A Conversation for Women in Islam: veiled oppression or stigmatised misconception? - Part 1

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Post 1

swl

Those women being bundled into police cars in Tehran by religious police looked pretty bloody oppressed to me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6596933.stm

Regardless of how commentators interpret Islam from the comfort and safety of a few thousand miles away, the reality for women living under Islamic governance is fear, mysogyny and oppression.


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Post 2

Rik Bailey

An I would be the first one to stand beside you with that statement. I would not say its a hatred of women, more no respect for women.


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