You've read about the Saudia Arabian woman that was raped by seven men and then sentenced to receive 200 lashes with a bamboo stick and then six months in jail haven't you?
I am just as prepared to go to war with Saudia Arabia for violating women's rights as human beings as I am to go to war with a country full of suicide bombers. I get that they claim it's part of their religion. Under their laws, women cannot drive. In education, they are segregated. Male and female teachers have to meet via the phone or Internet. Women working at the bank have to enter through a separate door.
Let's get back to this whole religion thing...how convenient right? Our God says we can subjugate and oppress women. We can marry as many as we want and oh, they can't drive a car.
I can't...I, uh...But...They can't...Ugh..I don't even know where to start. I guess we could relate this to how Christians used the Bible to justify slavery. Or, I guess we could relate this to how, in America, some people justify the discrimination against gays. Maybe it's also kind of like how Christians want laws violating a woman's right to privacy over her own body.
Crap. We're just as bad as they are. I was all ready to sit in righteous judgment about how f'ed up their culture is and be full of moral outrage at how they treat women and then I realized...before I start chucking rocks at their culture maybe I ought to think about what I'm doing to fight to defend my own neighbors in America first.
Damn you, logical thinking! Damn you to hell!
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