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In reply to the discussion: Video-Amina: Topless Tunisian Protester Tells Femen She Was Beaten,Kidnapped & Drugged By Her Family [View all]backscatter712
(26,355 posts)You completely mischaracterize the site I link, which gives the same treatment to the Bible, and the book of Mormon as it does to the Quran. Everything in that site is taken directly from those religious texts. I think it's being quite even-handed.
Islam, as it turns out, being an Abrahamic religion, has the same flaws as Christianity and Judaism. The human rights activism of Muslims, Christians and Jews doesn't take place because these adherents of their religions are following the teachings, but because they are breaking them. You don't see most Christians or Jews refusing to eat shellfish or wear blended fabrics, do you? Paul says in the New Testament "Slaves, follow your masters" and "Women, submit to your husbands." Yet in the US, we had an abolitionist movement, fought a civil war and abolished slavery (despite Southern plantation owners reading the Bible verses I paraphrased specifically to justify slavery...) We had a women's suffrage movement here in the West that brought women some, but not all, of the legal rights and respect they deserve, but even today, we have Christian extremists demanding that women sit down, shut up, submit to their husbands and the male church leaders, and stop demanding fair treatment. The clergy of the Roman Catholic Church is still a boys-only club.
You don't become moral by following the teachings of the Bible or the Quran. You do so by breaking most the rules in those texts, and only picking out the pieces that actually make sense and aren't too incompatible with basic decency. If you want to see what happens when you follow the teachings too closely, see the Westboro Baptist Church. Or the Taliban.
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