[MD] What is the intellectual argument about Islamic veilwearing?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Khaled Alkotob <khaledsa at juno.com>:

> [Platt]
> > Are you claiming that women under Islamic law are treated 
> > humanely? 
> 
> The point i was making, to your flawed argument about genital mutilation,
> is that it is not a religious practice.
> 
> As Case proved too, is that genital mutilation is a Cultural practice in
> subsaharan Africa practiced buy people regardless of their religion.
> 
> Let me repeat, I know you are getting on in age and those neurons don't
> fire like they used to.
> 
> The point you were trying to make is that clitoredectomy is a practice
> done by ONE religious group. The Point I am making is that it is done by
> many religious group because of the culture they live in.
> 
> Let me repeat that one more time. Nowhere does The Bible, The Torah or
> the Koran say go do harm to your daughter. Some cultures, see it OK to do
> so. Some other cultures used to bind women's feet . In a sense they were
> crippled but that was life. We all hope ( Ah that collective word again)
> that one day such practices would disappear.
> 
> And to answer the above question, yes women under Muslim law are treated
> humanely. But Unfortunately for you, have not read the Koran in Arabic
> and so you would not know what the law says and what people do. 
> 
> And that's where the crux of the problem is. You are looking at the
> behavior of a few people and judging the rest. Imagine if the world
> looked at the Amish, or the Polygamists in Utah and imagined that ALL
> Christians around the world live that way. 
> 
> Better Yet, if the world got only to see America through the Jerry
> Springer show, the Movies Deliverance and Scarface.

So Ms. Chesler is a liar?



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