Could you please post the link to the video as I haven't even seen it due to Retro being on my ignore list??
Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACj2_7_orY
However, without even seeing it I could sense what the vid was about from the title of this thread alone and.....the 'reputation' of its OP!!
To retain any credibility if a debate forum, you must look at something before declaring it propaganda.
Islam commands that women should be treated as Equal' and respected under all circumstances. But this doesn't happen in practice among some Muslims due to cultural overlapping for which there is no justification to malign the religion itself.
The local religious establishment condones such actions at a minimum by non-action. The statistics I've seen indicate that Africa and the Middle East have the highest rates of violence directed at women. This is not random street violence, this is culturally condoned and in some cases condoned by the government/religious establishment by authorities sentencing women or just looking the other way. I'm not an expert on this but
if it is true, most reprehensible is the condoned act of honor killing and women being convicted of being raped, where the victim is held responsible or being hanged as an adulterer. The man should be up there swinging with the woman, but my impression is that this rarely happens, if ever.
The Quran clearly says that men are 'a degree above women' because they are solely liable to maintain their wives and children. This does not mean that Muslims deny any other 'equality' rights to women. It also doesn't mean that a woman cannot be a degree higher than a man if she undertakes the liability attributed to her husband. Thus ''equality' is a reciprocal matter in Islam and there is nothing wrong with it!
Then the Quran degrades women. From a modern view, there is no other way to look at if. My impression, no matter what the reason, sexual equality in the Middle East is rare to non existent.
Crimes are not restricted to Muslims, even Christians and Hindus commit crimes.....this does not mean that Christianity or Hinduism is to be blamed for individual infractions of the divine law.
Look at the position of women in the West as compared to the Middle East. There just is no comparison. In the Middle East women's place is below men, period. Your kidding yourself or rationalizing to think any different. In the West, woman can really look to equality under the law. In the Middle East, women get second class treatment, on all levels, in all situations.
