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2006-12-07 Olde Tyme Religion

'Women's plight holds back Arab renaissance'

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Posted by Fred 2006-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Huge discrimination against women in the Arab world is holding back overall economic prosperity and social development in the region, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.

While women's rights definitely represent a steadily-ignored rhinocerous in the Arab living room, as usual, they've omitted any mention of the ever-present elephant; Namely, Islamic terrorism.

Any "Arab Renaissance" is going to be held back a whole lot longer, if not permanently, by the strong possibility of nuclear annihilation in retaliation for continued terrorist atrocities. Women's rights, however important they very much are, pale in comparison to the MME (Muslim Middle East) developing some sort of industrial and agricultural infrastructure instead of the current one that relies almost exclusvely on petroleum and religious war.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-07 01:58|| 2006-12-07 01:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Huge discrimination against women in the Arab world is holding back overall economic prosperity and social development in the region, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.

I'm curious. Can anyone name any major national entity that is economically successful that doesn't allow women reasonable levels of opportunity and equality?

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-12-07 08:49|| 2006-12-07 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I still like Michael Yon's piece Empty Jars as to why it is such a problem for any advancement in the musselman's world.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2006-12-07 10:35|| 2006-12-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#4 If those wimmins would peek out of their sacks occaisionally, they could change things fast. I believe I just heard a press report recently about some female who became very upset about her companions' extracurricular activities. So after he was sound asleep, she poured some gasoline on his genital area, dropped the match and he awoke to fried hotdog and beans. This would work well in Islamo society.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-07 12:35|| 2006-12-07 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 'Women's plight holds back Arab renaissance'

Doesn't one have to have a "naissance" first before one can have a re-naissance?

Despite all the bluster about the glories during the Caliphate, on most measures of advancement Islam hasn't even gotten to square one.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-12-07 14:00|| 2006-12-07 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 SpecOp35, this is why I keep saying that we need to arrange a lecture tour in the MME (Muslim Middle East) for Loreena Bobbit.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-07 14:36|| 2006-12-07 14:36|| Front Page Top

#7 The problem is that the right to bully women is one of main "attractions" of Islam. Especially for pimply faced adolescent men with no social skills.

If you have to treat women with respect, you might as well be an Infidel.

Alo

Posted by frozen Al 2006-12-07 15:17|| 2006-12-07 15:17|| Front Page Top

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