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   Harleyquinn said, 5 months ago

   I have said it many times, it will be the women who save the Muslim faith.
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   Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago

   Education is the only defense from ignorance. For instance, it was not until the 12th century that early Christians began to accept the concept of Zero as a value, rather than a religious statement of “void” or nothingness, i.e.- No God.. It was Muslims that introduced Christian monks to zero, a concept first established in 300 BC in India and points east. Needing a better way to count money probably helped the concept along.
   I heard a person say the best way to bring third world nations into the modern world is to educate and empower the women. Nearly every day, we hear of rape being used as a weapon against women by men of every religious persuasion. In some cultures, for a woman to be raped and live is an insult to her husband who shuns her as if it were her fault she was attacked. And men leave their children and their wife, and find another woman with whom to start a family. But in communities where women are protected by local authorities and given a chance to better themselves, the women and their children thrive.
   Here, American men, in the name of God, continue to try and make it more difficult for women to compete in a man’s world by underpaying them, overworking them, and forcing them to bear and care for children even in the case of rape or incest. A recent ad campaign had billboards showing a sexy woman in lingerie and the words, “Life is Short, Get a Divorce.” Churches welcome the married and divorced alike, and too many American fathers have no qualms about never seeing their children again after a divorce, leaving the mother to try to rebuild her life while caring for sons and daughters alone.
   Malala is everything the religious fanatic fears. An educated female with the courage to speak her mind instead of being ‘respectfully silent". Her father has been offered a position in England and I hope they stay. The Taliban has already promised to kill any of the family that returns.
   Education, especially when it includes music, art, sports, et al, empowers people. It makes friends out of geeks and jocks and it enables young men and women to make better decisions.
   “When a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do…He finds the woman who knows what’s going on."
   I’ve seen that quote in action too many times and am grateful for the many strong female role models I had growing up.
   As Steppenwolf said in their song, For Ladies Only- "Half the world has been built upon their(women’s) tears.
   Gratefully,
   C.
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   zoidknight said, 5 months ago

   @Respectful Troll

   The really bad part that most muslims ignore is that they once kept science and learning alive during the dark ages. Now they are busy supressing learning, education and science.
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   DavidGBA said, 5 months ago

   The Salufi just want to go back to the good old days of Mohammed’s lifetime in the 7th century, almost before the dark ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages
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   coraryan said, 5 months ago

   God bless this little girl. I fail to understand why any intelligent female would stay a part of that terrible, awful so-called religion.
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   Adrian Snare said, 5 months ago

   And, we could replace Malala with Jesus in the political cartoon, and change the appearance of the fundimentalists..And, I wonder, how could any woman be a conservative ?
   Adrian
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   spyderred said, 5 months ago

   Whatever Islam might once have been, it’s become a refuge for a bunch of flea-bitten misogynists to oppress women lest a woman show them for the uneducated, worthless persons they are. Exactly what this girl has done. She’s a heroine.
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   lifebyc said, 5 months ago

   @Harleyquinn

   Hi Harley! Happy New Year! Gosh, I SO want to agree with you. It’s great to see you (semi) positive. I’ve lived in the Middle East, and I’ve read the Koran (in English). There are lots of nice Muslim men and women, and it’s the nutjobs screwing it up for the rest of them – much like other fundamentalists. For example, I’d guess you’re Christian, but don’t agree with the Westboro Baptist A Holes picketing military funerals. From my experience, I’m encouraged by some of the younger secular Arab movements (male and female), and discouraged by some of the things I read in the Koran regarding women. Some of my female friends say women should run all religion and politics – we’d either have no wars, or one short one every month. What do you think?!
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   Stipple said, 5 months ago

   Women did run things way back, parts of their war is laid out in Genesis.
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   Men won, after agriculture led to larger groups some bright fellow figured out he and his buddies could just walk up to another group and kill them all.
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   The first warfare is outlined, violence before then was food or personal, not group.
   Women ran things on cooperation to best provide life for their children.
   They lost, the sheer fact of being dead overcomes good sense.
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    bhinkle said, 5 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    In my office of 15 people we have had 3 women have a baby and quit – after using all their Family Leave. After years of training and investment in them. During the same time we have had 0 men have a baby and quit. From a practical, value-neutral point of view – which is better for a business?
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    NebulousRikulau said, 5 months ago

    @bhinkle

    Long term, it’s the new customers that the woman is indoctrinating into using your company. Short term, it’s the guy not leaving.
    
    Are you in business for the day-trading, or for the dividends?
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    ahab said, 5 months ago

    When the Shaw was deposed in Iran, most of the educated women left while they could, in order to escape the religious fundamentalists. It isn’t easy being imprisoned, or killed outright for opposing the mullahs, and they offer no apology!
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    Gary Williams said, 5 months ago

    The basic tenet of any religion is faith over facts. if one believes in faith one cannot believe in facts, it is as simple as that. All religions foster and promote ignorance that is the only way they can maintain control. Just keep ’em stupid and all is well in the world.
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    markjoseph125 said, 5 months ago

    @coraryan

    Or any other western sky-god religion (christianity, judaism, olympian religion). Zeus, Allah, and Jehovah (with or without a son) are one and the same (non-)entity, all male.
    Truly amazing reading: “Infidel” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a woman who left islam.
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    Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

    I am currently re-reading a book called “when god was a woman”, by Merlin Stone, ©1976 by Merlin Stone, ISBN 0-88029-533-3. In it she details how women originally ran things with female gods, and female clergy. Then starting about 6000 years ago men started taking over and replaced the female gods with male gods. A real eye opener. This is why the world is in the shape that it is in. I don’t know if it is available to read online, or is at your public library.
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