[donna]

Frankly, there are lots of Muslims whose beliefs are more peaceful and rational and consistent with the Constitution, than the vile stuff spewed by Reverend Wright.

They why aren't there any Moslem countries where women are equal citizens?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Treating women as second class citizens is hardly a Muslim invention. English commmon law treated women like property. And Switzerland — hardly a hotbed of Islam — didn’t allow women to vote until 1971! And women aren’t treated as equals in the Catholic Church, and many other mainstream Christian churches. Countries where Islam is the official government-endorsed religion are really theocracies, and tend to have legal structures that embody and perpetuate a conservative brand of Islam. Not all Muslims — even in those countries — actually subscribe to those beliefs, any more than all Christians believe women must be “obedient” to their husbands..