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CentralCali
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| The view of women as property with no rights of their own is deeply rooted in Islamic culture and directly cited in the Qur'aan. |
I seem to recall the Qur'an explicitly stating some of the rights women have. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| The view of women as property with no rights of their own is deeply rooted in Islamic culture and directly cited in the Qur'aan. |
I seem to recall the Qur'an explicitly stating some of the rights women have. |
That doesn't contradict what I said. I said the Qur'aan makes statements prescribing the role of women as property. It may well be the case the Qur'aan also, simultaneously makes the statements to which you refer. Religious texts contain countless contradictions, allowing the believer to pick and choose. |
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CentralCali
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay. Can you post something from the Qur'an that specifically considers women as property? |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| An Islam 101 debate of this kind isn't desirable. |
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mateomiguel
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| And the same people are silent on the issue of male genital mutilation (routine infant circumcision) in the West. |
Smegma man. Smegma. Look up smegma and then tell me cutting off the foreskin is "mutilation." |
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bacasper

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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| mateomiguel wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
| And the same people are silent on the issue of male genital mutilation (routine infant circumcision) in the West. |
Smegma man. Smegma. Look up smegma and then tell me cutting off the foreskin is "mutilation." |
You are implying that smegma, which accumulates under the foreskin, is a problem that is "solved" by circumcision.
Perhaps you never heard of soap? When combined with water and used on the glans *beep* (which easily becomes available by retracting the foreskin), it becomes clean!
I suppose if you are an adult and willingly make the decision, you can choose to do that or have surgery which condemns you to a life of decreased sexual pleasure. It is your choice, but certainly not one that should be forced upon a non-consenting infant.
I have not even mentioned the function of smegma as a lubricant during intercourse, but let's get back on topic. |
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mateomiguel
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| You also haven't yet mentioned the function of smegma and foreskin in last-minute cockblocking. Have you ever met a girl who said "eww, your *beep* is clean, cut and familiar to me, I won't touch it." ? no? But I know the opposite happens! |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Denmark:
Women who allege rape are actually confessing to having illicit sex.
Imagine being a Muslim girl and knowing you may be only one rape away from an honor killing or 200 lashes. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| The push to tolerate islam at risk of pejorative punishes women and appeases misogynistic men. |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Comparison to the other Abrahamic religions is misleading. All of them are fundamentally misogynistic. However, the equivalence argument ignores the fact that only in Islam, in the Koran and the hadith, do you see detailed, written rules cementing woman's position of inferiority. The act of violence and the cult of misogyny are codified and ritualized by these texts: from the number of wives a man may have, to the number of male witnesses required for a woman to bear witness against a man (four), to the specification of the exact number of public lashes to be give to a prostitute (100), to the punishment for adultery (death), to the explicit permission given to men for domestic violence - "if your wife disobeys you, first rebuke her and sleep away from her; if she persists, you may beat her".
St Paul simply says "wives, obey your husbands". That's obvious Bronze Age garbage, but not quite the sort of codified endorsement of and permission for violence that you find in the Koran and the hadith.
This is what you have to understand. Islam is the prescription for a complete ordering of civil society according to the social mores of an ancient desert culture, but presented as the eternal and unchanging Word of Allah. It is not just an otherworldly promise of future happiness in exchange for faith, as Christianity, with its long-understood distinction (not always separation, but distinction) between the idea of civil life and spiritual life - Render unto Caesar, etc, has always been. In contrast, not a single aspect of life is left untouched by the sacred texts of Islam.
So you see, it is not a question of whether Islam or Islamic peoples are inherently more woman-hating in their character than Christianity. It is a question of the availability of the warrant for acts of violence.
Honour killings are simply a vigilante expression of violence that would, in an orthodox Islamic context, be carried out by legitimized state and social means: not always by death, but never in a manner that's any less contemptuous of the idea of the female as a social and human creature equal to the male. |
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ELGORDO
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't hear a word from U.S. Feminists on stuff like this because they are leftist first and only use the "sexist" charge when it helps their agenda- i.e. hiring more women as firefighters, getting Larry Summers fired as Pres of Harvard, etc. Women getting stoned to death? Who cares. Thats just the richness of diversity. |
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ytuque

Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Location: I drink therefore I am!
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| cwflaneur wrote: |
| Comparison to the other Abrahamic religions is misleading. All of them are fundamentally misogynistic. |
The root of this issue seems to be that Muslims are required to accept the Koran as the word of god. Since the Koran was written in 7th century, the obvious question is how can Islamic society adapt to the modern world when it is so strongly connected to the 7th century? |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't hear a word from U.S. Feminists on stuff like this because they are leftist first and only use the "sexist" charge when it helps their agenda |
I think the reason for this is that they are scared of being called racists. That's deeply erroneous, of course - we know that, but any criticism whatsoever of nonwhite people being racist (even if one's criticism concerns religion and not race) is itself a concept that originated in leftism.
More ludicrously still, the refusal to hold immigrant cultures to the same standards of debate as 'white' cultures is, itself, deeply racist, because people move to Western, secular countries precisely to enjoy those kinds of things and are denied for no other reason than their foreignness. Don't impose our culture on them even in our own countries - it might cause offense. Immigrants' right to not be offended by white Westerners is, presumably, a more urgent right than women's rights to live unmolested by Muslim male yobs.
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| Women getting stoned to death? Who cares. Thats just the richness of diversity. |
Exactly! And as for FGM.....well, that just means the male has to try harder to satisfy the woman, making him a much better lover! |
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bacasper

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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| mateomiguel wrote: |
| You also haven't yet mentioned the function of smegma and foreskin in last-minute cockblocking. Have you ever met a girl who said "eww, your *beep* is clean, cut and familiar to me, I won't touch it." ? no? But I know the opposite happens! |
You don't think that attitude is socially conditioned?
Yeah, right. Intact men around the world are not getting any. And the pleasure they are getting is superior to the decreased sensitivity of the mutilates.
If you want to do it to yourself as an adult, fine, but don't violate the right of the infants to bodily integrity. |
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ytuque

Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Location: I drink therefore I am!
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| ytuque wrote: |
| Women getting stoned to death? Who cares. Thats just the richness of diversity. |
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I am not sure where that quote came from, but it wasn't from me!
This Brit, Pat Condell, has some interesting things to say on these matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4FpTvp0tgs |
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