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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
Not all Muslim countries don't allow women to drive, or hold Public Office.
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It might surprize you to learn that I am not unaware of that ... just think of it as a metaphor, loosely based on fact, employed for rhetorical purposes. Perhaps I should have mentioned Saudi Arabia on the driving thingy ... and also pointed out that Afghanistan sent a grand total of 0 female athletes to the Olympics ... though I do hear that several women were employed as punching bags by the Afghani boxing team
And I don't expect Islamic states to be as tolerant as us folks in Ontario, where we accept, most of us without thinking about it, a female, openly gay Premier. By the way, she is despised by many because she is a Liberal ... our tolerance does have limits.
I do think though, that muslim leaders, and muslims in general, have to make a greater effort to distance themselves from the Islamic nutbars. And they have to realize that most of the rest of us really don't give a flying you-know-what about their religion. We don't care. We don't want to hear about it day after day. Religion should be a private thing.
By the way, the yanks could tone down their Jeeeezuusss saves crap. But that's a whole 'nother topic.
