do my research." Rather, it is you who should "do your research" on Sharia law, how it is applied to women, and how its application results in the inferior status of women in Muslim societies where it is applied.
Bill
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With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Feb. 21 2012 1:41:27
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BarkellWH
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RE: Ahmadinejad's Bodyguards (in reply to kudo)
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you really need to do your research!
For you to be telling me (or anyone else) to do research is rich, Kudo! You are hardly the one to be telling anyone to do his research when just last week (see the thread "Play the Hambone") you tried to get someone on the Foro to do your research and writing for you. To quote you, you "offered a job, no one took it and I am seriously screwed at school." Then you opened up the thread on pigs so you could elicit responses that you could use to frame your course-work. When your bluff was called and you were forced to confess that you cribbed your arguments from the internet, you wrote, "Sorry for wasting your time, but at least I now have some idea of what to do for this stuff, but i don't know how far it will take me. i just want to pass my courses, nothing more I could ask for."
Your whining and mewling, as well as the false pretenses under which you posted your fraudulent comments, do not instill confidence that you know what you are talking about regarding women in Islam or anything else, much less that you have any standing to tell anyone to "do research."
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Feb. 21 2012 2:22:00
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