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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
In All Seriousness;
I was taking classes from an Imam when I was getting ready to go to Kuwait. I wanted to not be a cultural monster. he explained to me that all of the extreme measures taken towards covering women was not to repress women, it was because men were just completely incapable of controlling themselves in any circumstance, so it was decided that the easiest thing was to remove the temptations. |
Very good point: it's all for the good of women.
Which is why in so many Islamic countries, women who don't dress modestly are publicly flogged.
But not to single out Islam. Someone once said that the only reason modern Muslims are more dangerous than modern Christians is because they still
believe their religion; and given the superior firepower of modern Christendom and it's often over-eagerness to display that might, I'm not so sure Islam
is more dangerous. We've got some pretty whacked-out hotheads in our own churches right here in the States!