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Slave owners in the south liked to point to 'how good' the slaves had it under them.

I am always amazed at the human capacity to justify ones self by selective remembering, inflating certain aspects and neglecting other aspects entirely in a given situation.

As the article points out, Jews and Christians living in Muslim society were 'social inferiors'. Muslim women today still fall into that category. Ask the average husband in the Middle East if his wife has it good, he will extoll how great of a husband/provider he is, and how lucky she is to have him looking out for her. Just don't ask him to let her drive, vote, own anything etc..

Just don't ask him to let her drive, vote, own anything etc..

As I understand it, Muslim women are allowed to drive in every country except Saudi Arabia.

Neither men nor women have effective votes in any ME country except Iraq and Israel. (You might be able to add Palestine to the list.)

Islamic law provides very strong protection for women's property rights. They may not always be enforced, but the law does recognize them, although they generally must manage the property through a male delegate.

Muslims use all kinds of perfidious means to force conversions or make the lives of religious minorities miserable in countries where they are dominant. Christians, Jews, and other religious minorities are subject to pogroms in which gangs of Muslims will enter their homes and carry off their goods while the Muslim police look on and frequently even participate in the looting. Christian girls are raped by Muslim men and have no legal recourse. Christians are frequently forced to work for Muslims at little or no pay because Muslim employers hold threats of false accusations over them, false accusations they know the corrupt Muslim courts will uphold. If a Christian, Jew, or other religious minority should find himself arrested and jailed, threats of gang rape by Muslim prisoners will usually bring about a forced conversion, a conversion he can only later renounce by imperiling his own life, since apostasy carries a death sentence in many Muslim lands. Such a one cannot return to his own Christian family and will have no Muslim family to turn to. He will live the rest of his life in a kind of destitute limbo of begging alms. There are thousands of such individuals in the Muslim countries. Furthermore, incidents outlined above take place every day in Muslim lands where religious minorities are present.
Ask the Christians of Aceh province in Indonesia how benevolent life is for them. Inquire about the benevolent existence of Pakistani Roman Catholics. In Nigeria, the Sudan, Egypt, and elsewhere in the Islamic world religious minorities are seeing their churches burn, their cemeteries desecrated, and their businesses looted by gangs of Muslims. Muslims justify all of these atrocities since non-Muslims have strictly limited rights under Sharia. Also, the burning and looting of a non-Muslim house of worship or business may be a form of jihad. Islam is nothing more nor less than a form of religious, social, and political tyranny both now and since its inception.