What Muslims Around the World Think About Women's Rights, in Charts

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49. If you want to encourage support

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You should create your own thread rather than entering a subthread on another topic and accusing me of not paying attention to something you can't bother to write an OP about.

There is no law requiring women in Turkey veil. The woman in Turkey received death threats. Evidently that is less important to you than the reason for which she received them. Adria Richards received death threats too and her crime was believing she had the right to work in an environment free from discrimination. And we had so-called feminists on this board celebrating her being fired. So called feminists on this board lecture rape victims about not wearing appropriate clothing, and so-called feminists defend male members who insist women don't really mean no when they say they don't want to have sex. People say all kinds of stuff. I'm not interesting in indulging your personal grudges with other members here. That is your fight, not mine, particularly when you won't make an effort to understand their arguments.

Women in Iran under the Shah were assaulted for wearing veils, as have been women in France in recent years. You also completely ignored the point in the other thread that Muslim headscarves cover not more than ordinary designer scarves worn by non-Muslim French women. The only difference in the two is the one signals a religious and ethnic identity that the French and many Americans despise.

The only view of Muslim women that you appear interested in are as victims. You consistently refuse to grant them the same respect you demand for sex workers in this country. The Egyptian women I referenced are protesting sexual assault. They protest sexist comments by government officials because they recognize such language is connected to subjugation of women. Here people routinely trivialize that sort of activism. Many Muslim women do not share your obsession with veiling because it is not obligatory in Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and most Muslim countries. Yet some choose to veil, despise the fact you insist they dress only as you approve.