Iranian Women Protest and Burn Headscarves

You wouldn’t get Christian’s blowing themselves up either in the name of god

Indeed and yet in Ireland, the majority of the most loyal subjects are elderly women. Odd one.

Really? And there was me thinking it began with Mohammed's journey from Mecca to Medina back in 622AD.

That said, Islam and Xtianity are very similar. The main difference is that with industrialisation in the 19th century European women began working outside the home - requiring a degree of independence, which was gradually leveraged to where we are now. As a result, we are (most thankfully) some way ahead of Islam today. Mind you fundamentalist Xtianity in the US (and NI) gives Islam a run for its money in many ways, although not so much in relation to women's rights!

No, they just poison hundreds of men, women and children like Jim Jones, or rape them then burn them to death like David Koresh.

You're damn right the root of the problem is the same.

These guys weren't powerful enough to take over a country so they tried to create their own tiny "countries". It's not because they were morally superior in any way to the likes of the mullahs in Iran, or the Taliban - just lacking the support and firepower.

Unfortunately there's very little that international pressure can do to halt this kind of thing, when it has widespread support amongst the Iranian people.

I've often heard that virginity is so highly prized among the fundamentalists in the Bible belt that premarital relations involve everything but penetrative sex.

If true, it makes an utter mockery of the whole idea; essentially trains young women (and their male counterparts) to engage in deception while respecting the letter of the law. Someone used to engaging in this type of deception in one area of their life will not find it difficult to transfer this type of thought process to other aspects of their lives.

What a phrase.

She was a Kurdish woman and alot of the Kurds are not as strict on Islam and adherence to it.

"No in the past Pagan societies had pretty much equal rights from rulers to priestess. They had the most equal societies. Men and women fought in wars. I'm not talking about Neo pagan nonsense that was formed in the UK under hippies wanting to be naked and ride."

So what constitutes "pagan"? Aztec, Viking, Pre Roman Celts, Parthians, Mongols, North American Indians, Buganda, Classical Athenian, Carthage ? I think you'll find in all those listed that women had a very low status on a par with livestock Hollywood is not history. The theory that way back in prehistory there was some golden age when women ruled the roost is as nonsensical as the noble savage concept. Life was short, violent and brutal and might made right. Notice how there's no forced conscription of women by Ukraine or Russia in their war. Reality bites.