Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many Muslim women still need permission from male relatives for the little things……. like marriage, travel (in some cases), choosing what to wear, gaining an education, speaking, singing, reading and even getting certain medical procedures done. But apart from that……

This paper, from the (weirdly virus-r…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Remember Nessrriinn from the old TA site?

Was she the lady from Saudi Arabia?  What happened to her?  Is she in prison, for being normal?

I do remember that Reg.

Really well done.

Simon,

I despise those things. Racism, sexism, injustice. Yet I would never want any association between myself and progressivism. Progressivism is a font of racism, sexism and injustice. It is awesome you are not an ideologue. Unfortunately the current sweeps up a great many of us and the ideology takes precedence over human rights. And that is…[Read more]

Remember Nessrriinn from the old TA site?

Fellow Unbelievers

More on food:

If the food truck and the ice cream wagon where you have got your lunch for years have paperwork for an L.L.C., they are Corporate Food. Porky Pig and The Good Humor Man are Bourgeois Kulaks.

If you have ate there for years without gastonomic incident, shut up and enjoy your Street Corn Tamales and your…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
So the daughter pipes in that she was amazed at university that the first thing she was taught was that we should not judge Islam for these practices. The daughter goes on to describe it as a betrayal of human rights.

Do you have this video?  Of course, I deplore making excuses for the medieval abuse of women.  I would be i…[Read more]

Many Muslim women still need permission from male relatives for the little things……. like marriage, travel (in some cases), choosing what to wear, gaining an education, speaking, singing, reading and even getting certain medical procedures done. But apart from that……

Simon,

Islam as to women is a great deal more than just beating women as a cultural/religious norm. It is gender mutilation. It is arranged marriages. It is tolerance of old men molesting/raping little girls. Marrying little girls. Denying education. Not giving opportunity to females beyond bearing children. Not treating mental illness that…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Tell me Simon if you are okay with the cultural relativism that protects abusers and punishes the abused.

No, I’m not OK with beating women, or for making excuses for it.  Do people really do that?  Can you find evidence of a “lefty” defending abuse of women by Islam?  I’m not denying it happens, but I’ve never seen it in the fl…[Read more]