Wolking’s World

LGF destroys, in only a couple sentences, an argument that must have been nearly impossible to write due to the logical gymnastics required.

A Kos Kid gives it his best effort to be as blind and stupid as possible: Daily Kos: Is Islam Really Stuck in the 12th Century on Women’s Rights?

After denying that there’s any problem for women in Islamic countries, Joshua Holland writes in the first comment:

Who Knows?

Hell, maybe women do fare a lot worse in Islamic culture than they do in other faiths. I’ve just never seen any hard evidence to support that claim.

You haven’t seen any “hard evidence,” Joshua, because you haven’t looked.

Ten worst countries for women.

It’s a constant source of amazement to me that self-defined “liberals” like this will make excuses for the most illiberal societies, in complete self-satisfied ignorance, and look the other way as women are ruthlessly oppressed by a belief system from the Dark Ages.

I know an American couple who lived in Kuwait for a number of years around the time of the Gulf War. They have some incredible stories, not least of which are about the times they played witness to a Muslim man caning a random woman in the street because her ankles weren’t completely covered. I kid you not.

And let’s not forget about female genital mutilation, something that runs rampant in most Muslim cultures.

If Christians mandated the beating of wives, excused rape in pretty much every situation, and killed their daughters for not wearing enough clothing, would the Daily Kos still miss the “hard evidence”?