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To: papertyger
Are you suggesting women are only defined by marriage, or in relation to men?

No, I picked marriage as an example of how women's rights are infringed in some of these Muslim societies with no basis in the Quran. Can't drive? Aisha rode into battle! How's that for precedent for women driving?

What are you refering to?

Over two hundred passages in the Bible showing women to be unclean, subordinate, inferior, possession, or simply not worth adressing. Paul's pen was particularly venomous.

268 posted on 08/23/2005 2:37:14 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
No, I picked marriage as an example of how women's rights are infringed in some of these Muslim societies with no basis in the Quran.

That's fine, but it hardly establishes the point you set out to make; that is any possibility of equality for women under koranic guidance. Surely you aren't suggesting that the sharia standard for establishing rape is in any sense acceptable?

Over two hundred passages in the Bible showing women to be unclean, subordinate, inferior, possession, or simply not worth adressing. Paul's pen was particularly venomous.

Without particulars you're making nothing but gratuitous assertions, which I remind you can be just as gratuitously dismissed. I dare say avoiding direct comparisons of mohammeden vs. Judeo/Christian (even Pauline) statements regarding the role of women is at best disingenuous, and at worst duplicitous.

270 posted on 08/23/2005 3:12:53 PM PDT by papertyger (Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." – Frederick Douglass)
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