http://notmrgarrison.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] notmrgarrison.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-02-17 09:11 am (UTC)

You imply that there is something in the Muslim society which makes it worse than a Christian society.

No, I imply that Egyptian society (and many other Muslim societies - Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran, ...) is worse than US society when it comes to treatment of women.

In Saudi Arabia, for example, women are not allowed to drive, adult males of any age can marry 8 year olds and have sex with them once they reach puberty. In Afghanistan (before we invaded) women were beaten in the streets simply because their ankle became momentarily visible. So yeah, gigantic stones.

And since female reporters being gang raped/molested in the US is unheard of, I see no reason why a blogger criticizing that in Egypt should have to mention that rape happens in the US as well, since the bloggers were specifically talking about gang rape in the streets in broad daylight in a country where woman are routinely gang molested in the streets.

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