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

[Khaled Alkotob]

> > [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.
>

[Platt]
> So Ms. Chesler is a liar?

No, just someone who did not research her material thoroughly

Khaled