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Middle eastern and Islamic attitudes to women

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    No, it shouldn't be allowed. That's another whole scandal brewing.
    That child has been inculcated with a hatred of Western women and culture, already. ''European women are alcoholics'' ''Christmas is stupid and Easter is stupid.''

    Tbf, Christmas and Easter are stupid.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Tbf, Christmas and Easter are stupid.

    The significance is lost on you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,263 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    I see troupes of men making their way to the Mosque locally at Friday midday and not a woman in sight. Where are they at prayer time? They are allowed (!) into a mosque I know, but I never see any woman at all?

    Why is that anyone know?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    To put a girl child into a practising strict Muslim family who might force her through FGM, compulsory hijabing, arranged or forced marriage, male-female segregation, and the human rights abuses of Islamic /Sharia law, is unacceptable. Imagine if it was a Muslim child being mistreated by a Christian foster carer. People wouldn't be slow to condemn that, and rightly so, so I hope that case isn't brushed under the carpet along with any others like it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    And yet we have muppets in the media and government who want to break a MB sympatising jihadi out of an Egyption prison you couldnt make it up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    bobbyss wrote: »
    I see troupes of men making their way to the Mosque locally at Friday midday and not a woman in sight. Where are they at prayer time? They are allowed (!) into a mosque I know, but I never see any woman at all?

    Why is that anyone know?

    I see plenty of women going to the mosque near me? Maybe they go at different times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    In some countries women are treated like shít. It's not right at all, however, they need to figure that out themselves.

    Keep in mind, some women in these countries don't want the changes we wish for them.
    I was watching one of those, "It was alright in the 70's" shows last week, which was focussing on sexism, racism, etc in broadcasting at the time.

    One of the more fascinating parts was an anti-feminism movement - not dissimilar from the MRA nonsense today - which involved quite a lot of women supporting the "women's place in the home" line.

    Thing is, people dislike change. The things we know are safe. The things we don't, we fear. Stockholm syndrome is an offshoot of this; clinging to familiarity because everything else is scary as sh1t.

    There are still women in Ireland today, who oppose feminism. Who believe that women are inferior to men and should be subservient.

    We can't allow the fears and irrationalities of a small subset of women to make decisions for the rest.
    To put a girl child into a practising strict Muslim family who might force her through FGM, compulsory hijabing, arranged or forced marriage, male-female segregation, and the human rights abuses of Islamic /Sharia law, is unacceptable. Imagine if it was a Muslim child being mistreated by a Christian foster carer. People wouldn't be slow to condemn that, and rightly so, so I hope that case isn't brushed under the carpet along with any others like it.
    It's fostering, not adoption. There's more regular contact with the authorities and the foster parents don't have the authority to make decisions as a parent would.
    Assuming that mutilation or marriage might take place is pure unfounded hysteria.

    Anyway, this isn't really a muslim issue. There are plenty of examples of devout christian foster parents putting foster children through hell and forcing them to conform to their beliefs. In all cases, it's a failure on the part of the social services to appropriately vet foster families and monitor the children put into their care.

    There's a strong argument that someone having a devout faith of any kind should be automatically disqualified from fostering because they are incapable of serving the best interests of any given child.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    I only know one Muslim couple well, so I can't really comment on their attitudes on a broad level, but this fella is terrified of his wife. She is a bit of a weapon to be fair, more like an old fashioned Irish mammy with a high flying job.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Lux23 wrote: »
    I only know one Muslim couple well, so I can't really comment on their attitudes on a broad level, but this fella is terrified of his wife. She is a bit of a weapon to be fair, more like an old fashioned Irish mammy with a high flying job.

    He sounds like a lot of spineless Irish men.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    He sounds like a lot of spineless Irish men.

    No, I wouldn't say he is spineless she is just pretty formidable. Maybe she had to be where she grew up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23




  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    seamus wrote: »

    It's fostering, not adoption. There's more regular contact with the authorities and the foster parents don't have the authority to make decisions as a parent would.
    Assuming that mutilation or marriage might take place is pure unfounded hysteria.

    Anyway, this isn't really a muslim issue. There are plenty of examples of devout christian foster parents putting foster children through hell and forcing them to conform to their beliefs. In all cases, it's a failure on the part of the social services to appropriately vet foster families and monitor the children put into their care.

    There's a strong argument that someone having a devout faith of any kind should be automatically disqualified from fostering because they are incapable of serving the best interests of any given child.

    It's a suitability issue. And I don't agree it's ''pure hysteria'', considering the abuse already taking place in that home. Once she reaches 16 the monitoring will really drop off the cliff and children especially of that age slip through the cracks in UK social services with alarming regularity. Yes, clearly it is a failure to vet and monitor, but more to the point, a failure to find an appropriate placement in the first place. It had better be rectified soon before the child is mentally destroyed.

    I wouldn't oppose your last suggestion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    A religion that actually fosters systems and cultures where women that are subject to rape are to blame and are punished, often by being forced to marry their rapist, is akin to a religion that does not allow women to be celebrants and ministers. :rolleyes:

    - this part. While I welcome a thread on here that finally says female abuse is not okay, the Catholic church is not any different

    The catholic church threw girls that were raped into Magdalene laundries, locked them up for 10 - 15 years and referred to their children as 'whore's droppings'.

    Let us look at ourselves before we cast a stone in shame. How did the world in general get this dark?

    Only when both sexes truly respect each other can we flourish as a world

    Ohh FFS.
    Some excusitory hogwash with a bit of Saccharin thrown in at the end.

    So would you condemn executions in the likes of the US, you know we had executions until 1954 and it was on the statue books until 1990 for police killings ?

    The Magdalene laundries were a stain on this countries history, both from the point of view of the catholic church, but also the arms of the state who conspired to keep them in operation.

    But note that word history.

    Nothing would ever be done if people continue to navel gaze.

    The Magdalene Laundries, the industrial schools, the christian brother schools, etc would still be allowed operate if some fine people hadn't decided to ignore the old
    "Let us look at ourselves before we cast a stone in shame".
    Shenshen wrote: »
    Is it? From what friends tell me about what's happening in Iran at the moment, I don't believe that it's every single Muslim getting more devout. On the contrary.

    It varies greatly from country to country, some are in the process of getting more secular, some are fighting back extremists.

    Ehh 90-95% Shia.

    Not would you mind telling us the list of Shia terrorist attacks around the world in the last 15 years?

    So now the authorities have decided to just give some muslims young girls, official like. :rolleyes:

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    To put a girl child into a practising strict Muslim family who might force her through FGM, compulsory hijabing, arranged or forced marriage, male-female segregation, and the human rights abuses of Islamic /Sharia law, is unacceptable....
    Agreed, but I just want to point out that FGM is not an Islamic (or Middle Eastern) custom. It's African, and not confined to Muslim families.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Agreed, but I just want to point out that FGM is not an Islamic (or Middle Eastern) custom. It's African, and not confined to Muslim families.

    I know it's not only an Islamic custom but it is now prevalent in Islamic society.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Mutant z wrote: »
    And yet we have muppets in the media and government who want to break a MB sympatising jihadi out of an Egyption prison you couldnt make it up.

    And at the same time, his sister is suing the Irish government for not allowing her Egyptian suitor into Ireland fast enough.

    Nope, you couldn't make it up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Kivaro wrote: »
    And at the same time, his sister is suing the Irish government for not allowing her Egyptian suitor into Ireland fast enough.

    Nope, you couldn't make it up.

    The sisters should be extradited back to Egypt for skipping bail! They have very strong contacts in the media every week there is another article on the journal it's a joke or on Newstalk or Rte


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    It's a suitability issue. And I don't agree it's ''pure hysteria'', considering the abuse already taking place in that home. Once she reaches 16 the monitoring will really drop off the cliff and children especially of that age slip through the cracks in UK social services with alarming regularity. Yes, clearly it is a failure to vet and monitor, but more to the point, a failure to find an appropriate placement in the first place. It had better be rectified soon before the child is mentally destroyed.

    I wouldn't oppose your last suggestion.

    Exactly shows how demented some of the posters on here are that they see no problem with a Christian girl being fostered out to a clearly strict Muslim family.
    Who ever authorised this needs to be sacked!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Grayson wrote: »
    Just being pedantic but a lot of "sharia" countries do have education systems for women. The taliban and ISIS don't but they do in Saudi.

    Not that it makes Saudi a nice place, I'm just pointing out that they do have an educated female population.

    The issue is not the availability of "Education" to female muslims,but the nature of that "Education".

    Some posters earlier in thread,came close to establishing the link that enabled the enlightenment of our native Catholic population,and it was the free availability of Education-pure'n simple.

    Once the seed is planted,it will expand within any given religious mindset,allowing hitherto unchallenged fundamentals to be robustly challenged.

    However,as we can see with Muslim Education in particular,the established Leadership has put down it's markers in terms of what will be permitted in Irish Muslim Schools,and that line will NOT be crossed.

    The likes of Imam Hawala and Ali Selim have been very clear as to the amount of Western influence they are prepared to allow into the area of Muslim education (particularly female education).

    These lads know damn well,that their handy number is up once their flock get to the broader level of education made possible by modern Western Society,so one can hardly be surprised when the wagons are circled long in advance of the issue.


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭jackofalltrades


    I read this an thought it had to be fake news, but it actually happened. :eek:
    Who thought it was a good idea to place a child in the care of these people.
    It's bad enough we have people living amonst us who hate us, our way of life and have no interest in ever integrating.
    But to give them children to indoctrinate is just insane.
    No real surprise to see that Tower Hamlets council was involved.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Only about an hour ago there was a documentary on BBC4 about when the muslim Moors ruled Spain. In some ways they were quite progressive but they also used to capture and traffic European women and children into Spain as concubines. Blond women were especially sought after.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    The issue is not the availability of "Education" to female muslims,but the nature of that "Education".

    Some posters earlier in thread,came close to establishing the link that enabled the enlightenment of our native Catholic population,and it was the free availability of Education-pure'n simple.

    Once the seed is planted,it will expand within any given religious mindset,allowing hitherto unchallenged fundamentals to be robustly challenged.

    However,as we can see with Muslim Education in particular,the established Leadership has put down it's markers in terms of what will be permitted in Irish Muslim Schools,and that line will NOT be crossed.

    The likes of Imam Hawala and Ali Selim have been very clear as to the amount of Western influence they are prepared to allow into the area of Muslim education (particularly female education).

    These lads know damn well,that their handy number is up once their flock get to the broader level of education made possible by modern Western Society,so one can hardly be surprised when the wagons are circled long in advance of the issue.

    There is a bit of fly in this argument.
    The preponderance of young people, men especially but also some young girls, who have been educated in the West and often to a third level degree, who have then flocked to the likes of ISIS is quiet scary.

    It is not alone enough to educate people in Western educational systems, it is also incumbent on authorities to remove preachers of hate who have access to people through religious institutions and especially in places like prisons.
    darkdubh wrote: »
    Only about an hour ago there was a documentary on BBC4 about when the muslim Moors ruled Spain. In some ways they were quite progressive but they also used to capture and traffic European women and children into Spain as concubines. Blond women were especially sought after.

    That was around the same time islam last had some truly enlightened thinking.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    professore wrote: »
    I always laugh at people going on about how sexist, anti-gay and violent the Koran is - while the Bible is just as bad ....

    The bible might be, but in western democracies that are predominately Christian you don't have to live by the bibles rules, where as in Islamic countries you live by the islamic rules.

    islamic religion and law are one and the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Good news for that child judge has made a ruling that she should live with her grandmother. That the child should be in a culturally matched foster placement but aparantly there was none at the time.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Spider Web


    professore wrote: »
    I always laugh at people going on about how sexist, anti-gay and violent the Koran is - while the Bible is just as bad ....
    You always laugh? Jayz you're easily amused! :)

    Do they also say to you that the bible isn't as bad?

    I'm not sure it's being argued here that the bible isn't as bad, but what international movement is there based on the old testament which is the equivalent of that based on islamic fundamentalism?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Divelment


    Just watching BBC news night with the lovely* Emma Barnett and yet another story of a gang-rape of a woman in Morocco in broad daylight that was filmed and posted on social media.

    Apparently in this country before 2014 a rapist could avoid prosecution if they then married the victim (I may have that wrong and am open to correction).

    But the attitudes to women in North African/middle eastern/Islamic culture never ceases to utterly baffle me.

    The idea that a woman is to blame in rape (and can be punished or killed for being raped) is mind-bendingly sick. It's so insanely removed from any sort of logic or rationality, I don't know where to start to even try to understand the possible basis for these attitudes.

    What is wrong with these people.
    Are women truly seen as either subhuman or property in these cultures.

    I can only begin to imagine how people with such attitudes see Western women. They must see them as the devil incarnate and presumably want them killed for being any way emancipated.

    Anyone with any insights into the psychology behind such cultures and these attitudes to women. It seems to be a huge problem (and largely untouched by feminism- a shocking indictment in itself).

    * I make no apologies for thinking Emma Barnett is lovely.

    Jesus Christ are you blind or something?!? You are talking about a religion that instructs women to submit to it and wear a costume that covers up their entire appearance and treats men as superior to women, interestingly though, these rules that are applied to women, are not applied to men! In Islam, women are subordinate to men. But we tolerate this discrimination because to say that a woman does not have the right to choose to be treated in a discriminatory way, is hey, discriminatory!

    I firmly believe that adherence to Islam is actually a disease of the mind. Allah comes first and everything else doesn't really matter, this is a close to the definition of mind disease that I think you could find.

    But I can't understand how you find it surprising when we welcome people from such utterly backward cultures here into the EU, that then shock horror, we find that women are raped by an assumed right of the rapist and all this hassle kicks off...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Divelment


    Good news for that child judge has made a ruling that she should live with her grandmother. That the child should be in a culturally matched foster placement but aparantly there was none at the time.

    If you scratched behind the surface in Ireland you will find that the exact same thing is happening here. I have a friend who is a carer/Home Help, she works for a company that is subcontracted by the HSE to provide care to the elderly and also the not so elderly with serious conditions like MS and Motor Neuron Disease who need a home help. The stories she has told me of clients who are completely distressed after someone from a "different culture" turned up to care for them and won't even speak to them, (poor English), handled them roughly, basically just turned up to clock in and clock out, and put in the minimum effort in terms of the job they had to do, and I know it's not an easy job but seriously, you might be the only person that that person interacts with all day, is it too much to ask to be a human and interact with them and talk?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    old_aussie wrote: »
    The bible might be, but in western democracies that are predominately Christian you don't have to live by the bibles rules, where as in Islamic countries you live by the islamic rules.

    islamic religion and law are one and the same.

    Not necessarily, the notion of Islam being the sole legal basis for a state is a relatively recent development in many places around the world.

    For years, places like Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq etc were governed by secular, nationalist regimes (of various degrees to the left or the right) and the societies of those countries generally reflected that. Things like the niqab and this ultra-adherence to Salafi schools of Islam used to be practically non-existent in places like Turkey and North Africa.

    This secularism is under threat in many of these countries nowadays, and Islamic countries are generally becoming more conservative - but the notion that Muslims are incapable of having a state not governed by Islamic theology isn't the case at all, and you don't have to look too far back to see that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Only about an hour ago there was a documentary on BBC4 about when the muslim Moors ruled Spain. In some ways they were quite progressive but they also used to capture and traffic European women and children into Spain as concubines. Blond women were especially sought after.

    Not so long after the Reconquista the Spanish and Portuguese were exterminating American Indians and enslaving Africans to replace them so I wouldn't be taking moral high ground on the 15th century morality of Arabs and Europeans.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    FTA69 wrote: »
    darkdubh wrote: »
    Only about an hour ago there was a documentary on BBC4 about when the muslim Moors ruled Spain. In some ways they were quite progressive but they also used to capture and traffic European women and children into Spain as concubines. Blond women were especially sought after.

    Not so long after the Reconquista the Spanish and Portuguese were exterminating American Indians and enslaving Africans to replace them so I wouldn't be taking moral high ground on the 15th century morality of Arabs and Europeans.
    What is your preferred ordering of the hierarchy of historical genocide/slavery?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Red_Wake wrote: »
    What is your preferred ordering of the hierarchy of historical genocide/slavery?

    I don't get what you mean. I'm just saying that suggesting Islamic slavery in the 15th Century doesn't make them somehow morally inferior to the Europeans who were doing the exact same thing only on a larger scale. Is that wrong or something?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    FTA69 wrote: »
    I don't get what you mean. I'm just saying that suggesting Islamic slavery in the 15th Century doesn't make them somehow morally inferior to the Europeans who were doing the exact same thing only on a larger scale. Is that wrong or something?

    At least Europeans where tough back then and drove the Moro's back out of Europe.
    Then again you have Muslims enslaving white vulnerable girls in the U.K. So they seem to be still stuck in their backwards ways!


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    At least Europeans where tough back then and drove the Moro's back out of Europe.
    Then again you have Muslims enslaving white vulnerable girls in the U.K. So they seem to be still stuck in their backwards ways!

    Barbary Slave Trade rarely gets spoken about for some reason.

    Even Ireland was touched by it. 'The Sack of Baltimore' in west Cork.

    Lasted for 300 years and it's estimated that 1.25 million Europeans were captured and enslaved during this time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    At least Europeans where tough back then and drove the Moro's back out of Europe.
    Then again you have Muslims enslaving white vulnerable girls in the U.K. So they seem to be still stuck in their backwards ways!

    Don't forget about the white Irish Catholics enslaving white Irish women with the backing of the Irish state and police force.

    Or the police force here failing to prosecute members of the Catholic Church who moved rapist priests about to give them fresh victims.

    We're not as advances as you think.

    We even let American war planes stop off here on their way to committing war crimes in the Middle East.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Don't forget about the white Irish Catholics enslaving white Irish women with the backing of the Irish state and police force.

    Or the police force here failing to prosecute members of the Catholic Church who moved rapist priests about to give them fresh victims.

    We're not as advances as you think.

    We even let American war planes stop off here on their way to committing war crimes in the Middle East.

    You do understand the concept of "the past" do you?
    You do understand that the Grooming is an ongoing issue in the UK, but hey you give it a pass because They are Muslim it's their culture!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,195 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    You do understand the concept of "the past" do you?

    it's not that far in the past.
    You do understand that the Grooming is an ongoing issue in the UK, but hey you give it a pass because They are Muslim it's their culture!

    really? it's their culture? got any proof of that or is it your usual hysterical nonsense?
    also, can you provide proof that zebra gave grooming a pass or is this more of your hysterical nonsense?

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    it's not that far in the past.



    really? it's their culture? got any proof of that or is it your usual hysterical nonsense?
    also, can you provide proof that zebra gave grooming a pass or is this more of your hysterical nonsense?


    Yippee it's the Halawa fanboy of Boards! How goes the Muslim Brotherhood European Headquarters out in Clonskeagh?
    Do they still make the women prey upstairs segregated from the men? Very inclusive!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,424 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    A lot of you must really really really hate Germans still after WW2


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    As a woman who has grown up in the west ,my friends and I often joke that we would be killed stone dead if we were in any muslim country because we were raised to speak or minds and have confidence as women, while also never being cheap or slutty and always maintaining our dignity but the sad reality is there seems to be no protection for any woman in a muslim country if your out spoken your killed and dignity and covering up don't prevent rape
    Women's rights in the Muslim world go together like oil and water. People like Linda Sarsour are traitors to women who want equal rights alongside men in Muslim countries and throughout the world.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Don't forget about the white Irish Catholics enslaving white Irish women with the backing of the Irish state and police force.

    Or the police force here failing to prosecute members of the Catholic Church who moved rapist priests about to give them fresh victims.

    We're not as advances as you think.

    We even let American war planes stop off here on their way to committing war crimes in the Middle East.

    You do understand the concept of "the past" do you?
    You do understand that the Grooming is an ongoing issue in the UK, but hey you give it a pass because They are Muslim it's their culture!
    Also that time in Ireland would seem like a huge improvement to millions of Muslim women throughout the world. Let's not kid ourselves, it has never been as horrific here as it is in the Muslim world for women, many reasons for that, Islam being the main factor.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,657 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    No one should be treated as being lesser in any way than the next person. But there is a bit of hypocrisy going on when we discuss societies that are a bit behind on that front. It is right to criticise them and try to help them to see their wrong way and develop in the right direction, but we mustn't go all high and mighty and moral high ground and all that. Because its hardly a generation or two ago when women were second class citizens amongst ourselves. Its not like we're all enlightened for the last 500 years or so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    No one should be treated as being lesser in any way than the next person. But there is a bit of hypocrisy going on when we discuss societies that are a bit behind on that front. It is right to criticise them and try to help them to see their wrong way and develop in the right direction, but we mustn't go all high and mighty and moral high ground and all that. Because its hardly a generation or two ago when women were second class citizens amongst ourselves. Its not like we're all enlightened for the last 500 years or so.

    What so your saying because they are a different religion and way of life we should just give them a pass on the way they threat women?
    Really it should be look this is our society and this is way we treat women here in this country we expect you to follow the same freedoms you don't like it immigrate to a strict Muslim country that suits your way of life!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,195 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Also that time in Ireland would seem like a huge improvement to millions of Muslim women throughout the world. Let's not kid ourselves, it has never been as horrific here as it is in the Muslim world for women, many reasons for that, Islam being the main factor.

    i would suggest a woman being imprisoned, enslaved, beaten constantly, having their child stolen from them and possibly sold off or adopted, all because they dared to get pregnant out of wedlock would be not far off as horrifying as some of the stuff caried out in muslim countries.
    What so your saying because they are a different religion and way of life we should just give them a pass on the way they threat women?

    twisting and making up things again. such was never once stated by anyone.
    Really it should be look this is our society and this is way we treat women here in this country we expect you to follow the same freedoms you don't like it immigrate to a strict Muslim country that suits your way of life!

    that is how it is currently. the laws are all ready implemented, government have to pay for the staff to enforce them and it's up to the electorate to force them to do so.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭Spider Web


    i would suggest a woman being imprisoned, enslaved, beaten constantly, having their child stolen from them and possibly sold off or adopted, all because they dared to get pregnant out of wedlock would be not far off as horrifying as some of the stuff caried out in muslim countries.
    I would too. It wasn't normal life for most women though - life was still usually a lot better for women like our mothers and grandmothers than life is for women in hardline islamist societies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,657 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    What so your saying because they are a different religion and way of life we should just give them a pass on the way they threat women?
    Really it should be look this is our society and this is way we treat women here in this country we expect you to follow the same freedoms you don't like it immigrate to a strict Muslim country that suits your way of life!

    I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing.

    Of course anyone living in a different place to their own should adopt to whatever the rules are where they are living now. I assume most people coming from other places to our places come for that very reason. To escape the places they come from and enjoy the privileges and liberties and quality of life that our societies have over theirs. I would imagine very few come here to be a**holes, take advantage and try to impose their rules.

    But back in those places that seem backward to us. They will have to find their own ways and their own pace of ridding themselves of their shackles. We can hardly go and invade them and tell them to live by our rules. That would only create resentment and achieve the exact opposite I imagine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,657 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Spider Web wrote: »
    "A bit" behind in terms of how women are treated?

    Also, hypocrisy would only come into it if the critics were also abusing/subjugating women. How does coming from the same country in which women were abused/subjugated before we were born somehow make us complicit?

    We can be critical of both anyway, which most are.

    But this collective responsibility thing simply because of nationality - and not even the same generation: it's deemed racism if applied to other countries so I don't see why we need to apply it to ourselves.

    'A bit' in terms of time. 50 or 100 years is only a bit in human history. Other than that you're right of course. It would only be hypocrisy if we were still doing it, fair enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,059 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    i would suggest a woman being imprisoned, enslaved, beaten constantly, having their child stolen from them and possibly sold off or adopted, all because they dared to get pregnant out of wedlock would be not far off as horrifying as some of the stuff caried out in muslim countries.



    twisting and making up things again. such was never once stated by anyone.



    that is how it is currently. the laws are all ready implemented, government have to pay for the staff to enforce them and it's up to the electorate to force them to do so.
    You always seem to avoid the Halawa/MB question I wonder why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,195 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    You always seem to avoid the Halawa/MB question I wonder why?

    because it's not relevant to the thread and the answer you want to be the answer isn't the answer.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    i would suggest a woman being imprisoned, enslaved, beaten constantly, having their child stolen from them and possibly sold off or adopted, all because they dared to get pregnant out of wedlock would be not far off as horrifying as some of the stuff caried out in muslim countries.

    I've looked in Google, Bing, Yahoo. Even webcrawler, but I can't find anyone being stoned to death or gang raped and killed in an "honour killing" in Ireland...


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