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Originally Posted by Damien
Most Muslims is again awfully broad and hard to back up. Then again so is the definition of treatment of women since its arguable if society as a whole is truly equal when it comes to sexism.
You have to distinguish between members of a faith. You cannot label 1.6 billion people based on the actions of a minority who attract a disproportionate amount of attention. There are Christians in America who famously protest the funerals of solders, or children or pretty much anyone else. The fact they're Christian does matter as it's from their faith they have found such hatred. However that doesn't impact at all on all the other Christians. They're in no way responsible for their actions and we can learn nothing about all these peoples' character from those protesters. Also there has only recently been the scandal of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church! Yet most rational people wouldn't use it to claim that it is representative of 'most Christians.
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What i'm getting at is that All Muslims are taught via the Koran that women are not equal (i actually believe the correct terminology is "equal but not the same").Islamic education in this country perpetuates that idea because it's in the Koran with no repercussions from mainstream society even though any state school or Christian school teaching that would be shut down so why is that allowed to continue ?as a direct result of that teaching Adil and his like take that basic Islamic teaching to the extreme with results we have seen in this thread and in Rochdale .So i think saying "Some Muslims" is about right because most if not all are taught that women are not equal to men .Fair enough some Muslims treat women worse than others but the basic idea that women are not equal is prevalent in all Muslims