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In reply to the discussion: Video-Amina: Topless Tunisian Protester Tells Femen She Was Beaten,Kidnapped & Drugged By Her Family [View all]Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)..fundamentalists have a fair argument that *they* are the 'true scotsmen'. indeed they have a much better argument than the revisionists. you would like to argument that not every muslim is engaging in oppressing women, but that is not the point, as you probably know.
the point is that so long as people look to the koran, bible, vedas, gita, etc. for moral guidance, there will be fundies. indeed, the more modern liberal believers revise what they cherry-pick and how they reinterpret patently immoral passages, the less correct they are in their interpretation.
fundies have a better argument 'from the book' for the religious oppression of women than liberal believers do against it. as long as the book contains what it contains, there will be men who read and interpret it *correctly* .. and then beat their wives into submission. until liberal believers can reach into fundie brains and change their minds to *incorrectly* interpret scripture, people will use religion as a justification for violence and oppression, because *that's what it was designed to do*.
that's not bigotry. it has nothing to do with individual believers, but rather the nonsense in which they believe. a point of fact.
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now then.. your apology, please. for being wrong.