tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post116415191346640919..comments2024-03-19T08:09:22.326-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Muslims And WomenAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1164807177433300092006-11-29T08:32:00.000-05:002006-11-29T08:32:00.000-05:00Well, there's something to that, john b. Not all ...Well, there's something to that, john b. Not all are the same. But I think the general level is low, low. <BR/><BR/>As for the Western societies, I would put that level of mistreatment back much farther. It is hard to measure how hard it was in societies so much poorer than we are now, because people had enormous hardship even if they weren't mistreated. By my grandmother's schoolmates didn't have to endure public stoning and arranged marriages, anyway.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, individual violence against a woman by her boyfriend or husband is still tolerated in many pockets of the west.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1164753255767339042006-11-28T17:34:00.000-05:002006-11-28T17:34:00.000-05:00You presume Muslim societies mistreat women. That ...You presume Muslim societies mistreat women. That is too much of a generalization. And it ignores the status of women in Western societies just 100 years ago.John B. Chiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18208312356775869565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1164470368741090852006-11-25T10:59:00.000-05:002006-11-25T10:59:00.000-05:00I have a different perspective on this that may he...I have a different perspective on this that may help clarify the problem. I'm a second-generation American of European stock. My people came from a part of Bohemia where the Bohemians were a trampled underclass. Nationalistic like all Europeans + shamed = many narcissistic Bohemian men. We called the type "Bohunks." They too treated women (and children and animals) like Muslims do. See what they were doing? <BR/><BR/>We saw a similar phenomenon in Southern "white trash," who had the mentality that "if you can't look down on a black, you can't look down on anybody."<BR/><BR/>You don't see this much among American Muslims because they came here because they wanted to. They don't feel downtrodden. They have no sense of inferiority complexed into a superiority act of denial.<BR/><BR/>European Muslims have been driven there by poverty in the Middle East and have not integrated or succeeded economically and socially. They still feel downtrodden. So they must strut and need someone to get step up on. Hence they treat women as inferior just to prop up their fragile, boyish egos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1164395654199886582006-11-24T14:14:00.000-05:002006-11-24T14:14:00.000-05:00I read a good book about his subject entitled "Pri...I read a good book about his subject entitled "Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World," by Jan Goodwin.<BR/><BR/>In it she goes country by country and speaks with women in various classes and states of life about living as a woman in the Muslim world. It is very objective and informative, yet clearly portrays the terror and abuse that women suffer under these strict Islamic regimes.<BR/><BR/>I am so grateful that I live in the U.S. This is the best place in the world to live if you're a woman.terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399706958844399216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1164340222528864912006-11-23T22:50:00.000-05:002006-11-23T22:50:00.000-05:00If I may interject my opinion....they don't do it ...If I may interject my opinion....they don't do it because they've built their argument on "to each his own" and other very "let me do what I want and leave me alone" type arguments. Feminism took a downward turn that way when they started fixating on abortion rights. It's a slippery slope when you build your arguments on "to each his own" and denial of absolute truth/morality.bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1164247082243211692006-11-22T20:58:00.000-05:002006-11-22T20:58:00.000-05:00Because the point is dominance for their tribe's i...Because the point is dominance for their tribe's interpretation of reality, not Bush's, and everything is sacrificed to that.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1164242057790949872006-11-22T19:34:00.000-05:002006-11-22T19:34:00.000-05:00AVI, for the life of me, I cannot understand how t...AVI, for the life of me, I cannot understand how the feminists (of the liberal variety), the gays and the folk who claim everything "for the children" do not stand up and scream bloody murder at how women, gays and children are treated in many Muslim societies. Shameful!<BR/><BR/>Good post AVI, keep hammering them each and every time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com