[Lady Heron]

A woman would be a fool to become a muslim!!!!!!! No thankyou.

[Lady Heron]

Should this not be in the religion section?? What does this have to do with news?

[AdmSmith]

My guess is that the writer is a muslim as he writes "Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and there is nothing in my research of the Noble Qur'an"

pubh = "peace be upon him" is not something a non-muslims writes neither is "Noble Qur'an", furthermore the spelling Muhammad also is a clue.

So the big question is why does he claim that he not is a muslim?

[Mamzelle]

This is quite a shallow examination. Which Muslim countries do you porport to explain? Life for women is very different in Iran than it is in Egypt. Egyptian women have come under increasing oppression just in the past ten or fifteen years. But Iranian women can vote, work professionally, and I think can hold office. In Turkey, women have more opportunity. As for female "circumcision"--Mohammed allowed it, but did not proscribe it. Men do not need permission from first wives, in Palestine, to take a second. Honor killings (killing a disgraced woman in one's family) are also common among the Palestinians. Under the Ayatollah, nine-year-old Iranian girls can become legal wives--the Shah had made this illegal.

There are many variations from country to country.

[FierceDraka]

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)...

Got this far and slammed on the brakes. This guy is no Westerner. Maybe by birth, but his soul is now with the barbarian savages that inhabit that wretched part of the world.

I pay no heed to the apologists for the enemy.

[eleni121]

Apart from his obvious insecurity with western liberated women, Mr. Farmer has some valid points to make about the relative joys of western women as compared to women living under the Islamic yoke and yoke is what it is no matter how much he tries to whitewash it.

[John Locke]

Male circumcision is allowed, partly due to the roots of Islam going back to Abraham (Ibrahim), and partly because of hygiene. Trust me, when you live in a desert, there are certain areas you want sand to avoid.

No, I don't trust you. I lived for 3 years "in the desert" - well, actually, in a city on the southern edge of the Sahara - and had no problems with sand under the foreskin.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

When speaking of burkhas, I am reminded of the television coverage of King Hussein's funeral, in Jordan.

Queen Noor stood in the street, with the masses of subjects, as they mourned the death of their king. She wore a white scarf. Someone mentioned that white is the color for mourning, in the Middle East (or at least Jordan), not black, like we wear in the West.

So, this might explain why women are not covered in lighter colors, regardless what common sense and high temperatures would dictate. I would imagine it would be difficult to get these women to wear black for mourning. I do suggest, that lighter colors would be a big improvement for the health of the woman!