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In reply to the discussion: I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear. [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)About Islam, but sadly echo some of the sentiments of the neocons. All Muslim countries and cultures are not the same. The variety of experiences are great, yet you paint 1/3 of the world's population as backward. That really is unfortunate. You see a Western capitalist culture that commodifies women as superior, despite the high rates of violence against women and rapes in this country. You articulate an ideology inculcated in you as part of an effort to justify endless military aggression in the Muslim World by our own country. That you image all of Islam is the same is woefully uninformed, and dangerously so because it's part of the ideology of endless war. There are aspects of FUNDAMENTALIST Islam that are indeed oppressive, but women in Tunisia had full legal rights to abortion in the 1960s. You show no interest in understanding a people you have been taught to despise. The enemies are sexism, misogyny, war and imperialism, not one of the world's major religions.