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Originally Posted by WayoftheWolf
So, it is your opinion that it is worse to be oppressed by physical means rather than by psychological means. I would argue that we do have fashion police running around. The societal pressure for women to fit a certain image that results in body augmentation, bulimia, anorexia. Even products solely for this oppression have been developed for diet food, diet pills, and a whole bunch of workout equipement. The way I look at it is that we tend to look at everthing as black or white; put techinically, a binary system. So, Arabs are one end of the continum where they do not want their female members of the family to talk to the other sex because they know what can happen to the point that they are very controlling. On the other end, we have Americans who have all the freedom in the world. We can talk to whom ever we want; but, then have many ramifications from that. Out of wedlock births, single parent mothers, abortions, promiscuity, stds, a highly sexualized culture,etc. I feel if we continue to make value judgements we will never move forward.
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Women that go out in public in Egypt in modern western wear (modest ) have a 50/50 shot of being called a whore, groped, or worse.
When we first went to Egypt, in the late 70's, the Egyptian Officers got mad because we wouldn't share our female soldiers with them because any female in uniform had to be a whore.
Women are property regardless of how they dress, hijab, western, whatever...they are property
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bePfSeh2ZDs
Sharia law backed by Quranic verse indicate a woman is worth 1/2 as much as a man. Her word, her life.
That is the issue...not comparing std rates, which, btw, are totally unreported in the ME. Mostly with the foreign workers raped by their employers. They are not Muslim so who cares.