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Originally Posted by Laatab
So unlike us they can come to a consensus as a community.
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Well, actually, no they can't. They are just as manipulated as the rest of us...the difference is they abdicate their responsibility by relying on what their religious leader tells them....they allow him to make their decisions for them.
Maybe it is easier to buy the allegiance of one man than the allegiance of many.
Maybe these people have let this happen for so many centuries that they are unable to break away from tradition...after all thinking for yourself, making decisions takes some ability to analyse what the situation is all about.
Women do not have any sway in the mosques...their opinions and ideas are (in the main) irrelevant....and so their disengagement from politics means that they do not get a good deal out of it...as it is the men who make the decisions...and men will always make a different choice to women.
It is not democracy...it might have the appearance of democracy, but it is a beast of a different colour altogether.
As for being in a union and being told how to vote...well I have been in unions, I cannot recall ever being told which way I should vote......and had I been told which way I should vote...then I can tell you that I would have voted in the way that my conscience dictated regardless of the instruction.