To Sara: Islam has EVERYTHING to Do With this...

Submitted by whati'dwishi'dknown (United States), Jul 24, 2007 at 20:47

Sara: those words all sound nice and are politically correct. We'd all like to believe that people are just people, and that religion doesn't play a part in it.

But in the REAL world -- especially in the Islamic world -- religion dictates culture.

The Koran dictates that a woman is not equivalent to that of a man. These men are raised this way, from the time they are born. (I should know...my muslim husband has started to whisper to our baby -- that Allah is the only God... .) And according to their prophet, most women go to hell. They are not to be trusted, and their word or testimony is not equivalent to that of a man's. I won't get into all the economic and social disparities ALSO dictated by the religion (if you can call it that) of islam.

So Please, stop it, stop it with the this has nothing to do with religion. It has EVERYTHING to do with religion, because religion is the foundation for everything else in a muslims life.

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