Posted on 09/08/2004 10:46:36 AM PDT by quidnunc
At the main mosque in Rotterdam, the imam is doing a brisk trade. There are no hawkers, no hard sell; only an orderly line of figures snaking down the side-street and around the corner.
In turn, each hands over five euros, takes a book and leaves. Those queuing to buy their copies of Sheikh Abu Bakr Jabir al-Jasairi's book, The Muslim Way, are all men.
The tome, which confirms the right of Muslim men to beat their disobedient wives and rails against the emancipation of women (as well as advocating that homosexuals should be thrown off rooftops and, should they survive, stoned to death) is a big seller among the Netherlands' one million Muslims.
Twelve miles away, in the Dutch parliament building at the Hague, Ayaan Hirsi Ali raises one perfectly arched eyebrow and shrugs her couture-clad shoulders.
"Hardly surprising so many queue up," she says. "Those among them who subject their wives to such treatment are only too happy to buy literature that tells them they are doing no wrong.
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"But tell me why any Muslim man would want Islamic women to be educated and emancipated? What would be in it for him? Would a Roman voluntarily have given up his slaves? Not likely," she says spiritedly, pausing only to take a long sip of bottled water through a straw. "It is the women we must educate."
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
No offense taken; the photo of the woman looked fine; the caricature looked like (shudder) Whoopi Goldberg (another shudder).
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bttt
"We had better wake up and pay attention."
We had also better have more children.
What was the purpose of that, man?
BTTT
If the women become educated, it's not likely they'd let a Muslim man touch them much less marry them --- then no more Muslims in one generation.
To: little jeremiah
No offence meant; doing "google images" and posting for practice.
Gutsy woman.
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