The discussion, here,
was how the stories are used,
not if they happened.
It's a wide, wide world.
Bad things happen every day.
No one says they don't.
But propaganda
takes events, holds them up as
representative . . .
Only close study
can tell us if events are
random happenings
or an in-grained part
of a culture. Heck, we hear
lots of reports of
priests abusing boys.
Nobody denies the news.
But most people don't
hold up the events
as defining qualities
of Western Christians.
Rigorous thinking
is never a waste of time.
Propaganda is.
You are the one that makes the claim that, because "Women's groups" are involved, it is automatically propaganda. These Women's Groups are not the feminazis of Western Civilization Liberalism such as Marilyn French, but rather the Islamic version of women's organization. A completely different animal (which your so-called rigorous thinking did not allow you to recognize).