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In reply to the discussion: FEMEN Protests: Nobody Asked This Group to Speak For Oppressed Muslim Women [View all]backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Every culture has its Phyllis Schlaflys.
Apologists who say "I think it's great that we're second-class citizens!" "I like being sent off in the corner!" "I like being told I can't hold leadership positions!" "I like being made to wear a sack over my head and view the world through a little slit!"
Like I said, Islam deserves to be insulted. Today's Islam has become a cruel, misogynistic, authoritarian regime. FEMEN's well within their rights to protest them in whatever way they like.
Don't think I just pick on Islam. Islam's not even close to being unique in its cruelty, misogyny and authoritarianism. Look at Orthodox Judaism - sex-segregation, women not allowed to be in the leadership, women told how they're allowed to dress and act. Roman Catholicism. Again, women not allowed to be in the leadership, and they'd like to be able to tell women how to dress, but thankfully, here in the West, we've managed to keep the clergy's kiddy-fiddling mitts off the levers of power for the most part, otherwise they'd have every woman under their power dressing like nuns. Don't think for one second they don't want to. Go to the Bible Belt in the U.S. - they do tell women how to dress, forbid them from showing any sort of leadership at all, and make them sex-segregate in society.
Religion is the single biggest source of misogyny in the world, by orders of magnitude. No other institution comes close.
Religion poisons everything!