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[Hollywoodaction]

You know, people sometimes say shocking things to get publicity...

[thepeel]

And sometimes they say things because they believe them and their god tells them that it is true.

Which "time" this is depends on the thickness of the wool over your eyes.

[cbclark4]

This is a bump

"Sheik Taj din al-Hilaly's comments made during a recent speech in Sydney, sparked widespread condemnation and calls for his resignation."

"Last night he apologised for any offence caused but he said he would not be resigning. He told Channel Nine that his comments had been taken out of context."

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1774835.htm

I don't think this apology was addressed in earlier posts.

http://www.islamfortoday.com/women.htm#Rights

"It must be terrible having to wear all that," a friend of mine was told last December as she attended a meeting to discuss the future of Afghanistan, particularly its women - "all that" being some baggy clothing and a headscarf. "Not particularly," she retorted, putting an abrupt end both to the conversation and to the prospect of building bridges between Muslim and secular feminists."

"Whether we are western, Muslim, both or neither, we must wake up to the possibility that what we see as problematic for women is much the same whoever and wherever we are. Plastered over billboards, or banished from view, women are subjugated by patriarchy. Demeaning Islam excludes the voices of Islamic women and that liberates no one."

http://www.islamfortoday.com/women01.htm

Attitudes and platitudes.

cbc